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Costume culture: a traveling exhibition system for the Costume Museum of Canada
(2014-05-05)
The Costume Museum of Canada (CMC) is the first of its kind in Canada. It works as a comprehensive repository where Canadian clothing and textile artifacts are collected, preserved, and presented. Traveling exhibits are ...
In the in-between: forest kindergarten from an interior design perspective
(2013-08-26)
Contemporary education does not leave students with all of the necessary skills to navigate the increased complexity of the shrinking globe. The loss of practical skills for sensitive engagement with the built and natural ...
Guerrilla interventions: questioning the use of unoccupied space
(2013-09-09)
This interior design practicum explores alternative options for itinerant living in the twenty-first century with concern as to how unoccupied space is used more efficiently through questioning the way an individual ...
Designing for healing: a cross-cultural approach to the interior design of an art therapy centre for children in Nicaragua
(2012-09-19)
Designing a culturally appropriate space begins by recognizing that culture affects us from the moment we are born. It plays a role in how a child grows up, how a person communicates, how a person perceives time, the beliefs ...
Supporting opportunities for transition and resistance: interior design for Eagle Urban Transition Centre in Winnipeg
(2015)
Informed by research that connects transitional issues with assimilation, this practicum project focuses on how culturally-relevant education and service-based interior environments support the transition of urban Indigenous ...
Interweaving place: A transitional interior for refugee women and children set in West Broadway, Winnipeg.
(2013-08-28)
As the world shifts and changes, so do its people, and every day, more refugees are forced out-of-place, out of their homelands, and into a foreign and unfamiliar context. Many of these refugees are women, single mothers, ...
Dance, the human spirit and event: translating the choreographic principles of “landscape dancing” to the interior design of a secular event space
(2013-08-28)
In this Master of Interior Design practicum project I apply the choreographic principles of Stephanie Ballard’s “Landscape Dancing” projects to the design of a secular event space within the James Avenue Pumping Station ...
Home + memory: a phenomenological approach to assisted living design
(2014-01-10)
Residential downsizing in later life is a complex process often laden with emotional stress. This design practicum explores the adverse effects of this transition, and how they might be mitigated through interior design. ...
Continuing the journey: a funeral home for Indigenous Peoples of Saskatchewan
(2016)
The focus of this practicum project is to provide a culturally relevant, as well as mentally, emotionally, and spiritually supportive, funeral home for the Indigenous community in Saskatoon and surrounding area. The current ...
Resistance training: redesigning the North American fitness club to challenge dominant narratives of sex, gender, and sexuality
(2015-01-19)
North American building design is predicated on the notion that there are only two sexes, genders, and sexualities. With the former presumed to be the biological determinant of the latter, male and female are constructed ...