25₵ Per Minute,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Chasing Mavericks,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Rising Swan,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Untitled,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Moonrise,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Calm For Now,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
A Family History,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
New Old Things,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Big Eyes,
2026
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Post-Credit Scene,
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. …
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 …
Until The Ground Breaks,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
Until The Ground Breaks, Annie Hu
Masters Theses
Until the Ground Breaks explores the complex relationship between personal memory, embodied experience, and internalized "archival logic." By examining long-term cross-cultural diasporic experiences and the shifting dynamics of family narratives—including the sensory experiences and fading memory of a grandmother, a father's correspondence that acts as a textual record of emotional logic, and the continuous revision of family history—this thesis dissects the psychological tremors that occur when the illusion of a singular, stable memory archive collapses. This research rejects the view of memory as a static container of truth, revealing it instead as a dynamic, unstable, and constantly rewritten living system. …
41.82379°N, 71.38497°W,
2026
Rhode Island School of Design
41.82379°N, 71.38497°W, Xiaotong Cai
Masters Theses
I, Xiaotong Cai, have known an abandoned bridge was lifted and stuck at 64-degree from 1976. I have walked and bent down towards it for over 60 times, each paralleling a journal entry. The visits and 27,351 words (up until May 5th) are the living proof: observation, encounters, correspondence, collectively and personally. It’s been nine months since it emerged in flux. Two flesh. A moving outsider and a still bridge. How can an Unused giant activate a human body? Who is the attractor and intervener?
Here, my solution is to conduct a series of small gestures. I say, interpreting without …
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 …
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 …
Palliative Care And The Art Of Listening,
2026
New York Medical College
Palliative Care And The Art Of Listening, Elisheva Eisenberg
Quill & Scope
No abstract provided.
Longlines,
2026
DePauw University
Longlines, Morgan Tharp '26
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
Morgan Tharp is a Senior English-Writing and Political Science double major. In her free time, she enjoys running for DePauw's cross country and track teams and reading.
On Mild Weather,
2026
DePauw University
On Mild Weather, Morgan Tharp '26
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
Morgan Tharp is a Senior English-Writing and Political Science double major. In her free time, she enjoys running for DePauw's cross country and track teams and reading.
