Research Catalogue

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design Since the Covid19 pandemic began, we have to wear a mask to protect ourselves. Not being able to see full facial expressions and hear the voice can be crucial to the interaction of speaking a second language. Additionally, with most of our physical routines online, it has become impossible to see the whole body, making it difficult to observe non-verbal messages. This thesis explores the ideas of how we can communicate more efficiently if the current phenomenon continues. How could we communicate when our language delivery is impaired? It argues that communication obstruction caused by the mask worn can be overcome with bodily communication with gestures and eye contact. Gestures as a symbolic action and eye contact as a window by emotionally synchronising brain waves require a deeper level of contextual and emotional exchange. Empathising from a desire to understand and to be understood can break a blockage by connecting together. Furthermore, the thesis suggests what mindset and position we need to take when experiencing difficulties of cultural differences during bodily communication. If we keep the gestures simple and embrace the embodied cultures and co-learn the diversities, we can go beyond language and connect globally.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design After four years of studying art and technology in The Netherlands and having my own experience in search of an internship within the gaming industry, I came to realize problems that I saw in my earlier years with my mother were not limited to Turkey, and that it is a much bigger problem which spans worldwide. In this light of realizations, I decided to put together this thesis which will explore women’s role in the gaming industry with a focus on my own passion in story driven games.

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.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design We express ourselves primarily through language. Somehow for me, these precious moments like sharing a box of chicken nuggets convey more than saying, “I’d like to spend some time with you.” I always feel understood in those situations. There are so many qualities that embed into senses rather than words. Through the course of the thesis, I took examples from my experiences to explore the contrasting worldviews generated by speaking different languages. I then looked into numerous literary and philosophical texts to investigate the reasons behind the differences, including discussing variations in translating poems and expressing emotions in Chinese and English languages. Extracts from fictional literature about language are also listed to help expand the panel to the nature of communication and variation of individual perceptions. An experiment with my friend to have a conversation in our different mother tongues also gave me the insight that the first step of understanding is the desire to understand. I choose to present these examples because they are all tied together by experiencing loss, contradiction, and transformation. By threading these pieces together, I finally gathered the floating pixels in my brain and curated them into a tangible image to make myself understood to others.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design Absorbed by squares and straight lines, I am separated from my nature. By producing and consuming, we waste natural sources, till the point that the Earth can’t keep up any longer. What can we learn from the billion-year-old underground network of nature? Fungi might be mostly invisible but ever-present to feed, defend and break down all we ever are and will be. In the house as an ecosystem, I image a space for harmonious orchestrated chaos, connecting life and mediating resources embracing all streams by collaborating with fungi to understand that we are more than one.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design This paper examines the question: What impact have archetypes in Malaysian folklore had on the idealisation of women and their socio-cultural expectations of gender and sexuality? To answer this question, I conducted a systematic review of common Malaysian folktales, folk comics, folk epics and mythology, examining their use of female characters and language to ascertain what common archetypes emerge from these forms of storytelling. From this systematic review, it is clear that archetypes in Malaysian folklore attempt to subjugate, stigmatise and objectify Malaysian women. While it is impossible to quantify the exact effect this has had on Malaysian society; I submit that there is a causal sequence in place in which we see the same lessons being propagated by the archetypes in Malaysian folklore being mirrored at every level of Malaysian society, ranging from the beauty industry to the political sphere.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design I was born and raised in The Netherlands, a country that is seen and communicated as a rich and prosperous country where you can be yourself and over/underwhelm yourself in the lowlands paradise. But what if you don’t always feel like you belong in it? When you don’t feel like you fit the frame or archetype, it can feel like you go through hell. In my case, it’s the archetype of my neurodivergence (PDDNOS/ADHD) vs the neurotypical mindset. The Netherlands shares its low geological position with the Nether-Hell from Dante Alghieri’s Inferno. Starting from that position and looking at The Netherlands through that lens, my thesis is in a constant zigzag between hell on earth and hell in fiction but also targeting the archetypes like demons / sinners / the location of hell, the feeling of hell and the acceptance of hell. When you don’t fit in a frame that is shaped by a certain status quo, you seek comfort in the damned. The Damned are the poor, lame, sick and the blind. The reader is challenged to look at sins and taboos through a lens of politics, policy and pop culture. Who is the decision maker and why would one follow? into eternity. When it comes to the status quo, the question is stopped with the answer: “Because we have always done it like this.” He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design This thesis investigates the techno-cultural implications of the internet, through the socio economic and philosophical consequences of the digitally mediated self. The human condition is destined to be transformed. This essay is a fictional presentation of the journey of the self into the different shapes and forms of simulation. What could possibly signify for a body to transcent its shapes and forms? Would it become something more of a human?Or maybe less?

