Edinburgh College of Art: Recent submissions
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Quality, ambition and strategy: collecting French art for the Musée de Lyon (1900 - 1914)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-23)This dissertation covers the history of municipal collecting in Lyon during the years 1900 – 1914. Chapter One deals with the tenure of Édouard Aynard (1837 – 1913), the prominent Lyonnais statesman and Président of the ... -
Life and work of James Jepson Binns
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis is the first study of the life and work of Leeds organ builder James Jepson Binns (1854-1929). It is not the intention to provide a full technological evaluation of Binns' work, but rather to provide a ... -
Temporary homes: an investigation into the architectures of forced migration in post-2015 Athens
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-04-19)This thesis investigates the ways in which the complexities of living are manifested in the making and presence of multi-scalar ʻtemporary homesʼ in the context of forced migration with focus on post-2015 Athens, Greece. ... -
Food-growing in Scottish schools: an analysis of the present position and indicators for the future
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-04-12)A healthy diet is vital for growth and development and poor diet in childhood can affect academic achievement and can create long-term health problems such as obesity, coronary disease, stroke and cancer (Poulton et al, ... -
Circles, an experimental approach to film music composition through sonification of moving images
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-14)In this paper an experimental approach to film music composition through sonification is discussed. Sonification [7], the practice of transforming moving images into sounds, is not a new concept. There are several attempts ... -
Expanded fashion practice towards interfacing the Anthropocene
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-02)Human-induced changes to the Earth system ushers into a new proposed geological epoch, known as the ‘anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). Of the numerous anthropogenic acts altering the terrestrial fabric on unprecedented ... -
Absence of God: case studies on the use and value of Nietzsche in avant-gardist thought 1905-1945
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-08)This thesis considers how Nietzsche was interpreted and misinterpreted by a range of artists and writers who were prominent in avant-garde circles in the first half of the twentieth century. Through a series of case ... -
Ex-risk architecture: anticipating existential catastrophes through design
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-19)The planet is heating up. Rapid-paced human change in the earth systems is increasing frequencies of catastrophic events, ranging from tropical cyclones to ecological collapse, oceanic increase to coastal floods, unprecedented ... -
New York geologics: retrospective readings from the Anthropocene of late 20th century Manhattanism - Woods / Koolhaas / Tschumi
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Conventional representations of Manhattan often reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal forms of capitalism. These forces have expanded the city along an orthogonal grid and continuously ... -
Conceptualising adolescents’ pro-environmental behaviour: an exploration in Cyprus with reference to Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-16)There is now a global ecological and environmental crisis of unprecedented magnitude, severity and scale, which threatens current and future generations’ well-being. Given the influence of human behaviour on the natural ... -
Material culture in Fifteenth-century England: the case of Sir John Fastolf (1380-1459)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-16)John Fastolf (1380-1459) from a minor gentry family in Norfolk, spent much of his adult life as a soldier in the Lancastrian Wars in France, becoming enormously wealthy in the process thanks largely to the ‘spoils of ... -
Capturing the dynamic character of the Philippine peri-urban landscape: a landscape character system approach for the region of Cavite
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-16)The Philippines is undergoing significant urbanisation, with Metropolitan Manila being recognised as a megacity with spatial growth affecting the broader metropolitan region and its fringe. Lower-density urban sprawl has ... -
Composing abstractions? General musical behaviours in five new works for humans and computer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-12)This written thesis supports a portfolio of composition work. This portfolio was composed to study ‘music systems’ - things that I intentionally design in order to make music happen in future. As a composer of works for ... -
Art and politics: the role of art in US-Yugoslav relations during the Cold War (1948-1970)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-14)This thesis explores the role of art in US-Yugoslav relations during the early Cold War period. It focuses on the instrumentalisation of art as a tool of cultural diplomacy by both the Yugoslav regime and the US ... -
New urbanisms of colour: saturated colour in the urban landscape 2000-2019
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-12)Colour design in built environments is generally treated with attitudes of a somewhat conservative nature. Compared to neutral colours and colours that are inherent to materials, brighter colours and those that are high ... -
Post-AIDS imaginaries: configuring speculative futures in the cultures of HIV intervention
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-24)‘Post-AIDS Imaginaries: Configuring Speculative Futures in the Cultures of HIV Intervention’ addresses the transformation of HIV intervention imaginaries in contemporary queer AIDS media. I focus on three visual case ... -
How the viewer's state of fear can be activated through their auditory perception of horror film sound: a better understanding via two novel empirical-phenomenological procedures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-23)I scrutinised available film literature to identify whether it needed research on one key topic: How the viewer’s state of fear can be activated through their auditory perception of horror film sound. A rigorous and ... -
Doing the crease: text and subjectiness in a liberation of folds
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-16)Text appears ordered, yet so much can go wrong. It has a form and a sound, needs to be put together and deciphered, and inherently serves to deliver a message. Inspired by the potential of clumsiness, my research project ... -
Walking in Quito: urban imaginaries of the historical city centre
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-30)This research seeks to understand how local residents, merchants and artisans in the city centre of Quito experience, think of and value their everyday place, the historical centre of Quito, henceforth HCQ. This thesis ... -
Conservation of uncertain monuments: the case of prehistoric Scottish brochs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-09)The sophisticated drystone Iron-Age brochs of Northern Scotland, called Complex Atlantic Roundhouses by archaeologists, have shown the high technological culture of the builders. Their conservation should be based on their ...
