Master of Design Projects
Affect supports a range of Master of Design projects within Massey University's College of Creative Arts. The following are brief descriptions of ongoing and completed Masters projects.
Projected livestock fencing solution
Postgraduate student: Matt McKinley
Project status: Completed - 2009
Project description:
This study focuses on contemporary farming fencing systems. The project is to propose an innovative fencing system that addresses current design and usability issues with contemporary framing fencing systems.
Forecasting communication products
Postgraduate student: Frazer Ellis
Project status: Completed - 2009
Project description:
The focus of this study is to explore the influences that affect contemporary communication products. The intended outcome of this project is a range of prospective products for the future. Areas of consideration include user-product interaction, trends in visual styling and state-of-the-art technology.
Domestic Tectonics: the Home Coated in Surface
Postgraduate student: Laura Ford
Project status: Ongoing
Project description:
This study examines the place of the hearth in our interactions with the home. The rituals of newer technologies in our domestic surroundings have shifted the hearth's centrality toward a collection of surfaces that offer services to the dweller. Editing these surfaces through do-it-yourself modifications offers us a further connection to the home and a level of reflexivity to its form. With ritual and the hearth as a basis, this thesis looks beyond the current mode of production and maintenance towards a New Zealand home that is created more economically in a factory setting, whilst still bearing the potential for do-it-yourself development and cultural engagement.
What do YOU think about this car? Perception and meaning of automotive design in New Zealand and Taiwan
Postgraduate student: Diana Wang
Project status: Completed - 2008
Project description:
This study focused on the perceptual and cultural differences between New Zealand and Taiwanese sample groups when evaluating the 2007 BMW 3-series and 2007 Lexus IS 250. The study employed a qualitative questionnaire study conducted in both New Zealand and Taiwan.
Interior design proposal for the Hulme F1 supercar
Postgraduate student: Kenneth Young
Project status: Completed - 2008
Project description:
This project focused on the design of a concept motorcar sports interior. Emphasis was placed on expressing appropriate levels of 'luxury', 'high-performance' and 'exoticness'.
