Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice 3 - Sunday 27 August 2023 6.00pm (AEST)
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Doctor of Philosophy
BRUINSTROOP, Jarad Franklin
Thesis Title
Reliefs: Biographical Ekphrasis and the Queer Artist
Supervisors
- Professor Sarah Jane Holland-Batt (Principal Supervisor)
- Dr Rohan David Wilson (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
Situated in the field of creative writing, this project identifies and conceptualises biographical ekphrasis: an emergent subgenre of ekphrasis in which poets respond to both awork of art and to the biography of the artist who created it. This thesis comprises an exegesis, which interrogates the complex relationships between artwork, artist, poet, andaudience, and a collection of poems, Reliefs, which won the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Through practice-led research, this project elucidates both biographical ekphrasis’sunique amalgam of fact and fiction and its particular temporal complexities, and reveals a mode capable of a capacious and protean reckoning with history.
CHOO, Jun Quan
Thesis Title
Tuning-In to Tune Out: Mediating Engagement Experiences with Music On-The-Go
Supervisors
- Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc (Principal Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Rafael Ernesto Gomez (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
Music moves people. People physicalize movement- tap their feet, play “air-piano” or imagine gestures through the use of portable music devices. This research investigatesthe interplay between people and music in the context of a daily long commute and in relation to portable music player devices, such as headphones. The research employedqualitative methods to understand a listener’s lived experience through devices they use in commute. Results suggest the importance of presence and flow as featuresidentified from people moving to music during a train commute, and it suggests how portable music devices may be adapted for commute.
EVANS, Richard Graham
Thesis Title
A Method for Observing Designed Experiences Using Trace Ethnography
Supervisors
- Associate Professor Glen Desson Murphy (Associate Supervisor)
- Professor Lisa Scharoun (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis explored ways of observing designed experiences using digital traces derived from Wi-Fi data. It developed new knowledge about processes and methods for analysing designed experiences and ways of representing human digital traces (HDTs) in visual forms so that they can be understood and used by designers. The research outcomes were an HDT observational framework and an innovative high fidelity visualisation prototype capable of 360-degree immersive observations that harness building information model (BIM) technologies. These outcomes will lead to improvements in the way customer and employee experiences are designed by making visible previously invisible patterns of human digital activity.
GONSALVES, Kavita Agneta
Thesis Title
Radical Placemaking: An Experiential Digital Placemaking Approach for Social Justice
Supervisors
- Associate Professor Glenda Amayo Caldwell (Associate Supervisor)
- Professor Marcus Foth (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis assessed the role of Radical Placemaking as a tactic of resistance and belonging towards social justice by those who experience marginalisation in the city. Through three participatory action research cycles, the study investigated the use of immersive technologies towards Radical Placemaking with communities in Brisbane, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study findings revealed that project participants experienced empowerment through upskilling while the digital artefacts afforded meaningful mindset change towards social justice intentions. The thesis concludes by offering a methodological framework where marginalised communities can (re)produce the “digital occupation” of place through situated (his/she/they)-storymaking and telling.
HERBURG, Melissa Lee
Thesis Title
Inter-Audience Interaction in Immersive Theatre
Supervisors
- Professor Bree Jamila Hadley (Principal Supervisor)
- Dr David Robert Megarrity (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis uses creative practice to explore the unique social relationships between audience members in immersive theatre, conceptualising the audience in theseexperiences as a potential social collective. It proposes strategies for practitioners to use that encourage and facilitate audience socialisation and collaboration to achieveeffective participatory and narrative outcomes. Throughout the thesis, the immersive entertainment industry is investigated through literature and case studies, with the finalpractical strategies being developed, tested, and presented through the creation of an original immersive theatre performance.
