Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Metamorphosis and Transformation'

Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, com a especialização em Urbanismo para obtenção de grau de Mestre.
Em resumo, esta Prova final de mestrado formula a sua proposta numa visão mais concentrada na zona medieval da cidade. Uma zona histórica com características muito fortes e de grande potencial, mas que tem vindo a ser esquecida e deixada ao acaso ao longo dos últimos anos, fomentando, o que é hoje um dos grandes problemas da cidade, o edificado obsoleto. A estratégia é formulada e contextualizada no Bairro das Fontainhas e São Domingos, antigos bairros piscatórios, onde a presença de obsoletos é mais significativa, tanto a nível físico com a degradação do edificado, como a nível atmosférico, onde a falta de moradores e a ausência de serviços afecta a vida humana no bairro e por consequência a falta de manutenção dos seus espaços. A estratégia desenvolveu-se com o objectivo principal de restaurar a vida bairrista do local. Um método de trazer nova população, sem perder a atmosfera habitual de um bairro piscatório, onde todos vivem em comunidade. A solução encontrada e produzida nesta tese, é a criação de espaços de estar que estão directamente ligados às habitações, funcionando como um terraço comunitário, proporcionando encontros e partilhas entre moradores. De um grosso modo, a estratégia resume-se num sistema secundário de circulações, de carácter mais privado, pelo Interior do bairro, atravessando edifícios de uso público e pátios. A sua criação, passa pela construção de pátios, nos vazios urbanos existentes no interior dos quarteirões e na transformação do edificado obsoleto. De modo a garantir a viabilidade dos novos percursos e pátios, estes para além de interligarem os espaços e edifícios singulares existentes no bairro, como a Igreja da boa hora, o Convento de São Domingos, o cemitério e o Miradouro das Fontainhas, é também transformado o edificado obsoleto, referido anteriormente, dando-lhe um uso mais público, como um mercado, restaurares, etc., de modo a atrair população e possibilitando o atravessamento entre o interior dos quarteirões e as ruas.
ABSTRACT: This final project creates its proposal over a concentrated view of the medieval part of Setúbal. An historic zone with strong characteristics and with a great potential for progress, nevertheless it has been forgotten over the years increasing the obsolescence of its buildings. The strategy it´s created on neighborhood of Fontainhas and São Domingos, old fishing districts, where the present of obsolete it’s more significative, both physically with the degradation of the buildings, as atmospheric, where the lake of residents and the absence of services affect the human life in the neighborhood and consequently in the spaces maintenance. The strategy as developed with a principal objective of restoring the neighborhood life of this place. A method to bring new population, without losing the usual atmosphere of a piscatorial district where everybody lives in community. The found solution that is developed in this thesis, it’s the creation of leisure spaces that are directly connected to the habitations, allowing them to work as a community terrace, providing meeting and sharing between residents. In overall, the strategy boils down on a secondary system of circulation, with a more private character, inside of the neighborhood, that go through public buildings and courtyards. Its creation involves the construction of courtyards, in the urban voids that exists inside the city blocks and the transformation of the obsolete buildings. In order to guarantee the viability of the new routes and courtyards, these in addition to interconnecting the spaces and singular buildings in the neighborhood, as such the Church of Boa Hora, The Convent of São Domingos, the cemetery and the sightseeing of Fontainhas, there is also the transformation of the obsolete buildings, that is previously mentioned, given then a more public use, as a market, restaurants, etc., as a way to attracted population and giving the possibility to cross inside the city blocks and streets.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, com a especialização em Urbanismo para obtenção de grau de Mestre.
A relação cidade-rio revela uma particularidade importante na identidade e crescimento de um território ribeirinho. Esta condição permite que a cidade se abra à água e com ela construa um espaço simbólico entre o território e a figura humana. Este trabalho formaliza um desejo de transformar o tecido urbano da cidade de Setúbal e a reaproximar ao rio sob a consciência interna da sua identidade e memória. Numa leitura atenta ao território são revelados os suportes sobre o qual a cidade se desenvolveu, expondo uma crescente conquista sobre o rio. Este território conquistado sobre a água apresenta-se hoje como um espaço não consolidado e fragmentado, resultado do crescimento pouco coeso da cidade e sobretudo das frentes rio que serviam antigas zonas industriais e portuárias. Estas estruturas portuárias desarticuladas com a cidade criam a oportunidade para repensar os tecidos urbanos e relações com o rio. A partir desta referência histórica propõe-se uma reflexão sobre os motivos do progressivo afastamento entre a cidade e o rio. A abordagem ao projeto explora uma visão da cidade, articulando a teoria e a prática, a leitura e o projeto, a partir de um exercício de composição urbana e arquitetónica. A transformação deste território ribeirinho premeia a memória do seu lugar e os vestígios de identidade que ainda imergem sobre o território. O projeto foca a frente de água do Bairro das Fontainhas como objeto de estudo onde se explora a escala e a monumentalização da água. A proposta desenvolve diferentes relações da água com o espaço construído, influenciando o comportamento das pessoas para com o lugar. Aqui constrói-se uma nova existência formal e funcional com a identidade e memória do lugar, concedendo-lhe novas espacialidades capazes de perdurar no tempo. “… a arquitetura é o único meio de que dispomos para conservar vivo um laço com um passado ao qual devemos a nossa identidade e que é constitutivo do nosso ser.” (CHOAY, 2015, pág.. 147)
ABSTRACT: The city-river bond reveals an important facet of the identity and growth of the riverside region. It allows the city to open up to the water and to build a symbolic space between the territory and the human figure. This project formalizes the desire to transform the urban structure of Setúbal and bring it closer to the river under the internal awareness of it’s identity and memory. In a careful analisys, we reveal the suports on which the city has developed, exposing a growing conquest over the river. Nowadays, this piece of land conquered to the water is a fragmented and unconsolidated space, which is a result of the lack of cohesive growth of the city, specialy the port and industrial areas. These port structures disjointed with the city create the opportunity to rethink the urban morfology and their relation with the river. Based on this historical reference, we propose a reflection on the main reasons for the progressive distance between the city and the river along the years. The project approach explores a vision for the city articulating theory and practice, reading and project, based on an exercise in urban and architectural composition. This riverside transformation rewards it’s memory and vestiges of identity barelly immersing on the territory. The project focus on the waterfront area of Bairro das Fontainhas as an object of study where the scale and monumetalization of the water is explored. The proposal develops different relationships between the water and the built space, influencing people’s behavior towards their use of the place. That said, we propose a new formal and funtional existence, built with the identity and memory of the place, grating it new spacialities capable of lasting over time. “… a arquitetura é o único meio de que dispomos para conservar vivo um laço com um passado ao qual devemos a nossa identidade e que é constitutivo do nosso ser.” (CHOAY, 2015, pág.. 147)
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In this thesis project I try to make visible the complex problems behind the plastic pollution crisis, the skewed ideas of synthetic plastic and recycling we as consumers are taught, and in what way architecture can help make these systems visible. This is achived through a design method of growth and transformation using plastic waste to create a building that uncovers what would otherwise not bee seen.

