Design Studies / Design for Technology
Recent Deposits
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Architectural design and the Development of Place Attachment & Identity
This research explores the relationship between domestic dwellings, nature and natural environments. I propose that, in order to develop environmental conservation values, individuals must feel some sense of connection ... -
The Eden Hore Collection: Exploring scenarios for re-display
The Eden Hore Museum of Fashion contains dress and other artefacts, collected by James Eden Hore in the 1970s, and is housed in a private museum on Glenshee Farm (Naseby, New Zealand). Eden Hore bequeathed his collection ... -
Participatory Design in the Museum: An exploration of Participatory Design methods at the Ranfurly Art Deco Gallery, New Zealand
This thesis discusses and applies Participatory Design at the Ranfurly Art Deco Gallery, in Central Otago, New Zealand. It continues the past decade’s revitalisation of Ranfurly, by providing Project Maniototo (a project ... -
Investigating reuse opportunities of consumer dairy product packaging; a design directed, user-centred investigation.
This dissertation examines forms of dairy product packaging that is to be found in most households. This packaging is intended for consumer use and is typically used once. Such packaging is implicitly designed to serve ... -
Design for Sustainability: Addressing Food Waste Behaviour
This research explores current approaches and frameworks to enable design to contribute to sustainable behaviour. In particular, this research closely examined Shove’s Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience (3Cs) for its ... -
Designing innovative smartphone applications for visitors to New Zealand's National Parks.
This study examines key ways the new generation of mobile devices can enhance a user’s experience in New Zealand’s National Parks. With the growing adoption of smartphone and tablet devices, opportunities exist for this ... -
Addressing the different information needs of diverse visitors to Arthur’s Pass National Park
The New Zealand landmass encompasses a vast diversity of wilderness areas, including fourteen national parks and other conservation lands. These natural environments attract a large number of domestic and international ... -
Designing A National Park Experience: Expanding the experiential scope of wayfinding as a means of creating richer interactions between people and the Public Conservation Lands of New Zealand.
There is considerable opportunity to build participation in the Public Conservation Lands through the development of enticing and imaginative experiences. An in-depth observational scoping study of Arthur’s Pass National ... -
Straining History Ernest Hayes: Pioneer Industrial Designer
This thesis began with an enquiry into the origins of a ubiquitous artefact of everyday life in rural New Zealand; the Hayes permanent wire strainer. Researching this artefact quickly revealed that the origins of the ... -
Futuring Craft: New Zealand Studio Furniture 1979-2008
This thesis investigates the practice and culture of studio furniture in New Zealand and its national craft context, in light of prevailing economic, educational, social and cultural parameters. The author uses an ... -
Investigation of the Relationship between Total Embodied Energy and Cost for Commercial Buildings
Embodied energy accounts for a large proportion of lifecycle energy utilisation in the building sector, and the estimation of this embodied energy is often difficult. Thus finding a general relationship between the embodied ... -
Participatory Design for Community Planning and Development : Tools to Collect, Synthesise, and Use Local Knowledge in Decision-Making Processes.
This research examines how design processes can be used to access and communicate local knowledge and to develop connection to community and place. Members of Karitane, a small coastal community in New Zealand, were engaged ... -
Amyas Connell, 'High and Over' and the role of New Zealand architects in the British Modern Movement
Many of the architects that contributed to the British Modern Movement during the late 1920s and up to the start of the Second World War were of European origin. Less well described in the surveys of the period is the ... -
Using computational fluid dynamics for wind flow over a complex topography
The aim of this paper is to examine the modelling of the wind flow over a complex dune topography using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The area of research interest is a massive foredune behind which is a transgressive ... -
Examining the potential of Advanced Electricity Metering in New Zealand
This dissertation examines advanced metering technology and its application to the context of domestic electricity use within New Zealand. It identifies the current state of advanced metering technology and the associated ... -
CFD Simulation of Wind Flow over Vegetated Coastal Sand Dunes
This research applies Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to modelling flow over a vegetated foredune in the coastal zones. Morphological changes resulting from wind flow and sedimentation have direct impacts on plant and ... -
Constructing the "World's Scenic Wonderland": photomontage in New Zealand illustrated weekly newspapers, 1900-1930
The term “photomontage” has three syntactic senses, as: (i) the phenomenon, (ii) the practice/process, (iii) the resulting individual image. All three of these meanings are examined in this thesis in relation to the context, ...