Research Outputs Masters Degrees 2011-2012 Art and Design - Master of Art and Design First Name Qualification Date Granted Thesis Title Chris Andersen Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The Ark Project: an investigation into interactive environmental narrative Emily Armstrong Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The sinister home Michael Thomas Atkins Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Turing-Complete Olivia Barnes Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 The inherent strangeness of things Krick Barraud Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Dressing the land - to address the landscape Susan Barter Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Tailoring technology to the urban cyclist Min Brkovic Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Call and response Grace Chai Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The Fall: A spatio-temporal consideration of the biblical Apocalypse (12:7-9) Victor Cham Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Bad Faith: the road to denouement in a short film Sean Curham Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Mundaneology - a critical examination of the subjectivity of performance through intervention as bathos Marsha Davis Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Dislocated in the reflective landscape: a photographic inquiry into a visual language for Måori oral histories of land kinship Sharon Evans-Mikellis Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The lost knitwear of our fictional past - an exploration of integral knitting. Andrew Farquhar Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Reversed painting Cheng-Yi Fey Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The Cut: refiguring traditional Chinese paper-cutting Ross Forbes Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 The Weight of Things Chung-Su Fu Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 In between panel and gutter: a creative exploration of panels and gutters in Manga storytelling Shaghayegh Ganjali Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The dance of ‘soma and psyche’ Greet Gielen Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Sign, a visual analysis of public signage in New Zealand Nadeesha Godamunne Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking fashion illustration Phillip Michael Neil Good Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The Threat of Action Alysha Gover Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Engineering Fashion Sarah Gruiters Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Live the problem: art and other things Alexandra Holmes Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Imaginary Worlds Jiaying Huang Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 At (Sur)Face Value: interfacing nature and architecture Rose Jamieson Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Intract Paul Kim Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Chrysalis: the poetic narrative of identity conflict 70 70 JOINED DCT Res Report 1308.indd 70 13/08/13 3:34 PM Nick Konings Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The transformative mirror: contemplating the self as an emergent being through active reflection literature Trudy Lane Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The Eco sapiens project: exploring collaboration, complexity and wonder as agents of cultural shift. Ming Lee Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Intuition in a small interior domestic space Ivan Liang Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Vitality: a creative exploration of affection & scene Gizelle Manalo Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Perfect Love, Perfect Selfishness Laura Marsh Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Location of Pride Hana Maxwell Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 a tribal archive Tessa Leonelle Mitchell Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Borderline Acts Ruth Myers Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Loss and the Mantelpiece Emily O’Hara Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Where do, I lie? Cerisse Palalagi Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 MO2NEI: #SWWDT! *see what we did there* Julia Palmer Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Image as a language Leigh Parker Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Implementing socially responsible graphic design: in what ways is expense a barrier to eating fresh fruit and vegetables in the rural community of Waverley. Lance Pearce Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Everything moves so swiftly Amber Pearson Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 The object of labour: unuseless acts of an itinerant nature Katey Pittwood Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Photographic Durations - documenting snippets of my Nana’s life Eden Potter Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Ducks, decorators and the dialogical. An examination of approaches to information design Caroline Powley Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Reading Objects:developing design systems to document, discuss and present the implicit readings of objects Warren Pringle Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Transformance Lisa Anne Rayner Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The suspended Zenith Sara Romano Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 (Im)perfect Virtualities Jillian Round Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The digital narrative Yosop Ryoo Master of Art and Design 15-Dec-2011 Being in Painful-Circumferences Rachel Mary Shearer Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Greenstone becoming crystal Rie Shibata Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Geisha-graphy: Re-realising the unnoticed moments of mundane life Benita Kumar Simati Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The potential of Vå: an investigation of how ‘Ie Tøga activate the spatial relationships of the Vå, for a Samoan diaspora community Jes-Ci Singh Nagra Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The fetish of analogue photography and the fetishism of object Gemma Skipper Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The photographic garden April Stevens Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Reconstructive visual narratives of home and land: testing site-drawn imagery to explore related past and present attitudes Annie Tatton Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 The paradoxical event of apparel: a deleuzian consturct of knowledge in relation to installation practice 71 JOINED DCT Res Report 1308.indd 71 13/08/13 3:34 PM Tatiana Tavares Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Discarded item: inspirations for a new graphic design piece Rose Te Ratana Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Ritual in the making: critical exploration of ritual in Te Whare Pora Katie Theunissen Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Unplanned connections in everyday surroundings Sebastian Trujillo Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Moving On Benavides Layne Waerea Master of Art and Design 13-Dec-2012 Silent Injunctions Anika Walker Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Dark as Light: the uncanny in transparent urban architecture Fang-Yun Wei Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Displacement - against time and space Karol Wilczynska Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 The Passing. A metaphoric interpretation of the impermanence of the book Betty Woods Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 Social Closure: unpicking and rethreading a sense of fragility Yang Yang Master of Art and Design 27-Jul-2012 PicToLife: the development of a contemporary Chinglish visual language Melody Zhang Master of Art and Design 04-Aug-2011 Folding Magic Art and Design - Master of Philosophy First Name Qualification Date Granted Thesis Title Kathryn Hardy Bernal Master of Philosophy 15-Dec-2011 The Lolita Complex: A Japanese Fashion Subculture and its Paradoxes Linda Jones Master of Philosophy 15-Dec-2011 Raincoat: a creative consideration of urban rainwear Andreas Mikellis Master of Philosophy 04-Aug-2011 A manual for sartorial disruption. Part 1: provoke critical discourse in relation to the future of aesthetic design innovation in men’s tailored clothing. Aaron Basil Nelson Master of Philosophy 04-Aug-2011 The Public-Object Nexus: Activating Public Space Dorthe Scheffmann Master of Philosophy 27-Jul-2012 A Feminine Language in Cinema: An analysis of visual language in the work of three female filmmakers (Campion, Coixet, and Bier) as sites for disclosing the potential of new structural cinematic narratives. Communication Studies - Master of Communication Studies First Name Qualification Date Granted Thesis Title Diane Abad-Vergara Master of Communication 04-Aug-2011 Living with Coffee Studies Charlotte Berney Master of Communication 13-Dec-2012 Anything you can do we can do better Studies Norman Bimo Master of Communication 13-Dec-2012 Bakara Kisses Studies Hayley Callard Master of Communication 15-Dec-2011 What attitudes do newspaper journalists have Studies towards public relations (PR) practioners in New Zealand and why? Samantha Coelho Master of Communication 04-Aug-2011 Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case Studies of the Culitivated Fan Nicole Colmar Master of Communication 27-Jul-2012 Shell Seekers: A Screenplay Studies Mikela Dennison Master of Communication 27-Jul-2012 An extended investigation into how the public Studies forms their views of public relations 72 72 JOINED DCT Res Report 1308.indd 72 13/08/13 3:34 PM Chunyan Ding Master of Communication 13-Dec-2012 Olivia’s Choice’ - A Screenplay Studies Erica D’Souza Master of Communication 27-Jul-2012 An exploration of the communication and Studies reception of documentary film in India Diana Duan Master of Communication 27-Jul-2012 Investigating the identity of Chinese Diasporas Studies through the ethnic media in New Zealand Eva Evguenieva Master of Communication 13-Dec-2012 Experts Issue a Warning: What you are feeding Studies your infants could be making them ill Rachel Gray Master of Communication 15-Dec-2011 The Mature Woman Studies Brenda Kiernan Master of Communication 13-Dec-2012 Trail and Error.