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Design af levende billeder i film og tv-serierWille, Jakob Ion (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-afhandlingen Film som Design undersøger, beskriver og kortlægger design og designerens arbejde i filmens og det levende billedes verden for på den baggrund at bidrage med indsigter i og foreslå analytisk håndtering af det, der bredt forstås ved det levende billedes design. Generelt behandler filmens teorier det levnende billedes stil og design som en reaktion på filmens eller tvseriens dominerende narrativ. Omvendt opfatter designtænkningen generelt filmens eller tv-seriens design som repræsentation af designartefakter. Mens disse forståelser i og for sig er rimelige, udtrykker de også en begrænset indsigt i filmisk design. Det primære mål for afhandlingen er derfor at udvide forståelsen og betydningen af design i den filmiske produktion og det filmiske værk. Dette sker gennem empiriske studier af film- og tv-produktioner og ved at overføre begreber og metodeforståelse fra designverdenen til filmens verden. Der tages på den måde hovedsageligt udgangspunkt i eksisterende filmvidenskabelig og designfaglig teori, der søges appliceret på filmens design for på den bagrund 1) at formidle og udvikle ny viden om området og foreslå anvendelsesorienteret metode til analytisk arbejde med dette samt 2) at revurdere og evt. revidere opfattelsen af designets betydning for skabelsen af det filmiske værk. På den måde tydeliggøres på den ene side designeren og designets betydning for skabelsen og oplevelsen af det visuelle værk, mens denne forståelse på den anden side søges instrumentaliseret i både praktisk anvendelsesorienteret og analytisk metode. For at differentiere sig fra mere kontekstorienterede diskurser arbejdes der i afhandlingen hovedsagligt med en formalistisk forståelse af det levende billede, inspireret af en poetik, hvor det levende billedes design primært opfattes som et resultat af kunstneriske eller designmæssige valg. Implicit i denne forestilling findes samtidig idéen om designeren som væsentlig medskaber (eller demiurg) af filmen eller tv-seriens fiktive univers. Disse og andre forestillinger fremstillet i afhandlingen sandsynliggøres gennem et empirisk materiale, der blandt andet indeholder studier af designarbejdet i så forskellige film som Lars von Triers Melancholia (2011) og Steven Spielbergs Minority Report (2001). Dertil bygger afhandlingen blandt andet på eksempler fra danske og internationale tv-serier samt på erfaringer fra et eksperimenterende samarbejde mellem manuskript- og producerelever fra Den Danske Filmskole, studerende fra Det Danske Kunstakademis Skole for Design og Danmarks Radio, TV-DRAMA. Endelig trækker afhandlingen på en bred vifte af eksempler på filmisk design fra det vestlige korpus af klassiske film fra George Méliès Le voyage à travers l’impossible (1904) til Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9106 Files in this item: 1
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Neerup Themsen, Tim (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation addresses one of the most popular management control practices adopted worldwide over the last three decades: the practice of risk management. The current risk management literature has argued that our knowledge of the particularities of risk management practices is limited. It has been stressed that knowledge is particularly lacking about the long-term effects of practising risk management. This dissertation responds to these calls by carrying out two longitudinal case studies of two large Danish public capital investment programmes, also known as mega-projects. The focus of the two studies has been on three key risk management-related aspects: (1) the translation of uncertainties into risks, (2) the relationship between frameworks and practices of risk management, and (3) the effects of practising risk management on knowledge and project management roles. The dissertation further advances current risk management literature into the study of mega-projects and draws upon actor-network theory. It consists of three papers, which each deals with one of the above aspects. The dissertation presents three major findings. Firstly, it is demonstrated that, contrary to expectations, only some types of uncertainties are included as risks, termed pure risks, while others, termed impure risks, are systematically excluded despite the finding that people found them relevant to include. This finding is explained with reference to technical risk devices as these were found to define the boundaries between what can and what cannot be defined as an acceptable risk and thus be included. Secondly, the dissertation demonstrates that by enacting certain realities of ‘risk’ and ‘risk management’, frameworks of risk management make the practice produce the risks that confirm its propositions and thus its success. In addition, the dissertation shows that when provisional situations arise which undermine the frameworks’ propositions, reconfiguring the risk management control system, risk terminologies and the roles of actors become key actions performed to re-establish the practice. Lastly, the dissertation demonstrates that during project processes, new uncertainties emerge which challenge project and risk management objectives as new knowledge about the conditions is produced that cannot be included. In sum, this dissertation contributes by shedding light on how practices of risk management are constructed and the effects they produce over longer periods of time. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9053 Files in this item: 1
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Framing Boundaries of Wicked ProblemsIngerslev, Karen (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to add to our understanding of microprocesses of innovation in a healthcare context. The study asks the research question: ‘How are wicked problems framed in healthcare and how does this framing affects what healthcare professionals attend to when responsible for innovation?’ URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9047 Files in this item: 1
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Brandl, Kristin Martina (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The global economy is perpetually changing to a highly knowledge-based economy in which services and especially knowledge-intensive services are increasingly offshored (geographically relocated) to emerging market economies such as India. This trend is interesting as for decades services had been characterized as intangible, perishable, heterogeneous and inseparable from their sources of origin making a geographic dispersion of service production and consumption unimaginable. Thus, the geographic relocation of the services is expected to infer organizational and operational reconfigurations also impacting the service production. The thesis studies these reconfigurations by questioning: how does offshoring impact on the production of services. In order to capture the unique characteristics of services and provide a thorough understanding of the phenomenon, detailed and dynamic analyses of activities and actors through process perspectives are argued to be necessary. Process perspectives allow studying relationships between actions and individual actors from an organizational and operational angle. Two process perspectives are applied in this thesis in three independent research papers. The first research paper studies the offshoring process as a strategic and organizational change process that leads to a misalignment of components of a services production system and questions how this impact elicits a reconfiguration of the system. The second and third paper investigates the offshored production process of knowledge-intensive services with a focus on actors in the processes and their activities. That is, the second paper questions how the increase of cognitive distance between actors inferred by offshoring changes the production of the services including costs and value outcomes. The third paper questions how offshoring impacts client co-production, i.e. the transfer and co-creation of knowledge, in a similarly designed service production process of knowledgeintensive business services. Collectively, this research shows that process perspectives on service offshoring are essential to study the impact of offshoring on service production. It also allows an understanding on the importance of actors and the causal links between them and activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9046 Files in this item: 1
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With police in making space for creativityHartmann, Mia Rosa Koss (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: What does it mean to be innovative in public organizations? Scholars and policy makers call for public sector organizations to become innovative, whether this is through increasing collaboration, exploring networks or recognizing the innovation that occurs in government. This study contributes to this discussion a critical perspective arguing that much of the innovation that occurs in public organizations may come about in ways that are intentionally silenced by the organization and therefore dependent on the tactical creation of space for everyday creativity. It does so through an 18-month ethnographic study informed by Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and discourse, as well as his history of the emergence of police within the state, and by De Certeau’s theory of everyday practice and metaphor of the city. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9043 Files in this item: 1
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