Master's Theses (Art & Design)
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- 2Natalie Loveless: Supervisor
- 2Sean Caulfield, Supervisor
- 1Adam Slusar
- 1Adrian Emberley
- 1Adrienne Dagg
- 1Aidan Rowe (supervisor)
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Disrupting the Designer: Applying a feminist, embodied, hermeneutic framework towards better understanding and disrupting visual design practice
Download2018-09-26
This Master of Design thesis project takes an experimental approach to exploring hermeneutic phenomenology—a practical philosophy that looks at understanding lived human experience through interpretative back-and-forth dialogue and storytelling—combined with a feminist and embodied research...
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Empathy-led Service Design: Imagining Future Health Smart Homes through Co-Design with Older Adults
Download2019-09-06
This project investigates the development of a service for Health Smart Homes (HSHs) from the perspective of Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) living in Edmonton, Canada. A Health Smart Home is a home that has been designed for people with special needs employing technology for...
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2017-11-30
This research is a visual and empirical ethnography examining the design of clinical / semi-clinical locations of death, in relation to institutionalized dying in contemporary society. Through field observations at two palliative care sites in Alberta and interviews with end-of-life healthcare...
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2015-09-01
This paper presents a study on feedback on touch screen user interfaces devices and how it impacts the use of the device by an individual. This paper looks at how the feedback may help or hinder the usability of a product. There is a focus in the paper on health care devices with touch screen...
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2018-01-24
Diagnosed in 2009 with Multiple Sclerosis, my mother’s mental and physical health deteriorated at a rapid pace. The person who raised me was altered, becoming someone who was less confident in her abilities and saw her disease as a defeat. I grew to resent this new person, seeing her as the...
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2022-04-01
fifty-nine events is a thesis exhibition that speculates the affordances of form in mediated performance art and issues of performance art documentation and (re)presentation. An art historical overview of performance art theories and praxes contextualizes and re-visits debates of performance art...
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2020-06-01
This project-based thesis examines how formal choices impact visual communication as mediated through human experience. Each of my steel sculptures begins as disparate elements that are found, made or manipulated. These elements are collaged together through both additive and reductive processes...