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• Realtional Ground (last edited: 2025) author(s): Liza Zazimko This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025. Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design. The thesis explores how jewelry, as a medium of object design, can serve as a speculative tool for addressing questions of identity, belonging, and social cohesion in Estonia’s linguistically diverse society. The project emerges from a personal dissonance: being a Russian-speaking Estonian and navigating a sense of belonging shaped by language, history, and cultural perception. While Estonia promotes democratic values and civic unity, subtle divisions remain. Language often acts as an artificial barrier - a marker of loyalty or a source of prejudice, rooted in collective memory and historical traumatic experience To understand these dynamics, the research examines Estonia’s history to trace the roots of its current social fabric. It then looks at state-led integration programs, evaluating the efforts already made toward a more inclusive society. Finally, the study considers how art can operate as a mechanism for change, reaching spaces where policy may not. The outcome is not only a physical collection but a conceptual framework: design as a relational act that builds common ground. Rather than offering definitive solutions, the work holds complexity and invites dialogue. It asks what it means to coexist across differences, and how objects can serve as quiet, daily gestures of trust and mutual recognition in a divided yet hopeful landscape. The result is a collection of wearable pieces that reflect Estonia’s divides. Rather than offering definitive solutions, the work holds complexity and invites dialogue. It asks what it means to coexist across differences, and how objects can serve as quiet, daily gestures of trust and mutual recognition in a divided yet hopeful landscape.
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• The forgotten importance of a dinner party (last edited: 2025) author(s): Zofia Glinkowska This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025. Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design This thesis explores the cultural, emotional, and spatial significance of the dinner party as a ritual of togetherness, rooted in tradition yet increasingly neglected in modern lifestyles. Drawing from personal narratives, sociological research, and cultural practices across the globe, it repositions the dinner party as more than just a social gathering—it is a deliberate act of care, joy, and connection. The study reflects on the Polish cultural context of communal dining, contrasting it with the increasing pace and individualism of urban life. It investigates how architecture, societal roles, and economic shifts influence our ability and willingness to host, highlighting how shrinking living spaces and modern work culture have diminished spontaneous, in-home gatherings. Through interdisciplinary lenses—from anthropology and design to gender studies and mindfulness—the thesis examines how rituals around food preparation, spatial design, and hosting roles shape our relationships and identity. It argues for reclaiming the dinner party not as a performance of perfection, but as an evolving, intimate practice that fosters belonging. The dinner table is positioned as a metaphorical and literal space of vulnerability, conversation, and joy. By reviving this tradition with intention and adaptability, we can restore a vital medium of human connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
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• what is fear? (last edited: 2025) author(s): if applicable This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Research Document of the Royal Academy of art, the Hague, 2025 Fear has always been a part of my life, especially fear of death.It always interested me to understand how fear works with the mind and how it affects a persons both psychically and psychologically. In order to do this I dive deep into studies&resources and break down fear in sections, by slowly building an overall summary and study on how fear affects us people and at what extents it can go and how serious of an affect it can have on a persons state of mind.
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• Gripping the Clouds, Fragmented Thoughts on Contemporary Life and Its Frameworks (last edited: 2025) author(s): Anna Rogneby This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  The thesis «Gripping the Clouds, Fragmented Thoughts on Contemporary Life and Its Frameworks» is a nonlinear text that blends personal observations with broader questions about how we live, see, and interact today. It examines the everyday influence of technology, media, and systems of representation—how they shape our behaviour, our sense of self, and perhaps most notably, our attention. Just as the text reflects on how our focus is increasingly pulled from one thing to another, it is also written in this way. The form is open and associative, where thoughts unfold in real time, often interrupted, redirected, or left unfinished. The result is a stream-of-consciousness style in which the reading experience centers more on noticing and reflecting than on drawing clear conclusions.
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• HUMAN (last edited: 2025) author(s): Lucile Prem Soliman This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  KABK Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023. BA Interactive/Media/Design This thesis explores the body as a transformative site where identity, autonomy, and self-expression intersect with cultural, societal, and technological forces. Through the lens of body modification, it examines how individuals reclaim agency by altering their physical form, challenging dominant ideals shaped by patriarchy, religion, and societal norms. Drawing on personal experience, indigenous practices, and speculative design, this work considers how the body can be utilized as a tool for resistance, empowerment, and evolution. The concept of fluidity emerges as central: identity and the human form are not fixed, but adaptable and in constant negotiation. Technologies such as neural augmentation and transhumanist enhancements are expanding the boundaries of what it means to be human, introducing new ways of expressing the self beyond biology. This work envisions a future where transformation is not only possible, but accessible and intentional—a reflection of inner growth made external. At the same time, it emphasizes the ethical need for inclusivity, cultural respect, and awareness of systemic inequalities in these movements. Ultimately, this thesis positions the body as a living interface, through which new definitions of humanity are formed, questioned, and continually reimagined.
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• The Autobiography of My / A Car (last edited: 2025) author(s): Nadia Sotirova Abadjieva This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  - Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025 - DEPARTMENT: BA Interactive Media Design
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