Architecture & Design: Recent submissions

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    • Stormwater on the University of Kansas Main Campus 

      Walsh, Marcia K. (University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)
      Beginning with a discussion of the combined acreage of the all the impervious surfaces on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, together with the average annual precipitation there, the HSG soil ...

    • Canect: Matching You the Best-fit Translation Service 

      Guo, Yujie (University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)
      In this thesis, a new service: Canect is designed to challenge the problems of current translation service providing. Briefly speaking, Canect is a service that helps international travelers and companies to find and manage ...

    • The Little Artist: Interactive Art Center 

      Alhassan, Fatimah (University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)
      In this project, an art learning center located in a shopping mall in Saudi Arabia is designed for 3 to 5 year old kids.

    • Moving Home to College: Socio-Physical Factorsin Creating 'Home' in Temporary Environments 

      Lawless, Julie Williams (University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)
      Intentionally temporary housing environments, like student housing, where residents know they will settle for a short period may lack the social and physical factors that inspire a sense of home and community. Yet, these ...

    • Developing a More Effective Creative Operations Management System for Creative Businesses 

      Hembree, Ryan Matthew (University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)
      Most creative businesses remain limited in organizational size, sales, and profitability, primarily due to a lack of efficient management. Unless the principal or owner of a creative business delegates some of the functional ...

    • Using Design to Facilitate Personal Engagement in a Church Community 

      Blair, Randall Robert (University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)
      Small to mid-sized community churches face many challenges developing the services that will fulfill the needs of members and non-members and deliver them in a way that fits the way we live in a modern society. Their ...

    • Squirrel: A Community-Directed Approach to Investing 

      Smith, Brian Matthew (University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)
      This thesis project explores the self-directed mutual fund investing space outside of personal retirement planning. The objective is to popularize mutual fund investing by removing the need for traditional financial adviser ...

    • SALUTE the KIDS - A Recognition Program For Children of the Army National Guard Soldiers 

      Rook, Michele (University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)
      Military children experience long periods of separation from a parent. The parent/parents choose to dedicate themselves to our country through the military, but the children don't have a choice. Children need to be recognized ...

    • Current Trends in Cultural Customization and the Ecommerce Experience 

      Woods, Amanda (University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)
      The Internet is continually evolving and new access mediums have expanded its reach, connecting people all over the world. This has allowed businesses unparalleled access to consumers, propelling ecommerce to becoming a ...

    • FURTHERING THE RECLAIMED MATERIALS EXPERIENCE 

      Bartels, Robert A. (University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)
      A comprehensive study of the reclaimed materials industry and ways it could be improved from a management standpoint by working through a Design Management problem solving approach. Project Objectives: To improve the ...

    • Designing Brand Evolution Strategies: Co-creating sustained brand value and holistic experience with consumers. 

      Monfort, Anne-Louise (University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)
      In a progressively digitally interactive society, the relationship consumers have with brands is shifting, requiring a deeper understanding of how to co-create brand meanings with consumers. Consumers are utilizing social ...

    • A Case Study of American Bicycle Culture: How Cycling to Work Works in a Small Town in Kansas 

      Rodriguez, Carolina (2011-08-31)
      Small communities, like big cities, are trying to figure out what to do about bicycling. Especially when used for transportation, bicycling offers benefits to individuals such as increased physical activity and decreased ...

    • E-Participation In Transportation Planning: T-Link Calculator Case Study 

      Heckler, Ariel Laura (University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)
      Throughout the world, people travel from point A to point B every day via one or multiples modes of transportation and for a variety of reasons. Even though transportation is vital, most people seem to take it for granted. ...

    • Social Capital and Community Connections: What Matters in the Lives of Youth? 

      Hart, Mary Beth (2009-05-31)
      Social capital is seen as promoting youth success. This study analyzes all 115 counties in Missouri using correlation to determine if youth centered community connections (youth organizations, high school activities, and ...

    • Changes in Community Rhetoric and Imagery of Rural Land Uses at the Urban Fringe: Douglas County from Strong to Slow Growth 

      Cowan, Kristen Michele (University of Kansas, 2011-08-30)
      Growth and change at the rural-urban fringe of any urbanizing area creates heated debate. The way in which people talk about change is oftentimes through stories, using rhetoric and imagery to paint a picture of what is ...

    • Awakenings 

      Ortiz, Eugenia Maria (University of Kansas, 2011-04-11)
      In my Thesis, Awakenings, my goal is to capture our internal resistance to change that keep so many of us trapped in negative or harmful situations and the process of releasing destructive patterns and beliefs. These ...

    • Core Topography 

      Carter-Thompson, Safiya (University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)
      My vivid memory of landscape strongly influences the patterns that I use in my creative art work. I employ various dots and layering of line and color to create my own personal, abstracted maps of California's landscape ...

    • Encoding [quiet memories] 

      Brebenel, Elena (University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)
      I go along the tramway. I am the eternal traveler throughout my own past. Each time the rails are going somewhere else. I am now in Iasi: my grandparents' city, the city where my school was, the city of the evergreen parks. ...

    • Futilitarian 

      Yakle, Danielle Nicole (University of Kansas, 2010-04-29)
      Futilitarian, an MFA Thesis Exhibition, explores the conceptualization of the body as a factory. In particular it focuses on bodily cycles related to human reproduction and presents them as absurd parodies of industrial ...

    • Omphalos 

      Lenharth, Amy Lynn (University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)
      Amy Lenharth "Omphalos" Abstract Several years of research into technique and personal experience have resulted in the thesis exhibition called "Omphalos". The central concept of the thesis is the axis mundi, the unseen ...