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Woven Speaker: Exploring the Potential of Technology and Craft Juxtaposition through Speaker Weaving

2024-05-17 , Romero, Lissette A.

Curiosity is an essential quality that is integral to the human experience and plays a crucial role in fostering creativity and promoting engagement. By understanding how to evoke curiosity through design, designers can leverage curiosity as a means to cultivate exploration and strengthen engagement with their creations. One approach to evoking curiosity through design is bringing conflicting elements together to prompt individuals to seek deeper understanding of the underlying relationships and explore creative possibilities between them. With this in mind, there is potential in uniting craft and technology, two seemingly polarizing domains, to foster these behaviors. This work explores the juxtaposition of craft and technology through weaving to create speakers and investigates how this juxtaposition can be utilized to ignite curiosity and lead a deeper engagement with technology. Following a research-through-design approach, a material recipe and weaving-based technique for speaker construction was developed. Utilizing the material recipe we conducted a hands-on speaker weaving workshop with ten experienced makers to gather insights on the implications and limitations of using craft and craft materials to build electronics. By integrating weaving methods and craft materials into the process of building electronics, an acceptance of imperfection was fostered and curiosity was sparked, which facilitated further exploration of technology. This thesis demonstrates the potential of juxtaposing craft and technology in product design, offering new pathways for designers to enhance user experiences with curiosity and engagement.

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Broadway - Front Avenue Connection

2024-05-01 , Helms, Cloe

Urban Design Project to connect the main street of Broadway and the river front of Columbus, GA.

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Co-Design with Neurodivergent Students and Recent Graduates to Develop an Inclusive Pedagogy in Design Education

2024-04-29 , Bhattacharya, Karina Lani

This thesis aimed to learn from co-design workshops with neurodivergent industrial design students and recent graduates and develop an educational product for inclusive teaching practices within design studio courses. This approach aligns with the biopsychosocial model of disability, which encompasses listening to individuals personally affected and redesigning external factors that impact them. Themes drawn from the co-design workshops informed the design of Naranote, a digital template that assists students in expressing a story of their design process for their studio projects. Naranote was implemented among junior-level industrial design students while completing their current studio projects, and it was also implemented among portfolio workshop participants who used Naranote to integrate storytelling into a past project. This thesis contributes to general knowledge by proposing a novel methodology and recommendations for co-design with neurodivergent students and recent graduates. Secondarily, it proposes co-design as an approach for informing products to support inclusive teaching practices while providing two user studies as starting points for testing educational interventions.

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Understanding Trends in Urban Heat and Mitigation Strategies in Urban Design and Planning

2024-04-25 , Burch, Makaela

Since the 19th century, a trend of rapid urbanization has been observed across the globe. Given that urban areas need to accommodate more and more people, urban development has been impacted in a way that favors high-density structures, which can lead to a number of environmental concerns. The urban heat island effect is a phenomenon that many urban centers suffer from, especially in the summer months, which causes the atmospheric temperature to be higher in urban areas than in suburban or rural areas. This paper will provide insight into how various mitigation strategies can be incorporated into urban design and planning to reduce the impact of urban heat and heat-related climate hazards in the future. How we interact with our environment directly affects our quality of living, therefore going forward with these understandings may prove to be vital in humanity's hunt to lessen the already tremendous burden that we have placed on our planet.

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TIMEFLEX: Exploring Time Perception without Numbers through Tangible Interaction Method

2024-05-17 , Cheng, Ernuo

Modern people perceive time through precise but abstract and mechanical number time. However, the subjective nature of time perception and the need of flexible time management inspires us to explore the possibility of alternative time managing approach. This study introduces a concept of time that guide our lives based on the sequence and duration of events and explores the context where this concept can be more beneficial. Through a Concept-Driven interaction design approach and Research through Design method, this study designed an operable functional interaction prototype and conducted an exploratory user study to generate insights of the relationship between us with time.

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Shared Use Path Design for User Safety and Experience

2024-05 , Lake, Connor

The following analysis attempts to explore the following research question: What surface design most effectively reduces user conflict, increases functional active mobility, and encourages user safety on shared use paths? The research question will be answered by 1) exploring different design methods for creating shared use paths that contribute to the goals state in the question via a literature review; 2) attempting to define the culture that surrounds these spaces and a brief investigation of how this culture might be changed/improved; and 3) offering a design solution to spaces experiencing user conflict and travel experience.