Die Studie definiert und analysiert Kanywood-Videofilme kritisch, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf Quellen der mündlichen Literatur und Performancepraxis liegt. Per Definition steht Kanywood sowohl für Filmindustrie als auch für in Nordnigeria produzierten Videofilme. Die Studie hält an "Kanywood" als dem für die Branche geprägten Label fest. Der Literaturüberblick zeigt, dass die Aneignung von Bollywood-Filmmustern durch Kanywood-Filmemacher übermäßig untersucht wurde. Bisherige Untersuchungen im Bereich des re-enactment oraler Hausa-Performance in Kanywood-Videofilmen sind hingegen unzureichend. Die vorliegende Studie füllt mit ihrer Untersuchung der Transformation der Hausa-Kultur im Medium Film aufgrund der Globalisierung und im Kontext traditioneller Performance-Künste diese Lücke, und fügt so den bestehenden Arbeiten über Kanywood eine innovative Forschungsperspektive hinzu. Im theoretischen Rahmen von Performance Studies und mit der gründlichen Analyse eines ausgewählten Korpus zeigt die Studie, wie der Videofilm als Medium wichtiger sozialer und kultureller Veränderungen gesehen wird. Er ist nicht nur ein Gegenstand anhand dessen die Erforschung des Konzepts einer transzendierenden Globalisierung möglich ist, sondern auch ein Weg, um zu verstehen, wie die Gesellschaft sich unter bestimmten sich wandelnden Umständen verändert. Während die allgemein zugrunde liegende Frage lautet, ob Kultur statisch ist oder nicht, verhandelt die Studie dabei die spezifischen Fragen, inwiefern Performances während des Filmemachens neu inszeniert und neu gerahmt werden, und inwieweit traditionell kodierte Performance-Ereignisse im Videofilm verändert, subvertiert und/oder bereichert werden. Die Studie empfiehlt die Ästhetik von Filmsprache als ein Gebiet weiterführender Forschung, stellt heraus, dass Imitation, Adaptation und Aneignung zirkulierender künstlerischer Formen ein globale Phänomene sind, die auf Intertextualität beruhen, erklärt, dass Kultur nicht statisch, sondern dynamisch ist, und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es angemessener ist, Videofilme und Filmemacher durch das Paradigma der kulturellen Hybridität und Modernisierung zu betrachten, da sie die kulturelle Verschiebung, Transformation und Veränderung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung fördern.
The study identifies and critically analyses Kanywood video films with particular emphasis on sources in oral literature and performance practices. By way of definition, Kanywood stands for both the film industry and video films produced in northern Nigeria. The study sticks to “Kanywood” as the label coined for the industry. However, “Kannywood” with the consonant cluster, as in Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood is a variant label, which some scholars have adopted. The study forgrounds that Kanywood filmmakers' appropriation of Bollywood have been excessively explored. But investigations in the area of re-enactment of performance in Kanywood video films are conceivably insufficiently undertaken. Therefore, the distinct contribution of this study reflects on transformation of Hausa culture due to globalization, thus elaborating the existing works on Kanywood. Through a performance framework and a thorough analysis of selected corpus, the study shows how video film is seen as a provider of major social and cultural changes. It is not only a means through which an exploration of the concept of the transcending globalization is possible, but it is also a way of comprehending how the society transforms under some changing circumstances. While the general underlying question is whether or not culture is static, the study thereby negotiates specific questions such as how are performances re-enacted and re-framed during filmmaking process, and how far are traditionally encoded performance events altered, changed, subverted or enriched in video film? The study recommends the aesthetics of language as an area of further research, foregrounds that imitation, adaptation and appropriation of circulating artistic forms is a global phenomenon grounded in intertextuality, expounds that culture is not fixed but dynamic, and concludes that it is more appropriate to look at the video films and the filmmakers through the paradigm of cultural hybridity and modernization which enhance cultural shift, transformation and change in this era of globalization. Keywords: Kanywood, performance, oral heritage, transformation The study identifies and critically analyses Kanywood video films with particular emphasis on sources in oral literature and performance practices. By way of definition, Kanywood stands for both the film industry and video films produced in northern Nigeria. The study sticks to “Kanywood” as the label coined for the industry. However, “Kannywood” with the consonant cluster, as in Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood is a variant label, which some scholars have adopted. The study forgrounds that Kanywood filmmakers' appropriation of Bollywood have been excessively explored. But investigations in the area of re-enactment of performance in Kanywood video films are conceivably insufficiently undertaken. Therefore, the distinct contribution of this study reflects on transformation of Hausa culture due to globalization, thus elaborating the existing works on Kanywood. Through a performance framework and a thorough analysis of selected corpus, the study shows how video film is seen as a provider of major social and cultural changes. It is not only a means through which an exploration of the concept of the transcending globalization is possible, but it is also a way of comprehending how the society transforms under some changing circumstances. While the general underlying question is whether or not culture is static, the study thereby negotiates specific questions such as how are performances re-enacted and re-framed during filmmaking process, and how far are traditionally encoded performance events altered, changed, subverted or enriched in video film? The study recommends the aesthetics of language as an area of further research, foregrounds that imitation, adaptation and appropriation of circulating artistic forms is a global phenomenon grounded in intertextuality, expounds that culture is not fixed but dynamic, and concludes that it is more appropriate to look at the video films and the filmmakers through the paradigm of cultural hybridity and modernization which enhance cultural shift, transformation and change in this era of globalization. Keywords: Kanywood, performance, oral heritage, transformation The study identifies and critically analyses Kanywood Video films with particular emphasis on sources in oral literature and performance practices. By way of definition, Kanywood stands for both the film industry and video films produced in northern Nigeria. The study sticks to "Kanywood" as the label coined for the industry. However, "Kannywood" with the consonant cluster, as in Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood is a variant label, which some scholars have adopted. The study foregrounds that Kanywood filmmakers' appropriation of Bollywood have been excessively explored. But investigations in the area of re-enactment of performance in Kanywood video films are conceivably insufficiently undertaken. Therefore, the distinct contribution of this reflects on transformation of Hausa culture due to globalization, thus elaborating the existing works on Kanywood. Through a performance framework and a thorough analysis of selected corpus, the study shows how video film is seen as a provider of major social and cultural changes. It is not only a means through which an exploration of the concept of the transcending globalization is possible, but it is also a way of comprehending how the society transforms under some changing circumstances. While the general underlying question is whether or not culture is static, the study thereby negotiates specific questions such as how are performances re-enacted and re-framed during filmmaking process, and how far are traditionally encoded performance events altered, changed, subverted or enriched in video film? The study recommends the aesthetics of language as an area of further research, foregrounds that imitation, adaptation and appropriation of circulating artistic forms is a global phenomenon grounded in intertextuality, expounds that culture is not fixed but dynamic, and concludes that it is more appropriate to look at the video films and the filmmakers through the paradigm of cultural hybridity and modernization which enhance cultural shift, transformation and change in this era of globalization.

