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Deconstructing The Bright Future Of Steam And Design Thinking, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

The emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines in schools has caused advocates for art education to propose the addition of the arts to the study of STEM, transforming STEM into STEAM. Many educators see STEAM as a way to engage students with interdisciplinary topics and to integrate the arts within the school curriculum (Allina, 2018;Katz-Buonincontro, 2018; Maeda, 2013; Sousa & Pilecki,2018; Watson, 2016). One method of implementing STEAM is Design Thinking (Henriksen, 2017). STEAM education and Design Thinking are both models for interdisciplinary collaboration and problem solving to foster economic innovation, develop 21st-century skills and entrepreneurial literacy, …

Disquiet Depictions, Olivia L. Oddo

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This written document is the accompanying thesis for my Master of Fine Arts exhibition - Disquiet Depictions. Presented within the exhibition was a collection of paintings, ranging from acrylic to mixed media. As someone living with both anxiety and panic disorder the symptoms that I have experienced, as well as the coping mechanisms that I have practiced, all influenced the paintings displayed within this exhibition. Imagery included self-portraiture across a variety of emotional expressions felt during moments of sporadic fear and happiness, vibrant geometric patterns serving therapeutic purposes, and subtle medication symbolism. Collectively, these paintings provide a visual journey into …

การออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับกีฬาแอ็คชั่นสปอร์ตทางน้ำช่วงนอกฤดูการท่องเที่ยวพื้นที่อันดามันสำหรับกลุ่มเน้นภาพลักษณ์, ไชยสิทธิ์ ชาญอาวุธ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่องการออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับกีฬาแอ็คชั่นสปอร์ตทางน้ำช่วงนอกฤดูการท่องเที่ยวพื้นที่อันดามันสำหรับกลุ่มเน้นภาพลักษณ์ โดยมีวัตถุประสงค์ 1.เพื่อศึกษาและวิเคราะห์การออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับกีฬาแอ็คชั่นสปอร์ตทางน้ำสำหรับจังหวัดในพื้นที่อันดามันในช่วงนอกฤดูการท่องเที่ยว 2.เพื่อนำผลที่ได้จากการวิจัยทดลองสร้างต้นแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับนำไปใช้ในกีฬาแอ็คชั่นสปอร์ตทางน้ำสำหรับกลุ่มเน้นภาพลักษณ์ โดยใช้วิธีการวิจัยแบบผสม (Mixed Method) โดยทำการเก็บข้อมูลเชิงปริมาณ (Quantitative Research) โดยการแจกแบบสอบถาม (Questionnaire) กับกลุ่มนักท่องเที่ยว 400 คน และกลุ่มผู้ประกอบการธุรกิจท่องเที่ยวในพื้นที่ 400 คน โดยผลการวิจัยพบว่า กลุ่มนักท่องเที่ยวส่วนใหญ่อยู่ในช่วงอายุ 31-40 ปี ใช้สื่อสังคมออนไลน์ที่ใช้มากที่สุด Facebook, Instagram และ Line มีความสนใจในรูปแบบการใช้ชีวิต (Lifestyle) เรื่องการท่องเที่ยว กีฬาและอาหาร กีฬาที่เหมาะสมนำมาใช้โฆษณากระตุ้นการท่องเที่ยวนอกฤดูกาล คือ กระดานโต้คลื่น เรือยืนพาย ในส่วนของกลุ่มผู้ประกอบการธุรกิจท่องเที่ยวในพื้นที่มีความเห็นว่ารูปแบบการท่องเที่ยวเชิงกีฬามีความเหมาะสมที่สุดในการกระตุ้นการท่องเที่ยวนอกฤดูกาลที่สุด ในส่วนของการดำเนินการวิจัยใช้วิธีการเชิงคุณภาพ (Qualitative Research) มีกลุ่มผู้ให้ข้อมูลหลัก 4 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ กลุ่มเน้นภาพลักษณ์ 11 คน ผู้ประกอบการในพื้นที่ 14 คน และผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบ 9 คน ผู้เชี่ยวชาญในพื้นที่อันดามัน 7 คน ผู้วิจัยใช้การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก (In-depth Interview) ในการเก็บข้อมูล เพื่อหาแนวทางการสร้างสื่อโฆษณา ผลการวิจัยได้ค้นพบ 3 ประเด็นในการนำเสนอโฆษณา ได้แก่ 1.มิติด้านสังคมและวัฒนธรรม 2.มิติด้านกีฬาและการท่องเที่ยว 3.มิติด้านทรัพยากรสิ่งแวดล้อม ในด้านการสื่อสารกับกลุ่มเน้นภาพลักษณ์ ได้แก่ มิติด้านกีฬาและการท่องเที่ยวที่ให้คุณค่าทางด้านจิตใจ ค้นหาตัวตน พบกับความสุขสงบกับธรรมชาติ เกิดภาพลักษณ์ที่ดีกับตนเองและกิจกรรมที่ทำ เชื่อมโยงสู่การกระตุ้นการท่องเที่ยว ความสนุกสนาน สร้างความมั่นใจในเรื่องความปลอดภัย และสร้างประสบการณ์ใหม่ๆในการใช้ชีวิต ด้านการคัดสรรค์จากสิ่งบ่งชี้ทางภูมิศาสตร์ (GI) 5 ด้านดังนี้ 1. เพอนารากัน บาบ๋า 2. ช้าง 3. ปาล์ม ยางพารา 4. ชิโน โปรตุกีส 5. ทะเล หมู่เกาะน้อยใหญ่ 6.เทศกาลถือศีลกินเจ และรูปแบบด้านองค์ประกอบดังนี้ 1. ลักษณะตัวอักษร San …

