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Salutogenic Design: Bringing the ‘Person’ Into Personalization in Healthcare by Designing for Disabilities of the Hand
Download2024-03-01
Disability affects around 8 million people in Canada and around 1.3 billion people globally. Those who are disabled experience higher rates of obesity, physical and mental health conditions, and higher rates of poverty than those who are not. This thesis explores disabilities of the hand through...
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On creating appropriate visual communication for the Tlicho community, stories, and culture
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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...
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2024-09-20
Language is the means by which we produce and exchange our shared narratives and connections, with writing as its visual notation system and typography as its formalization. Typography is a symphony of form and function that binds us to our environment and defines our cultural identities. This...
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Designing a Culturally Appropriate Distance Learning Platform for Students in the Tłıchǫ Region of the Northwest Territories
Download2023-01-01
In January 2020, (as part of my master’s programme before my thesis), I began a creative collaboration with the community representatives from the Tłı̨chǫ region of the Northwest Territories. I worked as part of a team of four designers for three months, where I had the opportunity to read,...
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2023-01-01
For most of us, the borders of home mean security and a sense of belonging. The home can have a very wide and borderless concept or an architectural structure made of physical and cultural walls. In The Home series, I seek to explore those borders. To find a quintessential structure that best...
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2023-09-01
Can the goji 枸杞, a Chinese heritage plant, co-exist in the community ecology of Edmonton? This question was first raised when I gathered goji branches at Grandma Lau’s house to memorialize Edmonton’s abandoned Chinatown Harbin Gate in 2019 before the start of my MFA studies. During the next years...
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Preserving the Past, Embracing the Future: A Study of the Design Solutions for Fostering Tea Culture Space in Modern Cities for the Younger Generation in China
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Tea culture in China has a rich history, with roots dating back thousands of years. Despite its cultural significance, there has been a decline in tea culture among the millennial generation in modern cities in China. In an effort to address this issue, this thesis explores the design solutions...