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    Deer velvet removal haemostasis : a product development investigation. EMBARGOED until 27th May 2028
    (Massey University, 2025) Sims, Gemma
    This project researched, designed, developed, and tested a haemostasis concept and prototype for the deer farming velvet industry, specifically to reduce bleeding after the removal of deer velvet antler.
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    A portable ventilator that patients with COPD can use outdoors : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master in Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2025) Qin, Yuhang
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease characterized by airflow limitation, severely affecting patients' respiratory function and quality of life. Patients who are long-term dependent on mechanical ventilation often face additional health risks due to sedentary behavior. This study analysis's the components and structure of ventilator products to gain insights and understandings to advance mobile ventilator design. This product concept investigations aims to meet treatment requirements, enhancing the daily lives and mobility of patients. This design research opens new possibilities for the improvement of medical equipment and aims to meet treatment requirements without affecting patients' daily lives.
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    Nurtured : postpartum care : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. EMBARGOED until 12th March 2028
    (Massey University, 2025) Nicholls, Isabel
    A range of challenges accompanies childbirth. Physical pain, discomfort, emotional uncertainty, and significant life changes are inevitable among these. A number of products exist to meet the varying needs of postpartum care. Few, however, fully address the broad spectrum of challenges faced by women during this vulnerable period. Prioritising comfort and support while addressing individual needs will ultimately enhance the postpartum experience for new mothers. This research focused on the design of innovative, empathetic, versatile, and safe underwear in the immediate postpartum period when lochia (postpartum discharge) and pain are experienced. Participants in semi-structured qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys emphasised the need for comfort, breathability, and absorbency, as well as suitability for a range of postpartum injuries and the accommodation of physiological changes in the body. This action-based research included iterative design processes alongside functional and user testing. While developing effective and satisfying products for new mothers, it is important to also explore the crossover of sustainable design strategies within women’s health. Postpartum products are not intended for long-term use, with their usage depending both on the number of pregnancies and the speed of postpartum recovery. While postpartum and pregnancy care are my target market, there are also secondary uses for this product including menstruation, incontinence, miscarriage, or surgical procedures which result in vaginal or uterine bleeding. This aspect of the research was supported through surveys and interviews of both professionals and users, whose feedback was critical to the design process. The underwear designed through this research uses a combination of novel features associated with reusable period underwear paired with postpartum underwear and includes heating and cooling for pain relief. The key pillars of research and innovation include digital knitting teamed with material exploration and engineered stretch and compression. This work has culminated in postpartum underwear that is reusable, comfortable, absorbent, and promotes healing after birth.
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    Fruit measurement horticultural device : developing trust through usability across complex systems : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, College of Creative Arts / Toi Rauwhārangi, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2024-12-11) Krige, Zené
    The agricultural technology (ag-tech) sector aims to use emerging technologies to meet changing consumer demands. To do this, the design of an intuitive smart object needed to be developed, and appraised for the horticultural industry of New Zealand. Its subsequent data needed to be expressed in tangible ways that empower decision-making about orchard operations. An elevated user experience of the device, along with quality data driving the system, would provide a successful engagement with an intelligent product system that sustains trust in the interaction and purpose of the product and integrates trust as a value within the system to advance resilience in horticultural innovation. Focusing on the task of fruit measurement, this project explores the conceptual design of a technology-driven device that can efficiently measure fruit size and count, throughout the season. The translation of this data in a format that enables stakeholders to analyse, query and act on it, seeks to inform and empower decision-making by the end users and stakeholders about the best time to harvest. This allows for better management of resources and deployment of labour and equipment. The consequence is a more sustainable orchard operation with greater productivity and benefits to all stakeholders. The project investigates the interrelationships between stakeholders, their equipment and orchard systems to drive product innovation by strengthening foundations of trust and utility, developing confidence in product use, and demonstrating its role in providing critical data into a horticultural management system with an inanimate object (product) placed within the orchard environment. This creative practice research project aims to address the opportunities that design can offer in bridging technological capability to usable products that can communicate trustworthy data clearly to end-users.