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.
Bibliography: p. 239-289.
Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.
My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies.
By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts.
In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature.
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Diante de tantas transformações no mundo em nosso século, seja na sociedade, na filosofia, na sociologia e na religião, é desafiador falar sobre o desenvolvimento humano em suas fases mais difíceis e transformadoras, quais são, a pré-adolescência e adolescência. Adolescentes que perguntam: O que é a vida e por que eu vivo? Através de uma imagem da natureza comparamos suas transformações internas e externas com as da metamorfose de uma lagarta que se transforma em borboleta, adquirindo asas para voar. Como ajudar adolescentes a enfrentar suas perguntas existenciais e a se desenvolver de maneira saudável para conseguir voar nas asas do espírito? Descrevemos a busca pela espiritualidade como resposta principal a todos esses questionamentos e os encaminhamos a um itinerário espiritual para viverem essa espiritualidade na íntegra: Voando nas Asas do Espírito.
Faced with so many transformations in the world in our century, be they in society, in philosophy, in sociology and in religion, it is challenging to talk about the human development in its most difficult phases, which are pre-adolescence and adolescence. Adolescents who ask: What is life and why am I living? Through an image of nature we compare their internal and external transformations with those of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar which transforms into a butterfly gaining wings to fly. How to help adolescents to face their existential questions and to develop in a healthy way in order to fly on the wings of the spirit? We describe the quest for spirituality as the main answer to all these questionings and we direct them to a spiritual itinerary in order to live out this spirituality in fullness: Flying on the Wings of the Spirit.

