Next to a River: Mobility, Mapping, and Hand Embroidery

This MFA project explores identity, mapping, and embroidery as broadly considered regarding ideas of place and landscape. Concepts such as travel, the familiar, the temporary, the known, and the unknown are motivating notions that I examine through academic study alongside techniques of hand embroidery. Throughout my MFA project, a series of material and technical choices were crucial to my reflecting on ideas of resemblance, mapping, migration, and archiving in order to further understand my identity. A series of texts on resemblance, archiving, and mapping by Michel Foucault, Arjun Appadurai, and Tom Vanderbilt, along with references to the art practices and thought processes of artists Mrinalini Mukherjee, GhadaAmer, Anne Wilson, and Britta Marakatt-Labba’s are shown to be vital in helping to articulate my thematic and materialistic interests. The thesis can be considered further both in relation to the concept of mapping and to hand embroidery in light of broader experiences of encounters with “place.” I anticipate the potential of this work to relate to other disciplinary contexts, including in the Sciences

Planning for Digital Transformation: Implications for Institutional Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA) and its management have received considerable attention from the academic and practical audience. Despite a very wide treatment on EA, research on EA in the academic sector has not received similar attention till date. There is also a growing interest on digital transformation with evidences suggesting that academic institutions have increased their investment into digital technology which prompts a need to reflect on how this technology affects these institutions and the educational processes. In the dissertation, we propose to link these concerns based on three research issues, through which we explore the objectives an academic institute wants to achieve in planning for digital transformation and the necessary institutional readiness factors of a digital enterprise architecture, and then propose a design framework to support the endeavour. The dissertation employs both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Implications for research and practice are also delineated at the end