Onlyness,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Rooted,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Like Fine Wine,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
October Fire,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Forever Fourteen In Fourteen Lines,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Root Canals,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
The Day My Dad Was A Soprano,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
¿Por Qué Español?,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
There Are Two Girls Playing Inside The Hagia Sofia,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
There Are Two Girls Playing Inside The Hagia Sofia, Aydin Gulle
Intertidal
No abstract provided.
A Través Del Espejo,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
The Mourning After Christmas,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Hear Everything,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Seafood,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
I Am A Pressure That Builds,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
A Letter To My Mom,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
My Mother The Mountain,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
My Mother The Mountain, Ricky Vasan
Masters Theses
Teach me How to Write a Love Song
I catch a glimpse of my mother sitting on her bed in her bedroom from the bathroom mirror. What a rare occurrence! One I am not fortunate enough to witness as often as I would like. A moment that I know —even before it has occurred—will one day become my dearest desire for wanting to turn back time. This moment is a mirage. Once I return to my senses, after the passing of a twelve-hour lag, it will already be too late.
This is the place where I wish to work from. …
چھپن چھپائی (Chupan Chupai),
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
چھپن چھپائی (Chupan Chupai), Muhammad Talha Mr
Masters Theses
Baji, how do you breathe in a burqa? Doesn’t it suffocate you? Don't ask too many questions, walk straight, and don’t let go of my hand. Men were standing in the street, and she was trying to avoid them, walking as fast as she could, almost dragging me. I saw a big wedding tent. It was a multi-colored, red, yellow, blue, and green pattern. I asked baji, Is that where we are going? She nodded in affirmation. The tent was beautiful. I saw kids peeking inside the tent, and it reminded me of a time when I was doing the …
Seeking Ground,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Seeking Ground, Shrishti Chatterjee
Masters Theses
Design increasingly sits within modern systems that reduce the world to narrow, instrumental categories. A tree is paper, the sky is a clock, an ant is a pest. And a graphic designer is a visual marketer optimising for reach and engagement. This leaves the designer without a sense of their place in the world.
Seeking Ground asks how we might return to a more rooted practice. Physically, the ground is the solid surface on which all other things rest. Conceptually, it is the foundational premise from which knowledge is derived. To be grounded is to be connected to real-world implications …
Landscape Repositories: Mapping Post-Mining Narratives In Asbestos, Qc Val-Des-Sources, Qc,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Landscape Repositories: Mapping Post-Mining Narratives In Asbestos, Qc Val-Des-Sources, Qc, Rasha Lama
Masters Theses
Landscape Repositories: Mapping Social Narratives in Asbestos, QC Val-des-Sources, QC proposes the ‘landscape repository’ as a tool for landscape literacy and cultural legitimacy that integrates histories, geographies, and social narratives to inform grounded and place-based post-mining futures.
Val-des-Sources, Québec (formerly Asbestos, QC) is a place whose extraction legacies and material histories are deeply interwoven into its contemporary economy and cultural landscape. The centre of town is the Jeffrey Mine, once the world’s largest open-pit asbestos mine that is deep enough to hide the Eiffel Tower entirely. Ceased in 2012, the 130-year-old Jeffrey Mine and sixty-one other Québec asbestos sites once …
Commodity Beyond Price: A Visible Database Of Free Objects,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Commodity Beyond Price: A Visible Database Of Free Objects, Yifei Cai
Masters Theses
This thesis explores how value is constructed and circulated outside of traditional monetary exchange systems. During two years of living in Providence, I collected hundreds of "free objects." For each item, I wrote a brief description detailing its physical characteristics, provenance, or emotional significance, and measure it according to four parameters: price, cost, weight, and value. Of these, "value" is subjectively defined by memories, emotional attachments, and it presented as relational equivalencies established within the collection itself.
It presented as an open-ended archive, this project functions simultaneously as an installation, an exchange system, and a visual database. The thesis proposes …
