Graduation Year

2025

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Art

Reader 1

Kim Trang Tran

Reader 2

Alison Ogasian

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Abstract

Ornaments for Living employs the framework of Speculative Design to imagine objects that interrogate our daily habits and require their user to adopt a more deliberate, active relationship with their surroundings. I aim for these objects to trigger the user to reimagine the passive habitual movements that make up their daily routines and live a more intentional life. Rather than solving problems in our everyday lives, my objects propose questions surrounding the positive and negative impacts of daily habits. These objects go against the traditional design objects as they are not made to be manufactured. I aim for viewers of my work to leave the exhibition imagining a possible future in which they are more actively engaging with the world.

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