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Refusing to Resolve: A speculative design brief for those who take note—without needing to tidy it up.

Denney, Adam Refusing to Resolve: A speculative design brief for those who take note—without needing to tidy it up. 2026. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.

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Welcome. This is not a manual or a map. It’s a companion for when things don’t resolve. What you hold is fragmented by design: modular, incomplete, and full of refusal. You can start anywhere. Skip around. Some pages may stay with you; others may not. This work resists the pressure to tidy what’s complex. It doesn’t ask you to synthesize. It asks you to stay—with grief, with memory, with what got left out. Let it be what you need: a pause, a tool, a question, a trace. You don’t need to finish this to belong to it. Your way through is enough. Thank you for being here.

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Item Type: Thesis
Subjects: N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Divisions: Radford University > College of Visual and Performing Arts > Department of Design
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2026 05:32
URI: http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/1332

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