Browsing Masteruppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-) by Issue Date
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Is it possible to make Ethical Dialogical Art? The ethical implications of applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work with Dialogue-based Community Art.
(2020-11-20)I am a white, non-binary, crip, and queer person with mixed european minority heritage, raised as part of the rural Swedish working class. My understanding of the world is defined by this background as well as by my time ... -
WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT
(2020-12-17)I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own ... -
Lekkontoret - designing an environment for participatory design practices between adult designers and children
(2021)Article 12 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child asserts that children have the right to participate in society, express their views and have their opinions respected. A 2009 revision of the Article outlines ... -
The Controlled Hallucinations of a Fragmented Gaze
(2021-01-11)I break down images, both physically as well as philosophically, into bits and pieces to explore questions surrounding visual perception; examining ways of dismantling, reconstructing, and fragmenting them; and questioning ... -
Frankenstein's Mother - Mapping structures, and researching ways of creating new ones, within the interrelated entanglement of artistic practice and motherhood
(2021-01-11)American artist Judy Chicago once told another artist, Helen Million Ruby, that she had to choose between her children and artistic practice. When asked about this, she commented that she was not giving an ultimatum but ... -
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Artist.
(2021-01-15)Through critical theories and surveys, the essay is exploring what is written or said about the living and working conditions for artists in Denmark in the 2000s and 2010s. By reflecting on the difficult question of who ... -
Effect of image in the time of covid-19 and climate change
(2021-01-15)The aim of this essay is to discuss and try to understand the role of image it’s effect on forming our way of thinking and ideology, specifically in relation to nature crisis and pandemics. On the other side I’m also ... -
Writing with Photography. Language performativity and photography's capacity for semiotics
(2021-01-15)This essay started with the negative of writing a written essay. By so, I wanted to understand how photography operates as a language and what it means when one says "to read" a photograph. Can photography be the substitute ... -
Intra-Action – Entanglements Within and Beyond Environmental Photography
(2021-01-15)This essay is an attempt to approach the genre of both landscape and environmental photography, to turn them inside-out, to dissect and to deconstruct them through ecology, ecofeminism, feminist posthumanism and critical ... -
beEmpathy DESIGNING WITH AND FOR EMPATHY
(2021-06-04)In my Master thesis, I explore how design can mediate empathy among school children in order to foster creativity, intercultural competence, and complex identities. I focus on the psychology of empathy and on design-informed ... -
The Social Matters
(2022)This project explores design as a social practice that provokes changes. The context that this project operates in is a growing private organization, which is a dynamic and marketoriented environment. The two core ... -
Strategies of counter Image-Making of Arabs' portrayals in Swedish films through a Decolonial Approach
(2022-06-01)Many groups and marginalized communities have been struggling for better representation in the media and film in different countries for many reasons. One of them is the direct effects of stereotypification on their ... -
From space to place
(2022-06-02)In this essay, I have discussed a number of choices made through a photographic field work about a chosen place. By considering the archive as a space with a possible built in creative intensity, archive material intertwined ...