Master of Design 2024 Symposium

Tue April 9 - Day 1 Session 1 // Chair Katherine Gillieson
10:30am Sabid Ali - The Currency of Queer Material Culture
External Ramon Tejada
Internal Bonne Zabolotney
Supervisor Cameron Neat

11:10am Mayura Colling - Cultivating Connections with Mo-no
External Heesoon Bai
Internal Sophie Gaur
Supervisor Louise St. Pierre

Tue April 9 - Day 1 Session 2 // Chair Katherine Gillieson

2:40pm Nimi Martins - Manicure Mixer: Design Lessons From a Black Beauty Salon
External Lesley-Ann Noel
Internal Manuhuia Barcham
Supervisor Craig Badke

3:20pm Erik Asia - The In Between (Cognitive Ergonomics Evaluation in Public Spaces: A Cultural-Affordance-Based Approach)
External Scott Mitchell
Internal Haig Armen
Supervisor Sophie Gaur

4:00pm Priyanka Abraham Poulose - More Than a Period: Creative Engagement and Storytelling to Transform the Menstrual Communication Landscape
External Judith Glover
Internal Cameron Neat
Supervisor Sophie Gaur

Wed April 10 - Day 2 Session 1 // Chair Bonne Zabolotney

8:30am Rutuja Haldankar - Enhancing Caregiver Experience in Canada's Cancer Care Ecosystem
External Aidan Rowe
Internal Craig Badke
Supervisor Manuhuia Barcham

9:10am Blair Muxiang Yu - The Wellness Design Lab: Enlightening everyday experience through wellness practices.
External Aidan Rowe
Internal Robin Mitchell-Cranfield
Supervisor Katherine Gillieson

9:50am Violet Zhang - Wecare: Care for elderly mental well-being
at a distance
External Aidan Rowe
Internal Keith Doyle
Supervisor Garnet Hertz

Wed April 10 - Day 2 Session 2 // Chair Louise St. Pierre

12:30pm Natasha Kowo - Type is Black But What is Black in Type: Exploring the Black female experience through typography
External Terresa Moses
Internal Leo Vicenti
Supervisor Cameron Neat

Wed April 10 - Day 2 Session 3 Chair Craig Badke

2:00pm Alex Dabecki - Illuminating the Digital Landscape: Distilling Digital Data Privacy and Online Identity
External Audrey Aday
Internal Haig Armen
Supervisor Eugenia Bertulis

Thur April 11 - Day 3 Session 1 // Chair Sophie Gaur

9:00am Qiao Yue - Research and Practice of Intelligent Cockpit Interaction Design Based on Women’s Car Scenarios
External Deepa Butoliya
Internal Keith Doyle
Supervisor Garnet Hertz

Thur April 11 - Day 3 Session 2 // Chair Cameron Neat

4:00pm Liyang Zha - Gibberish to shibboleth: A typographic and type design approach for multiscriptural and multilingual design based on a case study of the Bai and Han languages
External Keith Tam
Internal Katherine Gillieson
Supervisor Leo Vicenti

Fri April 12 - Day 4 Session 1 // Chair Daniel Wildberger

8:30am Dhanvi Patel - Seamless Group Trip Planning: Connecting Personal Inspirations to Unified Decisions
External Dimeji Onafuwa
Internal Eugenia Bertulis
Supervisor Haig Armen

Fri April 12 - Day 4 Session 2 // Chair Sophie Gaur

9:30am Sadaf Asl Soleimani - Displacement and Crafted Identities: Translating experiential knowledge into digital environment
External Nithikul Nimkulrat
Internal Keith Doyle
Supervisor Eugenia Bertulis

Fri April 12 - Day 4 Session 3 // Chair Katherine Gillieson

12:00pm Faizaan Ahmed Siddiqui - Minima: Contemporary Approach to Business-to-Business Design Systems
External Dimeji Onafuwa
Internal Manuhuia Barcham
Supervisor Bonne Zabolotney

12:40pm Sahil Mroke - "We'll Figure it Out, Together" Defining effective collaboration in order to achieve better collaboration
External Dimeji Onafuwa
Internal Chris Jones
Supervisor Manuhuia Barcham

Fri April 12 - Day 4 Session 4 // Chair Cameron Neat

2:15pm Howsem Huang - From Making Zines to Community-Building: Self-Publishing as a Chinese Émigré
External Mary Yang
Internal Robin Mitchell-Cranfield
Supervisor Katherine Gillieson

Fri April 12 - Day 4 Session 5 // Chair Craig Badke

3:30pm Rhebsa Elsa Anil - Unleash your Inner Zest with Passion Juice: Navigating through your Passion and bridging the gap between Passion and Career.
External Dimeji Onafuwa
Internal Haig Armen
Supervisor Bonne Zabolotney

4:10pm Siddhant Singh - Good-Game, Well-Played: Ethical Game Design Strategies for Positive Online Play
External Dimeji Onafuwa
Internal Haig Armen
Supervisor Garnet Hertz

Tues April 16 - Day 5 Session 1 // Chair Katherine Gillieson

9:00am Diego Hernandez - Sown Narratives: A personal exploration of alternative food narratives through editorial design practices
External Ellen Lupton
Internal Leo Vicenti
Supervisor Cameron Neat