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design In The Air We Exist is an exploration that questions if play can help us to survive better in the world we live in. Playing is often associated being being childish and a waste of time for adults, right? Entering adulthood, don’t we have no other choice than to stop playing? In any case, responsibilities and routines take away the last bit of free time we had. This thesis researches the universal phenomenon of play. More specifically on an activity that everyone has experienced as a child and that usually disappears in adulthood and which refers to an activity that is free, uncertain, without specific goal and leaves space for imaginaLon. I wonder if play can have a positive influence no matter the age of the person, as it comes along with essential benefits to the personal development. Instead of restricting it to a limited group of young people, I strongly believe in the positive impact it could have if we allowed it to expand to adults. Whichever age group, it can have a beneficial impact, maintaining human relationships and fuelling hope, as well as helping us when we face difficult and often complex situations. I honestly wonder about the reason for its absence and neglect in western society, as I believe it could partly be a solution for some contemporary problems. The thesis addresses the complex world, we live in. Being constantly confronted with productivity, progress and the desire to seek for control there is not much space for play. Further I research the origin, values and the psychological and sociological impact play can have on a person. The importance of play in childhood alongside its benefits and influence on a person growing older is being presented. Next to that, a selection of artists, all connected by play, demonstrate the fruitful addition it brings to their work. All these segments are inspirational elements for my graduation project where I intend to create a tool to reconnect us to play. The tool aims for a playful experience that simultaneously invites to reconsider the role of play in everyday life. Finally, it is an attempt to keep us young and in a state of constant curiosity and openness by learning how to improvise and accept failures as part of the game of life. And then to consider if playfulness can help us survive better in the world we live in.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 MA Artistic Research Ethics of Joy: the Disruptive Immanent in Art Thinking and Art Making, I explore the ‘image’ as a form of resistance and the experience of joy that emanates from questioning (through images) dominant modes of representation. Specifically, I look for ways to propose new modes of possibility within current capitalist approaches, by studying the workings of a series of painAngs from the seventeenth century. I look for strategies of resistance at a time when early capitalism started configuring visual representations of ‘progress’. Such strategies could be used today to subvert ongoing representations of ‘future’ and the transcendental beliefs that might still be implicit in them, in order to shape our own paths.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 2022 MA Artistic Research Writing introductions and quickly pitching my thesis must have become easier by now I suppose. I’ve talked about it so much these past months and to my surprise people get excited when I do. Somewhere along the fragmented lines of my communication I must do something good. I’ve caught myself often in that I keep saying the same thing. Which I suppose I will do again now when people ask me what it is about. It’s a multifocal piece, written my me and my friends, through conversations and interviews, in which we try to deconstruct our notions on intimacy. I guess it’s about (auto)cannibalism, sliminess, sex, love, anglerfish, grinder, bodies, sickness, healing and community too. The body as an archipelago and a guide to how to slowly consume oneself and the other. 

