Browsing by Subject "social"
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Blurring Boundaries: Waste as a Vehicle for a Social Metamorphosis
(2013-08-08)In 2001, Argentina suffered an economic collapse that almost wiped out the middle-class, leaving thousands homeless. This resulted in the growth of the informal settlements and informal sectors of employment in and around ... -
An Everyday Monument: Architecture as a Frame to Reveal the Historical and Liminal Site
(2015)The city is a manifestation of culture, containing its history and informing its transformation. Preservation and erasure of the historical city through regulation distances its artifacts and spaces from everyday lived ... -
HYBRID SPACE: DESIGNING THE INTERFACE OF PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL PUBLICS
(2019-04-04)The term “mixed reality” (MR) describes an environment comprised of real-time, spatially-linked physical and digital content connected through the interface of digital technologies. While social and technological trends ... -
Negotiating ‘Gastro-anomie’: Exploring the Relationship Between Food, the Body & Identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the relationship between food and identity. Drawing on the concept of ‘gastro-anomie’, or ‘food normlessness’, it asks how individuals’ make sense of food and eating in the context of an increasingly ... -
Out of Site, Out of Mind: Reading the Ground as Architectural Language in Waste Landscapes
(2023-08-27)The wastescape is a type of de-industrialized and contaminated landscape. Bound by water and unseen in urban areas, they often remain outside of our consciousness. Current remediation practices involve intensive operations ... -
Resettlement: Using Place-Based Architecture to Create Modern Agricultural Communities
(2020-04-30)Suburbanization has homogenized the development and organization of rural communities in North America and around the globe. By focusing primarily on providing automotive circulation characterized by low population density, ... -
Residual City: Decoupling Amenity from Capital through the Wedge
(2023-07-11)This thesis examines the crisis of amenity and public space in the contemporary city, wherein neoliberal policies placed the needs of citizens onto the free market while divesting in public spaces and services. Today ... -
RESOURCEFUL MATERIALS: A Critical Framework for Repurposing in Architecture – A Method of Material Resourcefulness and Diverting Waste from Landfills
(2017-04-27)This thesis is an investigation into the use of unconventional materials in architecture – ones not typically used as building materials: repurposed items. A framework is established for how to select items for repurposing ...