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  Hani Chladilová_And Suddenly, There Was Light (2025) author(s): Onyx Chladilová published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 BA Photography This thesis explores personal journey of the author’s healing from sexual violence trauma through art making when conventional therapy was not available. It is divided into two parts where the first consists of descriptive-research-based writings, while the second one provides the reader with personal writings of the author. The research-based part driven by a question How can the process of art making help facilitate healing after experiencing sexual violence firstly focuses on understanding trauma and its causes and symptoms. Secondly, it provides understanding of sexual violence, the barriers of reporting sexual violence, additionally, it provides with understanding of how do survivors heal from sexual violence induced trauma. Thirdly, it investigates releasing and redirecting traumatic energy inspired by the writings of therapist Peter A. Levine and outlines benefits of healing through art making. Lastly, this part provides nine strategies to avoid re-traumatization and to cope with potential triggers when seeking to heal from trauma through art making. The personal writings include thoughts, poems, notes to self, and excerpts from a personal diary throughout author’s endeavor to seek closure and become healed from sexual violence induced trauma. Overall, the thesis aims to inspire survivors of sexual violence and other forms of trauma to include artmaking into their journey of becoming healed.
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  From the tip of the tongue to the soles of the feet (2025) author(s): Laura Palau published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society 'From the tip of the tongue to the soles of the feet' speaks about the processes of healing through the lived experiences of a handful of individuals, including myself. These experiences form the first stitches as we begin to care about our collectives traumas. By embodying grief, lending an ear to a healer and thinking along with nature this book addresses through photography the difficulty of distinguishing between reality and imagination when post-traumatic stress disorder and depression befalls.
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  Flâneur Commissie : On the Digital Mobilisation of Frozen Bodies (2025) author(s): João Henrique Viegas published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society This thesis is the result of research on two statues commissioned by collective bodies, of writers who, combined, wrote under more than 100 pseudonyms, after they died. Fernando Pessoa and Edward Elias, sculpted by António Lagoa Henriques and Theo van der Nahmer respectively. These statues don’t serve the authors, so why were they built? How do they frame collective memory? How do we interact with them? By connecting the story of these statues with theory on cultural identity, aura and counter-strategies for mobilisation this thesis explores possible interventions to negotiate these statues.
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  Extended Umwelt: a thesis on losing control and connecting to chaos (2025) author(s): Sarah Hoogman published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design The complexity of nature is everywhere around us, from the microscopic, indeed invisible elements in the world, to the macroscopic, to the transhuman, to the supernatural. Sometimes it goes beyond our human perceptions, which for me, is a gateway to the realisation that there are so many more systems besides our intelligent human-controlled systems that are elusive to us. Imagine if we could perceive the world with a different perception. What if we could also sense the microscopic scale with our naked eye, or if we could receive light or sound outside our spectrum? Suppose we become aware that everything around us is in constant motion of vibrations. Perhaps we would see that we as human beings are only one element of so many more elements in nature. In this way, could we let go of our control over the systems in Gaia and leave more room for nature’s chaos? The experience of receiving vibrations beyond our senses will help us to create a new perception of our human-centred perspective of the Anthropocene.
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  Dining with interdepenedency : a new dining scenario (2025) author(s): Ariana Amir Hosseini published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 MA Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Ariana Amir Hosseini's graduation project questions the normatisation of the artificial environment dictated by the Vitruvian anthropometric scale alone, introduced by early modernist architecture manuals such as the "neufert - architect's data" (1939). This, in her view, is limited to promoting the efficiency of everyday activities while neglecting many other values that architecture and design can offer such as the connection between people. By focusing on the ritual of food, Ariana disrupts such everyday and important actions as, preparing food, cooking it and eating it, by proposing surreal spaces and objects that encourage connections between people based on a normatisation of interdependent actions.
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  Community school (2025) author(s): Chen Liu published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Driven by the author's personal experience, this thesis investigates the changing sense of community among Chinese students abroad. Through ten interviews and relevant theoretical readings, I discover a transitional journey of this sense of community: sprouted in a condensed living condition in dormitory, practiced in the basic daily activities and extended in the misuse of public teaching spaces. This transitional journey is currently facing challenges during Chinese students’ overseas study. How will this community sense continue without its previous habitats?(condensed dormitories, etc) How will this community sense deal with new upcoming factors?(language barrier, etc) In dealing these challenges, I emphasize the need for a conceived situation that allows participants to act on the possible challenges.
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