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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 ...
Designing for disaster: transitioning from house to home
(2012-04-04)
Natural disasters are increasing in both number and severity, causing the number of people being displaced by disaster to rise as well. Hurricane Katrina provides a particularly poignant example of the human impact of ...
“Don’t speak about us without us": design considerations and recommendations for inpatient mental health environments for children and adolescents
(2012-04-04)
This thesis explores the relationship between inpatient mental health environments and children and adolescents. Research was conducted by way of observation, questionnaires, interviews, and reading floor plans, partnering ...
Eco dwelling: interior design as the medium for a branded lifestyle
(2012-09-07)
Eco Dwelling: Interior Design as a Medium for a Branded Lifestyle explores how the built environment can be used as a three-dimensional media in the context of branding a lifestyle. In Western society the exchange between ...
The creative network: a satellite campus for design education in the twenty-first century
(2012-04-09)
As models and methods of educational pedagogy are altered by social media and digital technology, so too are the spaces where learning takes place. Creative education, particularly the education of design students, does ...
Finding hope in Zen: a design of a women's transitional housing facility
(2012-09-07)
Domestic violence against women and children is a significant international issue. There are many obstacles survivors face, and the problem is more complex than is often perceived. This interior design practicum responds ...
The new gallery: interior design for new media
(2012-09-20)
The space occupied by New Media is elusive. Its inherent omnipresence is yet another example of the loss of physicality of the information age. The contemporary gallery⎯- the white cube -⎯functions as a pseudo-religious ...