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INVISIBLE POSSESSIONS: Reclaiming Our Relationship With Products in an Augmented Age
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

INVISIBLE POSSESSIONS: Reclaiming Our Relationship With Products in an Augmented Age

Louis Elwood-Leach’s thesis Invisible Possessions explores the rise of these invisible products and considers opportunities to reclaim our relationship with possessions in an augmented age that increasingly values access over possession, experience over product, and machine over individual. Elwood-Leach argues that in losing sight of the possessions in our lives, we are losing the means to engage with our memories, culture and sense of self.

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CONTEMPORARY SOUNDSCAPES: Design to Prioritize Untapped Aural Potential in the Visual World
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

CONTEMPORARY SOUNDSCAPES: Design to Prioritize Untapped Aural Potential in the Visual World

"Currently, we live in a world that is a consequence of ignoring sound. We have reached peaks of noise pollution in our physical environments—especially in urban landscapes. This has occurred because the visual has been given priority over the aural, and continuous ignorance has led us to create and use noise abatement measures to reduce the effects of unintentionally designed soundscapes." Through his thesis Contemporary Soundscapes: Design to Prioritize Untapped Aural Potential in the Visual World, Antriksh takes the opportunity to explore the use of untapped audio potential as a medium of experience and product design through which he can engage people with the meaning of sound in its various forms.

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ME, MYSELF & A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

ME, MYSELF & A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job

As artificial intelligence’s capabilities continue to expand, there’s a growing anxiety that the impending AI Revolution may automate more jobs than it creates—triggering a crisis of worker displacement to rival the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. In response, Will Crum developed Me, Myself and A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job, a thesis of speculative designs that imagine near and distant futures where AI is used to increase individual agency—not diminish it. Crum’s proposals and provocations address access to work and other ways to protect human dignity in an automated age.

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GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys

In his thesis GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys, Andrew Schlesinger explores gender identity, masculinity, stereotyping, parenting, education, and male culture. Andrew has been investigating the restrictive nature placed on men and the necessity for them to conform to a masculine ideal, which is destructive to themselves and those around them. Through the feminist movement, most would acknowledge there has been a significant approach towards teaching girls traditionally masculine traits. This thesis argues we need a similar, foundational shift to teach boys feminine traits.

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