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quick peek at some of the work I'm making for my thesis...
please excuse the crappy cellphone camera
The culmination of three years of research: my PhD thesis is ready for submission! This is the exciting Deluxe binding version, with gold corners and speckles on the paper edges. The title is pretty long: Engineering Robustness, Flexibility, and Accuracy into a Multi-Agent System for Transformer Condition Monitoring.
Doctoral thesis by Caroline Wachtler.
Cover 2 colours / Body printed 1 colour.
Printed on uncoated stock.
The Lancia Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. This is the two-tone Bicolore version added to the range in 2006. The car wasn't succesfull and only about 16,000 Thesis have been have been built.
There are rumours that the Fiat group is about to stop the Lancia brand outside of Italy. Therefore some cars from Lancia's before the Chrysler badge-engineering started. The Thesis was built from 2002 until 2009. Unlike the Thema and the Kappa it wasn't very succesfull. Only about 16,000 Thesis have been built.
Yikes! At first I thought it was one of those Mitsuoka things, as it turns out this funny looking car was Lancia's flagship luxury model from 2001 to 2009. From what I've heard the Thesis is a very good car, being very smooth, comfortable, a bit heavy on the turning but otherwise a very good machine, but that styling does look a bit... well... strange...
The car first made an appearance as a prototype back in 1998 Diàlogos concept car, and some early one-offs were built as early as 2000, with a special laundalet version being built for Pope John Paul II. The production model made its debut in March 2001 at the Geneva Motorshow and its interior was displayed for first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Sales started in June 2002 in Italy, with export markets following shortly after. The car was powered by a range of engines, from the base 2.0L single-block Inline-5 Turbo engine to a 3.2L V6. Internally the car was very well equipped, with wood and leather beautifully styled and crafted to perfection, and was endearing for its addition of radar adaptive cruise-control, the first Lancia car to come with this feature.
Contention however was with the external styling, which many motoring critics were quick to pounce on as being somewhat repulsive, almost as if Lancia had attempted to base the car on the abject failure that was the Ford Scorpio. However, according to Lancia designers, the car was designed to be deliberately po-faced so as to turn heads, in similar fashion to the FIAT Multipla and its layer cake style.
Production ended in 2009 after only 16,000 units were built, and for a while Lancia didn't actually build executive cars. However, in 2011 the company began to release badge-engineered versions of the new Chrysler 300C, being dubbed the Lancia Thema II.
Matteo on the day of his Degree Thesis
Original shot taken with a Polaroid Impulse camera, Impossible Project instant film, almost no post processing, just scanned
Most of what I have been reading, looking at, perusing, generally referencing in my research on Sustainability and Design…
I am planning on using this as part of an installation for my thesis show,
For my thesis project I've been researching how couples communicate when living at a distance. Tomorrow I'll be presenting this poster which gives a high-level overview of my research and analysis. To read the text you'll need to view it full size, or alternately you can download a pdf version.
