Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Smith, Mandy"
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Kākahu Hou: The Breath of Cloth
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research explores the potential for fashion, film, and garment design investigations to act as knowledge catalysts. The project aims to restore & revitalise understandings of a Taranaki cosmological worldview that can ... -
Textile Terrains: A Technique-led Design Methodology for Knitted Surface
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This practice-led research focuses on developing a method of building knitted surface topographies using links-links stitch structures and the knitting technique of inlay. The knitted surface topography builds on the dynamic ... -
Textiles From Our Place: Exploring Connective Textile Making as a Phenomenology of Locale
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This doctoral research queries the question; what is the process, outcome, and experience of crafted textile making, springing from a locally generated self-reliance? The thesis gives focus to a process of making that ... -
Transformational Cloth: Weaving the Undervalued Threads of Textile Waste into a Value Added Change Model
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis identifies some of the issues surrounding an unsustainable manufacturing cycle and the associated problems of pre- and post-consumer textile waste that continue to cause considerable environmental problems when ...