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  • Data & Craft: The Book Beautiful in the Digital Age 
    Scudder, Dan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    In 1917 Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson threw his life’s work off the Hammersmith bridge into the river Thames. Cobden-Sanderson did this for the ideal of the Book Beautiful, a book that he thought should be made for beauty, ...
  • Data deciphered: A visual migration of VFX 
    Fordyce, Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The visual effects industry is an interconnected network of migratory professionals that is in an on-going state of dynamism. The transient nature of industry contracts and the resultant economic impact of studio ebb and ...
  • Data driven design: An investigation into the fit between the individuality of people and the uniformity of mass manufactured items 
    Christensen, Alex Svend (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Due to the economic advantage of mass manufacturing technology humans have designed a world of products built for the average body size and shape. This conformity of diverse body shapes to fixed 3 dimensional forms raises ...
  • Datatecture: Creating a real home for a virtual identity 
    Meekings, Scott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    It is increasingly common to live in continual flux between reality and virtuality – for architecture this means a dwindling focus on the built environment. For the architectural discipline to respond to these rapidly ...
  • Dead Among the Living: Burning Bodies in Inner City Wellington 
    Moller, Zoe Jaye (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The architecture of cremation has struggled to embrace an identity; it has remained ambiguous in its architectural typology and religious association since it was first introduced into western society. Additionally, the ...
  • Dear my Very Problematic Blood Glucose Meter: Adolescents' Experiences Self-Managing Type 1 Diabetes and their Psychosocial User Requirements Of Medical Technologies 
    McCarthy, Gillian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    “Dear insulin pump. I love that you came into my life! You give me flexibility, confidence, and happiness.” “Dear my very problematic blood glucose meter. I wish I could let you go. I don't ask much from you, just correct ...
  • Death, A Notion 
    Loft, Holly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Contemporary Western society has all but abolished the need for a formal grieving process with death becoming an avoided, feared, and shameful topic. In a brutal revolution from the omnipresent death of the past, death is ...
  • Decoding Kashgar: A Digital Design Approach to Steer and Diversify Creative Engagement in Digital Heritage 
    Aydin, Serdar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Digital tools have become critical instruments in preserving and communicating the value of heritage as important cultural expressions of the past. A consequence of digitalisation is the democratisation of heritage ...
  • Defab: Architecture for a Circular Economy 
    Finch, Gerard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Mainstream construction practices result in the production of large quantities of toxic waste at all stages of a building’s life cycle. This can be attributed to widespread adoption of irreversible fixing methods that ...
  • Defying Obsolescence 
    Almond, Steven (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The average lifespan of a sofa has fallen dramatically over recent decades—from twenty-five years to fewer than eight years (Palmer, 2012). Two key factors are driving this decline: function and fashion. Changes to ...
  • A Deleuze Theory of Urban Morphology: Brunei Water City 
    Leblanc, Rémy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    The impetus for this thesis was the theoretical shortcomings uncovered in the field of urban morphology and its French branch, IPRAUS, when the researcher first attempted to account for the form of the architecture in the ...
  • Delicacy 
    Morley, Jaimee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    A new acceptance of aesthetics, technological advancements and current trends of slenderness and lightness have encouraged contemporary society towards the delicate. Delicacy is a notion within the aesthetic concept of ...
  • Delirious New Zealand 
    Booth, Devon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Delirious New Zealand proposes an alternative parliament, one that uses walls and boundaries to navigate authority and architecture. Walls are complex, they can range from a simple form of protection against elemental ...
  • A Demonstration Sustainable Building: A tool for investigating environmental values 
    Bahho, Mazin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This study explores the engagement of groups from tertiary education and the community in the refurbishment of an existing log cabin structure to function as a demonstration facility for exhibiting sustainable building and ...
  • Density and Desire: Toward's New Zealand's peculiar urban dream 
    Coxhead, Vanessa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Density and Desire explores changes in the social organisation of New Zealand, the notion and use of the home, the contribution of dwellings in our cities and an alternative vision for the future dwelling. New Zealand ...
  • Depth & Confinement, from Tokelau to Hataitai 
    Timoteo, Eleni (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Western education systems have always over-shadowed my Tokelauan heritage. Through my tertiary education, I have found architecture to be a predominantly Western profession that has struggled to integrate South Pacific ...
  • Design and Construction Features that Cause New Houses in New Zealand to Overheat 
    French, Lisa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    Analysis of indoor temperature measurements taken in 397 randomly selected houses has revealed that New Zealand houses are becoming warmer in summer. Houses built at the end of the 20th century are during the daytime (9 ...
  • Design and pacific 
    Parker Potoi, Meraz (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This research explores how Pacific and contemporary cultures cohesively blend through 3D printing to create a new identity for Pacific people. The project seeks to further the development of concerning issues surrounding ...
  • Designed Deposition - Freeform 3D Printing for Digitally Crafted Artefacts 
    Molloy, Isabella (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Through the exploitation of new additive manufacturing (AM) processes, this research seeks to reinvent the designer as an informed mediator between the digitally defined and the physically expressed. Current 3D printing ...
  • Designed Ecologies: Breaking away from islandised conservation 
    Quartermain, Elvina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This research investigates the role of designed ecologies in the management of our ecosystems and natural resources. It argues that society has adopted a ‘protectionist’ approach toward the planning of our landscapes which ...

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