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Educating citizen designers in South Africa
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)Educating Citizen Designers in South Africa is the first book of its kind to appear in post-apartheid South Africa and it is therefore both overdue and extremely welcome. The book aims at sharing critical citizenship design ... -
Salt-water-bodies : from an atlas of loss
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Salt-Water-Bodies: From an Atlas of Loss is a response, through photomedia(tions) and live art, to material-affective encounters with/in littoral death zones along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean of ... -
Investigating the benefits of art education as a core subject at a school in the Khomas region in Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis argues for the importance of incorporating the arts as a core subject in public schools in Namibia. Arts education is key to improving learners’ learning experiences, but the Namibian government ... -
Kaaps : exploring the power of language as lived experience and its formative role in knowledge production and self-understanding within an art gallery in the South African context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During my undergrad education in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, as a working-class ‘coloured’1, I was immersed in a white Afrikaans culture for the first time. It allowed me to ... -
Besinning : verwaardiging van siekte
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the representation of the abject body in contemporary visual arts. I experience my own body as abject, through my personal experience with an all-consuming diseased body, caused ... -
Dwelling in the Cederberg as a means to explore photographic, land and sound scapes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through the act of dwelling, this thesis investigates how a bodily experience of space can be mapped through photographic, land and sound ‘scapes’, and in doing so be responsible for the creation of ... -
Faith in a doubtful space : an introduction to the idea of faith as an artistic praxis in a contemporary environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an examination of the idea of faith as an artistic praxis; as a contemporary practice. It deals with the issue of religious based artwork and its relevance in a contemporary environment ... -
Neither soul nor body : a hauntological exploration of the folkloresque in horror video games
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract -
Examining how integrating digital technology with traditional media impacts the process of Artmaking in the art classroom : a case study of Grade 6 class in an independent girls school in Gauteng
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The 21st-century classroom is experiencing global changes that require digital technology to be integrated in the curriculum of each subject offered in schools. Digital technology is shaping and forming ... -
Telling places, a photographic exploration
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis and accompanying exhibition explore landscape photography practice within the politically fraught context of the Southern African landscape and equally fraught traditions of landscape ... -
The lived experiences of street-based sex workers in Woodstock, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study presents ‘Participatory Action’ based research, combined with first person narration and lived experiences, that was conducted with street-based sex workers, based in Woodstock, Cape Town, ... -
Examining the flipped classroom approach to teaching in a creative development setting in higher education in South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a traditional classroom setting teachers tend to teach their class with little interaction with their students. The ‘flipped’ classroom approach has received attention for its potential as a new ... -
The effects of social media on the revitalisation of feminism and coloured women's identity politics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the movement towards cultivating a democracy since 1994, South Africa is a country which still faces many challenges as a result of political and racial remnants of the Apartheid regime. With ... -
An investigation of affect responses drawn from South African tertiary level visual communication students by means of illustrating the corporeal feminine through comic book art.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sequential narratives, generally referred to as comics, which directly address the nature of the female body and its flows, have both been censured and praised. These comics have resulted in affecting ... -
On mystical form
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is not a conventional thesis. It brings together ideas that do not self-evidently belong together. The common denominator throughout is myself: my conceptual and art-making process. The ideas I ... -
The abject, frail fourth age body: art jewellery as a tool to re-interpret aged female bodies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates art jewellery as social communicator and questions the way in which the Fourth Age female individual is perceived. The argument of this thesis will be presented in conjunction ... -
To wonder: a cartography of information technology as a hidden curriculum and its effect on learning environments for art education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During my artistic studies within the South African educational system, I gradually learnt how to voice the problems that ideologies and methodologies cause when used in the teaching of standardised ... -
Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood and Feminism within the Context of South Africa: A Critical Analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a critical analysis of Hillsong’s Colour Sisterhood movement and Colour Conference event in Cape Town during 2017. Following Shireen Hassim’s argument for the recognition of non-political ... -
Africa-Lite: cultural appropriation and commodification of historic blackness in post-apartheid fabric and décor design
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past few years, cultural appropriation has gained a degree of notoriety as a buzzword, after emerging into the wider public arena from academic, legal and political discourses. Internationally ... -
Thinking about, with and through design : a cartography for transformation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Transformation in South African higher education has recently been a topic of major debate. Student protests have given rise to increased awareness of the inherent complexities involved in actively working ...
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