Summer in Review | MDes Summer Research Talks!
The Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the MDes 2021 cohort Summer in Review presentations!
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Yes
MDes 2022 Summer in Review Presentations
Tuesday September 7
1:00pm Charles Simon Palliative Care: Improving Care Plans and Experiences
1:20pm Jingyuan (Jeffrey) Li Care Through Play, Anywhere: Exploring Possibilities In Virtual Tele-Play Therapy
1:40pm Chiara Schmitt & Christa Clay pl.lab: Investigating Place-Based Material Practices
2:20pm Break
2:40pm Soumya Food for Thought, Literally! Design and Research through Food
3:00pm Aman Singh Inferences: The Other Side of Consent Forms
Wednesday September 8
1:20pm Yun Xiao Curating mental health: The dream as a contributor and therapy for knowing the self
1:40pm Sam Stretch Digital Relationality: Finding Personal Meaning in a Digital World
2:00pm Break
2:20pm Zahra Jalali & Kimia Gholami Mindful Interactions: Interaction Design From a More-Than-Human Perspective
Thursday September 9
1:40pm Garima Sood From participation to intentional collaboration: Moving beyond relationality in research practices
2:00pm Elham Atighi Lorestani Roots, movement and change
2:20pm S. Maleeka Zahra Building Through Healing: Healing and learning far beyond conventional treatment
2:40pm Break
3:00pm Shankar Padmanabhan The Evocative Object: Investigating the Artifact & the Scenerio
3:20pm April Tian Everyday design philosophy – Design as a diary: Furniture as an agent to build a ‘Danbo’ lifestyle
3:40pm Pat Vera Between Borderlands, Intersections and Rhizomes of Selves: Che Rapo ha heta reta oñondive: onto-epistemic connections in the pluriverse
Friday September 10
1:00pm Abhinav Paul Miles to Mind: Using distance running as a tool for mental wellbeing
1:20pm Chloe Betts h.a.g.s. 😎🌴🏄: all the things I didn’t do over the summer, and some of the things I did
1:40pm Break
2:00pm Pablo Mariano I can make things, but can I make sense? Modelling my material practice by exploring the art-crafts-design intersections
2:20pm Marcia Higuchi Relearning in Nature: Storytelling for ecological and cultural grounding
2:40pm Meghna Mitra Coded Communication: Experimenting with Encryption through Typography and Embroidery