MDes 2022 Interim Thesis Presentations

8:30am | Soumya Na I Feeding the Future
Making, capturing, and thinking about how food morphs our identities in new ways.
Supervisor: Bonne Zabolotney

9:00am | Charles Simon | Palliative Care
Improving care plans & experience.
Supervisor: Jonathan Aitken

9:30am | Jingyuan (Jeffrey) Li | Care Through Play, Anywhere
Exploring possibilities in virtual and remote play therapy for youth.
Supervisor: Jonathan Aitken

10:00am | Break

10:30am | Chiara Schmitt | Material Language
Translating the vitality of matter.
Supervisor: Keith Doyle

11:00am | Christa Clay | A New Resourcefulness
Imbuing intimacy within local material economies.
Supervisor: Keith Doyle

11:30am | Jiayu (April) Tian | Design SLO-MO: A miracle balance
Furniture as an environment to build a flat lifestyle.
Supervisors: Christian Blyt & Sophie Gaur

8:30am | Yun Xiao | Mental Health
Curation as a design practice to explore people’s mental health.
Supervisor: Katherine Gillieson

9:00am | Shankar Padmanabhan | The Evocative Object
Investigating the artifact & the scenario.
Supervisor: Sophie Gaur

9:30am | Fangning (Iris) He | VOICES: how do we have space for communication.
Investigate how social media can affect people’s cognition on feminism and design ways for free expression.
Supervisor: Craig Badke

10:00 | Break

10:30am | Garima Sood | Enacting Research Protocols for Systems Transition
Fostering reciprocal research when gathering knowledge in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Supervisors: Laura Kozak & Katherine Gillieson

11:00am | Aman Singh | Data & Consent
Exploring ways to provide agency for data ownership.
Supervisor: Bonne Zabolotney

11:30am | Sam Stretch | Designed Obsolescence
Exploring intersections of physical and digital waste streams in consumer culture.
Supervisor: Craig Badke

8:30am | Marcia Higuchi | Nature’s Relearnings
Storytelling as an ecological awareness strategy.
Supervisor: Louise St Pierre

9:00am | Pat Vera | Diaspora: Between Borderlands and Intersections
Ñande yvy oñe’é kanata ndive ha ñañeimahina peteī yvy roipota oguereko heta yvy oñondive: World-ing: Sympoieisis.
Supervisors: Hélène Day Fraser & Mimi Gellman

9:30am | Meghna Mitra | Coded Communication
Experiments with hybridization, multi-lingual typography and embroidery as ways to codify communication.
Supervisor: Cameron Neat

10:00 | S. Maleeka Zahra | Building Narratives of Healing
Exploring how communication and design techniques help systematic healing and learning beyond conventional treatment.
Supervisor: Sophie Gaur

12:00pm | Elham Atighi Lorestani | Roots, Movement and Change
Exploring placed based knowledge in transition with focus on nature and craft.
Supervisor: Hélène Day Fraser

12:30pm | Zahra Jalali | Reconnect
Finding our way back to nature in a digital age.
Supervisor: Maria Lantin

1:00pm | Kimia Gholami | Bridging Pathways
Reimagining our human entanglement with the climate crisis through transition design.
Supervisor: Garnet Hertz

1:30pm | Break

2:00pm | Abhinav Paul | Learning to see the invisible
An investigation into “understanding” depression; its roots, history, evolutionary meaning; possibly coming up with a tool for assistance in this process of investigation.
Supervisor: Amber Frid-Jimenez

2:30pm | Chloe Betts | Neutral Body
A performative exploration into the history and continuation of ableism.
Supervisor: Amber Frid-Jimenez

3:00pm | Pablo Mariano | I can make things, but can I make sense?
Modelling my material practices by exploring the art-crafts-design intersections.
Supervisor: Hélène Day Fraser