Browsing by Study Area "Design and Visual Arts"
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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 ... -
Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ... -
Animating absence : future disasters in art and architecture
(2019-12-04)From the lambency of early civilisation the representation of the ruin has existed as an index of greatness lost. This representation manifest since Babylonian times has existed to open a fantastic world of wakeful dreaming ... -
Apentimento
(2021)INTRODUCTION: I started this masters project (like most painters I believe) because I needed a studio. I like to have a studio because I value time away from people and because I enjoy the challenge of painting. Painting ... -
Architectural Notation and the Body Condition: Tracking the dance of E1027
(2009)This paper will explore two modernists pieces, one a ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s The Triadic Ballet and the other a small holiday house on the Cote d’Azur, Eileen Gray’s E1027. I would like to suggest that the notated domestic ... -
Art into Nature: Elementalism in Contemporary Public Art and Architecture
(Enigma : He Aupiki, 2013)In the study of ancient or pagan thought, the term “elementalism” is sometimes used to refer to the personification of nature’s elements — for example, the belief in the existence of a god of wind or god of fire. Conversely ... -
Article published on the Culberb Project: Baetsch.
(International Sculpture Center, 2013-03)Another of CULBURB's projects, this one in the Viennese suburb of Ottakring, involved building a small hut and community space from locally collected materials. Led by New Zealand artist Paul Woodruffe, Austrian architect ... -
“Bad Form”: Contemporary Cinema’s Turn to the Perverse
(2009)The form of Western mainstream film is the crux of its ideological effi-ciency: by using established formal techniques, films ensure audiences understand that aesthetic decisions support and clarify the narrative to ensure ... -
Baetsch in the city - Vienna, Austria
(2012-09)The objectives were to create a building that at once is both familiar and strange, and to use materials gathered by the local people from the surrounding environment and to use this process to facilitate storytelling and ... -
Beyond documentary : an investigation into the benefits of collaborative multi media story telling techniques
(2010)How can the utilisation of multimedia technology combined with collaboration with subjects enhance the practice of documentary for photographers? This Masters of Design by Project is focused on photographic documentary ... -
Chance, change, and making strange : the surprising aesthetics of electronic interaction
(2013)This work is an exploration of how randomly generated electronic interaction can be employed to push beyond the sense of instrumentality defined by most domestic electronic experiences. This exegesis recounts a body of ... -
Cloud Music : a cloud system
(ISEA International, 2013)This paper suggests that artworks such as Yoko Ono’s Sky TV (1966), Hans Haacke’s Condensation Cube (1963-65), and David Behrman, Robert Watts and Bob Diamond’s Cloud Music (1974-79) are ancestors to a significant strand ... -
Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2017-03)Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ... -
Collaborative housing as a response to the housing crisis in Auckland
(Unitec ePress, 2018-07-25)RESEARCH QUESTION: If housing is a PSS [Product/Service System] in transition to which the paradigm of the functional economy can be applied, how do we redefine the role of designers who want to work in this field? According ... -
Constructing worlds F4: An artist collective considered
(Common Ground Publishing, 2011)This paper investigates an artist collective that is comprised of a nuclear family, the parents and their two children. The key theme revolves around implications of power relations within this collective construct. The ... -
Courtship : a photographic investigation of romantic engagement
(2011)RESEARCH QUESTION: How is contemporary romantic courtship evolving with reference to the influence of fairy tale convention? The research title of my project is: Courtship: A photographic investigation of romantic ... -
Culture in Motion : A mobile, inflatable auditorium brings arts programming to a tsunami-devastated region of Japan
(Forecast Public Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2014-08-20)On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake, one of the most powerful in recorded history, hit Japan, and was followed by a devastating tsunami. The catastrophe claimed more than 18,000 lives and left vast swathes of the ... -
Design and Build to Destroy - Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (Room) and its Representations
(2012)The British sculptor Rachel Whiteread (b.1963) employs her signature casting practice to render negative space as solid, positive form. Untitled (Room), 1993, was cast from a freestanding model of a room designed by the ... -
Design of change in cycle commuting
(2007)Cycle commuting is well-recognised but marginal in most English-speaking countries, following considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. In recent decades, it has found favour among transport policy ... -
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 ...