This thesis identifies and characterises a particular kind of temporal typography in which verbal forms exhibit behaviours that have been identified by Eduardo Kac as ‘fluid’ , and fluctuate between the verbal and pictorial or abstract. A typology will be constructed which identifies the various behaviours by which fluidity is exhibited, and provides terminology for their analysis, accompanied by analysis of how these behaviours address the relationship between the commonly distinct paradigms of verbal and pictorial signs. The work identifies the distinction between fluidity and other forms of kineticism, and explores the various behaviours exhibited in fluid artefacts. When addressing local kineticism, gaps in existing research are filled by employing terms and observations from other fields. For example, Kac offers the term ‘fluid’ in description of his holographic poetry, which exhibits behaviours much like those presented in some examples of screenbased temporal typography. This thesis proposes that Kac’s term, ‘fluid’, may be adopted in order to differentiate significant local change in verbal forms from the various other kinds of kineticism observable in temporal typography. Fluid behaviours are identified in examples including Martin Lambie Nairn and MPC’s Channel 4 idents, the credit sequences of Kyle Cooper, and the typographic animations of practitioners including Komnios Zervos and Dan Waber. This thesis demonstrates that the existing discourse surrounding temporal typography has been held back by a failure to make distinguish between global kineticism (effecting layout) and local kineticism (effecting individual characters). The distinction between the global and the local is considered vital in studies of perceptual organisation, particularly Gestalt psychology. By providing a coherent typology, and consistent terminology, this study has the potential to positively influence understanding and analysis of fluid characterforms.

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This study aims to understand the process of identity formation and transformation with monozygotic twins. We intend to analyze how the identity of two twin brothers develops along their life course, considering that both shared the same historical and social context, constituted by structural conditioning factors represented by the family, school, community and society institutions. The identity proposal as a metamorphosis in search of emancipation developed by Prof. Dr. Antonio da Costa Ciampa (1987), was our guiding line for the accomplishment of this research. We chose the life history narrative method to deepen the understanding of the dynamics of the two twin brothers identity formation; in this research they are named Ricardo and Rogério, they are now 50 years old, and are born, raised and living in the city of São Paulo-SP . The study of the identity formation processes involved the primary socialization, focused on the childhood phase and the beginning of school life, as well as the secondary socialization, focused on the period of career choices, beginning of professional life and current life and career moment
O presente estudo tem por objetivo compreender o processo de formação e transformação identitária com gêmeos univitelinos. Pretendemos analisar como as identidades de dois irmãos gêmeos se desenvolve ao longo de sua trajetória de vida, considerando que ambos partilharam o mesmo contexto histórico e social, constituído pelos condicionantes estruturais representados pelas instituições família, escola, comunidade e sociedade. A proposta de identidade como metamorfose em busca de emancipação, desenvolvida pelo Prof. Dr. Antonio da Costa Ciampa (1987), foi nossa linha norteadora para a realização da presente pesquisa. Optamos pelo método de narrativa de historia de vida para aprofundar no entendimento da dinâmica da formação e transformação da identidade dos irmãos gêmeos, aqui chamados de Ricardo e Rogério, hoje com 50 anos de idade, nascidos, criados e residentes na cidade de São Paulo-SP. O estudo dos processos de formação identitária envolven a socialização primária focada na fase da infância e inicio da vida escolar; bem como a socialização secundária focada na fase das escolhas profissionais, trajetória profissional e momento atual de vida e carreira

The research reported on here is an investigation of the relations of Transformative Learning and Transformative Spaces. It is an interdisciplinary study aimed at exploring the interplay between space, culture, memory and identity in learning. In particular, it seeks a) to understand how our individual and social identities are determined by space and movement within/in-between/across/beyond space(s), and b) to establish a dialogic formation between and among concepts of social, spatial, gendered learning environments and their interaction with time in the production of collective action, democracy, and freedom. In this respect, its aims are to contribute to understandings of different power relations that influence knowledge construction, and about what can be learnt when people struggle for a more equitable society. In so doing, it draws from a very broad array of theorists but also from empirical investigation conducted in two ways: a) through a case study of a particular place (Greece), focusing on a social (political) movement emerged in the years of Greece’s military dictatorship, 1967-1974 and b) through a life history/biographical narrative study of four particular (Greek) women. The dissertation will bring to the fore a cultural analysis of the emergence of the movement as well as of the construction of gender identities within and beyond that movement.  It will challenge views that seek only structural exegeses of social phenomena and relations by arguing that a social phenomenon cannot be analysed detached from the space and time that brought it about, thus pointing out the importance of context, in addition to aspirations, emotions, contradictory feelings and imagination in the processes associate with the concept of transformative learning.

