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Eba Playful Experiences, Lara Cardoso Goulart

Theses

This thesis is a study of the impact of busy lifestyles on children’s education, considering playtime. Eba Playful Experiences is the result of applied design methodology to solve the lack of play between children and parents, taking into account their routine and needs.

The research includes the study of the importance of play and the problems caused by its absence. The process contains user understanding considering children’s stages of physical, social and cognitive development. The project involves learning from different areas of study: product and interaction design, child psychology and business.

Eba Playful Experiences is an online company based on …

7, 223 Between, Sarah Frances Weiss

Theses

This body of photographic artwork, 7,223 Between, explores the physical and emotional distance between my immediate family. This resulting dispersion created a shift in both my understanding, and experience, of family and home. The place that my family used to congregate around is now absent. These images traverse the surface of my relationships with family and speak to a universal experience of longing for family and home. Transient interior spaces, landscapes, and disconnected portraits of my parents come together in this non-linear narrative to suggest at the journey to rediscover a sense of Home, while winding through nostalgic failures, desire …

Jiā, Jiā Wang

Theses

This body of work 家(Jia) explores the domestic violence that is prevalent in the typical Chinese family and the complex family relationship that are a result of this trauma. 家 is a multimedia site-specific installation comprises of video, sculpture, collage and photographic images. Traumatic memories, the beautifully unbearable experiences, have inspired this artwork from both a personal and cultural perspective. In this work I am examining, and displaying for the audience, the effects of abuse and the trauma that is a result, how it is manifested, and how it transforms an individual and a family’s identity.