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Browsing by Supervisor "Reyburn, Duncan"
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study aims to explore the value and values of design thinking as an approach. More specifically, this study interrogates and explores the value and values of characteristics in design thinking. Moreover, this study ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study explores the role of design as a force that may stabilise cultural identity in a cultural climate of globalisation through the use of visual rhetoric and narrative. It focuses specifically on the heritage and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study turns to Heideggerian phenomenology as a counter to reductive and cognitivist conceptions of empathy and as a response to a provocation towards adding rigour to the concept of empathy within design discourse. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This thesis explores the landscape of human-centered design as found in South African healthcare. It then applies this framework in the context of radiology departments and environments in public hospitals in South Africa. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-19)This study explores the conceptual relationship between design aesthetics and Aristotelian rhetoric in the context of information visualisation. Aesthetics and rhetorical theory are traditionally studied as separate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This research project has explored selected ethical issues raised by scam advertising in the South African advertising industry, as well as in relation to a wider discourse on advertising awards. In Chapter One the aims ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The number of research for design methods is increasing every year, but existing literature reveals very little about the state of research in communication design in the South African context. It is not clear whether ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Drawing on narratology, hermeneutics and mimetic theory, this research elucidates those desires of Walter White, the protagonist of hit AMC show Breaking Bad, that affect his story arc and influence his character transformation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study introduces rapid design ethnography as a research strategy that may be used in design as an alternative to conventional ethnography. It interrogates this strategy by means of a study of the Ghanaian Adinkra ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Bearing in mind the dearth of research into the phenomenological dimension of the act of drawing by hand, this study considers and explores how drawing may produce humanising effects—including the reflexivity and metacognition ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-05)This study and the accompanying design project explore postmodern identity construction as a nomadic state of being in relation to the shared experience of space. The potential of the relationship between postmodern identity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Creativity plays an important part in design and problem-solving. While the role of play has enjoyed a great deal of attention in the study of both creativity and problem-solving alike, the overlap between games and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-08)This study explores the potential pedagogical value Jungian strategies may bring to creativity studies and design education. The study is largely interdisciplinary insofar as it draws from several disciplines including ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This thesis illustrates the potential of Kenneth Burke’s theory for interrogating visual design trend dynamics and rhetorics. The investigation originated in response to the perceived unsustainability of accelerated design ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Social media can be perceived as forging one’s relationships and influencing one’s world view, but has it always allowed individuals to connect meaningfully? It mesmerises and grips the mind of its users. It fascinates, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study offers a philosophical hermeneutic of design. It aims to achieve this by exploring William Desmond’s metaphysics, specifically his fourfold sense of being, and how it relates to design. Desmond’s fourfold sense ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study addresses an observable problem, which is that community health workers (CHWs) struggle to understand medical data maps and healthcare related statistics in community oriented primary care (COPC). COPC is a model ...
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