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    Enriching spaces : a methodology for enhancing interaction between the user and their spaces in an Indian context : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2018) Verma, Vrinda
    The longing for a personal space that serves as a sanctuary correlates with the current lack of engagement between the users and their spaces in the urban living of India (IES, 2018). Currently upper-middle-class families in India engage in the philosophy of materialism with their luxurious way of living to create this sense of retreat in order to be comfortable and satisfied (Hudders & Pandelaere, 2012). Drawing on minimalist theory to appertain a heightened value, this research introduces an amalgamation of Indian luxury strongly influenced by the Mughal dynasty with usability to enhance the connectivity of the user with their spaces. This practice led research project was derived from an autoethnographic case study of my family in India. Analysing the existing spaces and objects to develop a made to order site-specific active object, utilising the precision in craft and rich materials from Indian luxury with simplicity and clarity regarding minimalism through design thinking. To actualise this, the scope of innovation on an existing object has been identified from the case study through methods of spatial and ritual analysis, i.e., how the presence of an active object enhances or restricts the interaction between the user and their spaces. Furthermore, the research findings can be offered as a service to accommodate personal needs of India’s upper-middle-class families.
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    Being @ : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2006) Foster, Stuart
    In the past decade, the rapid proliferation of computers and networked communication technologies has offered the opportunity to experience a new kind of space, a space that is real but immaterial, where the imaginary can be shown without the need or support of concrete matter. We are entering a new era in our everyday interaction with the world, "an era of electronically extended bodies living at intersection points of the physical and virtual worlds" (Mitchell, 1995, p.24). This thesis operates in an unstable zone that bridges these two realms. The research applies theoretical findings into the production of an experiential system, a system that operates across the corporeality of the physical environment and the metaphysical realm of a cyber-spatial environment. The research proposes that Cyberspace can be conceptualised as a representation of spatial experience figured upon 'being-in-the-world' (a phenomenological paradigm). It aims to locate, define and operate within and across the liminal zone, the threshold between corporeal space experience and computer meditated space. This zone, in terms of spatiality, is framed as the experience of the interface, the dematerialising horizon of human being and place (Perella, 1995). Interface becomes the point of departure from corporeal into the metaphysical dimensions of cyber-spatiality.
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    Becoming-interior : toward a nondual philosophy of design for dwelling-in-the-world : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design at Massey University
    (Massey University, 2005) Archer, Jennifer
    Martin Heidegger suggests that dwelling is an act of inhabitation, which engenders a becoming-interior of the world. The site of this dwelling is not confined to architecture, but occurs in the space between earth and sky: the world. This work seeks to investigate the implications of this claim on the role of interior design. It proposes that, in order to formulate an approach to design that aims to facilitate a Heideggerian dwelling, the binary oppositions of inside and outside, nature and culture, self and world, must be re-examined. The connections between architectural minimalism and Eastern aesthetics that are hinted at in contemporary New Zealand lifestyle magazines such as urbis provide a gateway to an investigation of dwelling-design that moves beyond the conflicts of a world divided by Cartesian dualism. The space between East and West operates as the field of inquiry within which this work locates a comparative study of nondual philosophies pertaining to dwelling as an interrelation of self and world. Nondual concepts found in the writings of Elizabeth Grosz, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, are subjected to a reading that suggests links with such Eastern philosophical concepts as ma (the space of the in-between), yin and yang as an analogy of correlativity and becoming-other, and dao and de (field and focus) as a conceptual model for the interrelation of the natural world and the self. Through the generation of a nondual core philosophy, the work suggests that the "nothingness" of minimalism may be reconceptualised as a betweenness, with the potential to act as an intermediary space between the inhabitant and nature. The nature of this mediation as the stimulation of resonance is explored in relation to the depiction of the natural world in art, and subsequently applied to the architectural threshold. Architecture is posited as an instrument of facilitation - the means by which the potential for dwelling may be manifested in a becoming-interior of the world.