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Scaling the Region: Visuality, Infrastructure, and the Politics of Design in Cold War Turkey
(2022)
This dissertation demonstrates that American imperialism presents a persistent design problem. At the center of this problem during the Cold War was the question of how to situate nation-states within the scale of postwar ...
The Shipping Container and the Globalization of American Infrastructure.
(2013)
Over the past few decades the transportation infrastructure of the United States has been globalized by the shipping container, an object that carries vast amounts of global commerce. Best known for traveling over the ...
Design for Behavior Change: The Role of Product Visual Aesthetics in Promoting Sustainable Behavior.
(2013)
This dissertation tested the hypothesis that products can be designed in a principled way to induce users to modify their behavior; in particular, it explored how products make people be more environmentally responsible. ...
Crafting Expertise: Art and Design Pedagogy and Professional Values at the National Institute of Design in India, 1955-1985
(2021)
“Crafting Expertise” studies the pedagogy of the National Institute of Design (NID) in India over a thirty-year period. Established in 1961 in the city of Ahmedabad, the NID was the first design school of its kind in ...
Museum Gallery Layouts and Their Interactions with Exhibition Narratives and Space Use Patterns: An Investigation of the YCBA, the MoMA and the HMA Galleries.
(2009)
For exhibition installations and museum planning to be effective, it is important to have an understanding of how spatial layouts influence visitors’ explorations in gallery space. This study explores the possible effects ...
The Prestige of the Foreign: Devotional painting in Genoa, 1450-1530
(2023)
“The Prestige of the Foreign: Devotional Painting in Genoa 1450–1530” examines visual art production in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa through period conceptions of foreignness and mobility. With a preponderance of ...
Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: Venetian Visual Culture at the Dawn of Print (1469-1517)
(2023)
After movable type arrived in Venice in 1469, the Venetian print industry quickly established itself as the preeminent European center for the production of books. This was due to Venice’s position as a nexus of essential ...