Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Högskolan för design och konsthantverk (2012-2019)
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World Wide Workshop: The Craft of Noticing
(2019-10-15)In my research, I consider craft as a discipline that is extremely elastic in terms of propositions and positions. Today craft exists in a highly dynamic space — what I will refer to as the World Wide Workshop — and is ... -
Vems hand är det som gör? En systertext om konst/hantverk, klass, feminism och om viljan att ta strid
(2019-01-25)Whose hand is making? And how can we understand craft practices in dialogue with society through making and objects? How do we understand objects that manifest resistance? This dissertation in artistic research explores ... -
Exploring pitfalls of participation and ways towards just practices through a participatory design process in Kisumu, Kenya
(2018-04-12)It is my belief that participatory processes can lead to positive transformations for the people involved. However, I do at the same time recognize that participation is inherently ambiguous and complex, and that this makes ... -
Treåringar, kameror och förskola – en serie diffraktiva rörelser
(2017-09-12)The aim of this thesis is to examine what happens when three-year-olds are given access to digital cameras, and what shape and form children’s photographic capacity takes within the framework of everyday pre-school activities. ... -
Embodying Openness: A Pragmatist Exploration into the Aesthetic Experience of Design Form-Giving
(2017-06-12)This thesis explores the tension between a reflective view of design and design as an embodied, aesthetic experience. Most research exploring the nature of design follows a tradition of practice-based design research, which ... -
Lerbaserad erfarenhet och språklighet
(2016-11-22)During the course of the twentieth century, a doubt emerged – first within visual arts, and later also within crafts – where the relevance of the traditional way of making art was addressed, as were thoughts on what was ... -
(re)Forming Accounts of Ethics in Design: Anecdote as a Way to Express the Experience of Designing Together
(2016-09-20)Designers and design researchers routinely engage other people in shaping preferred futures. Despite a growing recognition of designing as a social practice, however, the ethics of engagement often only appear ‘between the ... -
Händelser på ytan – shibori som kunskapande rörelse
(2016-05-11)In present times, shibori, though originally a Japanese word, is an international umbrella term for craft techniques related to the dyeing of textiles. In an artistic context, shibori signifies the act of (e)laborating by ... -
Design for Service: A framework for articulating designers’ contribution as interpreter of users’ experience
(2014-03-11)During the past approximately 15 years designers have paid increasing attention to service and changes in our society, resulting in a new design discipline – service design. In parallel, designers’ contributions to service ... -
Linjer. Musikens rörelser – komposition i förändring
(2013-07-15)Lines: Music Moving – Composition Changing is a dissertation that focuses on relationships in music. The main question posed in this dissertation is: How does music relate to what is not music? Through an artistic inquiry, ... -
Meaning in the Making: Introducing a hermeneutic perspective on the contribution of design practice to innovation
(2013-07-08)In recent years interest has grown in how design can contribute to innovation in business and society, such as through the management concept of design thinking. However, up-close studies on design’s contribution to ... -
Light Shapes Spaces: Experience of Distribution of Light and Visual Spatial Boundaries
(2012-11-14)Light enables us to experience space. The distribution of light is vital for spatial experience but has not been the main focus of previous research on lighting. The lighting designer’s professional knowledge is to a ...
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