COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Interior Design as a Catalyst for Social Activism: Cultivating Collective Change for HIV/AIDS Causes Through a Modern Museum Context
Creator:
Hoang, Mai Khoi Hai
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Interior Design
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Interior Design
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
This thesis will explore the boundaries of how a personal experience can be a catalyst for social activism through interior design. Museums serve as the foundations upon which many find themselves amongst the human experience. Evaluating the relationship of the museum and its user through the lens of design will reveal the key to how interior design can influence and promote social activism. Can an intangible urge to positively influence an issue be answered with a tangible destination in the form of a museum? A cause with no bigger need is HIV/AIDS, and a museum experience that can educate, inform and motivate a user to the cause of HIV/AIDS awareness with engagement and action will be a prototype for designing museums with a cause.
Abstract:
Through literature and research based design, the framework of the museum as a building form will be revised to further expound upon the knowledge of interaction within a museum. These findings will inform the exploration of the museum in a modern context, extrapolating the core concepts of the museum to form a new prototype of space. The reinterpreted museum space will serve as a foundation through which user experience defines the limit through which social responsibility can prosper.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2011-06
Format:
PDF : 73 p. : ill