Le concept d'hétérogène est souvent employé pour définir une littérature contemporaine qui transgresse les catégories génériques traditionnelles, multiplie les références littéraires, pratique les changements de registre, les ruptures narratives ou formelles, qui mêle fiction et réalité. Chez Olivier Cadiot, ce trait de non-genre – polygénéricité et amphibologie narrative – est au service d'une écriture de l'expérience subjective. La fiction se coule dans une forme piège pluridimensionnelle modelée sur le flux de la conscience et la volatilité de la pensée. Le récit brasse les images, les impressions fugitives, les configurations imaginaires, composant avec une matière textuelle sensible, émotionnellement dense. Déployant son plan de multiplicité, l'écriture cadiotienne de l'hétérogène intègre les fragments d’énoncés, les concepts, les données factuelles, les perceptions, les phénomènes psychiques, la mémoire individuelle dans un système textuel et expérientiel ouvert
Le concept d'hétérogène est souvent employé pour définir une littérature contemporaine qui transgresse les catégories génériques traditionnelles, multiplie les références littéraires, pratique les changements de registre, les ruptures narratives ou formelles, qui mêle fiction et réalité. Chez Olivier Cadiot, ce trait de non-genre – polygénéricité et amphibologie narrative – est au service d'une écriture de l'expérience subjective. La fiction se coule dans une forme piège pluridimensionnelle modelée sur le flux de la conscience et la volatilité de la pensée. Le récit brasse les images, les impressions fugitives, les configurations imaginaires, composant avec une matière textuelle sensible, émotionnellement dense. Déployant son plan de multiplicité, l'écriture cadiotienne de l'hétérogène intègre les fragments d’énoncés, les concepts, les données factuelles, les perceptions, les phénomènes psychiques, la mémoire individuelle dans un système textuel et expérientiel ouvert

Cette recherche a pour objet l’étude de la problématique de la mise en œuvre d’une démarche qualité dans le contexte des établissements d’enseignement supérieur en Tunisie. Elle porte plus particulièrement sur la mise en œuvre dans une école d’ingénieurs. Cette école est l’une des premières à expérimenter cette démarche, qui s’inscrit dans une politique générale coordonnée par le Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherche. La qualité est le fer de lance de la stratégie de développement de l’éducation nationale contribuant au développement économique et social du pays d’une part, à la compétitivité de l’enseignement supérieur tunisien plus spécifiquement d’autre part.La mise en œuvre prescrite par le plan ministériel s’inscrit dans le cadre des concepts et des méthodes du « Total Quality Management ». Après avoir présenté le cadre théorique et méthodologique de notre recherche, nous analysons dans une première partie le donné contextuel, en regard d’une approche normative, qui fait école au plan mondial, de la définition et de la mise en œuvre d’une démarche qualité. Nous montrons que ce cadre du « Total Quality Management » permet de réaliser l’implantation de la qualité sur le plan téléologique, qui se concrétise généralement l’obtention d’une certification. Notre recherche montre corrélativement que la mise en œuvre de la qualité dans l’enseignement supérieur en Tunisie emprunte au modèle occidental de gestion de la qualité, généralisé de part le monde. Ce modèle organise la qualité des procédés et des produits. Il permet de prescrire les adaptations à réaliser sur le plan du management et du fonctionnement de l’organisation. Nous observons cependant que dans le contexte tunisien, il faut associer une démarche axiologique, qui justifie le positionnement de notre recherche. Selon ces deux axes, nous proposons une démarche de « Qualité Intégrale ». Mais, cela n’est envisageable qu’en se positionnant dans un cadre théorique et méthodologique approprié, compatible avec le cadre de prescription. Notre recherche montre que le cadre théorique et méthodologique de l’analyse socio-économique permet de réaliser cette comptabilité. Les prescriptions que nous formulons se déclinent à partir du concept de la « Qualité Intégrale ». Le modèle d’intervention proposée par cette approche consiste, non plus à saisir la qualité à partir des buts à atteindre et à obtenir les changements requis, mais à définir les conditions de possibilité du changement, et à conduire les transformations du management et du fonctionnement de l’organisation, dans ses infrastructures, qui permettront d’atteindre les buts
This research broaches the implementation of quality management in Tunisian colleges, particularly in the field of engineering. The case study is a college which experimented with this approach, sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education. Quality is the spearhead of the Tunisian administration so as to contribute to the socio-economic development of the country and to the competitiveness of Tunisian higher education. . The implementation was embedded in the TQM framework and methodology that are outlined in the first part of the dissertation, as an international norm and standard. It enables a teleological implementation of quality management, resulting in getting the accreditation by importing a western and global approach to quality. This method structures the quality of products and processes and drives the operation management. However, we assume that there is a need for an axiologic axis to supplement the teleological axis in Tunisia so as to propose an integrated approach to quality management, which requires designing a compatible theoretical and methodological framework. Our research shows that the socio-economic approach to integrated quality management is required to enable such compatibility. The intervention methodology doesn’t consist in defining quality only through the objectives, but through the conditions and possibilities of change, and through transforming the very underpinnings and infrastructure of the organizations so as to better reach the objectives

