Edinburgh College of Art thesis and dissertation collection
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Ritual, scenography and illusion: Andrea Pozzo and the religious theatre of the seventeenth century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)In this PhD thesis I offer an examination of the work of Jesuit Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709), an artist known primarily for his works of perspectival fresco painting. Pozzo's development, his career and his multifaceted ... -
Challenges in the conservation of the Negeri Sembilan Traditional Malay House (NSTMH) and establishment of a conservation principles framework
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The survival of vernacular architecture in the world, and particularly in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, is under threat due to rapid modernization, urbanization, socioeconomic transformation, loss of its characteristics ... -
Hybrid Modernity: late 20th century landmark parks in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This research investigates new spatial forms that have emerged in China's urban landmark parks in secondary cities of the post -Mao era. These forms represent a new stage in China's history of landscape architecture. ... -
Interrogating and analysing narrative structure through comic books
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)How can the structures of graphic narratives help us to interrogate, analyse, and ultimately ground stories of ourselves and our world? By not relying solely on verbal or visual language, but the complex interplay between ... -
Modern movement conservation: international principles and national policies in Great Britain and the United States of America
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis analyses the roles played by international, national, regional and local organisations and discourses in the heritage valorisation and conservation of modernist architecture – a process that has so far spanned ... -
Environment, engagement and education. Investigating the relationship between primary school grounds and children's learning: a case study from Bangladesh.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)More than 59 million children are out of schools across the globe (UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, 2015), despite the promise of education for all children by the year 2015. The situation is more pronounced ... -
Literary intervention in architecture - the making of Burns cottage as a writer’s house
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The concept of writers’ houses is a modern invention. Along with the growth of literacy popularity and the rise of modern writers, whose origins are no more of privileged class, their houses start to be pilgrimage ... -
Everyday always happens to someone else: an attempt at practising an endotic-based art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis is an account of my three sites-in-endotics, each project resulting in a participatory artwork: Thaw (2012), Northern Venetians (2013) and The Recollective (2015). I base these projects upon the writings of ... -
Approaching the mind of the builder: analysis of the physical, structural and social constraints on the construction of the broch towers of Iron Age Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)Following a review of the paradigmatic context of broch towers in 2012, a revised standard model (the RSM) was defined. The then prevailing paradigm supports a view of broch remains as single monuments of highly variable ... -
Visualising elite political women in the reign of Queen Charlotte, 1761–1818
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis examines the visual representations of elite women, who wielded and were seen to transgress, gendered political roles through their activity in the elite socio-political spheres of eighteenth-century and early ... -
Towards Warsaw of the future: exhibiting, archiving and moving through architectural imaginaries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)Thesis argument There is a Culture of Violent Reductivism in Representing Warsaw, which means that: Warsaw is reduced to a symbol of heroism in the hands of God/History or the Expert; imagining is reduced to historic ... -
Factors influencing use of urban mosque open spaces in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)Mosques are established as physical manifestations of Islam and its cultural identity in every settlement in Malaysia, including in urban areas. The original concept of the mosque suggests that its use as a community ... -
La peinture impressionniste et la décoration dans les années 1870
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)Throughout their careers the Impressionists demonstrated a strong, but rarely examined, interest for decoration. A careful examination of both archival material and well-known artworks produced between 1870 and 1895 shows ... -
Images under control: pessimism, humour and stupidity in the digital age
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis offers a periodization of the present according to which contemporary art and visual culture are understood to be symptomatic of an increasingly pervasive pessimistic social, political and ecological outlook. ... -
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 ...
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