Design by nature and the outdoors
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Design by nature and the outdoors
- Creators
- James Tran
- Contributors
- Steve McGuire (Advisor)Monica Correia (Committee Member)Kee-Ho Yuen (Committee Member)Andrew Casto (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Art
- Date degree season
- Spring 2022
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.006389
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vii, 24 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 James Tran
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Public Abstract (ETD)
At the time of this writing, we are going through a corona virus pandemic. Admittedly, the past couple of years have been a struggle, but it hasn’t all been a bad struggle. There is also a good kind of struggle that has helped me grow and progress as a designer. As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor”. Through an ongoing pandemic, isolation, reduced access to resources, and loss of determination, I was able to find ways to reimagine my designs and branch out into other mediums such as ceramics and metals to produce pieces and find inspiration in new creative ways.
A lot of my inspirations from these recent years have come from the outdoors. In Japan, there is a concept called, ‘Shinrin-yoku’, which means ‘forest bathing’. It is a form of ecotherapy where you saturate yourself in the ambiance of the forest to heal yourself. Through ‘Shinrin-yoku’, I was able to move forward and explore my design aspirations.
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9984271450702771