This dissertation analyzes the reception of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy through a case-study of the asinine transformations of Apuleius’ protagonist, Lucius, and Lewis’ antagonist, Prince Rabadash. Lewis’ use of Apuleius’ work as a model has been established in scholarship, specifically in his reworking of the Cupid and Psyche tale in Till We Have Faces (1956). This dissertation will analyze the elements of congruity between the tales of Lucius and Rabadash, namely: (1) the disregard of a superior’s warnings (Byrrhena, Aslan); (2) the “sin” of a personal lack of control (curiositas, pride) that leads to asinine metamorphosis; and (3) the reversal of metamorphosis through public religious ritual, thus resulting in a re-establishment in society with a new status (priesthood or eternal connection to the temple/deity). Medical anthropological models, specifically the health care systems and explanatory models (Kleinman: 1980), and the cultural anthropological model of the rites of passage (van Gennep: 1969) elucidate Lucius’ experiences within the context of Apuleius’ social world (2nd century A.D.) and Rabadash’s within the fictional world of Narnia. This dissertation seeks to broaden scholarship on classical reception in C.S. Lewis’ work, and add further insight into the studies of Apuleius through the use of social scientific criticism.

Fondee essentiellement sur l'etude des cas des ecoles de parti est-allemandes et roumaines, mais enrichie par la comparaison avec d'autres exemples - ceux des ecoles sovietiques, bulgares et tchecoslovaques -, cette these realise, pour la premiere fois, une etude comparative sur les ecoles de formation des cadres dans plusieurs pays ex-socialistes. L'analyse des conditions de constitution de ce modele d'ecole internationale, de sa diffusion et de son adaptation, est suivie par l'analyse des conditions de sa reconnaissance academique grace a l'introduction d'un enseignement en sciences sociales dans les universites, ainsi que de l'etude des transformations et des strategies de reconversion des membres de ces ecoles apres 1989. L'etude comparative des ecoles de parti fait apparaitre un double modele : l'un qui se rapproche plus de l'organisation d'une universite "classique", a bucarest et a sofia, l'autre qui conserve plus les caracteristiques du mode d'organisation initiale, a berlin. On montre, en outre, que leur "academisation" constitue une reponse specifique a des situations de crise politique et economique, et permet de confirmer l'hypothese des rapports d'homologie entre les strategies d'"accumulation socialiste primitive" en economie et des strategies de meme ordre relatives aux biens symboliques, titres universitaires, oeuvres du patrimoine culturel, etc
This research is mainly based on the study of east-german and romanian party schools, but it also features soviet, bulgarian and czechslovakian cases. It is actualy the first comparative study carried on executives' training in several ex-communist countries. The study deals with the setting up of this type of international institution, its diffusion and the way the model was adopted to each country. Moreover, it analyses the academic status of party schools wich were part of the social sciences schedule, as well as the changes undergone by these institutions and their members' reconversion after 1989. This research puts forth two evolution models : one closer to the traditional university, such as seen in bucharest and sofia, the other one, obvious in berlin, which is closer to the initial pattern. This academic development is related to various political and economic crises, and shows homologous relations existant between socialist "original accumulation" strategies in economy and strategies particular to symbolical goods such as academic degrees, cultural works, a. S. O

碩士
臺北市立大學
視覺藝術學系
106
This is a self- narrative research, by way of expressive art therapy and psycho drama. The purpose of the research is connected emotions and memories which are broken. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, the framework for these has discussed the research’s relationship about her family and friends, trying to understand the plight and impact in an unhealthy community for a long time. Following Chapter 4, focus on how to face the existing problems, re-organize bad experiences, find power from different perspectives, and give a new interpretation about relationships. Most important, Chapter 5, attempts to compile these new-found, for example: self-worth, self-affirmation and self-awareness.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
建築與城鄉研究所
105
This article regards the evolution of fish farms at Tai-jiang in Tainan, is obedient to a logic for urban transformation, makes people deprived of home. Based on official documents, journalism, online information, as well as participant observation and indepth interview, the marina nature in Tai-jiang is described and historical examined how to become urban nature. From Socio Nature and Scale Politics of view, the reconstruction of urban-region is to maintain urban centrality by depredation which is launched by the local regime. It made each components of fish farms unassembled and lose an opportunity for recovery of socio-ecoloy in Tai-jiang. Fish farms is always increasing more effort and cost to keep their components stable. Nevertheless, the expanding progress faces act of god more and more (e.g, inundation, pollution). Their components are eareaed for urban growth, and fish farms are losing coordination against nature force . Urban regime has to invest more policy resource and capital to deal the collapse, as well as Tai-jiang must depend on urban centrality more. Urban growth also needs support from the new-middle bourgeoisie who live in urban center area, and Fish farms are finally becoming a object what is gazed by them. Conservation and recreation ,bourgeoisie likes, destroy the connect between the components for city-expand . However, Yuguang Island was defense-zone for national security in the past, and now is as the front battlespace where all kind of development power including conservation and recreation. They offer the local actors opportunities to imagine other socio-ecological blueprints except tourism and real estate.

