Browsing Creative Practice Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Animating the future of urban transportation in Auckland: How can the practice of animation help to promote environmentally sustainable choices in urban transportation in Auckland / New Zealand?
(2021)This exegesis mainly documents the whole process and ideas of my design of this animation. The background of this document is based on the fact that animation has always been a widely used propaganda technique, but now the ... -
Auckland 2017-2018 : a year in the life of an international student from Beijing
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can illustration visually communicate an experience of living in a different culture in Auckland, New Zealand (NZ)? ABSTRACT: New Zealand is one of the most beautiful island countries in the ... -
Breaking bread: Navigating contemporary screen narratives through a traditional Sāmoan storytelling lens
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can indigenous scriptwriting practitioners keep traditional Sāmoan stories alive within a contemporary screen art form? ABSTRACT My creative practice-led research weaves traditional Pasifika forms ... -
Brown-Baby
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the integration of different creative techniques and practices contribute to the development of Pasefika visual storytelling? ABSTRACT Brown-Baby is a visual compilation of multiple art mediums ... -
A close look at Chinese immigrants in New Zealand : my language, my identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1 Do their language skills affect the identity of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand? 2 If so, what is the main impact and how it works? If not, then why do Chinese immigrants show a diverse attitude ... -
Communicating ethical messages in motion graphic design to Generation Z
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can motion graphic design communicate ethical messages to raise the awareness of plastic waste pollution among Generation Z in Vietnam? ABSTRACT: Motion Graphic practice has since the early ... -
Erysichthon
(2018)I have always been attracted to the asymmetrical, the uncanny, the mutated, the deviation, and the odd. These preoccupations were made manifest through my drawing practice. Friends, family, and acquaintances would often ... -
Experiments in the transient
(2022)The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is located off the east coast of New Zealand and is responsible for powerful earthquakes, land upheaval, and tsunami. This project is situated in the Māhia Peninsula, which is significant from ... -
From text to audio-visual : how might academics establish a framework for critical analysis using audio-visual essays?
(2019)The audio-visual essay is a particular form of videographic research that has become popular among scholars and amateur critics in the field of film criticism. Where the written word has sufficed for much of the last century ... -
A life between us : exploring embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following through dance
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can dance contribute to a better understanding of the embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following? ABSTRACT: Society’s investment in the leader-as-hero ... -
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 ... -
Mana mokopuna mai i te waharoa ki te wahakura : activating sacred potential for mokopuna through raranga and tikanga pā harakeke
(2017)This kaupapa rangahau seeks to establish the application of te reo o te pā harakeke me ona tikanga as a tangible model for oranga whānau and the weaving of wahakura as a way for mokopuna to access rongoā. It is an articulation ... -
No hem: Handling deviance in inhabited worlds
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can figurative painting promote a sense of stillness in a contemporary context of institutional uncertainty and accelerated social change?” INTRODUCTION: Tugging tribulations are described in ... -
Planet of the Long White Cloud : science fiction cinema in New Zealand cultural identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the science fiction genre be used to explore cultural identities within New Zealand? ABSTRACT: Stargazing in the wilds of New Zealand is a wondrous thing. The cool, clean air chills your ... -
Primary : film adaptation in theory and practice
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How do all the aspects of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to the editing suite, impact the outcome and overall ‘success’ of the adaptation? ABSTRACT: The adaptation of works for film has ... -
Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
Understanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality?
(2022)This essay explores how contemporary photography can provoke an embodied experience in an audience to help initiate the contemplation of mortality. Emerging research and a growing ‘death positive’ movement proposes that ... -
Urbanize
(2018)Painter Tira Walsh remembers the introduction to technology in the school’s curriculum in the late 90’s. The intrigue in this manipulative tool for creating hybrid images combined with an engagement in a discussion of ... -
The view from nowhere
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can 3D-modelled and 3D-printed dioramas, sculptures and interactive digital artwork be used to explore my thesis that the Enlightenment/Counter- Enlightenment dialectic forms the core structure of ... -
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 ...
