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  • [Liberation by desecration] 
    Malone, Peter David (Master of Design, 2011)
    This research aims to investigate how pictorial conventions used in a previous generation of expressionist painting (1980’s post avant-garde) can be reconstituted and appropriated to develop a contemporary painting practice. ...
  • The metamorphosis of pictorial space (as experienced in a painting practice) 
    Vaughan, Adrienne (Master of Design, 2012)
    This practical and written research investigates abstract painting and its intrinsic relationship to pictorial space throughout the course of Modern Art. Influenced by the spatial and decorative qualities of Eastern art, ...
  • Baetsch in the city - Vienna, Austria 
    Woodruffe, Paul; Klasz, Walter (2012)
    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 ...
  • Courtship: A photographic investigation of romantic engagement 
    Cook, Lydia Ruth (Master of Design, 2011)
    The research title of my project is: Courtship: A photographic investigation of romantic engagement. The research question is concerned with the evolution of romantic courtship with reference to the influence of fairytale ...
  • Horological furniture: An investigation into temporal form 
    Gamble, Simon (Master of Design, 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 ...
  • Street combing: An investigation into the use of found materials from the urban landscape in contemporary jewellery making 
    Erl, Ilse-Marie (Master of Design, 2011)
    My Masters by Research project took me from the insular environs of the jewellery workbench to the social environs of urban Auckland and Taipei. Directed by the writing of contemporary jewellers, such as Roseanne Bartley ...
  • Navigating the arteries of loss: A figurative ceramic exploration of the human condition in situations of loss 
    McIver, Ann Jeannette (Master of Design, 2012)
    Navigating the Arteries of Loss is a vision of small haemorrhages of the self which chart emotional progress through life. The research has concentrated on the ways in which loss is expressed through body language – the ...
  • Fragmentation and the found in the production of contemporary jewellery 
    Bell, Rachel A. (Master of Design, 2012)
    A Masters of Design by Research project that asks the question: “How can materials and histories be linked by a methodology of making that utilises fragmentation and the found?” Focussed primarily on the production ...
  • A response to nature and space 
    Simmons, Jan (Master of Design, 2011)
    The intention of the work has been to communicate an experience of nature through non-illustrative means. The cumulative effect of many fragments of images creates in the viewer a sensation of nature, rather than a description ...
  • Designing the Shaw 9 metre: How does the process of design inform the development of a 9 metre racing yacht? 
    Shaw, Robert (Master of Design, 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 ...
  • The solar familiar: Fact and fiction in photography and visual anthropology 
    Williams, Marcus; Jowsey, Susan (International Journal of the Arts in Society, 2007)
    ‘Solar Familiar’ takes the form of a ‘documentary’ project, which investigates the psychological, and physical difficulties of a family displaced from Earth who find themselves inhabitants in the unfamiliar; a family on ...
  • Constructing worlds F4: An artist collective considered 
    Jowsey, Susan (International Journal of the Arts in Society, 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 ...
  • Varieties of Us: a case study in boundary and landscape in Aotearoa/New Zealand 
    Woodruffe, Paul; Henderson, Ian (Design Ecologies, 2011)
    On Auckland‟s North Shore a narrow strip of cliff-top land overlooking the Hauraki Gulf includes a memorial park, historic WW2 defensive artefacts, Maori fortifications and a section of the New Zealand Walkway, and is edged ...
  • Detail as fragment: The incomplete, the possibility of connection and an excess of multiplicities 
    Hedges, Susan (Imagining...: 27th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 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 old North Shore. A heritage walkway: Rahopara Pa to Campbells Bay beach 
    Woodruffe, Paul; Henderson, Ian; Corbet, Rob (2011)
    There are many interesting heritage sites and buildings within what used to be called North Shore City, most of these are protected, documented, valued by the local residents and enjoyed as a destination by visitors. What ...
  • Visual language in architectural design 
    Kiroff, Lydia (Master of Design Management, 2002)
    Modern life is mediated through the visual screen. Film and television and the Internet are not just the norm, they are life itself. The new emerging globally shared visual culture becomes the underlying construct that ...
  • Memorial Avenue 
    Woodruffe, Paul (2010)
    Slideshow developed for the Everyday Collaborative Laboratory for use in public meetings, and presented to the Takapuna Community Board as part of the case for classifying Memorial Avenue as a heritage site.
  • Industrial poetry 
    Woodruffe, Paul (Cumulus 38ºSouth: hemispheric shifts across learning, teaching and research, 2010)
    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 ...
  • The everyday collective laboratory. 
    Woodruffe, Paul (Cumulus Borderline, 2010)
  • Tactile technologies 
    Teinaki, Victoria (Master of Design, 2008)
    This project uses sensory design and specifically tactile design as a basis to design a mobile phone for approximately five years in the future. In doing so it has investigated the fields of tangible interaction and craft, ...