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東吳大學
英文學系
101
With his grotesque style, Kafka demonstrates an absurd world in his novels. By means of metamorphosis—a writing technique, Kafka dissects modernity into loneliness, despair, fear and identity confusion caused by alienation. Based on the relations among self, others and society in Metamorphosis, this thesis will conduct literary investigations into three forms of transformations: physiology, psychology, and economy. In his work “The Tattooer”, Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki vividly portrays the overwhelming power of art. Seikichi, the tattooer, surrenders himself to this power, experiencing self-alienation from his past, achieving and losing his value of being. Through the spider tattoo, Seikichi helps the female protagonist to become a woman, forcing her to be mature. Although the girl does not change at all in appearance, spiritually, she transforms from a geisha-to-be into a femme fatale whose character is in accordance with the spider. That manifests the psychological transformation “prompted” by the tattoo and moreover, reinforces the reverse of gender and sado-masochistic relationship between Seikichi and his client. Likewise, in “A Stick”, Kobo Abe employs the same technique to transform a human being into a substance so that he can further disclose the alienated destiny modern people have to encounter in reality. By the idea of “punishment” to the stick, the writer retrospects human’s negative attitude toward life when facing the dilemma of existence then further expresses his positive and active attitude in a deal with the issue of alienation. Through different forms and different degrees of metamorphoses, the above mentioned writers discuss the questions of existing condition, freedom and outlet for emotion in consideration of alienation, showing their great concerns to human destiny, life significance and humanistic spirit as well as their endless pursuit of the profound value for the existence.

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國立臺南大學
特殊教育學系碩博士班
107
In this study, the three approaches such as self-narrative, interview, and file data were applied. The aim was to analyze the transformation experience of me, a mother of Hsiao-Gu (alias), a senior high student with hearing loss. The study participants included Hsiao-Gu’s grandma and me. The personal life experience was written in the first-person mode, and the holistic-content narrative analysis method was adopted to explore the text information collected. Meeting the study purpose, the results of this study are stated below. 1. Initial reactions after knowing that my child has hearing loss: The initial reactions included the denial and anger while being informed of the possibility of my child’s hearing loss, the anxiety while waiting for the medical exam result, and the self-blame and sadness while recalling my child’s no imitation and interaction during the babbling stage. 2. In the process of educating my child with hearing loss, my resilience owing to psychological adjustment included three stages, i.e., the dilemma between religion and medicine, the tough road during the rehabilitation progress, and the thrilling time during my child’s schoolhood. In each stage, the psychological adjustment was made in the process of initial finding and suspicion. And, through the struggles in the process and the outcomes obtained, persistence and the resilience in the process of my educating the child were displayed. 3. There were the relevant factors that facilitated the transformation experience of the mother of the senior high student with hearing loss, such as personal traits, and family and social support, including personal introspection and growth, family's economic and spiritual support, schools' and professionals' economic assistance, arrangement of learning courses for the children with hearing loss, friends' encouragement and consensus, and hearing impaired children's participation in extracurricular activities, etc. 4. The meanings of my transformation experience of being a mother of a senior high student with hearing loss are described as follows: overcoming the inherent prejudices and accepting others’ suggestions as well as promoting social welfare. Hence, it was found in this study that the transformation experience improved my experiencing and comprehension of life, enhanced my coping ability in facing the difficulties, and assisted me to face the challenges courageously in the future. The implications of the study results: The transformation experience of the mother of the senior high student with hearing loss could remind other mothers of a child with hearing loss to overcome their own prejudice and accept others’ suggestions, ask for the assistance from social welfare, face the difficulties courageously, have an attitude of learning and growing with the child, broaden the vision, and learn to grow and make metamorphosis positively in frustrations.

