Browsing Design and Visual Arts Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Active objects, passive dramas: How may design re-appropriate tools from the art of dramaturgy in the service of developing more meaningful products?
(2008)Looking to develop my professional design practice in the field of product design, I pursued this research project in order to further my product development skills and gain further understanding of design theories and ... -
Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ... -
Beyond documentary : an investigation into the benefits of collaborative multi media story telling techniques
(2010)How can the utilisation of multimedia technology combined with collaboration with subjects enhance the practice of documentary for photographers? This Masters of Design by Project is focused on photographic documentary ... -
Chance, change, and making strange : the surprising aesthetics of electronic interaction
(2013)This work is an exploration of how randomly generated electronic interaction can be employed to push beyond the sense of instrumentality defined by most domestic electronic experiences. This exegesis recounts a body of ... -
Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2017-03)Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ... -
Courtship : a photographic investigation of romantic engagement
(2011)RESEARCH QUESTION: How is contemporary romantic courtship evolving with reference to the influence of fairy tale convention? The research title of my project is: Courtship: A photographic investigation of romantic ... -
Design of change in cycle commuting
(2007)Cycle commuting is well-recognised but marginal in most English-speaking countries, following considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. In recent decades, it has found favour among transport policy ... -
Designing the Shaw 9 metre: How does the process of design inform the development of a 9 metre racing yacht?
(2011)This aim of this project was to explore how the process of yacht design informed the development of a 9 metre racing yacht with a canting keel. It explores the interrelationship of art and science in the process of developing ... -
'droplet' : [how can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?]
(2020-11-27)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?’ ABSTRACT: I am an artist exploring mixed media practices, including photography and ... -
Everyday liminality
(2014)This painting project commenced through the activity of re-examining my previous practice, which prompted the desire to focus on the activity of painting through the plasticity of oil paint. The intention to focus on ... -
Exploring whānau knowledge and hybridity through typographical design
(2020)This exegesis documents and accounts for the development of a body text typeface designed by me, a hybrid practitioner. Using a practice-based approach with a focus on auto-ethnography, my research explores my own experiences ... -
Floating bodies : reconciling image and object through drawing
(2014)This exegesis plots the course of the Floating Bodies project and its ambition to examine climate change iconography through a reconciliation of Image and Object. From an initial polarity, in both concept and outcome, ... -
Flowers in a contemporary painting practice
(2013)This project originated from a cornucopia of personal experiences that informed a perspective shaped by a life growing up surrounded by flowers in the context of a large creative family and a domestic-craft background. ... -
Fragmentation and the found in the production of contemporary jewellery
(2012)A Masters of Design by Research project that asks the question: “How can materials and histories be linked by a methodology of making that utilises fragmentation and the found?” Focussed primarily on the production ... -
He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua
(2015)TE POU KŌRERO – ABSTRACT This exegesis documents the journey of He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua, a moving image and sound project, expressing the significance of bicultural experiences in bilingual units within ... -
Horological furniture: An investigation into temporal form
(2011)Research Question: How can temporality be used to develop new strategies for the design of furniture? This exegesis documents the journey through my Masters of Design project Horological Furniture. An artefact’s ... -
How can products adapt to the challenges of the experience economy?
(2007)The basis of my research is an alternative approach to everyday-products design, which instead of catering for quick and clever functionality, comfort and aesthetics, seeks to deepen and augment users or audiences' experience, ... -
Hunting : connecting hunter, animal and environment
(2012)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can we illustrate the respect the modern hunter conveys for the animal and the environment through containing the meat? Connecting the hunter, the animal and the environment is the basis for ... -
Ideal worlds : an investigation into the role fantasy plays in constructing imagery for visual practitioners within the context of contemporary painting
(2010)This research aims to investigate how archetypal imagery, as seen in the literature of fantasy and mythology, can inform procedures for constructing contemporary painting within the figurative and abstract elements. -
An investigation of interiority : beyond the boundaries of subject and into the practIce of painting
(2013)This document charts a painter’s intention to evolve ambiguous and geographically indeterminate spaces that are potentially neither inside nor outside, public or private that are constructed from two dimensional images, ...
