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Title: More-than-Human Design: A Mindful Intervention into Design
Date: 2022
Name: Kimia Gholami (author), Zahra Jalali (author), Garnet Hertz (thesis advisor), Maria Lantin (thesis advisor), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution)
Name: Gholami, Kimia, Jalali, Zahra
Subject: Design, Methodology, Ecology, Nature, Design--Environmental aspects, Interspecies encounters
Description: This research is a critical quest to develop an inclusive More-than-Human (MtH) Design Process that recognizes non-human beings as valuable participants. This approach is meant to actively acknowledge the interconnectedness and interdependence of humans and other beings and act as an intervention in different stages of the “Design Thinking” process that is based on human-centred values. Through an MtH lens, this thesis questions the short-term profit-based model in the design industry that primarily benefits humans while bringing destructive consequences to the rest of the living planet. These consequences, such as global warming, loss of biodiversity, and environmental destruction, have foregrounded the need to take the agency of non-humans more seriously in the design discipline. The MtH Design Process expands the human-centred design methodology by borrowing methods from Interaction Design (IxD) and More-than-Human Participatory Research (MtH-PR). This work has been structured in four main sections. In part 1, re-frame, we start our inquiry by looking at Interaction Design from a More-than-Human perspective. We include a series of place-based explorations in Vancouver B.C that challenged our old assumptions and biases towards different participants in design. In part 2, re-imagine, we work towards an MtH design practice by identifying its core values. These values guide several case studies that demonstrate how an MtH approach can alter existing products. Part 3, re-build, focuses on formalising the MtH design process by creating changes in different phases of the Design Thinking process. The MtH Design Process includes five steps – 1. Encounter 2. Learn 3. Plan 4. Map and 5. Build – all of which offer multiple methods, prompts, and points of inquiry into the MtH design practice. This work also includes the MtH design toolkit to support its pedagogical potential. The final part, re-connect, concludes the work by discussing the implications of MtH design and its potentials and challenges.
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Title: BINDING THREADS: Shifting role of the designer from sole author to multi-story-enabler in fashion
Date: 2022
Name: Elham Atighi Lorestani (author), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution), Hélène Day Fraser (thesis advisor)
Name: Atighi Lorestani, Elham
Subject: Storytelling, Artistic collaboration, Fashion design, Identity, Clothing and dress
Description: Fashion has always been about telling stories and yet some stories are never told in the design process. All too frequently they are also missing in the clothing we wear. Hidden or neglected stories such as those connected to the experiences of displacement are important. They have value and are part of the identity construction for many people in the 21st century. Whether it is through a lived experience of moving or through the cultural convergence of mass media, individuals around the world are affected by the overwhelming pace of change in their surroundings and their social contexts. So the concept of identity and the need for a sense of self-expression are critical. The clothing we wear is arguably one of the most effective means to convey our personal identity and self-expression to/and with others. This thesis describes a project that has drawn on the potential of storytelling as a framework for the design process as well as the means for connection and self-expression. A platform has been envisaged and developed that invites people to engage with fashion in a way that enables a designer/researcher to consider, critique and suggest an alternative way of looking at the fashion service and design process that embraces multi-storytelling. Initiated by my personal journey of moving to a new country, early exploration in this practice-based research began with self-cultural discovery and storytelling. This phase of work not only offered the initial context and medium for future research but also provided me with an understanding of the potential of visual and/or oral storytelling for healing, expression and connection. Following this phase, through a series of workshops with peers, I explored clothing as a context for sharing stories of moving, home and identity. The knowledge and insight created through each study informed the development of subsequent research activities. Drawing on collaborative design, networking and heuristic inquiry, my approach has led me to realize that clothing, beyond being tangible and interactive, is highly evocative. All of this work has informed the development of a digital platform prototype, which seeks to invite people to share, read and wear personal moving experiences with others, acting as both an initiator and holder of stories, providing new ways for clothing to be accessed and made. Through my research, I have explored ways of designing clothes that are collaborative and act to give people a genuine way to express and share who they are. My work asserts the importance of critically evaluating how we engage with designing clothes. I have done so with the conviction that the common role of the fashion designer as the sole originator and storyteller is flawed, considering instead the role of the designer/ the design process as a multi-stories enabler.
