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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Meeting place"”.
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Move forward, into the city, my celebration : a meeting place between the rural immigrant and the urban context
The aim of the dissertation is to create a meeting place between the rural immigrant and the city. It is a system that recognizes the various layers in which the horizontal human meets the vertical city. The meeting place must act as a transition facility where one enters the complex mechanics of …
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A journey through the passage of light and space
… to explore issues presented. It allows for a meeting place for individuals as well as a meeting place for the body and its spirit.
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Burnley: for the noumuns
… Alexander as a hypercomplex "social space," "a meeting place" where "borders are porous and shifting." BURNLEY: for the noumuns interrogates the history of the town's hypercomplex cultural experience and asks how heterogenous cultures of Burnley's past intersect, produce, and re-emerge in the …
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A place of entry
In the school there is meeting. If you thought of the nature of a school, you would never have a corridor in a school. You would have a hall in a school. Where it is a meeting place for people not in any way obligated to each other, have no source of being judged. And it becomes in a way the …
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Transition between a town and campus: a wall, a tower
… to reconcile conflicting polarities. Provide the place where they can interchange and you re-establish the original twin phenomena. Aldo Van Eyck The thesis of this project focuses on the transition between a town and campus. The proposal is made for a shared urban room or plaza space that demarks …
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Saad éí ná’iiłná
… western notions of genre, my dissertation is a meeting place for traditional Diné stories, family stories, memory, poetry, teachings from medicine people, photographs, and other forms of telling. Through “ná’iiłná,” stories, in all their forms, have the power to carry a person into the future, …
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Voices on the Horizon: A Theory of Ludic Rhetoric
… truth. Reclaiming traditional rhetoric as a meeting place for potential negotiation and cooperation encourages constructive civic discourse. The conclusion of this dissertation proposes that attention to the play of rhetoric in the history of ideas opens the possibility for teaching …
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Patterns of Regionalism and Security: Energy as a Transformational Influence in the Black Sea Region
… the region was quite frequently a violent meeting place, and thus instead of a bridge between civilizations, it has been a barrier. Even more compelling is how the presence of oil and gas has thrust the Black Sea into the world's view and contributed to the rush of external interest, and …
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Perceptions of Age in Early Childhood Settings and their Communities: How do young children view people aged 55 and over? How do people aged 55 and over view young children?
… revealed the concept of an intergenerational “meeting place”, highlighting shared understandings of play, the significance of treats, and the role of grandparents in children’s lives which contribute to existing knowledge.<br/>
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Understanding informal segregation : racial and spatial identities among the Indian minority of Mokopane
South Africa is a melting pot and a meeting place for a multitude of "races", representing an optimal arena for understanding the psychology of contact and desegregation. This study focuses on the spatial arrangement of minority identities, through continued informal segregation, among the Indian …
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The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia
… asserts that the relationship of this cinema its place of production can be best understood in terms of media globalization, rather than in the more conventional terms of national cinema development. Through an assessment of the history of cinema in British Columbia, the political economy of the …
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Let's meet at the Civic Center!
… pub, etc. Most importantly, it functioned as a meeting place for the public. However, as an architecture typology, the town hall does not scale as the municipality expands. The administrative parts of the town hall can grow or multiply proportionally with the population, but the public functions …
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A sacred architecture for the secular spirit : an institute for mind/body training in New York City
… without simply importing cultural relics from places in which those philosophies have flourished in the past. More difficult was the decision to apply meditation philosophy not just to the design, but to the process of designing. The functional purpose of the building is somewhat flexible. …
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Mend: a personal exploration of healing
… for needlework connects us again and provides a meeting place that bridges the divide caused by absences in the past and in the present. Divided into two columns, 'academic' and 'personal', in subtitled paragraphs elaborate and reflect on 'memory', 'family narrative', 'trauma', 'needlework' and …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… framework. In this I cast the Americas as a meeting place wherein its various senses can defamiliarize, critique, and extend each other within an historicized and historicizing frame that recontextualizes knowledge outside the disciplinary borders of colonial modernity. I explore such themes …
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Georgia Female School Superintendents: Perceptions of Isolation
… telephone and e-mail to determine a convenient meeting place, date, and time. The researcher assured the superintendents that their identity would remain confidential; therefore, each superintendent was given a fictitious name, and the participants' responses were presented with the assigned …
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Library - Between past and present
… a society. Public libraries are often located at places of urban significance or, in the course of time help to establish the latter. They may be landmarks in the urban landscape and help to orient oneself. A public library serves the people, and its spirit should be truly public. A City and …
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The Secular Monastery: a research center in the Negev Desert
… the city of Eilat in southern Israel, will be a meeting-place for scientists and artists from around the world interested in issues pertaining to the desert. It will be a ‘monastery of the mind’. Semi-autonomous and distanced from an urban setting, this will be a place for intellectual refuge, a …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… specifically, it explores the role of the Maori meeting house – and the material arts it houses – as both a formal and thematic influence in their fiction. The meeting house is a wooden apex structure that traditionally symbolises the collective body of a Maori community and narrates their …
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In and Out of Memory: Exploring the Tension Between Remembering and Forgetting When Recalling 9/11, a Traumatic Event
… that fixes them historically in a specific place and time, unwieldy anchors for a body that is neither here (present), nor there (in the past). I analyse this paradox from philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives. Through a layered arts practice of text, sonic art work, and moving and …
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