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    Kūkū : a re-imagined fangufangu developed through a Kakala Design Framework : a thesis is presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of : Doctor of Philosophy in Design, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Ngā Pae Mahutonga, Pōneke, Aotearoa | Massey University, School of Design, Wellington, New Zealand. EMBARGOED until 19 December 2025.
    (Massey University, 2024-09-23) Kaulamatoa, Rachael
    The fangufangu (nose flute) is a Tongan musical instrument that traces back hundreds of years. Each fangufangu possesses unique physical characteristics, contributing to its distinct sound. Highlighting its historical and cultural significance, one customary use was awakening nobility from slumber. Although rare today, practices of making and performing the fangufangu have been revitalized by Tongan communities in recent years. However, there is limited research on the fangufangu, particularly from a Tongan perspective. This practice-led creative research develops and applies a Kakala Design Framework to holistically and collaboratively explore possibilities of the fangufangu for modern musicians of the Tongan diaspora. The culmination of this research is embodied in Kūkū, a re-imagined fangufangu that enhances specific musical, tangible and visual aesthetics by harmoniously weaving notions of past, present and future. Through an analogue design approach, primary elements of form and material contribute towards enhancing instrument playability and sonic versatility to accommodate use across diverse musical environments and playing styles. Guided by an Indigenised industrial design process predicated on Tongan world-views and values, this exegesis reflects on the collaborative development of Kūkū with Tongan fangufangu practitioners.
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    Designing fruit packaging with kōwhaiwhai pūtoi koiora (auxetic kōwhaiwhai) : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Wellington, Aotearoa
    (Massey University, 2023) Britton, Christopher J.
    Aotearoa fruit exporters are interested in creating packaging that displays a genuine connection to Aotearoa’s cultural values. This industrial design project aims to create blueberry packaging that is driven by the concept of Kaitiakitanga, or guardianship. This is a core cultural value in Aotearoa that speaks of a holistic interest in protection and safekeeping of the environment, ourselves and each other. As a research project, this is located adjacent to a wider body of research coordinated by Massey University’s School of Food and Advanced Technology. It is carried out in collaboration with visual artist Maihi Potaka (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Manawa, Te Ātihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi), an established Kōwhaiwhai practitioner. The process involved consultative expertise including cultural, industrial and technical input, and explorative iterative design sampling with shared reflective practice in the cultural expression of kōwhaiwhai. The design research investigates the behaviour and potential of kōwhaiwhai pūtoi koiora (auxetic kōwhaiwhai) in a context of produce packaging design. Multiple material and form design samples develop into a folded paperboard fruit punnet concept. These design-led explorations facilitate further opportunities for packaging applications as well as reflection on the significance of designing for real-world industry alongside localised cultural learning.
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    In conversation with wool : a place-based approach to re-imagining materials innovation in Aotearoa through talanoa and science and design in partnership : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master in Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2022) Klinge, Charlotte
    As the world is engulfed in ever-increasing human-made mass, there is a need to shift present-day assumptions around innovation and progress toward more profound meaning and value within new materials development. Instead of focusing on market-ready material outcomes, the process of conception at the front-end should become more intentional and thorough. Hence, this Master’s project explores how design can aid the product development process in agricultural science organisations at the outset of materials research to facilitate strategic innovation. It aims to ascertain the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration toward finding applications for strong wool-based keratin composite materials. More precisely, the project centres on community involvement at the beginning of science research projects to generate more place-based and culturally grounded outcomes that meet the communities’ needs. In doing so, it seeks to advocate for the value of Pacific epistemologies in research and, therein, different material understandings and ontologies in conversation, challenging the entrenched Western mindset to science and design. This is of particular interest to me due to my Sāmoan heritage and being Aotearoa-based. The project draws on a qualitative research methodology that revolves around talanoa and is supported by participatory and material driven design approaches, encompassing workshops, one-on-one conversations, and the making of boundary objects. It is hoped that the proposed methodology will showcase how material science research may become more accessible and contribute to the advancement of our communities in Aotearoa. Supervision, funding and facilities have been provided by both AgResearch and Massey University over one year. The project demonstrates the benefits of cross-disciplinary ways of working towards more inclusive, ecocentric and place-based futures, acting as a resource for future collaborations in the materials development space.
