Category Archives: Design Practice I

Moving Forward… What to do next? For the next stage of my process and moving forward into thesis in the next semester i would like to look into different types of temporal materials, materials such as ice, mud, paper, and living things, and how this weather over time/how they can be looked after to bothContinue reading “Summative Assessment – expanded from week 6 presentations”

“The texture of a surface calls for you to crossover a boundary of fear to reach out and touch it. Fingers tracing over the ridges and hollows as the material starts to decay under your touch, lifting your hand to reveal a stain of the material residue still lingering on your fingers…” Exploration of allContinue reading “Week Six: The contingency of knowing, doing, and saying”

Starting the process of refining my work in relation to artists and designers that are already designing in the field that i am interested in. Writing about the journey: mapping a new direction – where to from here?

Creating a Nexus, a focal point, a central idea. Contexts Emerging Objects- Cabin of 3D printed curiosities 3D-printed tiles filled with succulents form the cabin A playful and interactive structure optimises life through plant form inspiration for erasure tyre track book Cabin of 3D Printed Curiosities 3D-printed tiles filled with succulents form cabin by EmergingContinue reading “Week Four: A Nexus of Ideas”

Reflect and write about how you are exploring the words – use a mind map if you prefer. taking the five words that i have chosen to explore. these words being; Boundary, Decay, Stain, Call, and Trace I have started to think about ways that these words link together and what meanings that they have inContinue reading “Week Two: From Observation to Theory”

12-05-20 Introducing Myself 21 years of age. I am a sister of 4. I grew up and am still living in Whangarei, Northland. Although I am constantly in a state of limbo as to where I am living, moving constantly between Auckland and Whangarei my hearth still lives in the country. Growing up on aContinue reading “Week One: Leaving the familiar behind”