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Experience and Viewpoints in the Social Domain of Space Technology
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This thesis is about how space technology is experienced in the social domain and how its purpose is recast from different viewpoints. The author is an artist and the approach taken foregrounds qualities of experience and ...
Tracing the Compositional Process. Sound art that rewrites its own past: formation, praxis and a computer framework
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The domain of this thesis is electroacoustic computer-based music and sound art. It investigates
a facet of composition which is often neglected or ill-defined: the process of composing itself
and its embedding in time. ...
Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The thesis explores the relationships between knowledge and knowing in contemporary 21st century information society, using the foundation of the Faculty of Media Design & New Media Art at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti ...
The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943.
(Plymouth University, 2014)
This thesis focuses on the extent to which the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya and Tunisia affected British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War. The study analyses ...
Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The construction of a guiding methodological framework for local sustainability assessment is a key to achieving a sustainable future. This study develops an approach to local sustainability assessment (ALSA), a methodological ...
Cognitive Processes in Craving: From the Laboratory to the Real World.
(Plymouth University, 2015)
Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory posits that craving involves mental imagery in the same sensory modalities as the craved substance or activity. Visual imagery predominates, therefore craving should selectively interfere ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
(Plymouth University, 2014)
Tine Melzer: Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and ...
Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Plymouth University, 2015)
Abstract
The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose ...
The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context
(Plymouth University, 2015)
This thesis aims to reposition the halo’s status within an artwork through arguing a reassessment of its activity 'as a sign' rather than acceptance of its passivity. This active state is further explored and expanded by ...
FLUID FRACTALS: LEADERSHIP AT THE APEX OF LOCAL AUTHORITY IN ENGLAND
(Plymouth University, 2013)
Purpose: This thesis aims to explore the complex phenomenon of leadership at the apex of democratically elected local authority in England. It makes sense of the social construction of leadership as perceived and enacted ...