Running over 3 days in the IMS, the MDes 2020 Cohort will be presenting the culmination of their summer research to the ECU community:

• Tuesday Sept 10, 1:10-3:30pm
  • Nandita Ratan, 1:10pm - Drawing from the Vernacular: Navigating youth culture, cultural norms and gender roles
  • Sheen Darbari, 1:35pm - Bridges and Lights: Design as a product of cultural identity and self-expression
  • Jonathan Yaputra, 2:00pm - InfoWear: Clothing as visual communication medium
  • Eru Wang, 2:40pm - Re-introducing Myself: Can food help a young generation, born in China after 1990, and educated overseas, to find cultural cognition?
  • Damien Stonick, 3:05pm - Materials of Resilience: How to destroy everything you love and make something better
• Thursday Sept 12, 1:10-4:00pm
  • Medha Mistry, 1:10pm - Revisiting Heritage and Branding: Exploring cultural significance of graphic language in Ahmedabad, India
  • Joshua Singler, 1:35pm - Questioning the quilted city ¿ developing design principles for an alternate society
  • Leez Zhang, 2:00pm - Smellscape Narratives: Rebuilding smell-related memories through storytelling
  • Ryan Smith, 2:40pm - Corporate Aesthetics: Commercial Design 101 and the N.E. Thing Co.
  • Ricardo Leal Barrocas, 3:05pm - E-motion: Interpreting engagement with residential care
  • Seth Parker, 3:30pm - Shifting Structures: Production, capitalism, and the role of the designer in business
• Friday Sept 13, 9:30am-4:00pm
  • Srushti Kulkarni, 9:30am - Dementia Care: Collaborative Ikebana as community building for seniors in care homes
  • Amen Salami, 9:55am - Outpatient empathy: Refining the waiting experience during day care visits
  • Eric Tsoi, 10:20am - Facilitating the Process of Change: Design based interventions for the formation of healthy habits and routines
  • Jean Chisholm, 11:00am - Assembling Relational and Decolonial Infrastructures: Emergent making, sharing and care-taking
  • Siddhi Vasudeo Patkar, 11:25am - Soaking Saffron: Designing sensory tools based on mythology to address multicultural-ism at university level classrooms
  • Andrew Simon, 11:50am - Research in Summer-ry: teaching and learning outdoors
  • Haolin Liu, 1:10pm - Tactile Storytelling: Nostalgia inferred translation
  • Ozzie Gong, 1:35pm - 鄉音, The Abandoned Language: From Traditional Chinese to Local Dialects
  • Wuchen Zhang, 2:00pm - 自知, 自省, 自觉 Zi Zhi, Zi Xing, Zi Jue: Water, spirit and the things covering our body
  • Harley Guo, 2:40pm - A Resonance: Observations on the asexual & aromantic communities
  • Laura Caceres Rivero, 3:05pm - The Hereafter: Understanding the threshold between technology and selfdom
  • Devansh Parikh, 3:30pm - Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions: Researching, documenting and designing for visitor experience