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A Co-Designed Framework for Advancing American Sign Language (ASL) Digital Learning

2024-04-29 , Welkley, Avery White

Since its origins at the American School for the Deaf in 1817, American Sign Language (ASL) has drastically increased in use among the Deaf, hard-of-hearing, non-verbal, and hearing populations in the United States and Canada. Despite its surge in popularity, ASL holds a web of complexities and misconceptions that differentiate it from spoken languages. This thesis explores in-depth some of the common challenges hearing adult ASL learners face, along with the gaps between in-person and digital ASL learning, employing inquiry-based methods. Then, using the co-design method, this thesis further investigates how to design future ASL learning appropriate to the community's expectations and provides a framework for future ASL learning platforms, identifying necessary qualities and topics of instruction to be included on digital platforms.

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The Afterlife of Roman Amphitheaters in Italy And Their Role in Shaping the City

2024-05-06 , Toth, Anna

The amphitheater stands out as the most recognizable among all the Roman building types for public spectacles. Serving as a venue for gladiatorial contests, the amphitheater became a symbol of Roman entertainment and grandeur. Its colossal scale and innovative design distinguish it from other structures of its time, making it a cornerstone in understanding ancient Rome’s architectural expertise and cultural impact. These buildings of secular entertainment were significantly affected by the decline of the Roman Empire, leading to fundamental changes in social, religious, and cultural life in Italy and beyond. The fading tradition of public entertainment contributed to the deterioration of the buildings, often subjected to spoliation. In some contemporary cities, such as Rome or Verona, within the Roman Empire’s territory, we can easily identify these ancient structures, which still possess the monumental impact they once embodied. However, in cities like Florence, centuries of transformations have seemingly erased these constructions from the urban landscape. Nevertheless, a careful analysis of urban morphology can trace the lingering effects of the amphitheaters that used to adorn the most important Roman cities. In some cases, the gradual fragmentation of ruins, as seen in Lucca, was interrupted by the re-employment of the structure, providing it with a new function. The reactivation process visibly affected not only the building itself but also its surrounding area. This dissertation explores the relationship between the reutilization of Roman amphitheaters and the transformation of their urban context, emphasizing the evolution of architectural structure and the re-imagination of public space. Rather than treating amphitheaters as discrete objects, the analysis places them and the large voids they contained within the changing post-antique cityscape. It seeks to interpret their role in the dynamics of urban transformation. The presented case studies reveal how the evolution of this building type in various cities had different implications for the continued public vitality of the sites. The study goes beyond mere description, analyzing these urban artifacts to determine if they act as propelling or pathological elements in their urban context. The conclusions center on the architectural attributes, historical circumstances, and topological factors contributing to the amphitheater’s ongoing urban presence and public identity.

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Georgia Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: An Analysis of Neighborhood Benefits in Fulton County, Georgia

2024-04-30 , Robnik, Hannah

The analysis attempts to quantify the benefits of affordable housing, specifically those created using federal and state LIHTC funds, to demonstrate the success of LIHTC not just in providing affordable housing for Georgians, but in increasing affordable housing resident’s quality of life and ultimately making Georgia a more livable place for all who call it home regardless of income.

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Redefining the Food Desert: A Study of Grocery Store Accessibility Within Metropolitan Atlanta

2024-04-28 , Moss, David

“Food deserts” are areas of an urban environment that are judged to have no accessibility to a nearby grocery store. Traditionally, this accessibility is based on a simple measure of Euclidean distance, i.e. a circle of a given radius drawn around the nearest grocery store, thus ignoring the actual road network used to travel to said store. This paper proposes a measure based on isochrones, polygons which both incorporate the actual distance travelled to reach a given grocery store, as well as the time it takes to traverse said distance via a variety of different modes. Doing so dramatically changes the estimated coverage area of a given grocery store, and helps visualize the inequities inherent in using distance-based measures of accessibility without accounting for the mode taken to travel that distance, which particularly harms individuals without access to cars or bikes. This same methodology is then utilized to demonstrate why the issue of food deserts cannot be solved by simply building more grocery stores, and proposes an alternative solution that is both cost-efficient and scalable.

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