Two dissertation recitals and a pedagogy workshop were given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Performance) at the University of Michigan. Multimedia elements and narrative were used in both of the performances. The works…
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This paper presents a comparative analysis and in-depth overview of international peacebuilding methodologies used in Cyprus from 1991 to 1999 towards the development of a comprehensive interdisciplinary learning model for international peacebuilding. It also analyzes and integr…
How might the arts help to unveil and integrate realities so as to facilitate shared meanings and understandings between peoples and thus generate the conditions for the participatory, creative cultural diversity which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societ…
There are as many perspectives in designing as there have been instances in which it has occured. In each instance, constraints will have invariably arisen in various forms, to the extent that designing and constraints are considered to be an inherently natural pairing. In addit…
The current cultural climate is stimulating an increasing interest in, and need for, collaboration throughout many fields of practice. Collaborative methods of art production are evident across a range of contemporary visual art practices and opportunities for interdisciplinary …
Drawing from my background in architecture, I have attempted to apply design sensibilities to the production of fiction. Conceptualized as a set of three separate yet interconnected stories, my thesis--And Other Stories --experiments with different genres and writing styles that…
This dissertation focused on the design and creation of an Interdisciplinary Learning Environment (ILE) that promotes the acquisition of advanced knowledge in ill-structured domain, in this case, music. ILE allows learners to experience the insights and wisdom that come from the…
The rich medieval Icelandic literary record, comprised of mythology, sagas, poetry, law codes and post-medieval folklore, has provided invaluable source material for previous generations of scholars attempting to reconstruct a pagan Scandinavian Viking Age worldview. In modern I…
Since its 1824 premiere at the St Petersburg imperial court, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Op. 123 has only ever been performed in secular concert settings. This performance history is reflected in critical trends in Missa solemnis scholarship. Following Adorno’s 1959 essay that c…
Graphic design as a discipline is more complex than it might initially seem, and in many ways is still struggling to establish its independence from the fine arts as well as other disciplines within and outside of design. This endeavor is complicated by confusion and disagreemen…
This thesis is framed in response to core problems in the world of the Craftsperson today. Over the last century, the mass-production material culture of western capitalist societies has led to an overall decrease in the quality of work produced by the majority of craftspeople—a…
A twenty-first century re-emergence of athletic activism and performances of dissent can be seen in the national anthem protests by professional football, soccer, and baseball players like Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and Bruce Maxwell. In 2016, a month prior to Kaepernick’s…
This document is a culmination of artwork, poetry, and a thesis. The dimensional, playful nuances of this documentation, such with its exclamatory emotion icons exercises awareness that looks outside of the conventional realm of generative narratives. The writing begins with res…
STEM is a well-known acronym describing the intersections of science, technology, engineering, and math. Emerging from this paradigm is a relatively new interdisciplinary model entitled STEAM. STEAM endeavors to intersperse "the arts" into the sciences with the expectation of in…