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Discrepancy.
(2016)
This study aspires to call attention to differences in perception of space through the means of anamorphosis and painting spatially. Perspectival distortion is also part of this study, as it plays a role in perception of ...
En memoriam: Memorial design in the age of terror
(2016)
Lowell, Massachusetts has erected 252 memorials to various subjects since the mid 19 th century. 65 of those 252, more than one quarter of them, were built in the last twenty years of the 20 th century. Similarly, a wave ...
In and Out of Control: An exercise in the design of low-tech/high effect responsive building facades
(2016)
In + Out of Control is a design focused investigation into the development of an architectural façade that provides an experiential architecture for the occupant through the control of light and view. This body of work ...
The martyr and the traitor: Violence and resistance in world literature and cinema
(2016)
This dissertation examines the way systemic capitalist violence and resistance to it can be articulated through the three figures of the martyr, the disappeared, and the traitor. Focusing on the literary tropes of the ...
Culture on stage: Contemporary performances of the Chinese model ballets, 2000-2016
(2016)
This thesis will explore the representation of culture on stage through the performances of the two ballets from the eight model works created during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Red Detachment of Women and The ...
Earning From Lost Places Re-conceptualizing material value: architectural rituals of renewal in the post-industrial primitive hut
(2016)
Earning From Lost Places attempts to reconfigure the act of material salvation through the process of architectural design. It departs under the assumption that normative economic-based methods of material valuation ...
Networked acoustic arenas: The use of spatial auditory displays and sonic interaction design in telematic environments
(2016)
The recent trend of networked computation and sensors embedded into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT), is considered to be one of the next big tech revolutions. Before long, these objects will be augmented ...
Slow singing and flower bringing: Death & the Black female presence in the Black male narrative of commercial rap releases
(2016)
African American Studies is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans. Broadly, the field studies the cultures of people of African descent in the United States ...
"Pleasure in the confusion of boundaries": Mexican textiles and subversion of the imperial gaze
(2016)
Textiles are multifaceted objects that exist as art, clothing, currency, a means of communication, and even objects for consumption. For this reason, many people look outside the world of mass production to Mexico for ...
Macho Gringo: Mexican Masculinity Through Psychology, Films, and Time
(2016)
Masculinity and machismo are growing topics of interest in the scholarly world. Within the field of psychology, psychologists are attempting to study Mexican machismo in order to formulate some of the psychological factors ...