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    Design, health and innovation : co-design for improved cold chain compliance : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2023) Lakomy, Sarah
    Effective design approaches for multiple disciplinary collaborations are increasingly sought to benefit users and medical communities. This research seeks to develop effective explorative design research methods and identify their applicability to design teams operating in a hospital environment. This research is situated and trialled within the ‘Cold Chain – Quality Improvement’ project, which aims to improve the reliability of refrigerated pharmaceutical efficacy and the internal spatial management of pharmaceutical refrigerators. This is in order to reduce cold chain breaches, excursions, failures and subsequent wastage of valuable refrigerated pharmaceuticals. Further, the project is intended to support the ‘human factor’ in cold chain compliance, reducing performance pressure on staff who pack and access refrigerated medicines and vaccines. This consequently improves usability and reduces costs due to breaches, excursions, and failures. A combination of design research methods are employed; co-design workshop, semi-structured observations, iterative design developments, semi-structured interviews, and a pilot trial. These activities were used to inform communication across the design team, the broader research team, and stakeholder communities, along with end users to improve the focus and resolution of design activities. Within this process, design outputs are generated and assessed with regards to their valued experience to participants. This explorative and reflective design process has application to the ongoing larger project, and other emerging projects from the collaboration between Massey University and Te Whatu Ora, which seek approaches that enrich design research suitable for a hospital context.
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    TrailGuard : advancing hiking footwear for optimal comfort and safety : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master in Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2023) Martin, Austin
    Tramping, known elsewhere as backpacking, rambling, hill walking or bushwalking, is a popular activity in New Zealand. Tramping is a uniquely New Zealand term and is defined as a recreational activity involving walking over rough country. The recent lifestyle developments and upgrading of many tracks in New Zealand have led to an increase in popularity within tramping. It is evident that this outdoor activity significantly contributes to injuries in adventure tourism in New Zealand. With recorded injured body parts being in the lower extremities of the body, this suggests that the type of footwear used on these walks may have an impact on the occurrence of injury among trampers. The aim of this practice-based design project is to develop a performance hiking footwear solution that has integrated pain/injury reducing features to sustain the user when hiking on rugged uneven terrain to elevate their user journey and experience. Through iterative design and research methodology, this project outlines how the redesign of hiking footwear can lead to an innovative solution that accommodates the users wants and needs when it comes to reducing pain, discomfort, and injury whilst on the trail. The design outcome consists of key componentry prototypes and an integrated system for hiking footwear. Understanding specified performance requirements and human physiology allows design to extract insight, advancing design technology for further development and application.
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    Memory in making : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master in Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2022) Oswin, Ashley
    Memory in making explores different ways we can utilise memories, nostalgic storytelling and reminiscing in the design and making process in the hopes of facilitating emotional attachment to products and breaking down barriers between designers, makers and users. In sustainable design research there is an increasing emphasis on the meaning of products and the emotional value they add to our lives, shifting away from the symptom-based approach which focuses on reducing energy and resource use. This behavioural approach looks more critically at the consumption systems in place and acknowledges that consumerism is a system which negatively impacts both the planet and consumers. My research takes an autoethnographic approach, exploring my own memories in order to design and make mnemoactive objects, grounding the project in relation to research on product attachment, object meaning, user-makers and memory. Memory in making explores and develops tools for designers and makers to use in order to add depth of meaning and narrative in the hopes of creating products with mnemonic qualities and sentimental value. I explored memories of my family and childhood to design products, eventually creating a rug and pyjamas, which can be seen as case studies for the process I have developed. I reference material from both product design and fashion design and argue the use of memories in making could be of value in multiple disciplines.