Sökning: "History of Conservation"
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1. Byggnaden som kunskapskälla : The building as a source of knowledge
Sammanfattning : Buildings are indeed mute, yet many historians and architects claim that they can nevertheless speak. The challenge is to understand their language. This thesis examines the building as a source of knowledge. LÄS MER
2. Staten som trädgårdsmästare. Järnvägens planteringar från naturförsköningskonst till testamente
Sammanfattning : Järnvägen är en av de innovationer som påverkat modern samhällsutveckling allra mest. När de första stambanorna började att byggas i mitten av 1800-talet anlades planteringar som en integrerad komponent i järnvägssystemet. De utgjordes av prydnadsplanteringar, skyddsplanteringar och planteringar för husbehov. LÄS MER
3. A Utopian Quest for Universal Knowledge : Diachronic Histories of Botanical Collections between the Sixteenth Century and the Present
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the history of botany as a global collection-based science by tracing parallels between utopian traditions and botanical collecting, from their sixteenth-century beginnings to the present. A range of botanical collections, such as gardens, herbaria and classification systems, have played a central role in the struggle to discover a global or universal scientific order for the chaotic, diverse and locally shaped kingdom of plants. LÄS MER
4. Interpretations of old wood, Figuring mid-twelfth century church architecture in west Sweden
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores mid-twelfth century church architectures in west Sweden. The architectures are investigated in the light of a case, five parish churches’ naves, in particular their attics and surviving mid-twelfth century roofs. LÄS MER
5. Negotiating 'Culture', Assembling a Past: the Visual, the Non-Visual and the Voice of the Silent Actant
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the processes surrounding the creation of a scientific visual representation, where, both in the practical creation of this visualisation and in the way it is communicated, those actants which amount to what we call ‘culture’ or cultural value, are enrolled or ignored. Trying to answer if a broader set of non-visual cultural properties can be identified and their influence described, and if history can be visualised without displacing our knowledge of the past in favour of a popular representation thereof, I trace the interaction between client, artist, technology and target audience. LÄS MER
