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    Selling dreams not dressing : in the AI era sustainable fashion : a photography design study : presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2025) Wang, Tianyi
    Given the environmental crisis generated by fashion creation and communication, it is urgent to transform the current workflow towards a sustainable future. Research on sustainable fashion has primarily focused on promoting fashion design and production methods to reduce environmental impact. From the perspective of clothing design, we strive to solve material recycling issues and reduce consumption and resources by improving the various processes in the supply chain. The role of fashion photography has largely been ignored in the field of sustainable fashion despite playing an important role in current fashion communication. This study aims to explore how AI generation tools can reduce the environmental impact in the fashion photography production stage and effectively convey virtual clothing and virtual scene shooting for sustainable brand designers. This study is based on the potential of AI software to reduce production costs, improve the time efficiency of advertising production, and facilitate the realization of sustainable design schemes. In this process, sustainable fashion clothing imagery is used to promote communication and iterations between fashion designers and photographers while meeting design needs and innovating visual effects. This research provides a novel fashion photography process for sustainable fashion brands. It helps reduce obstacles caused by an insufficient advertising budget that plagues many slow fashions and smaller-scale producers. Looking forward, AI fashion photography can contribute to the design stage and embed the visualization strategy at the beginning to aid waste and resource problems. This could reconcile the contradiction between visual effect creativity and production, achieving sustainable goals.
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    Sound of the underground : revealing the unheard and unseen world of soil beings through sonic and generative design : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2024) Bell, Zoe
    Sound of the Underground is an immersive installation revealing the unheard and unseen world of soil life. One teaspoon of soil contains more microorganisms than humans on earth (Sprunger 2), a vulnerability that is exacerbated by their inaudibility and invisibility to human life. Their lives elude our sensory capacity within the modern world, and therefore our current processes and relationships with soil are to treat it like ‘dirt’: a dead, dark and quiet place in which capitalist exploitation and extraction damage topsoil health. The result of this impacts the health of the planet and its human and non human inhabitants. Investigating the role of sound in the human experience and as vibrational communications belowground, the research reveals how two worlds are becoming closer. As anthropogenic (human) noise traverses the biophillic sound of soil webs, these worlds are more reliant on each other than we may believe. As a project emerging from Aotearoa New Zealand, a Te Ao Māori worldview acknowledges the sensitivities and complexities of our soils, as well as the indivisible link between oneone ora and tāngata ora. The research is guided by the He Awa Whiria or Braided River framework. This mixed-method approach allows the research to move between a Māori worldview of our relationships with soil and western-centric ecoacoustic research. Methods of acoustic investigation are employed to reveal the unheard. Ecoacoustics record the sound of soil organisms and pick up frequencies beyond the human hearing range. These recently developed research methods are unearthing the need to understand how we can better care for enhanced soil futures. The unseen is explored by participating in wairākau or composting, then examining samples under the microscope. I harness generative design methods to create audio-reactive evolving systems that draw from ideas of mauri and the nature of soil life. Sound of the Underground was supported by Wellington-based artist and filmmaker, Mumu Moore, who incorporates sounds of Taonga Pūoro (traditional Māori instruments). The installation explores the conversations expanding both the human and soil realms, immersing you in ancient vibrations that will lead you deeper into relationship with our soils.
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    Satellites : thesis project : thesis presented in partial fulfilment of requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2021) Manning, Will
    The working title for my thesis project, for the Massey University MFA in Design, is ‘Satellites.’ The project is centered around the ever-increasing quantity of human-made satellites orbiting the Earth, and subsequent increasing likelihood of Kessler syndrome. Kessler syndrome, first explained in the 1970’s by NASA scientist Donald Kessler, describes a scenario where the number of objects orbiting the Earth is so much that collisions between these objects triggers a runaway cascade of further orbital collisions. The end result would render certain Earth orbits unusable, up to and including total human access to space, for centuries. Such an event would also have enormous consequences for life on Earth and the technology which permeates modern society. My thesis project will use real world data, obtained from credible government and private sector sources, to create works of art and design which are meant to convey the seriousness of overcrowding in space and explore the possible run-on effects of life on Earth should Kessler syndrome occur. The goal of my thesis project is to simplify the vastness of the problem of human caused space pollution into something more accessible and understandable to average non-expert viewers.