Browsing Design and Visual Arts Conference Papers by Title
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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 ... -
Detail as fragment: The incomplete, the possibility of connection and an excess of multiplicities
(2010)‘… and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who ... -
The emptying out and the abstracted detail
(2012)This paper considers the drawn detail as a means of archiving the interior not in terms of the familiar fullness or comfort but rather through the idea of absence and emptiness. Empty drawn details could be understood as ... -
The everyday collective laboratory.
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The Evocative Object: why objects matter
(2013)The Evocative Object: why objects matter is an exhibition based upon the idea that objects matter to us – but what makes an object evocative may not necessarily be about value, use, aesthetics or ownership. This is a ... -
The future of technological advancements in public art
(Western States Arts Federation (Denver, Colorado), 2017-11)My talk is called “The Potential for Public Art in the Digital Near Future.” I just want to say near future, so we're not thinking 20 to 30 years ahead. Over the last two decades, I think it is fair to say that lots of ... -
How is the ethnic identity of female Māori and Pacific artists constructed? : a study of life stories using vertical layers of discourse
(2018-08)Participants: 6 female artists of Māori and/or Pacific descent • Video ethnography: Audio-visual technology used to record participants engaging in their creative practice • Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (MIA): ... -
Industrial poetry
(2010-09-15)One of the great opportunities that increased access to technologies and information has brought, is interdisciplinary practice between the fine arts and industrial design.As a student, these two pathways had at first ... -
Interference: the restless drawing
(2012)This paper discusses a running interference that can be created through shifting a drawing from the analogue to the digital in a series of first year student works produced in the Interior Design pathway at the Unitec ... -
Milan 2033 : seeds of the future
(2014-05)In 2013, the Politecnico di Milano celebrates its 150th anniversary. The closing event scheduled is a major exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, entitled Milano 2033. Seeds of the future. On this occasion, the University ... -
The Piki Project : building capabilities within the homeless community
(2019-04-16)How can the application of design thinking and technology empower a creative community that has lived experience of homelessness to become economically self-determining? The Piki project is a partnership with Lifewise ... -
Pocket auteurs : student uptake of an international collaboration in wireless moviemaking
(International Technology, Education and Development (INTED), 2013)In March 2012, students in New Zealand, England and France teamed-up (virtually) to create globisodes (globally-constructed movies shot on mobile phones). Employing Web 2 platforms to collaborate across both space and time, ... -
Public art and urban mental health
(2019-01-18)Global context Urbanization and its discontents Urbanicity and the mind Urbanization and mental disorder Urban mental health From the clinic to the public realm Thinking at scale Artists as clinicians Jasmeen Patheja ... -
Service design for collaborative housing
(2016-07)THE SOCIAL FACTOR Anyone who knows anything about cohousing gets that the greatest wins are from the social dynamics of communities; more than they are of passive-haus construction, of modular builds, or rooftop ... -
Towards Assessment Transparency: Following on from 'The Crit', can a student's learning be enhanced by allowing them to witness their own formative and summative assessment event?
(The University of South Australia, 2013)The Design school critique: the Crit, remains a unique event, not only in the display and discussion generated by the student responses to the same Brief, but also from the airing of many and varied opinions of all present ... -
The Whakarare Typeface Project : when culture-specific design brings elements of universal value
(Cumulus - International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, 2015-11)This paper presents a reflection on the design of the Whakarare typeface created by Johnson Witehira, a Māori visual designer. In this research Witehira was interested in exploring two areas of inquiry: customary Māori ...
