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Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase

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Meadow

For my final project for COMD241, I created a graphic novel. Here's the synopsis that I wrote which I think sums up the novel: After finding an old, shrivelled pea under her refrigerator, Aster realises that she’s hit rock bottom. She’s mid-late 20s, stuck in a dead-end job she hates, she’s lonely 98% of the time, she relies on her flawed coping mechanisms to get by, and she’s in love with her best friend. Confronted by all the things that are going wrong in her life, Aster comes across a flyer that might just help her take the first step to working out what she wants from life.

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The Art of Finding Yourself

Whakapapa, the ontological and epistemological influence it has, guides me to honour the whakaaro of my tūpuna in the way I work as a designer, in order to create better futures for my mokopuna. This sets me up to create meaningful connections and forge strong, equitable, and impactful solutions, that design with people, not for them. Whakapapa forces us to think in ways that are in contradiction with western intuition. As designers, it requires us to shift away from being the perpetuators of resource exploitation and promulgators of mass consumerism. Instead, it requires us to be kaitiaki of the future.

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Whakapapa in CoDesign

For this project we were paired up and asked to design each other’s dream office as though we were real clients. My client wanted to create a creative and collaborative space with a Gen Z vibe and a sense of interconnectivity within the studio and with the studio’s clients.  We chose to locate the office in a dilapidated Tribeca warehouse to get a modernised industrial feel. Being an adaptive reuse project I wanted to draw on the history of the Tribeca area which has traditions surrounding film festivals. The idea of the space became about taking elements of old media, particularly film, and juxtaposing these with new media and connection between people, representative of the Gen Z vibe.   

The overall form of the space is based on the shape of the lens within an old film camera used to project imagery. The project drew from different elements of the evolution of technology, such as a brick wall with protruding bricks designed to look like a VHS static. There are also finer details in the space such as little holographic tiles alluding to pixels and new tech. These are contrasted with other gestures that mimic old tech, such a light installation above the desks designed to look like an enlarged film reel.

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Erika Ybanez

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Other Projects

The Art of Finding Yourself

Whakapapa in CoDesign

Tribeca Loft

Other Projects

The Art of Finding Yourself

Whakapapa in CoDesign

Tribeca Loft