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Title: Material Language: An Approach to Acquire Literacy of the Inarticulable
Date: 2022
Name: Chiara Schmitt (author), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution), Keith Doyle (thesis advisor)
Name: Schmitt, Chiara
Subject: Language and communication, Industrial design, Materiality, Literacy
Description: This thesis frames analogies of language acquisition as a lens to examine materiality and explore how to make and find meaning with and through material. By means to conceptualize a so-called ‘material language,’ following a practice-led and place-based methodology, this work showcases two main case studies that investigate how we can become active agents in our relationship with the material world.
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Title: A New Resourcefulness
Date: 2022
Name: Christa Clay (author), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution), Keith Doyle (thesis advisor)
Name: Clay, Christa
Subject: Circular economy, Sustainability, Sustainable design, Design
Description: This thesis reflects on our relationships to the materials and objects that we are surrounded with, the agency they carry, as well as the responsibility we have to the places and communities we inhabit. This context makes way for a narrative on localization, circularity, and resiliency. A New Resourcefulness offers auto-ethnography woven throughout theory and design practice, as experienced in British Columbia, Canada. Includes the essay: Ecological Restoration through Material Practice: Invasive Species as Resource, by Christa Clay and Chiara Schmitt (pp. 88 - 98).
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Title: AN EXPLORATION OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, THE FEMALE BODY AND TRAUMATIC MEMORY
Date: 2022
Name: Siyi An (author), Justin Novak (thesis advisor), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution)
Name: An, Siyi
Subject: Comic books, strips, etc., Graphic novels, Autobiographical fiction
Description: This paper discusses my research and artistic practice during the MFA program. My research is focused on how semi-autobiographical narratives in the form of graphic novels facilitate self-exploration and trauma representation. Through my art projects Tentacles and A Bouquet for You, I explore and reconnect with my female body and my Chinese culture. Together with graphic and narrative experiments conducted in comic form, I reexamine the relationship between myself as the author, my body, and my memories.
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Title: Diegetic Artifacts: Exploring the relationship between speculative fiction and its objects
Date: 2022
Name: Shankar Padmanabhan (author), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution), Sophie Gaur (thesis advisor)
Name: Padmanabhan, Shankar
Subject: Discursive works, Artifacts, Speculative fiction, Phenomenology, Design
Description: Discursive practice enables the critical examination of future potentials highlighting explicit and implicit scenarios reflecting history(ies) and social and cultural constructs. Within this discourse, the functionality of an object and its material agency in relationship to the environment and technology, elicits a meaningful exploration of the lived experience. This thesis draws upon these components and presents a contextual approach and methodology that considers the way in which diegetic artifacts and their relevance can be considered.
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Title: Poetic·design: Revealing the tacit aesthetic frameworks in a furniture design practice
Date: 2022
Name: Jiayu Tian (author), Sophie Gaur (thesis advisor), Louise St. Pierre (thesis advisor), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution)
Name: Tian, Jiayu
Subject: Aesthetics, Furniture design
Description: This research is an examination into the aesthetic values of a furniture design practice. In particular, I look at how my Chinese inheritance, my cultural and personal memory, and my assimilated tacit aesthetic values, find agency and expression through practice. I arrived at this research by being immersed in the actual processes of creative design making. Through hands-on experience and application, I found the expressions and feelings I wanted to communicate. This manifested through a series of practices which included: lighting, material explorations, handcrafting, and my personal stories via varied methods and processes of design. Moreover, I gave myself space and time, critically, for self reflection. This manner of thinking about design is derived from my personal background — I am driven by my personal journey towards becoming a more authentic version of myself as a furniture designer. I chose to do this through real discernment and detailed understanding of the aesthetics of material. Through the design of interior objects, materials that possess aesthetic agency provide me with the ability to transcribe a particular value in my work — I call this ‘the poetic’. The poetic design in my research has two aspects: 1) the respect of nature and self in everyday aesthetics and 2) design rooted in a Xiuxing, or spiritually informed and embodied making practice. It