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Project: Love Yours, Wei Hsiao
Project: Love Yours, Wei Hsiao
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Project: Love Yours is a graduate thesis project that examined the importance of emotional attachments to product longevity in the context of problems where our material culture is distant and disposable. Through research memory was identified as an influential factor in attachment formation. By incorporating the philosophical concept of imperfection as a design strategy to stimulate the process of memory building, three concept solutions were developed. The design implementation in four product prototypes proves to be successful in encouraging memories to grow within each product. As ownership continues over the years, we can anticipate memories to accumulate and build up …
The Imagined Collection, A Story, Nancy Knapik
The Imagined Collection, A Story, Nancy Knapik
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Music was the creative inspiration that provided the underlying rhythm to this body of work. It was guided by the concept of ethereal sound materializing into tangible found objects whose attributes included the ability to visually invoke the fleeting emotional memories of the listening experience. This written thesis serves to discuss the philosophies and aesthetic choices these conceptual themes prompted while making the work. It includes an artistic exploration of the fascinating nature of collection and the association between art and memory. The oral defense of the work brought to light the need to address the distinction between the maker …
Does Increasing Metacognitive Awareness Alleviate Retrieval-Induced Forgetting Effects, Lauren W. Jones
Does Increasing Metacognitive Awareness Alleviate Retrieval-Induced Forgetting Effects, Lauren W. Jones
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