Browsing by Subject "technology"
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"BEING BY MYSELF AND BELIEVING IN US" - THE EXPERIENCE OF PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH DURING AN INTIMATE PARTNER'S MILITARY DEPLOYMENT
(2015-04-07)For Canadian military families (CMFs), pregnancy and childbirth can occur in tandem with a military deployment. The central issue is that a military deployment of an intimate partner introduces unique stressors that can ... -
Building With Trees: Steps Forward in Forest Informed Design
(2022-08-29)This thesis builds on the roundwood construction methods of Ben Law, the experiments with grown form carried out at Hooke Park, and the forestry-to-building integration by the firm Whole Trees Structures. All three feature ... -
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE FRAMEWORK FOR OCEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDIES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
(2010-08-20)Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become “Trojan machines of social inequity” due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture ... -
Embodied, Embedded, Emergent: New Digital Strategies for Cross Laminated Timber Fabrication and Use
(2013-08-09)This thesis focuses on analyzing Cross Laminated Timber manufacture and use for the purpose of suggesting ways to enrich involved technology through the further application of digital fabrication techniques. Framed within ... -
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 ... -
Morphing informatique et hybridation technologique: Des artistes plasticiens à la recherche de leur double
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Negotiating Form: Reconciling Two Philosophies of Making Through the Adaptive Reuse of the Petroleum Service Station
(2017-09-01)The community workshop is a space where a group of individuals can collaborate and share knowledge and expertise to create customized products for themselves and their peers. These communities have crystalized around ... -
A Process of Innovation: Technological Development in Wood Construction
(2012-04-05)This thesis explores the use of small diameter, round timber in the construction of lightweight gridshell structures. The project intention is to develop a simple and accessible construction method, based on locally available ... -
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
(2016-04-08)Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ...