Edinburgh College of Art: Recent submissions
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Moving knowledges: towards a speculative Arab art residency proto-history
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)Art residencies are initiatives offering temporary living and working space for artists and researchers outside of their usual environments. Since the 1990s these spaces have expanded exponentially on a global scale. ... -
Cellular and molecular anatomy of the mammalian neuromuscular junction in health and disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)The vast diversity across the animal kingdom and in particular within the class of mammals is not only of evolutionary interest, but also plays an important role in framing the context of research in which mammalian ... -
Beyond Formalism: developing dramaturgy as the basis for a freer formal expression in music related to the natural world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-24)Having as a background the unique Bulgarian folk music with its irregular rhythms, and the system of the East European and Middle Eastern maqams, as well as the traditions of central European music, these compositions ... -
Rise and fall of iconic guitar tonewoods and evaluation of alternative species
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)The future use of traditional tonewoods in the art of lutherie is at a critical juncture. The over-utilization of tropical hardwoods is forcing guitar makers to consider suitable substitutions for the wood species that ... -
New life in an old town’: Wheeler and Sproson, and the post-war reconstruction of Burntisland and Dysart
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This thesis explores the work of the important but little-researched architects, Wheeler & Sproson. It aims to set the practice within the broader context of Scottish post-war architectural history and to understand their ... -
Early urban schools: places of schooling and school buildings in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Scotland up to c.1600
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)The history and traditions of Scottish education have been described, repeatedly and at length, in a variety of accounts by educational historians. By contrast, the architecture and built heritage of Scottish education has ... -
From castle to classical: Duchess Anne Scott’s design, plan and transformation of Dalkeith Palace, 1698-1732
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)The perception of Dalkeith Palace for centuries tended to focus upon the martial history of the current building’s predecessor, Dalkeith Castle. This fact has obscured the context and architectural transformation of the ... -
Critical study of transnational academic partnerships
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)What is the value of a British design education in a social, economic, and cultural context different from its own? Rooted in the commodification of higher education, this doctoral project is a critical investigation ... -
Contemporary art and the speculative turn
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This practice-led Ph.D. intertwines a written thesis, a folio of my own curatorial work, and relevant case studies of contemporary art projects: a multi-modal research project that traces the emergence of a ‘speculative ... -
Planetary imaginations and the anthropocene: tracing Geoaesthetic Acts between 1968-1972
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This dissertation investigates the rise of planetary thinking and geologic imaginaries that are instigated by the Anthropocene in the late 1960s and early 1970s through their reflections in art and architecture. I examine ... -
Repositioning contemporary Chinese-ink medium art, 1978-2018: Zheng Chongbin – migration, internationalisation, digitisation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)Art that utilises soot-based ink, namely the centuries-old pictorial medium that originated in China, has conventionally been viewed in the Western North American and European art world as deeply Asian, having little or ... -
Artificial grounds | Designing within an ecology of oil
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This thesis is a work of architectural research, in the by design mode, carried out through an exploration of a specific local context, namely the region of Scotland known as West Lothian. The thesis is critical of the ... -
Designing objectiles as diagrams for movement
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This practice-based research investigates objectiles as diagrams for movement and emphasises the importance of designing for the ongoing processual and affective encounters between artefacts and bodies rather than ... -
Radical cheek: black camp, racial kitsch, and Patrick Kelly’s subversive fashions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This doctoral research is the first comprehensive study of Patrick Kelly’s work. It examines the work of the late fashion designer who is most known for being the first American to be accepted into the Chambre Syndicale ... -
Chen Shizeng (1876-1923) and his practice for modernising Chinese scholarly painting in early twentieth-century Beijing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This dissertation offers the first in-depth and comprehensive study of the approaches deployed by Chen Shizeng 陳師曾 (1876-1923) to modernise and revive wenren hua 文人畫 (scholar painting, scholarly painting or literati painting) ... -
Body in the gallery: posthumanist ethics and the nonhuman animal body in contemporary art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research examines how the manifestation of the nonhuman animal in contemporary visual art is often entrenched in prevailing human systems and practices of violence against nonhuman species. Furthermore, the divide ... -
Traditions of music making in the Glenkens, Galloway
(The University of Edinburgh, 1986)This thesis is an account of music making practices amongst the people of the Glenkens, Galloway. Chapter one gives a chronological account of the geog~aphical and historical development of the Glenkens, and includes ... -
Sebastiano Serlio's architectural principles in Britain, 1600-1750
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the reception of the woodcut-illustrated architectural treatises and architectural mathematics of the Bolognese architect-painter Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) in Britain from the ‘Scientific ... -
Architecture, media and archives: the fun palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a cultural project
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research represents a new kind of critical investigation of the renowned Fun Palace as a complex cultural project, one that exceeds its remarkable architectural significance. The Fun Palace maps an extensive network ... -
Immersivities: agency and interiority in contemporary environments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This project tracks elements of a conceptual and ethical vocabulary shared by immersive environments that have been designed to engender an aestheticized, consumable experience – often with entertainment, pedagogy or ...
