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A Public Reckoning: Interior Design, Comedy, & The Common Good, Caroline Mcilraith
A Public Reckoning: Interior Design, Comedy, & The Common Good, Caroline Mcilraith
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates drinking water quality and the ways in which our built environment can be used to as a tool to alter or confront perception through the violation of expectations. Research indicates that the design of public interiors could be a key component in regulating healthy urban ecologies. Desire to understand the opposing needs of two user groups – the skeptic and the advocate – led me to research design prototypes that prioritize the unexpected as it is manifested in spectacle as underscored through proximity.
By abstracting this research, a new hypothetical design is formed in the form of …