Browsing by Subject "Perception"
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Against the Current: Redefining Relationships Within Salmon Ecosystems
(2018-04-06)How cultures view nature and the environment shape how we dwell within the environment. When examining wild salmon and their habitat along the Fraser River watershed it is clear that these perceptions have had a detrimental ... -
Coastline as Commons: Using Spatial Devices to Link Littoral Temporalities
(2021-08-12)This thesis argues that architectural interventions can extend the water commons to the fluctuating littoral zone of Kjipuktuk/Halifax Harbour. The present composition of the Harbour as a working waterway favours a colonial ... -
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ... -
Frames + Fieldnotes: Existential Architectures for the Landscape of Climate Change
(2016-04-08)The transcendental experiences and perceptual insights evoked by good architecture are not merely qualitative outcomes. They form the elements of a way of measuring what is much larger than our selves. This thesis explores ... -
FROM ANOMIE TO AGRICULTURE: ON SPATIALLY PRODUCED VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND ARCHITECTURE
(2019-04-04)This thesis investigates the transformative potential of architecture as means of mitigating violence in West Garfield Park, Chicago (Illinois, United States). The unremitting violence that plagues the area has accelerated ... -
Gateway to the Northern Isles: Growing Tourism in Shetland Through the Lenses of Landscape
(2018-04-06)This thesis identifies and seeks to utilize the inherent potential in the Shetland Islands for sustainably growing the tourism industry. It proposes the development of an architecture for observation as a means of reshaping ... -
On the inhibitory consequences of visuospatial orienting: Inhibition of return?
(2016-02-29)Responding is typically slowest toward (an “output” bias) or about (an “input” bias) targets presented at the location indicated by a spatially uninformative visual transient (a “cue”) when the onset asynchrony between the ... -
Spaces of Commonality and Change: Re-constructing Ruins Amongst Cultural Values in Iznik, Turkey
(2022-08-31)Material cultures of past and present societies are increasingly being threatened to lose their sense of place to commodification and dominant powers. Such forces of economy and politics in a globalized world are shaping ...