Carousel: Performance And Ritual Of A Child's Play, Erik Maniscalco

Theses and Dissertations

Carousel is a series of oil paintings inspired by my seven year old

daughter, as well as my work towards becoming a childhood educator. My

aim with this project is to explore the performative and ritualistic nature of

children’s play: focusing on the creative ways children stretch and reshape

their reality through imagined play narratives. Upon the carousel’s stage,

children select a character and take part in a performed ritual. I’ve long felt

connected to the visual vocabulary found within baroque and renaissance

styles, and I am fascinated by the mixture of amusement, tradition,

religion, and distortion imbued within the …

This Month, Jennifer N. Figueroa

Theses and Dissertations

This Month is a series of collages that depict police violence at civil rights and Black Lives Matter protests. By pairing events from 1964 to contemporary protests that occurred in the same month, the collection draws a connection between the past and present.

Race Book, Robert Dejesus

Theses and Dissertations

Race Book is a satiric animated short film about how social media influenced people during the 2020 presidential election.

Foster Rhodes Jackson And The Visual Conquest Of The West, Eve Kaufman

Scripps Senior Theses

Colonizers settled the Los Angeles and the Southern California region in part by using Modernism’s visual rhetoric and propagandic implications during the time of suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl refers to the mass single family home development which took place from the 1920^[1]s until now but peaked from the 1970s to the 1990s. Los Angeles sprawl grew particularly in the 1950^[2]s as soldiers returned from WWII. It was a way for middle class white families to accrue generational wealth and follow through on the American Dream^[3].

The primary result however disenfranchised already marginalized groups. This …

Passe Pas: Rethinking The Passport, Miriam E. Bankier

Scripps Senior Theses

Filled with national symbols, stamps and basic identifying information, a passport can obscure the humanity behind the individual passport holder, inverting it from a symbol of citizenship and belonging to one of marginalization and xenophobia. In today’s political climate, the meaning of art has become intersected with politics and the law. Using the very tools and some processes of passport production, i.e. mixed media and printmaking techniques, my work responds to and disrupts the bureaucracy and impersonal settings involving passports and identification documents. I draw from my own experiences and privilege as having Austrian, Italian, and American citizenship, as well …

Language, Memory, Place: Building On Disappearance, Alexi Butts

Scripps Senior Theses

Language, Memory, Place is an investigation into clay’s therapeutic and tactile qualities. When combined, these attributes make clay an effective tool for priming spoken communication, increasing connectivity and serving as a tangible means of accessing and physically grounding abstract memories of home.

Conducted in France throughout the summer of 2019, my research set out to engage French speakers in a reflective dialogue on what it means to transform empty spaces into ones filled with feeling and meaning of home. In addition to verbal conversation, I simultaneously directed individuals of different ages, origins and living in seven different cities through an …

Consciousness Vis-À-Vis The Restraints Of Language, Angela-Maria Martinez

Honors Program Theses

In my work, I explore the overlooked complexities of linguistics within the languages I speak and I examine the philosophical ideologies that surround the different perspectives offered by those languages I do not understand. As a bilingual, I have often pondered about the languages I speak fluently and how their differences allowed me to understand my surroundings in distinctive ways. Through the use of peaceful colors and audio, a combination of abstract and minimalist imagery, and a time-based medium, I seek to reveal the undiscovered possibilities of spoken language. It is through tranquil imagery and audio that I attempt to …

