Browsing Design and Visual Arts Conference Papers by Date Published
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Awhina Mai Tatou Katoa Trust: Creative practice as community engagement in Auckland Central
(2022-12)"Lifewise, Unitec Institute of Technology, Waitemata Local Board" Piki Toi Artweek 2019 Te Whare Ngaruru Whakatū Structure for Karangahape Road project Hui te Rangi Ora (The Shed) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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): ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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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 ... -
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 ...
