Edinburgh College of Art thesis and dissertation collection
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Earliest Christian icons from the collection of the Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, and their possible sources
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The central material studied in this thesis is a representative group of the earliest surviving Christian icons from the collection of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, all dated to the sixth or seventh centuries. These ... -
Following the instruments and users: the mutual shaping of digital sampling technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)The socio-musical practice of sampling is closely associated with the re-use of pre-existing sound recordings and the technological processes of looping. These practices, based on appropriation and repetition, have been ... -
Perception of scale and scale effects in the landscape, with specific reference to wind turbines in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)Perception of scale is important to our activity within a space and to our experience of a landscape. This presents a problem if people cannot predict or convey the scale effects of large structures proposed in a landscape, ... -
Finite difference and finite volume methods for wave-based modelling of room acoustics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)Wave-based models of sound propagation can be used to predict and synthesize sounds as they would be heard naturally in room acoustic environments. The numerical simulation of such models with traditional time-stepping ... -
Imaging dreams in the Middle Ages: the Roman de la Rose and artistic vision, c.1275-1540
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)This thesis constitutes an investigation into the depiction of dreams in imagery accompanying the late-medieval manuscripts and printed editions of the Roman de la Rose. It reflects on the changing approaches to depicting ... -
Investigating the potential of mobile games as learning environments for independent adult skill development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)The research described in this thesis is grounded in the fields of independent adult learning, user experience for mobile applications and game design. It considers the case for mobile game-based learning in the context ... -
How do people construct comfort within their interior spaces? A study of objects and circumstances between clothes and the building skin that influence comfort and the use of energy.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This interdisciplinary PhD-by-practice examines how people construct comfort within their interior spaces through the study of objects, structures, membranes, situations and circumstances between clothes and the building ... -
Visual phenomenological methodology: the repositioning of visual communication design as a fresh influence on interaction design
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)This practiced-based thesis examines how a new Visual Communication methodology helps interaction designers to improve their future designs. This is achieved by engaging in creating visual interpretations from a ... -
Little mouse: a journey. The making of a picture-book artwork
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The picture book is an artistic medium is part of literature, especially of children’s literature. This discussion of the picture book extends to the dynamic between author and illustrator, and interactions between the ... -
History and development of the viola d'amore
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-06-27)The viola d’amore is a small bowed instrument that was in use predominantly from the second half of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth. Initially, the name viola d’amore referred to a treble viol strung ... -
Encounters with androgyny - through the visual practice of Chau, Wilson and Bess
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)The thesis examines how aspects of androgyny have influenced the creative practice of Kenneth Chau, Martha Wilson and Forrest Bess. It describes how each of these artists have used androgyny as a means of entering a ... -
Exosome signalling in the kidney
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-07-02)Urine contains exosomes originating from the circulation and all cells lining the urinary tract. Exosomes are a route of inter-cellular communication along the nephron potentially able to transfer of protein and/or RNA. ... -
Athens' image-opsis: the asperity of Attica's marble
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)Athens insists on representing white marble as the material embodiment of the city, and consequently white marble is persistently present in mythologies of the city. This thesis argues that in perpetuating these myths ... -
Study of binding in three folds: sculpture as a knot
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)This thesis constitutes a piece of practice-led research: its principal research aim is to reflect on, analyse, and explore the conceptual, cultural, and artistic framework within which the offered artworks stand. The ... -
Making people up
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis is a process of writing characters using a cyclical methodology to turn the writer into a reader of their own work, then back into a writer again. The components of this thesis both practice and propose writing ... -
Designing the urban: reflections on the role of theory in the individual design process
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)Acting within the context of multiple constraints (site, budget, brief, clients, users, public policy and regulation), the urban designer is required to respond to various and sometimes conflicting interests in “...the ... -
Têtes to tails: eighteenth-century underwear and accessories in Britain and Colonial America
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-25)Over the past thirty years, the study of dress has flourished as a field of interdisciplinary enquiry, emerging from consumer studies by economic historians and artefact-based research. More recent scholarship has addressed ... -
Multi-method examination of landscape studio problem-solving pedagogy as scholarly work on teaching and learning literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This study examined how the landscape studio has supported scholarly problem-solving pedagogy. Examination was limited to studio-educators’ published pedagogical research on problem-solving topics and on landscape ... -
Rūm Saljūq architecture of Anatolia 1170-1220
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis investigates the surviving architecture built in Anatolia from circa 1170 to 1220, a period that encompasses the rule of the Rūm Saljūq sultans Kılıç Arslān II to ʿIzz al-Dīn Kay Kāwūs I. This was the period ... -
Towards a general computational theory of musical structure
(The University of Edinburgh, 1998)
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