Sökning: "environmental aesthetics"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden environmental aesthetics.

1. 6. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?

   Författare :Helena Drottenborg; Trafik och väg; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; driving behaviour; traffic safety; eye blink; heart rate; mood; basic emotional process; environmental psychology; gestalt theory; ugly; aesthetics; beautiful; speed.; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik;

   Sammanfattning : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. LÄS MER

3. 7. Nature Writing of the Anthropocene

   Författare :Christian Hummelsund Voie; Anders Olsson; Peter Mortensen; Scott Slovic; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :Anthropocenic awareness; nature writing; material nature writing; material ecocriticism; environmental justice; rhapsody; jeremiad; the dignification of the overlooked; functional aesthetics; anti-landscape; necroregion; retreat; confrontation;

   Sammanfattning : The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. LÄS MER

4. 8. Bilder av småstaden - om estetisk värdering av en stadstyp; Images of the Small Town - on Aesthetic Evaluation of a Townscape

   Författare :Catharina Sternudd; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Environmental health; Karlshamn; urban kvalitet; stadsmiljö; småstadsbebyggelse; estetisk värdering; småstad; stadsplanering; arkitektur; urban aesthetics; townscape; aesthetic evaluation; small town; Architecture; urban design; Miljömedicin; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis takes its starting-point in the last years' growing interests in the small town as an architectural concept. Pre-industrial small towns are used as visual and structural models for very attractive new settlements in Sweden. LÄS MER

5. 9. Ageing and Conservation of Silk. Evaluation of Three Support Methods Using Artificially Aged Silk

   Författare :Johanna Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Artificial ageing of silk; textile conservation; historic silk costumes; stitching techniques; aesthetics;

   Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis is to evaluate common remedial conservation support methods used in the conservation treatments of fragile silk costumes that have experienced physical damage. It is based on five papers. LÄS MER

7. 10. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

   Författare :Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. LÄS MER