Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University proudly showcases the work of undergraduate honors students by sharing this collection exclusively with the ASU community.
Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
Description
THREADS OF MEMORY is an interdisciplinary project that blends theoretical analysis, auto-ethnographic study, and exhibition to reframe the socio-cultural understanding of clothing from a product of trend, novelty, and commerce to a practice of memory, meaning, and sentiment. The written component draws from affect studies (Ahmed 2010, Manning 2016), consumer theory (Baudrillard 1994), and critical fashion scholarship (Ruggerone 2017, Tienhoven 2021) to argue that the circular consumption model stimulates higher object attachment and possessive longevity than the bought-new, or linear consumption model. I then conducted an auto-ethnographic case study using the affective analysis methodology adopted by Tienhoven and Smelik (2021), in which I documented the mind-body experience of wearing fifteen garments from my wardrobe and related my affective response to the way that I acquired each item. My findings emphasize the circular consumption model’s increased potential to transform fashion from an exercise of bodily currency to a ritual of meaningful embodiment. To advocate for a reformed consumer consciousness within the Phoenix community, I hosted an in-person gallery and open defense. All fifteen garments from the case study were exhibited alongside two interactive installations in which attendees shared stories of their most sentimental fashion objects and attempted the affective analysis method on their own using a provided garment. This exhibition further translated the project’s themes of materiality and embodiment into a physical space with printed manuscripts of my written work as well as a printed catalog of my case study. Ultimately, this project urges a reformed approach to clothing from product to story, object to subject, transaction to narrative.
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsMoskowitz, Lily (Author) / Fahs, Breanne (Thesis director) / Fox, Cora (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2024-05