JACOBSON, Anna Lee
Thesis Title
Braided Memoir, Twine, and Psychiatric Survivor Storytelling: Converging Narrative Medicine, Mad Studies and Transmediality
Supervisors
- Professor Kari Gislason (Principal Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Lesley Kathryn Hawkes (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis includes a braided memoir and interactive memoir from my practice-led creative project 'How to Knit a Human' and an exegesis highlighting how Narrative Medicinecan converge with Mad Studies and Transmediality to achieve an in-depth representation of psychiatric survivors’ experiences and stories. My convergence of these fieldsprovides a method for giving voice to a range of experiences. My original contribution is in the interplay of these fields. Including three case studies: Robert Pirsig, DakodaBarker, and Ellen Forney, the exegesis gives context to my creative work.
MACALUPU CHIRA, Valeria Alessandra
Thesis Title
Supporting Affective Connections Between Older Adults Through Socially Interactive Robots: A Design Framework.
Supervisors
- Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc (Associate Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Jared William Awarua Donovan (Associate Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
Using a designerly approach that involved and empowered Australian older adults in technology design, this research provided theoretical and methodological contributions on how to design socially interactive robots for older adults and how to engage them in the design of habituated imaginaries of future technologies. In doing so, this research addressed how future socially interactive robots can support critical issues of ageing that are detrimental to wellbeing, like mental health and social isolation.
MANIESON, Lydia Ayorkor
Thesis Title
Fashion's Circular Economy Narrative: Perceived Value of Clothing and its Influence on Wearer Decision Making
Supervisors
- Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis (Associate Supervisor)
- Adjunct Professor Alice Ruth Payne (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
The decisions people make about their clothes have a lasting social and environmental impact. This thesis examines whether the way people value their clothes influences thedecisions they make about them and the best way to encourage sustainable behaviours. Using thematic analysis of interviews, this study offers insight into the different types ofwearers and the forms of value they ascribe to their clothes as well as how these influence their decisions and practices. In addition to this, the thesis makes tailored circulareconomy recommendations that best complement the wearers’ values.
MELLICK, Zoe
Thesis Title
Walking The Chain: The social construction of Australian cotton's sustainable value
Supervisors
- Adjunct Professor Elinor Laurie Refsland Buys (External Supervisor)
- Professor Robyn Petra Mayes (Associate Supervisor)
- Adjunct Professor Alice Ruth Payne (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
This study analyses how sustainable value is created along the Australian cotton value chain, as well as opportunities to create value. Twenty-one stakeholders wereinterviewed across two Australian cotton value chains from farm, to retail, to reuse. Participants identified what sustainable value is, how it is created, who it benefits both in andbeyond the chain (including local communities, the environment, and consumers) and where future opportunities to create value may lie. The study extends understandingsaround sustainability and its value within the context of fashion and textile value chains and identifies practices that can further sustainability within the industry.
OANCEA, Sorin
Thesis Title
The Immanent Animation Director: A Conceptual Framework for Transitioning to Immersive, Virtual Reality Directing
Supervisors
- Dr Susan Anne Cake (Associate Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Sean William Maher (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
Virtual Reality is still an emerging medium with limited understanding of its narrative potential from a 3D animation directorial perspective. This research project appliednarrative transportation theory and poetics as theoretical lenses to examine animation directorial practices to create a 3D narrative VR experience. The theoretical lensesapplied to the iterative development of the VR experience, highlighted how aesthetic and affective distances become critical dialectical variables supporting narrativetransportation in directing VR. This is an important consideration that can assist in the transition from a transcendent directorial position to an immersed one, characterised by asense of unmediated immanence.
STRINGER, Tara Jai
Thesis Title
Ethical Consumption in a Fast-Fashion World
Supervisors
- Professor Gary Steven Mortimer (Associate Supervisor)
- Adjunct Professor Alice Ruth Payne (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
This study explores ethical consumerism, how, in a fast-fashion world, ethical consumption influences purchase behaviour. Considered one of the largest disrupters to the retailindustry, fast fashion has revolutionised the fashion world. The introduction of fast-fashion retailers including Zara, H&M and Shein has changed production and consumptionhabits, encouraging rapid turnover of clothing items and trends. While the contemporary fashion business model is extremely successful, it has been criticised for its embraceof obsolescence, unsustainable business practices and encouraging excessive consumption. This thesis applied a mixed methods approach to investigate consumerperceptions of ethical issues within the fashion industry.