Sökning: "unity of place"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 33 avhandlingar innehållade orden unity of place.

1. 1. Experiencing sense of place in a virtual environment : real in the moment?

   Författare :Ingvar Tjøstheim; Rikard Harr; John Waterworth; Phil Turner; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; telepresence; perception; sense of place; virtual tourism; video-games; digital humaniora; digital humanities;

   Sammanfattning : The main goal of this thesis is to contribute to telepresence research by investigating a sightseeing experience in a virtual environment (VE) and by discussing insights from theories of telepresence, perception, experience of place, marketing and philosophy. The empirical work concerns a sightseeing experience, a visit to a city in a videogame (the VE). LÄS MER

3. 2. Towards a Minor Urbanism : Thinking Community without Unity in Recent Makings of Public Space

   Författare :Ida Sandström; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Public Space; Spaces of Being-in-Common; Spaces of Collective Care; Minor Urbanism; Community without Unity; Community; Urban design; Urban space; City park; Urban planning; Co-Production; Urban Participation; Urbanism; Difference; Spaces of difference; Diversity; Spaces of diversity; offentliga rum; offentliga platser; urban arkitektur; Planering; mångfald; torg och parker; Urban design; urban gemenskap; urbanism; medborgardeltagande; medborgarengagemang; planeringspraktiker; gestaltad livsmiljö;

   Sammanfattning : HOW CAN WE PLAN AND DESIGN FOR community in diverse urban situations? In response to segregation and social fragmentation, public space is increasingly being conceived of as a vehicle for fostering openness towards differences, both in planning practice and theory. Drawing on two recent public space projects – Superkilen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Jubileumsparken in Gothenburg, Sweden – this thesis explores what this hopeful idea may mean in terms of the actual making of public space. LÄS MER

4. 3. Landskap på jorden och i drömmen. Studier i Folke Isakssons lyrik

   Författare :Håkan Sandgren; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; the aesthetics of the post-war era; modernist poetry; lyrical tropes and clichés; intertextuality; the metaphor of the journey; poetry of place; 20th century Swedish poetry; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Sammanfattning : My study focuses on the analysis of single poems chosen as paradigmatic of Fole Isaksson's style and poetic vision. This approach is grounded in the belief that there is a certain thematic unity to Isaksson's lyric output, a unity which stems from the poet's constant preoccupation with the relations between the speaker of a poem and external nature, i. LÄS MER

5. 4. Governing from Above : Solid Waste Management in Nigeria's New Capital City of Abuja

   Författare :Onyanta Adama; Gunilla Andrae; Kristian Stokke; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; governance; space; place; solid waste management; relocated capital city; Abuja; Nigeria; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation examines how the symbolic character of a relocated capital city influences and intersects with local conditions to shape the governance structure and relations in service delivery. The focus is on Abuja, the new capital city of Nigeria, and the sector studied is solid waste management. LÄS MER

7. 5. Generative lessons of exclusion : re-considering everyday-living experience and approaching its meaningful description

   Författare :Susan Scott Flobecker; Lennart Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; qualitative social science inquiry; empirical phenomenology; everyday experience; intersubjectivity; methodology; syncretic generativity; pedagogik; Education;

   Sammanfattning : Generally addressed in this dissertation writing are the problematic of everyday experience as an empirical social science concern, the problematic of social science as an everyday pedagogical experience, the topic of sense formation as a generative psycho-social event, and the topic of intersubjectivity as meaningful social unity. Generally offered is an alternative understanding, approach and method for a particular kind of qualitative social science inquiry treating everyday experience and shared experience, the kind enlisting experiencer accounts and aiming to describe associated experiencer meanings. LÄS MER