Master's Theses (Art & Design)
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- 2Heather Leier
- 2Kyle Terrence Appelt
- 2Morgan Wedderspoon
- 2Natalie Loveless: Supervisor
- 2Sean Caulfield, Supervisor
- 1Adam Slusar
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2016-01-11
Healthcare is an inherently risky sector for innovation. In particular, breakthrough innovations pose an even greater risk for investment and potential consequences for the end user. These factors make the healthcare sector inherently risk averse, resulting in medical devices that become...
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Mindfully Social: Designing in Response to Mental Health Issues Linked to Excessive Social Media Use
Download2022-04-01
Mental health is a significant and widespread health issue that in many societies is still considered taboo and not taken as seriously as it should be. Mental health is vital for the personal and psychological well-being of individuals, their relationships, and their contribution to their...
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2017-01-16
My work is about the exploration of everyday-life, colour and the imagination. Making paintings is my way of understanding the dynamic and ever-changing sociological, cultural, and digital fabric of North American society. My practice involves creating a poetic network of images that utilize a...
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2018-09-01
Modern Indigenous is the title of my thesis and is a brand development project that aims to incorporate Indigenous culture, values, symbols and traditional materials with twenty-first century design thinking and product development. Through this process a number of modernized product designs will...
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2018-02-21
Not Yet Earth examines the fluid boundaries between self, body and inanimate matter in the context of my own changing relationship with my body following illness. As it started to behave in ways that were damaging to me and that I had no control over, I had a visceral realisation that my body was...
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Nurturing empathy for social cohesion: Participatory, community-based communication design research with gay youth living with HIV in Lebanon
Download2017-09-28
The marginalization of gay youth living with HIV (GYLWH) in Lebanese society is well documented. The topic of gay youth living with HIV in a deeply conservative and homophobic society has not been studied in any great depth. The story of gay youth in Lebanon is one of the stigmatization...
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2017-02-21
How can we think about the relationship between physical and psychological spaces? Obscura explores the possibility that the intersection of the two can foster deeply contemplative experiences, and enable attentive and empathetic consideration of our relationship with the world. The works in the...
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2017-12-13
On Being Without is an examination of trauma related to abandonment. I explore representations of the body by investigating interior and exterior space, questioning what happens when distressing memories are triggered by image, place and time. Normalization of trauma continues to be a major risk...
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On creating appropriate visual communication for the Tlicho community, stories, and culture
Download2024-07-01
In 2022, I began a creative collaboration with the Tlicho community, in the region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. As a visual communicator designer and researcher new to the country, I set out to help create an online tool for the Tlicho that would archive as well as visualize...