Annually, theory teachers from various departments of the Royal Academy of Art nominate their department’s best thesis for the thesis award. An independent and annually changing jury decides on the winning thesis award. The jury consists of a chair, an artist or designer teaching at the academy and/or the previous winner of the thesis award and an external member.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography The thesis seeks to analyze a type of negative reasoning that may arise during specific gay intimate encounters. It does so by relating it to absurdism, failure, rejection and the unimaginable. In order to get there, the paper focuses on the power of affects as incongruent impulses that can lead to unexpected situations. t also addresses the moments after this reasoning, when those intense impulses need a specific management. The research is also supported by an autofictional story that tries to question the inert and, in occasions, disappointing qualities of academic knowledge.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography My thesis discusses our privacy in the post-digital age where we are surrounded by surveillance cameras that operate by advanced Artificial Intelligence technology and get command from that. The paper begins with an introduction to the concept of "Digital identity" as a contemporary phenomenon used by authorities for the authentication process of people in the virtual world. The thesis clarifies how AI serves and empowers surveillance cameras and how this encounter puts our privacy at stake. Nowadays, most rulers (if not all) misuse this advanced technology in lack of a transparent law in order to monitor individuals in and out of their borders. The discussion ends by demonstrating the role of art and photography in raising awareness, which was one of my main goals for studying this subject in the last year. It also addresses some celebrated contemporary artworks and photo series related to this issue.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography This is an academic opinionated feminist exploration, written from the point of view of a visual artist. I have investigated what has affected our female rights to pleasure, to then be able to conclude on how we can liberate female bodies and allow women to freely have power over their desires and pleasure, by understanding what their individual autonomies are. This exploration is written to shake off society's constructs and stigmas that have conditioned us by going into detail about the effects of such constructs and then to look forward to a positive future. Let us be free, let us be agent, let us question and discover ourselves for who we are as individuals.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts In this thesis insight from the discourse on metafiction, a mode of writing which breaks and exposes the conventional frames of literary fiction, is used to analyse works of visual art that show a similar criticism towards the conventions of their medium.

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts This thesis explores the theory that love can act as ‘a gateway drug’ and if so, a ‘gateway’ to what exactly? ‘Being in love’ is a complex condition which induces a number of psychoactive responses in the brain these affect all parts of the body, including the DNA. These chemical reactions within the brain are comparable to those involved in drug addiction, as both stimulate the reward pathways in the brain. This thesis reviews the chemical processes which mirror the responses of other pleasure stimuli and mimic the brain chemistry patterns of drug addiction. The study also explores how developing technologies can influence ‘love’ and how these are affecting human evolution and the reproductive drive. I conducted this research in order to inform my artistic practice. The process of writing here has given me a foundation of knowledge which can be transmuted into my artistic process.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts I started from my father’s dream - his future house. From a dialogue with him, dives me into memories and shapes a poetic space through the idea of Bachelard’s 'The Poetics of Space'. The house becomes the imagery in which the memories stay that we can enter in and touch it, to interact with the house that belongs to us, or never belongs to us. Through the ‘experience of imagination’, the house exists not only to provide a space for perception and memory to meet but also to bring ‘awareness’ to the ‘back of self’. When the imagination circulation begins to drift away, a space is needed to enclose it. By encounters with the theories, literature, films, artists and artworks mentioned in the text, it is like walking through a forking path where you learn that yourself can be a way of knowing others.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts Through this paper and while focusing both on the heritage and institutional attitudes of documenta, I attempted to underline the linkage of the institution to modernism and its neoliberal mode of being. I pursued the latter by highlighting the initial nationalistic and supranational format of documenta. Then and while using a comparative methodological attitude towards documenta and Greece’s “historico-political” context, the text addressed the institution’s inability to escape the power structures of its foundation, and thus its imposition to the Greek state. The former analysis was formed while deploying certain key-informations in regards to the diptych power/knowledge by Michel Foucault and philosophy of hospitality developed by Jacques Derrida. Therefore, the conducted research will take the form of a flexible archival format, as is usually the case within my artistic practice.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts In this thesis, I explore the phenomenon of maternal metamorphosis in the context of performance art. It looks at the lived experiences of mothers against the light of the radical changes they face, altering their form and way of being. This can be under the influence of natural or external events, such as death and the passing of generations or having to deal with the maternal consequences of political forces. It also considers portraying a mother as something or someone else through performance and play with literal and figurative meaning. Maternal metamorphosis can be portrayed in terms of metaphor, like ‘the mother as intangible heritage’ as an image for the metamorphosed deceased mother. Expressing maternal alterations metaphorically by performance can lead to growth and change, and contribute to the broadening of maternal representations and experiences within visual art.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) This thesis is nonlinear, fluidly organized and freely associative because that’s how I think and work. I have learned to embrace this way of working and thinking through the writer and philosopher Helene Cixous. Helene Cixous argues that we need new languages and so she has proposed what she calls Écriture féminine (feminine writing). Feminine writing resists patriarchal and binary modes of thinking which usually require correct methods of organization and rationalist rules of logic. This logic relies on narrow cognitive experience and discredits emotional and intuitive experiences. According to Cixous feminine writing also resists linear reasoning. I have created my own way of constructing a thesis. I have established my own rules and logic and allowed myself to be intuitive. The order of this thesis might be a bit unconventional. There is no beginning, middle and end (conclusion).

