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This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Mikayla Reid to explore how color choice and application within designs can help create storybook characters off the page and onto the stage. This concept is explored through the costume designs for the opera The Cunning Little Vixen, a production theoretically staged at the Alice Busch Opera Theater for the Glimmerglass Festival in New York. The paper discusses Reid’s attempt to create designs that still feel like watercolor illustrations, even when realized in physical garments. It follows her process as she tests different dye techniques in search for what produces the most effective color application. This paper also breaks down each step taken while constructing the main character, the Vixen, through the build, fittings, and color application.

The city with its urban density, infrastructure, and cultural, social and educational opportunities can be a desirable place to live for all - regardless of age, income or background. The city of today has changed considerably from the city of the 19th century. Neither is it the city of the future. However, it has great potential to anticipate to the challenges we will face in the future. It is a place that constantly changes. It is a living organism! This constant change is a challenge for architects to develop concepts and design-solutions that can react to shifting uses, zoning requirements, and dweller habits. The constant alteration of lifestyle, residential and commercial use, as well as job-related needs demands a high flexibity and adaptability in architecture and urban planning. Today's life is fast and unpredictable. Other contemporary issues such as sustainabilty or climate change are becoming key issues of today's discussion - in society, in the media and in world policy. Architects - responsible for our built environment - have to find innovative solutions to such ever-changing problems within their profession - within architecture. How can a concept, project or building be designed or constructed to anticipate those future needs, and what are the limits? To explore these questions and many more that followed I chose a site in midtown Washington DC. My thesis project includes 23 townhouses with partial retail, incorporated along an alley in the interior of a city block. The new development is integrated into the existing structure. / Master of Architecture

The artist discusses the artwork of her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Groundswell, held at Tipton Gallery in Johnson City, March 11 – 22, 2024. The exhibition includes wall pieces, sculpture, plaster, and ceramic objects that explore the traditional parameters of painting and its presentation. Ideas discussed include the philosophy of history, and the origin of European art tropes such as odalisques, flowers, and birds. Framing devices, deconstructed paintings, fiber arts, ceramics, 18th Century decorative art, plaster, the studio practice, Walter Benjamin, David Lowenthal, Gustave Courbet, Jean Honoré Fragonard, Titus Kaphar, Valerie Hegarty, and maximalism are also surveyed.

Duwamish people are “the People of the Inside,” “the Salmon People”—Coast Salish people who occupied a large territory inside the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade range. Ninety Longhouses were situated where Seattle and several neighbouring cities now stand. Today, over six hundred Duwamish are urban Indigenous people without legal recognition as an American Indian tribe, still battling for rights promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. Portrayals of Duwamish history since the time of colonization are often incomplete or incorrect. A tribe member myself, I set out to record and present family stories concerning the period 1850 to the present from participants from six Duwamish families. I gathered histories told in the words of the people whose family experiences they are. It is history from a Duwamish perspective, in Duwamish voices. Collected family stories are recorded in the appendices to my dissertation. In my ethnographic study, I inquire as to what strengths have carried Duwamish people through their experiences since colonization. The stories reveal beliefs and practices which have supported the Duwamish people, and hopes for the future. Data was gathered using multiple methods, including fieldwork—visiting a master weaver; attending tribal meetings; and visiting historic sites—reading existing documents by Duwamish authors and by settlers, and interviewing, including looking at photos to elicit information. Five themes emerged from the data: Finding a True History; What Made Them Strong; Intermarriage; Working for the People; and Working with the Youth. These themes together constitute what I term the Indigenous Star of Resilience (see Figure One in Chapter Six). For me, this study has truly been swit ulis uyayus—“work that the Creator has wrapped around me” (Vi Hilbert, quoted in Yoder, 2004); work that is a gift. / Graduate / 0727 / 0452 / 0740 / juliemorgana@yahoo.ca