Uniting Maternity Care With Neonatal Intensive Care: Analysis Advancing Hospital Experiences For Families Of Newborns Through Design, Stephanie Legg

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The landscape of childbirth has changed immensely over the last century. Medical intervention has surpassed the needs of mother and infant to be together when either requires medical attention. By bringing medical equipment for both into a single hospital room, separation between the two will be decreased. For this study, mothers of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care were questioned with a mix-methods survey to discover what challenges they faced in order to amend the built environment to increase their satisfaction with their hospital and post-birth experience. Mothers showed less ability to interact with their infants when medical needs were …

Explorations In Book Binding Techniques, Kristen Faux

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project is to explore different binding methods and techniques used in book creation. The final product will be 4-5 books created using the binding methods. The contents of these books will be research about the methods used as well as a description of the creation process. The final books will be displayed in the Projects Gallery at the Myers School of art, in the Fall semester of 2019.

An Interview With Adrian Rhodes, Kerr Houston

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Two's Accompany: Understanding Acceptance Through Animation, Brian Phinn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Animation as a medium has broad appeal based on its ability to convey stories in universal ways. This art form bridges cultural barriers that allow relationships to form through shared interests. Music also shares similar traits. Based on the global understanding of music and its history of use in film, the conclusion is the acceptance of different musical tastes can parallel acceptance of differing ideologies. When clashing ideological beliefs cause societal conflict, it is essential to remember that friendships cultivate through commonalities. The purpose of this study is to create an animated short film that presents the story of two …

Ouroboros: The Evolution From Industrialized Mass Production To Auteurism In American Animation, Heather Knott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The evolution of animation in the United States and its resulting classification varies significantly from its global counterparts. Through a convergence of complex cultural, regulatory, and entrepreneurial influences, the medium's experimental artistic principals have remained firmly rooted in the mass-production style studio pipeline codified by Hollywood. Through the advent of academically centered animation education, the development of the internet, self-distribution, and the growing affordability of industry level hardware and software, the industry has expanded beyond the traditional narrow scope. This re-globalization of entertainment in the United States encourages an auteur approach to animated filmmaking that is challenging the strict association …

The Level Of Creative Thinking Of Stem-Oriented Middle And High School Children Associated With The Level Of Self-Motivated Play And Success Within A Builder Game And Engagement In Builder Gaming Communities' Social Media Culture, John Aedo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Literature indicates that the United States has fallen behind other countries in the world in terms of creativity. At the same, children's self-motivated gaming and involvement in gaming communities have grown as a major pass time. The literature is inconsistent on the relationship between games and creativity with some indicating benefit while others indicate harm. Might the observed level of creative thinking among children be associated with the level of a priori self-motivated engagement with creative games and associated social media? Given the wide spectrum of the kinds of games, this research considers the "builder" (e.g. Minecraft) genre and related …

Afrofuturism In Animation: Self Identity Of African Americans In Cinematic Storytelling, Dana Barnes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

My work addresses the importance of self-identity within the Black culture of the United States of America through the depiction of an African American boy who must look into himself to overcome a difficult bullying situation. Animation as a medium is an ideal tool for interrogating the Western perspective of identity through cinematic storytelling. Using established animation methods, I created a visual narrative to portray the impact self-identity has on an individual's actions in certain social conditions. The film expands the medium of animation to subvert the narrative expectations of bullying and presents the idea of identity as a nonconforming …

Alexander: A Dive Into Identity, Inspiration, And Release Of The Creative Self, Alyssa Garoogian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Alexander is a story of overcoming the fear of personal artistic expression. Alexander is the son of an affluent family who was found to have musical talent at a young age. Alex grows to enjoy music, but rote exercises alone begin to disillusion the promising musician. Regardless, Alexander dutifully practices piano exercises daily, bored by the lack of creative stimulation but afraid to openly admit it. After an accidental music note sparks his imagination, Alexander escapes into fantasy: a colorful visualization of the original music he creates. Within this fantasy, a warm, supportive community leads Alexander to his most significant …

Party For One: A Monologue Of The Importance Of Oneself Through Book Arts, Jacob Zhefu Wan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This thesis explores the importance of oneself through sexuality, context, and introspection in the art of book arts. I work with memories, imagination, and consciousness in the form of book arts to express the importance of the self from my personal experience. Through the use of colors, materials, spatial compositions, and other visual components to manifest the content of my art, I want to illuminate the awareness of otherness including gender issues and an individual's vulnerability. Playing with the texts of Chinese and English, I intend to create narratives with languages, images, and other mixed media. In addition to crafting …

A Place Through Time, Kaitlyn Mathis

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.