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE)

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.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE)

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Intimacy is found where the individual feels comfortable expressing, creating and existing. Our home, the domestic environment, teaches us every day, from the moment we are born, how to exist in a place that often functions as a miniature of the social and cultural system that we will later live in. This relationship continues throughout most of our lives if one considers that we spend more than half of our lives within the domestic realm. This of course does not only concern the relationship that is developed between the space and the people who inhabit it, but also all those elements that make up these interrelated relationships and often define them. Standards, values, cliches, traditions, norms and stereotype patterns are often found in a big part of our daily lives within the domestic environment. Meanwhile, each individual creates their own space of familiar interpersonal encounters.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Today, one percent of humanity is displaced and there are twice as many forcibly displaced people than in 2011 when the total was just under 40 million.  Many possible solutions are being given to the extent of providing shelters for migrants in precariousness. Many of these solutions seem to attempt to normalise precarity. But so little attention has been given to the perception the migrants have of that precariousness.   Then how can my response to such phenomena go beyond merely providing shelter to understanding the relationship between displacement and belonging? This research explores new processes towards knowing and claiming territory; it speculates on the domestic environment that may emerge through processes of listening, tracing and drawing together with those living on the front line of precariousness inside refugee camps.   To this extent this research will draw a new way of looking at hospitality as a tool for refugees to gain empowerment in the camps. How would that be for a refugee, to be a host in a hosting country?   

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.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 MA Interior Architecture (INSIDE) In investigating the meaning, tasks, and opportunities of public spaces, this thesis is dealing with those parts of public realm whose lack of infrastructure inhibits their usability. Surrounded by function-driven urban areas, I identify those as no purpose cities within the city. I propose a working method that sketches, models, and experiments with such spaces to test their affordances in one-to-one. I claim that constant change is a necessity for a successful and relevant public sphere, as statically designed spaces cannot live up to the needs of a constantly changing, fluid society. The activist designer extends the experientiality by exploring the direct usability of no purpose spaces. In defining this design position the urgent need for the work of active spatial designers is proven, as they play an agile role in the fabric of urban development processes.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 MA Interior Architecture (INSIDE) The most valued value of architecture, houses, interiors today is on an aesthetic level: we appreciate what we see. That can be the shape of a building or the material used. What is missing in the discourse on (interior) architecture are the other senses while they might have more impact on the users.  I find myself adding this extra step in the process of designing a space based on the user experience. While we now look at the space with hygiene and durability in mind, I wonder how to bring along this sensations into the experience of space. And how this step can provide a comforting, healing or stimulating environment.  With a series of sense enhancing objects I would like to reintroduce tactility to spaces where there is a demand for tactility through texture, touch and sensations. Choice of materials will influence how a space is experienced which in turn could affect how users deal with their emotions. As a designer, I feel the urge to address this emphasis of material choice and in this way contribute to a sensorially fulfilling experience for the user and add this extra layer of comfort/support through an exploration of materials and textures. 

