This archive takes you to the full text thesis projects of all graduates who have been supported by and contributed to the MADE research group
2020/21
Nayanathara Sashikani Kuruppuarachchi: Tailored to Shrink – A sustainable method of creating 3d form utilising natural shrinkage and the precision of digital deposition
Marcus Michau: Digital Densities for Diabetes – 3D Printing Variable-Density Diabetic Orthotics to Mitigate Lower-Limb Amputations in New Zealand
Tino Mutambu: Parametric Prosthetics – Creating a digital workflow for individualised design
Danielle Patterson: Waste not, want not – A design-based approach to upcycling agricultural plastic waste
Huy Tim: Adding Value – Upcycling problematic plastic waste through digital craft
2019/20
Ana Morris: Beneath the Skin: Emulating human physiology using a novel bitmap-based “voxel” 3D-printing workflow
Matthew O’Hagan: From Line to Loop, A Circular 3D Printing Initiative for Upcycling Commercial Fishing Plastics
Courtney Naismith:Air-crafted Artefacts: Additive upcycling plastics within the Aviation Tourism Industry
Maddison Jessop-Benseman: Plastic in Practice: An empirical approach to 3D printed upcycling in New Zealand schools
Lakjith Manapaya Weeratunge: ANIMATED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Designing Dynamic Exhibits with 3D Printing & Pixel Displays
Vincent McQueen: Additive Alternatives: a product system for recreational prosthetics
Matt McGowan: Adding Brand: Design, Branding and Additive Manufacture in the production of tangible prosthetic products
Patrick Coulson: Well, Actuate(ly)…Parametric Multi-Material 3D Printed Soft Robotics
Jessica Salter: Fossils from the Future: Exposing procedural efficiency in the context of 3D printing
Elize Koetsier: Designing with Mycelium: Utilising spatial printing to create scaffolds for mycelium growth
Glen Askey: Surface Theory: The design of emotive textures to enhance a product experience
Eilish Marra: Sensing Restructured: Customisable 3D printed force sensors for wearable products (IP Sensitive)
Joseph Coddington: Voxel Printed Galleries: 3D Printing voxel built images as a craft based means to exploit the 2D plane of images
2018/19
Rose Lastovicka: The Digital Athena: Contemporary commentaries and Greek mythology explored through 3D printing
Samantha Whitham: Printing People. Heterogeneous Multi-Property Printing of Humanoid Anatomics
Louise Wotton: Biological Algorithms for Digital Manufacture
Maryam Namini Mianji: Designed to Deform: Large-scale 4D printing with bio-based polymers
Watcharawat Ritthisri: Upcycling plastic waste through empirical implementation of large-scale 3D printing
Yejun Fu: 4D Printing with Bio-based Polymers for Adaptive Wearable Devices
Max Syme: Tangible Visualisation: Multi-material 3D/4D printing for the design exploration of percutaneous surgical drains (IP sensitive)
Hamish Morgan: Optimised 3D Printed Structures: developing a six-axis robotic spatial printing system (IP sensitive)
2017/18
Sophia Cameron: A Circular City: An empirical approach to 3D printed up-cycling
Nicole Hone: Tangible Animation – Designing Organic Performance with Multi-Material 3D/4D Printing
Liam Gilbertson: Robotic Spatial Printing for Designers
Mendel Moos: Design for the Future Creating a Champion
Armano Papageorge: Freeform 3D Printing: A Sustainable, Efficient Construction Alternative
William Rykers: The Tailored Traveller: Exploring digital vehicle data and large-scale FDM 3D printing to produce a luxury sleeping space
Fenella Richards: Celebrating the Spectacular: Discovering the New Enabled Through Performance Art
Ashleigh Kennedy: The Suitable Machine: Exploring style through storytelling to inform design
Isabelle Hawkins: Multi-Material 3D Printing for Percutaneous Surgical Drains (IP sensitive)
Jesse Kilpatrick: Fast, Large, and Accurate 3D Printing
2016/17
Alex Christensen: Data driven design: An investigation into the fit between the individuality of people and the uniformity of mass manufactured items
Victoria Robinson: Colour 3D/4D Printing for Film
James Brundell: Investigation into Integration of Digital Manufacturing with Ceramics
Isabella Molloy: Freeform 3D Printing for Digitally Crafted Artefacts
2015/16
Ryan Achten: Virtual Recollection: Artifact Engagement in Three-Dimensional Environments
Dylan Hughes-Ward: Making Connections 3D printing, Libraries and augmenting their reality
Stuart Baynes: Printable Prosthetics: The design of a 3D printed swimming prosthesis
James Irvine: Fore to Form
Lionel Taito- Taaalii Matamua: Renewing Materials: 3D Printing and Distributed Recycling Disrupting Samoa’s Plastic Waste Stream
Stephen Hill: Design Optimisation for 3D printed SLM objects
Hamish McIntosh: Simulated Anatomy – Designing Behaviour into 3D Printed Anatomy
Lucy Mangin: Shaping Taste
2014/15
Tahi Rewiri-Chrastecky: Sentience: 3D Printed Living Products
Zach Challies: Designed Prosthetics
2013/14
Earl Stewart: XYZ: Customised Complexity
2006/07
Ross Stevens: Worn Out or Worn In?