Thesis Review Schedule

Friday, April 27

10:00 Kevin Gecha: Subsistence Living

10:45 Tim Emerson: Play, Education, + Nature

11:30 Chuck Cacciabaudo: Sustainable Tower Structures

12:15 Kristina Quinlan: Children + Identity

1:30 Brent Gardner: Integrating Electric Vehicles into Sustainable Design

2:15 Marissa Urquhart: Possibilities in Oceanic Research Facilities

3:00 Rebecca Jones: Creating a Healthy System for Global Pollination through Architecture

4:00 Dustin Fleming: The Natural Flow of Water

4:45 Matt Ruopoli: Learning Environments for ADD/ADHD

SATURDAY, April 28

9:00 Patrick Martin: A Human / Nature Dualism: The Inherent Conflict Between Intention and Understanding

9:45 Nicholas Palluth: East + West Fusion in Shanghai’s Food Culture

10:30 Rob Aryee: Architecture as an Emphasis on Spatial Experiences

11:30 Aaron Cayer : Inspiring Environmental Reverence

12:15 Sarah Goulakos : Cancer Rehabilitation of the Mind, Body, + Spirit

1:30 Casey Sherrill: Uniting the past and present

2:15 Nick Rose: Cultural Assimilation as a Dialog in Soccer Styles

3:00 Kortnee Hill: Sensory Architecture for the Visually Impaired

3:45 Grace Varriano: Assumption of Risk and healthy fear

Movement Interplay ~ Aurora Bertolini

Because my thesis is on dance I felt this project should capture movement.  To do so I made 3 different screens, one had a projection of a ballet piece playing on it, the second a silhouette (screen was made of a thicker material), and the third was lite by photo lights to emphasis the viewers shadow.  With this one saw the movement from the projection against their own body, their shadow, and a stationary silhouette. 

I plan to continue working on this project with different size screen and a different number of screens, also using two projections instead of one and the shadow of the human body, which will then become the reference point, and having the ability to make the room completely dark.

Cigar Box Guitar ~ Joe Fisher

Constructed almost entirely out of found objects, the Cigar Box Guitar is an homage to the birth of blues guitar.  Discarded items are repurposed to function as elements of the guitar: kitchenware becomes the resonator cone, a fuze and lamp hardware function as the bridge, a broomstick becomes the neck, and a used cigar box functions as the guitar's body.  To recreate the sound and feeling of the early bluesmen, guitar construction was constrained to the budget which would have been available to a 1920's sharecropper (~$30 today, which equates to $2.85 in 1920).

A Vanity ~ Patrick Martin

 As people, subject to our own influence, we lack the ability to view ourselves objectively. A Vanity represents an inescapable vanity that serves as the base to which one might attribute many of our cultural inadequacies.  The abundance of (unflattering) light coupled with the black glass of the “mirror” depict this failure under the application of a tawdry/vulgar aesthetic.  The components are honest and revealing as the fluorescent lights still shamefully carry their ordinary manufacturing marks, and admit their bright success only comes as a result of their unattractive connection to chords and outlets. 

Memento Mori ~ Andrew Doyle

A fabric installation meant to encapsulate a portion of the thesis titled Memento Mori ~

The project was an attempt to provoke thought on life or death by standing in the gossamer enclosure and viewing the tube from below. The position of the viewer standing on the black cloth [the past] and seeing an undulating tube with no end [future] is a reference to living [or dying] and the viewer's location within that cycle.