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society Using photography as a point of reference, this master thesis explores the political, cultural and scientific structures which allow profit-making with human sickness in the German healthcare system. It is argued how photography — in the form of medical imaging — separates physically representable symptoms from patients and their lived experience, by that creating an abridged representation of life. As healthcare has been deliberately embedded in a profit-oriented market by politicians over the last decades, medical imaging today not only acts as an operational image that gives evidence helping to diagnose a patient, but also as an operational image which facilitates the commodification of the body. This puts the well-being of both patients and medical staff (and therefore society at large) at stake. In the context of this analysis the question arises how photography itself can act as a tool to bring these issues to discussion. Because visual makers themselves deal with the challenge of being part of a profit-oriented system, this demands reexamination of the stories considered worth telling.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society In Silenced Womb Petra Kroon ( @fotosvanpetrakroon) examines the age-old taboo on menopause. What does it mean to be systematically silenced for centuries? What effect does it have on how you are represented? How you are treated? And how do you behave? She explores these questions from three perspectives: the medical world, society and photography. She investigates what this in/visibility looks like and analyses what it does to her and to her allies. Since she wants to lift this taboo on menopause, she also makes some suggestions for a different representation.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society Welcome to the TROPICAL TRAUMA MISERY TOUR. I invite you to take this tour through aroofless theater called media, the stage representing the farce and media opportunism ofthe Brazilian president and far-right populist, Jair Messias Bolsonaro—The Myth.In 2018, Bolsonaro was stabbed during a presidential rally campaign. Against a backdrop ofpolarization, micro-narratives, and misinformation,The Mythstarred in an online politicalcampaign where he had complete control over his narrative and self-presentation. This tourinvestigates how the ambiguity of the stabbing event exposes the network propaganda in theBrazilian political game.Through a speculative documentary photography practice, this piece overcomes the politicalillusions and dissemination of nonprogressive values of digital populists. The fictionalizationof the real is a form of resistance towards such ideological shams and manipulations. Itdevolves into a meta-play, a farce within a farce.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society In this thesis I will share experiences and memories as a daughter of an inmate combined with substance abuse and mental health problems. This person is my father. Through my own experiences and images, I want to see if there is a possibility for images to make it easier to talk about taboo in society, and personal traumatic memory. I hope for my project to open up this conversation. To let others in this situation know that they’re not alone with their feelings, and that they didn’t do anything wrong. This thesis consists mostly of in-the-moment writing spurs, with reflections from my own experiences, memories and thoughts.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society As photographers we make, sell and consume digital images, and the digital space and its audiences are growing exponentially. But every conversation on circulating photography centres on the object, about books or exhibitions. It seemed like there are images, and there is photography. Why are the two diverging? Radio evolved into podcasts. TV turned into TikTok. This thesis, then, sets out to ask what it is that photography says it does, or thinks it does, and what it actually does in the age of the smartphone. Critics love to tell their readers that photography is dead, but for some reason you can find all those same critics cheerfully posting their lunch on Instagram. This thesis is an invitation and a challenge to photography, to admit that things have changed and to embrace this as an opportunity rather than a threat.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society This thesis is an exploration of escapism, of clashes between the everyday and the sublime, of the concept of stargazing, human connection with stars, escapism and fiction. It is a thinking process behind creating a body of visual photographic work while also an individual set of reflections and arguments around the themes of stargazing, astronomy, photographic representations, darkness, and personal experiences. Through the photographic encounters and meetings with creators of hand-crafted planetariums, planetarium guides, star gazing passionates, amateur and professional astronomers and astrophotographers I follow the theme of stargazing, and through that fascination – the concept of positive escapism. With the use of photographic processes I document, I stage, I manipulate the images. This thesis results from my desire to challenge prominent binary narratives and welcome an act of speculation, of poetry, of reimagining andreclaiming realities.

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.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society This thesis deals with the questions what a speculative image is, what a speculative image-making practice could look like and to what extent speculative imagery can be a tool for future shaping. The responsibilities and possibilities of image makers are negotiated and three different tools for speculative image-making are presented.Different entry points into this world of thought are offered to the reader, through a manifesto and various appendices on practices of future predictions and tarot readings.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society The "Trauma of Looking: Readings and Counter-readings of the representation of femicides in theGreek mainstream media" is a work that aims to decode the narrative strategies used by the Greekmainstream media to report sensitive topics related to gender inequalities and gender-basedviolence. In this work I explore the tropes and the effects of media cannibalism, a term which I havecoined and it will be explained further in the text, through the lens of intimate femicides - aphenomenon which has recently entered the wider public discourse in Greece. There is a need frommainstream media to commercialize such crimes and exploit personal dramas. They are treatingreal-life stories as a spectacle, as another true-crime series ready to be consumed by the audience.This globalized "life-as-spectacle" approach, which goes beyond Greece, transmutes our collectivemoral principles into a new culture where violence is always legitimized and thus is made acceptablein society.

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.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) From my own experience, I use electricity every day. Energy prices are rising and the need for more sustainable electricity is rising. As an architect, I'm questioning, how is it possible that I as a user of electricity can't sense further than a switch. The usage of electricity in architectural space is lacking sensation and understanding. In my research I'm taking a journey through the history of electricity, trying to understand the principles of electric power. With this, I'm recreating multiple simple models demonstrating the presence of electricity. These models would eventually help me in designing architectural interventions I've placed at Maasvlakte as a location for electricity generation and innovation.

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