NSCAD University Institutional Repository

This repository showcases the archival and scholarly record of the NSCAD community.

Collections exhibited here include a selection of digitized items from the NSCAD Feminist Collective Women's File fonds, a collection of digitized scrapbooks containing NSCAD memorabilia dating back to 1921, a collection of books authored by past principal Elizabeth Styring Nutt, and digitized audio materials including lectures, performances, and sound art.

The repository is also a space for students and faculty to deposit and showcase research, scholarship, and practice in art, craft, and design. Current collections in this vein include graduate theses dating from 1976 to present.

We are currently working on creating a space here for faculty and students to deposit other research and creation outputs including alternative publications and research data.

Terms of use: All items in the NSCAD Institutional Repository are protected by copyright. Please contact the NSCAD Library for inquiries regarding use of digital content.

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Recent Submissions

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    Wayfinding Through Waste: A Collective, Living Archive of Coastal Plastic
    (2025-04-16) Holm, Signy
    Through the transdisciplinary lens of feminist materialism, this research uses counter-archiving to reconsider human-plastic relations and find new ways to live-with the ubiquity of plastic marine debris. Emerging from my solitary practice of beachcombing as an embodied research-creation method, I sought to transform plastic waste into unique artifacts. Through two participatory gallery installations, participants were asked to respond to a series of open-ended, affect-driven prompts encouraging a deeper curiosity towards these artifacts, and in turn they contributed to a collective ‘living’ archive of marine plastic. A responsive postfoundational framework was employed, resulting in a new form of inquiry I refer to as ‘speculative narrativization’. This unconventional methodology led to a collaborative re-storying of each artifact and the emergence of previously unpercieved meaning. This thesis advocates for the use of affective participatory counter-archiving to re-examine our entangled relationship with plastic pollution and proposes the potential adaptation of this model within environmentalism, citizen-science and other cross-disciplinary contexts.
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    Letter to Charlotte Townsend-Gault from Ger Van Elk:
    Letter is dated August 17, 1971.
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    Patterson Ewan: Presentation:
    (1973-03-26)
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    (NSCAD, 1974)
    American sculptor and environmental artist Agnes Denes talks about her work and the influence she receives from science, nature, and dialectic triangulation.