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2023-01-01

Mohammad Hossein Abbasi

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...

2019-09-04

Van Horn, Erin J.

Design for health and wellness is an emerging area within the design field based in the principles of environmental psychology. This subsection of design takes a number of concepts into consideration including ergonomics and comfort, accessibility, emotional design, pleasure with products,...

2024-09-01

Supriya Rao

This thesis investigates the creation of a digital platform designed to improve the accessibility of support resources for international graduate students at the University of Alberta. The influx of international students into Canadian universities presents unique challenges related to cultural...

2020-11-01

Chandni Luhadiya

2021-01-01

Stephanie Ann Patsula

2021-09-01

Jamie-Lee Girodat

shimmy-shimmy-plop-plop is an exhibition longing for bodies free from disease and uncertainty. As I immerse the viewer in milky fireworks, sprouted hair, creases, and moles, I create a visual language of the infected and in-between aspects of the body. By embracing fragmented and exaggerated...

2024-09-01

Ludmila Lima De Morais

I'm about to sleep, my body feels heavy sinking into the bed, but my mind won’t shut down. A swarm of thoughts floods my anxious mind: untenable commitments, fears of the future, shames of the past, exquisite loneliness, and a deep, deep longing for home. My exhausted mind suggests feverish...

2024-03-01

Stephanie Rossi

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...

2016-06-07

Andrew C. Hellmund, Peter Hide (Supervisor)

My sculptures encourage the viewer to project their own experiences onto the work, to question the facts of visual existence with the engagement of movement, form, and texture. While I draw immense inspiration from Swing dance, Jazz music, Cubist forms, and Modernist Sculpture (including works by...

2016-12-08

Megan Warkentin

This body of work began initially with my interest in YouTube videos of people performing dangerous stunts and often hurting themselves in the process. Why would a person knowingly put their health and safety, or even their lives at risk without necessity and seemingly little to gain, and how do...