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    Lifestyle, design process and the creative practice of do-it-yourself (DIY) as a transformative experience

    219287_Smith_Nicola 2015.pdf (39.98Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Smith, Nicola Dawn
    Date
    2014
    Supervisor
    Assoc. Prof. Reena Tiwari
    Assoc. Prof. Dianne Smith
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    Department of Architecture + Interior Architecture, School of the Built Environment
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1629
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This is the first research project to simultaneously examine gaps evident between professional design process and amateur creative practice (in modifying home), between idealised and realised concepts of self-place, and consumptive and transformative behaviour. The thesis significantly demonstrates the validity of bricolage and hybridity to both design research and practice, providing new models for co-creation and co-design relevant to all those involved in the modification of home and home life; the space of lifestyle.

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