is about furniture design. It is about the home. It is about relating emotionally with the materials. It is about telling a story. It is about a journey. The character of design has been transformed into a method that assists me in building the conversation. I hope the journey that I have experienced, filtered through the lens of a poetic design method, can inspire or resonate with other designers or crafters who have similar cultural affiliations. Coming from a maker's perspective, I see the integration of utilitarianism and aesthetics, representing the ecology of self and the ecology of a maker. Moreover, I aim to break the geometric brick of utilitarian design works, breaking formalities in the process. I actively seek asperity, irregularity, and imperfections within art, craft, and design, inspired in part by Wabi Sabi, the ancient Japanese tradition of slow life. In my research, I use a series of methods to explore a way of challenging perfection, machine manufacturing, and, ultimately, enjoying the moments of engagement with the materials. Through these tactics, the objective is to build an emotional connection between self and nature and use this design practice to come closer to myself. I experience the physical pleasures in sound, feeling, and movement, and enjoy seeing the irregularities of natural forms that correspond with the human body. The living form takes on its own breath, gaining freedom from the material substances. Keywords: Poetic Design, Aesthetics, Material Practice, Furniture Design, Oriental Design, Xiuxing
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Title: Prototyping Design Kitchen - Food design in practice and in principle.
Date: 2022
Name: Soumya (author), Emily Carr University of Art and Design Graduate Studies (Degree granting institution), Bonne Zabolotney (thesis advisor)
Subject: Graphic design, Art direction, Food, Visual communication, Food habits
Description: This thesis investigates how visual communication can be used to celebrate, discuss and brand humans’ playful and precarious interactions with food. Cooking up a niche visual design practice driven by food is a challenging task because food experiences are complex and constantly evolving. For someone who comes from a rich, diverse and geographically vast country like India, there is a scope for abundant inspiration but with a set of challenges. The existing discourse around food lacks literacy — specifically visual literacy. There is constant ‘food exchange’ happening globally but the rapid scale of that has led to lost narratives and mixed up meanings. This thesis explores a design practice that reflects on humanity’s deep connections with food. It’s a deeply personal practice that promotes really seeing the man-made wonder that food is. It aims to create a body of visual work that enlightens, educates and entertains. Concentrated communication design-based studio explorations, on a personal and commercial scale, inform the exercise to represent my interactions with food visually. My design research methods include photo analysis, case studies, observation and personal reflection through making. The thesis sets guiding principles/systems to capture what design can do for food and vice-versa. My studio projects are various explorations of works to revitalize our connection to the foods we eat. The research also creates tangible experiences out of edible artifacts to reflect on culture, culinary and nostalgic themes.
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Title: no title
Date: 2009
Name: The Passive Aggressives (Creator)
Subject: Exhibition catalogs
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Title: 'After All One Must Know More Than One Sees And One Does Not See A Cube In Its Entirety’: Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Cubism
Date: 2005
Name: Jamie Hilder (author)
Name: Hilder, Jamie
Subject: Gertrude Stein, Literary criticism, Cubism, Aesthetics, Authors
Description: The article examines author Gertrude Stein's literary portraiture inside her own ideas about cubism. The link of Stein's literary work to the visual style of cubism is discussed. Some passages from her book "Tender Buttons" are compared. Stein outlines three reasons for cubism in her work. This is a post–peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Critical Survey. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available in Critical Survey, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2005), pp. 66-84, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=a9h&AN=19657058&site=ehost-live&custid=s1190300
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Title: Exercise no. 11
Date: 2016
Name: Rapp, Felix (Creator)
Subject: Exhibition catalogs, Photography
Description: acrylic facemount / photographed by Faber Neifer.
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Title: Charge All
Date: 2016
Name: Yu, Fitzgerald (Creator)
Subject: Industrial Design, Exhibition catalogs
Description: Photographed by Faber Neifer.
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Title: Hybrid Rooster
Date: 2016
Name: Semple, Frances (Creator)
Subject: General Fine Arts, Exhibition catalogs
Description: Photographed by Faber Neifer.
Collection: info:fedora/ecuad:gradshow