Roberto Fantauzzi 11/30 Thesis Review

Thesis Review Comments & Feedback

Grace Tsai

• Felt hypothesis needs to be redirected to improving communication between parents and children.
• The material and environmental growth aspect of the project are secondary and were distracting to her at this stage in the thesis year.

Jennifer Carpenter

• State in problem graphical proof based on surveys.
• Use photography of my actual case studies
• Tweak hypothesis, problem and proposal based on discussion and rearrange order on board.
• Further development on packaging as an element of the product.

Kerry McNaughton

• Study planetariums and the process of dying plants and how it becomes alive.
• Study the Amazing Message Plants – plants that grow to reveal a message in the leaves (http://www.message-plant.com).
• Research natural plant pigments for packaging
• Bright colors for packaging.
• Enjoyed the poetry of the emotional, material and environmental re-birth and how it connects to each other

Robert Kirkbride

• Felt the hypothesis and proposal should be geared towards the child independent of the parent; with an added incentive of incorporating parent/child communication.
• Packaging experience for children – explore how children like to open packages.
• Think of how child will use the artifact after healing process – becoming a talisman for personal use to put things inside.
• Further exploration of the body of the artifact and how children will react to it (face, head, brain, body, legs, chest).
• Further exploration of form with regard to relationship of water and human relationship.
• Adding color to the wood.
• Think of standardizing certain features of the artifacts so that the family of toys and their different parts can be switched and screwed onto different bodies.

Mark Bechtel

• Study art therapy programs.
• Careful on how I present the environmental impact of how the artifact is created.