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Daylighting pedagogy: How can new pedagogic approaches for daylighting enhance opportunities for engaging with daylight in spatial design education?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Experience of spatial design practice (architecture, interior and lighting design) and spatial design teaching in the UK has highlighted a growing dichotomy in the field of architectural daylighting design. A separation ... -
Historical analysis and remaking of two German keyed guitars from the Romantic period using traditional and digital technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This creative practice PhD examines and reconstructs two nineteenth-century German guitars: one made in Mittenwald by Mathias Neüner in 1810; the other bearing the names F. Fiala and Matteo Sprenger, probably made in ... -
Fashioning space: transforming the use of textiles and their inherent properties by integrating spatial and garment design practices in space design and fabrication
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis aims to transform and extend the use of textile as a construction material in spatial design by integrating garment design practice. It builds on current research which explores how—rather than making new ... -
Greek landscapes through the spectrum of crisis. An ethnographic approach to perceptions and meanings of insular landscape in times of recession
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The Greek crisis in 2010 was a rupture spread across all aspects of the country’s social milieu causing a discontinuity in its evolutionary course. This abrupt shift of society was transmitted to its produced space, namely ... -
Every contact leaves a trace: a forensic feminist investigation into women administrators, gentrification and the artist studio
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In the early 1970s, artists in London worked together to establish studios in former industrial buildings across the city. This model, and its role within gentrification, has been well-documented in scholarship (Florida, ... -
Tricolour, shield, and Cross of Savoy: 'Sabaudian medievalism,' the Risorgimento, and neo-medieval architecture in Italy, c.1814-1864.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)On 23 March 1848, the King of Piedmont-Sardinia released a celebrated proclamation to the people of Lombardy and Venetia, which was a manifestation of patriotic hopes that concluded by addressing the flag that Piedmontese ... -
Critical designing with communities: the case of a housing rights campaign in Leith, Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Recent movements of participatory democracy in welfare states have changed the governance from public administration to the hands of social agents. The call for a responsible and rational agent has now become all the ... -
The Poetics and Politics of Withdrawal: cultural negotiations of dynastic change in seventeenth-century China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores modalities of withdrawal by individuals from educated elites in seventeenth-century China when faced with the catastrophe of dynastic transition. Examining how withdrawal was enacted, manipulated, ... -
'Loving Vincent' and 'I'm OK': two approaches to documenting the life of an artist
(https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/, 2020-05)A short review and comparison of two animated films on lives of artists: Loving Vincent (directed by D. Kobiela and H. Welchman) and I'm OK (directed by Lizzy Hobbs). -
Animation and Peace Studies: An Encounter for Societal Betterment
(Animationstudies 2.0, 2020-04)Short peer reviewed online article on the curated subject INTERDISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITY OF ANIMATION -
Screening domesticity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Screening Domesticity explores the mediatisation of domestic space over the past century through four exploratory case studies – the Villa Müller (Adolf Loos, 1930), the Maison de Verre (Pierre Chareau, 1932), Case Study ... -
Kenneth Leighton 1929 - 1988
(The University of Edinburgh, 1991)Kenneth Leighton's compositional output numbers more than 150 major items, of which over one third are choral. Religion played a significant part in his life, and there is a spiritual quality about much of his work. His ... -
On forms and fictions: a critical biography of Steven Campbell (1953-2007)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The thesis is a definitive critical biography of Scottish artist Steven Campbell (1953-2007) underpinned by extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and relevant critical and historical secondary sources. ... -
Urbanism, environment and the building of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile valley, 1880s-1920s
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the ways in which imperial officials and others transformed the built environment in Egypt and Sudan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This history is used as a way to read the ... -
Staging queer feelings: the affective economy of fashion photography at the turn of the twenty-first century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)“Staging Queer Feelings: The Affective Economy of Fashion Photography at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century” tracks the circulation of queer feelings, moods and atmospheres in alternative fashion magazines in the ... -
Navigating Heterotopias and Things: Dashilar as co-extensive urban paradigms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Dashilar is a neighbourhood in Beijing, currently sitting immediately opposite Tiananmen Square on its south. It first came into being on the eastern margins of the Jin capital from the thirteenth century and remained to ... -
Re-shaping innovations in the contemporary fashion show: emerging Chinese designers in the global fashion ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-31)In the contemporary fashion system the number of Chinese designers has increased dramatically: they have formed a ‘new wave’ of design power that is changing China’s global fashion status. Some Chinese designers ... -
Self-representation in the three-dimensional arts: a study of Italia and Germania, CA 800 - CA 1200
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)This thesis is a study of self-representation in sculpture in the Middle Ages. The research offers a new interpretation of the uses of self-representation by practitioners working in various three-dimensional media active ... -
Edward Hopper beyond the commonplace: a review of his work under the light of Walter Benjamin's concept of poverty of experience
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)The title of this dissertation —Edward Hopper beyond the commonplace— alludes to the fact that, although the work of Edward Hopper is widely acknowledged in the history of the twentieth century art, critical literature ... -
Workshops: investigating and developing participatory environments for artistic learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)Workshops: Investigating and Developing Participatory Environments for Artistic Learning is a practice-led (Haseman, 2006; Bolt, 2007; Smith & Dean, 2009) transdisciplinary (Klein, 2018) PhD investigation conducted by ...
