Browsing by Supervisor "47707"
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Active objects, passive dramas: How may design re-appropriate tools from the art of dramaturgy in the service of developing more meaningful products?
(2008)Looking to develop my professional design practice in the field of product design, I pursued this research project in order to further my product development skills and gain further understanding of design theories and ... -
Designing the Shaw 9 metre: How does the process of design inform the development of a 9 metre racing yacht?
(2011)This aim of this project was to explore how the process of yacht design informed the development of a 9 metre racing yacht with a canting keel. It explores the interrelationship of art and science in the process of developing ... -
Horological furniture: An investigation into temporal form
(2011)Research Question: How can temporality be used to develop new strategies for the design of furniture? This exegesis documents the journey through my Masters of Design project Horological Furniture. An artefact’s ... -
How can products adapt to the challenges of the experience economy?
(2007)The basis of my research is an alternative approach to everyday-products design, which instead of catering for quick and clever functionality, comfort and aesthetics, seeks to deepen and augment users or audiences' experience, ... -
Living furniture: Exploring sustainable solutions through furniture design
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the development and application of a design framework support the design and production of sustainable furniture in a New Zealand context? ABSTRACT This exegesis researches and compares the ... -
‘Not durable, but sustainable’: print technology and ephemerality in product design
(2018)[RESEARCH] QUESTION: How can the principles of temporary and the ephemeral be employed by design in the critical redesign of consumer technological artefacts? OBJECTIVES: - Develop a taxonomy of ephemerality in design, ... -
Tactile technologies
(2008)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can sensory design, and specifically tactility, be used to support the production of individual meaning within the context of (developing) mobile communication technologies? This project uses ... -
What is a design language in the service of the experience of light? Exegesis.
(2013)The intent of this project is to explore the perception of light through a set of experiments, creating opportunities for narratives driven by light. These experiments define a process that becomes more and more reductive ... -
Workbench
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the User-Centred Design practices inform the development of resources that enhance the creative confidence of professional teams? ABSTRACT: This research project is an exploration of how ...