現今的應用系統中常會有橫跨性(Cross-Cutting)的程式模組存在，這類程式模組包括：日誌記錄、授權認證、資料永存性等，而這種程式模組在系統中若沒有被區分抽離出來，常常會導致系統重複出現與主要功能需求無關的程式碼，除此之外，這些橫跨性需求的程式碼還會與主要功能需求程式碼糾結在一起，造成程式碼夾雜不清的現象。在工作流程(Workflow)的開發過程中也有著相同的問題。為了解決上述的問題，本研究以JBoss jBPM(Java Business Process Manage- ment)為基礎平台，將剖面導向程式設計(Aspect-Oriented Progra- mming)的觀念與技術運用在工作流程的領域中，使流程設計人員能夠利用AOP的方式來解決橫跨性需求的模組化問題，並且利用靜態織入方法，改善jBPM工作流程引擎進行剖面流程在織入時的效能。 / Cross-cutting concerns are those system design issues that cut across the various modules of an application and are typically foundational system services that we need to consider before diving into building an application. Most common among these are logging, authentication, authorization, and persistence. Cross-cutting concerns always cause program code to be scattered and tangled, and therefore make it harder to understand and maintain. Similar problem also occurs in the field of workflow. In our research, we apply the concept of aspect-oriented programming(AOP) to the field of workflow system, and implement a static weaver for jBPM. With static weaver, process designer can use the facilities of AOP, and the performance is also improved via static weaving .

The multi-million-dollar medical uniform industry has not utilized advancements in garment and textile technology that could positively impact the protection of healthcare professionals and patients. In most cases the uniforms meet basic requirements – they clothe the professional in a recognizable way. Little innovation in design, function and performance, has been applied to these garments. This is particularly evident in the case of the stereotypical white lab coat worn by many physicians, despite evidence indicating that these lab coats may carry contamination and play a role in the spread of deadly bacteria. Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are among the most serious problems facing modern medical care, costing millions of lives and dollars annually worldwide. This research investigates the design and use of the physician’s lab coat – an immediately recognizable symbol of Western medicine. The research identifies the medical, functional, cultural and symbolic roles of the lab coat within the hospital environment and beyond, to the larger the global society. This thesis examines the extent to which the design of medical wear can impact the effect of hospital-acquired infections, support doctor/patient relationships and enhance the performance and behavior of the healthcare professional by envisioning a future lab coat which offers increased protection for physician and patient, aids in communication and enhances the performance of the doctor by utilizing digital technologies incorporated into the lab coat whereby the lab coat becomes the only tool necessary for the physician.

Após uma revisão de trabalhos que se dedicam a investigar as relações entre a docência e a tecnologia em suas múltiplas formas apresentamos uma série de redimensionamentos das ações docentes no contato com tecnologias digitais. Partindo dos quatro verbos fundamentais propostos por Nílson Machado como forma de caracterizar e expressar a natureza das ações docentes mapear, mediar, tecer e narrar discutimos o redimensionamento da docência no contato com aparatos tecnológicos em contextos permeados por tecnologias ou constituídos digitalmente a partir delas, sobretudo em modalidades de educação híbridas e online considerando, portanto, a Educação a Distância (EAD) de variadas formas. Em nossa tese buscamos, além de examinar e apresentar um conjunto de ações e estudos, oferecer subsídios e ideias que possam contribuir para a prática docente, na esperança de ampliar a compreensão das ações do professor no ciberespaço e das relações mediadas por dispositivos digitais examinando diferentes abordagens e formas possíveis de interação com os alunos no interior de uma comunidades de aprendizagem num paradigma ecossistêmico de educação online. / After a review of works devoted to understand the relationships between teaching and technology in its many forms we present a series of teachers\' actions redefined in contact with digital technologies. Based on four key verbs proposed by Nílson Machado as a way to characterize and express the nature of teaching practices mapping, mediating, weaving and storytelling we discourse about the new dimensions of teaching in contact with technology devices in contexts permeated or digitally made by technology, especially in hybrid and online education modalities therefore considering Distance Education (DE) in different perspectives. Besides an examination and after presents a set of researches and proposals, this work seeks to provide insights and ideas that can contribute to the teaching practices, hoping to broaden the understanding of the teacher\'s actions in cyberspace and about the relationships mediated by digital devices examining different forms and approaches of interacting with students inside a learning community in an ecosystem paradigm of online education.

Of the Crickets imagines the overlapping worlds of ethical ecological solutions to climate changed sustenance and the potential for collective excellence in female exclusive environments. Using garments, furniture, site-specific installation and directed performance, the project harnesses social and material sensitivity to mine solutions for idealized living.