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I Will Go to the End of the World
No full textArtist: Henrieta Cernajovba
Age: 12
Notes: 2025-160 / SK-
Craft In Transition: Integrating Digital Fabrication with Traditional Ceramics in Canadian Design
Full text linkThis research explores how digital fabrication—specifically 3D clay printing—shapes the meaning and practice of craftsmanship in Canadian ceramic design. The study investigates how digital tools interact with traditional processes and how emerging designers engage with this hybrid way of making. Emphasizing material knowledge, tactile experience, and authorship, it examines the evolving role of the maker in a digitally mediated environment. Using a practice-led approach—including autoethnographic reflection, object reconstruction, and semi-structured interviews—the study found that digital fabrication reframes rather than replaces traditional craft knowledge. While 3D printing offers precision and efficiency, it also requires material sensitivity and iterative problem-solving. Findings show that craftsmanship now involves a blend of physical and digital skills, shaped through experimentation, reflection, and collaboration. This hybrid practice opens new pathways for redefining craft in design education and practice. Keywords: 3D Clay Printing, Craftsmanship, Digital Fabrication, Canadian Ceramics, Material Knowledge, Hybrid Practic
Classifying Quiver Representations
Full text linkLet Q be a finite quiver. We give an exposition of the various disparate techniques used from a wide range of mathematical areas such as root systems and algebraic geometry to classify the indecomposable representations of Q, which are equivalent to the indecomposable modules of some basic, finite-dimensional K-algebra A. While most of the ideas presented are defined and proved, some familiarity with commu- tative/noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and algebraic geometry is assumed. The material, terminology, and proof techniques presented in large part is a fusion of coming from [1], [2], and [3]
Landscapes of Rural Girlhood: Navigating Belonging in Southeast Saskatchewan
Full text linkThis dissertation examines the ways gender, class, race and age intersect with the industrial complex of rural southeast Saskatchewan to shape rural girls’ embodied experiences of girlhood by engaging with concepts of affect, relationality, and a politics of belonging. By exploring rural life through the lived experiences of women and girls, this research project explores the structural forms of inequality women and girls encounter within industrial capitalism and extraction, colonialism, racism, and heteropatriarchy, and the ways in which they navigate and challenge these forms of inequality in their everyday lives. The methods and approaches used for this study include participant observation, open-ended and semi-structured interviews both in-person and virtually, autoethnography, and photovoice. Fieldwork for this project took place over 16 months in 12 rural communities heavily entangled in the fossil fuel and agricultural industries in southeast Saskatchewan. In exploring the everydayness of the politics of belonging, and following Sara Ahmed’s notion of happiness scripts, I identify three gendered scripts that impact rural girls’ experiences and feelings of belonging and connection within their affective communities. I name these as follows: they become wives, country girl power, and tough femininity. These gendered scripts are imposed on, expected of, and taken up by, girls in the creation of belonging and connection to their affective communities, and in their creation of ‘home’ within the landscapes of their rural girlhood(s). The work of maneuvering through these gendered scripts of rural belonging requires that girls learn to ‘pick their battles’ and engage navigation strategies that maintain their safety and interdependent relationships, while at the same time, providing opportunities for self-actualization and self-determination. With the intention of nudging girls away from the margins and into spaces of visibility within the landscape of rurality and industrialization, this dissertation maps some of the moments in which girls become disconnected, invisible and silenced, and other moments when they appear, connect and create opportunities to live self-determined lives. By making girls subjects of their own stories, this research illuminates the ways girls share information and ideas about the people, places and things that hold meaning for them as rural girls
La perception et la production des voyelles françaises /u/ et /y/ par des étudiants anglophones universitaires dans un cours de français niveau B2
Full text linkCette thèse examine les difficultés rencontrées par les étudiants anglophones dans un cours universitaire de français de niveau B2 à percevoir et produire les /u/ et /y/ français, souvent confondus en raison de l'absence de /y/ en anglais. L'étude cherche à savoir si une perception correcte mène à une production correcte et identifie les erreurs de perception et de prononciation courantes. En utilisant des modèles tels que le Speech Learning Model (SLM; Flege, 1995) et le Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM; Best, 1995), la recherche utilise des tâches de perception et de production pour tester des hypothèses sur ces défis et la corrélation entre la perception et la production. L'objectif est de fournir des pistes pour améliorer l'enseignement de la prononciation du français aux anglophones en ce qui concerne ces contrastes de voyelles spécifiques