博士
國立成功大學
資訊工程學系碩博士班
92
Morphing is a powerful technique to produce a shape transformation between two or more existing models.Morphing and warping have various applications ranging from special effects in the entertainment industry to medical imaging and scientific visualization. Not surprisingly, morphing and warping have received a lot of interest lately. They have been the cores of fundamental operations in computer graphics. 　　This thesis describes a new integrated scheme for metamorphosis between two closed manifold genus-0　polyhedral models. This new morphing scheme includes several novel techniques. In the correspondence　establishment process, spherical parameterizations of the source and target models are created first. To control the morphing, several feature vertex pairs are specified and a fold-over free warping method is presented to align two spherical embeddings. In the transformation process, the proposed method does not create a merged meta-mesh or execute re-meshing to construct a common connectivity for morphs. Alternatively, a novel technique for the connectivity transformation of two spherical　parameterizations is employed to generate the intermediate meshes. This technique dynamically adds or removes vertices to gradually transform the connectivity of 3D polyhedrons from a source model into a target model and simultaneously creates the intermediate shapes. In addition, a priority control function provides the animators to control arising or dissolving of input models’ features in a morphing sequence. This is a useful tool to control a morphing sequence more easily and flexibly. Furthermore, a novel semi-overlay with a geomorph scheme is proposed to reduce the popping effects caused by the connectivity transformation. We demonstrate several examples of aesthetically pleasing morphing sequences using the proposed scheme. 　　Besides the mesh metamorphosis, this thesis introduces the feature-based image warping and applies the image warping techniques in the medical image interpolation. This interpolation method is named shape-based feature-guided medical image interpolation. The proposed method is an effective and improved method. It integrates feature line-segments to guide the shape-based method for better shape interpolation. An automatic method for finding these line segments is given. The proposed interpolation method can manage translation, rotation and scaling situations when the slices have similar shapes. It can also interpolate intermediate shapes when the successive slices do not have similar shapes.

The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.

This study considers the role of tragedy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as demonstrated in four different episodes, those of Cadmus, Hercules, Hippolytus, and Medea. I have identified two main themes that the episodes share, namely, generic tension, particularly between epic and tragedy as emphasized by intertextual allusion to Virgil’s Aeneid, and the use of apotheosis as a means of not only transforming the character in question, but also signalling a generic shift, more appropriate for Augustan Rome. However, Ovid’s treatment of tragedy varies dramatically from one narrative to the next. Cadmus’ civic foundation is plagued with tragic themes and his apotheosis occurs only by later substitution. Hercules and Hippolytus achieve relatively standard deifications by pushing past the boundaries of their tragedies, but their refashioned selves are called into question. And the apparent apotheosis of Medea is even less straightforward, as she appears forever preserved in tragedy through meta-literary self-consciousness.

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中原大學
商業設計研究所
98
Greek mythology is the foundation of Europe literature. Ovid (43BC.-18AD.), who is good at describing the mindsets of characters, completed “Metamorphoses” with the special “deforming” point of view thru the mythology and made it become a masterpiece where the world finds the best interpretation of the mythology from. “Deforming” can be regarded as the talk between the soul and the flesh, the communication between "metaphysical" and "physical", the collision between spirit and material. “Metamorphoses” has been one of the databanks for the heathenism topics, which are favored by artists. After Industrial Revolution, the science has rapid and huge progresses, Capitalism and city culture reveals its corruption, human are surrounded by machines. Human’s anxiety and doubts about future and the changeable society, being helpless, powerless and angry, bring the Surrealism to the world again to find humans another exit. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and Die Traumdeutung emerged at this moment and became the age leading methodology. Surrealism, influenced by Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung, started to twist or break the limitation of formality via the concept of deforming and managed to reveal the transformation of psychological status affecting physical status or physical status failing to control psychological status via interpreting the deforming of light, darkness and the scene. Therefore, this research is an inquiry into Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” to mull over the concept of transformation and its effect on western art. With regard to the “Metamorphoses” it represents an idea about “corporeal deformation without but spiritual uniform within”, and I shall study the relation between which and the psyche of surrealism. In the history of visual art, Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” has tremendous influence and has been leveraged by many art designers till today, who might not even be aware of that. This research will combine Ovid’s metamorphism with contemporary art, utilizing pictorial software of modern digital technology which composed the latest creation in the field of computer design. This research is to understand how the classic literature has influenced Visual art thousands of years, by linking up Ovid and the present art via the concept of deforming. It is not only the talk between Ovid and Surrealism, the ancient and the modern, but also the word and the art.

This paper aims to explore the connections and parallels between Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The conclusions reached should provide fertile ground for further studies in the intertextual play between novels and Latin poetry. To reach these conclusions, there will be a multi-pronged approach at analyzing the questions and implications raised by the potential connections. First Longus' novel will be situated within a context of Greek literature under the Roman Empire that consciously utilized Vergilian poetry. Having done that, I will turn to the similar methods that each author uses to play with genre and the visual worlds in his work, a process that shows that Longus was using Ovid as a definite model/kindred spirit for his novel's approach to these topics. Following that, there will be an extended examination of specific episodes in Daphnis and Chloe through which Longus reveals his knowledge of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Finally, this paper will attempt to situate the arguments and conclusions that are made in the context of the current debates over the readership of the novel to present a strong case for bilingualism in the ancient world.
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