Edinburgh College of Art: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Designing for spatial justice: repurposing Armenia’s post-Soviet rural-urban region
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-03)This study assesses landscape changes in rural Armenia in the 30 years since the formation of the independent republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The research applies spatial justice theory to interpret ... -
Fox, the nun and the dragon: an autoethnographical opera
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)This thesis re-narrativises the fiction of the dominant composer, deploying a mixed methodology combining Actor Network Theory [ANT] and autoethnography. I propose the concept of the ‘Operatic Collaborator Network [OCN]’, ... -
C. A. Doxiadis and the Islamabad master plan: social engineering in a developing world, from the individual to the global
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The end of empires signified the emergence of new nation-states, bringing to the fore a complex nexus of needs on a global scale. The transfer of Western expertise to the Global South and the dissemination of a modernist ... -
Hand colouring of prints and illustrations from Nuremberg in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century was a significant transitional period for printmaking, book printing, and manuscript production. Owners bought single-sheet illuminations and hand-coloured prints on the open ... -
Manifestation of human agency designing the hybrid guitar for the humanisation of digital composition and performance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-01)This research presents an exploration of personalised humanised approaches to performing and controlling digital music, as well as encapsulating human presence and feel in digital musical performance tools. Specifically, ... -
Interpretation of musical dreams: expanding hermeneutic approaches to the dream aesthetic in Franz Schubert’s music
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)The concept of the dream has offered a highly rewarding avenue for modern scholars to interpret Franz Schubert’s instrumental music. In this thesis, I propose that this hermeneutic window could be significantly more ... -
Saundaryalaharī
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)The Soundarya Lahari or Saundaryalaharī (Sanskrit: सौन्दर्यलहरी) meaning "Waves Of Beauty" is a famous literary work in Sanskrit believed to be written by sage Pushpadanta and Adi Shankara. It was written in the 8th Century ...
