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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"in-between spaces"”.
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‘In between spaces’: experiences of asylum seekers in the ‘direct provision’ system in Ireland
People seeking protection in European countries, and elsewhere, are detained, dispersed and deported, their lives treated as ‘waste’ or ‘reject’. As part of the increasing politics of exclusion in countries of immigration, there is an increasing number of spaces, between and within borders, in …
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The role of in-between spaces within outdoor school environments in children’s expression of agency
This study is an investigation of in-between spaces within outdoor school environments. It explores these spaces from children’s perspectives to identify their influence on children’s expression of agency. Although there are extensive environment–behaviour studies of the physical environments of …
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Designing is Cooking: A Museum of Gastronomy
… of Gastronomy, a museum located at the Washington D.C. National Mall, would dedicate a space to a full-sense experience pursuing a relationship between food, culture, and design. The National Mall is a symbolic setting dedicated to U.S. heritage via museums, memorials, and the honoring of …
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Thresholds and Transitions: Inbetween the public and private realm
My thesis is an attempt to examine and study the in-between spaces between buildings.With my design as a vehicle, taking an entire block of Blacksburg, I have tried to explore the idea by which one could offer a transitional moment between buildings. The in-between spaces provide an opportunity to …
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Inbetween spaces: investigation of materials in contrast
Urbanity ls the use of the in-between spaces; use of every available lot, every square inch of space.
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Ajami : spaces between the street and the privacy of home
The thesis investigates, by research and design, spaces which are located between the street and the privacy of home, focusing on the case-study of Ajami; a mixed Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli neighborhood in Jaffa, lying on the seashore of the Mediterranean. The houses in Ajami are …
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Hyphen
… pieces explore ideas of memory, identity, emptiness, loss, love and joy. They are rooted in an itinerant experience of this world and question the concepts of belonging, home, usefulness, art, god and beauty. Most of the work has been inspired by places, moods and events in Mauritius, Saudi …
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The In-Betweenness: Work Space of the Future
Individuals spend so many hours every day in their work spaces of different kinds. Different people have different needs in term of the quality of the space in which they are working. As a result it's important to provide a variety of spaces for people to be able to choose from and spend their work …
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Architectura Laticis
Public spaces can have the Architecture that supports the movement of people, a rhythmic movement from one space to another. This thesis is an exploration on how Architecture can transition in a natural, fluid way. It questions how one moves through space without well-defined boundaries that …
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Interstitial passages: re-enactment of queer bodies of color in art and literature
My project explores the connections between literature and visual art to re-enact and re-imagine queer bodies of color in liminal spaces or porous passages as a means of contesting invisibility, exclusion, and displacement. I engage in the literature of James Baldwin and John Rechy and the …
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Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry
This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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Alternative Urbanism Between The Formal And Informal: Investigating The Transformative Potential Of Small Urban Interventions In Neoliberal Cairo
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing research interest in community-based small urban interventions that have been activating and reshaping urban spaces in many cities around the world. The study engages with the arguments regarding the transformative potential of these alternative …
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
In The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha introduces his concepts of the third space, in-between spaces, the beyond and hybridity to explore how subordinated people – including colonized people, minorities and migrants – resist the dominant group’s power and generate newness. Newness, as presented by …
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Soils of regeneration: exploring conceptualizations of the natural world as a context for an ecologically-sensitive curriculum
… education. This study explores the relationship between the ecological crisis and education by examining the role that language plays in shaping perceptions of the natural world. Toward this end it analyzes narratives of science, literature and other disciplines that conceptualize the natural …
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O CANADA, WHOSE HOME AND NATIVE LAND? AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE CRITICAL ROLE OF CURRICULUM IN IDENTITY AFFIRMATION
… of conscience, religion, thought, belief, and opinion. However, the interpretation of such freedoms, and the extent of accommodation within the context of secular public schools, is not always clear (Shariff, 2006). I am a mother of four children who hold multiple identities, languages, …
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States of play: Irish childhoods, race and belonging
This thesis explores the meaning-making practices of migrant and non-migrant children in relation to identities, race, belonging and childhood itself in their everyday lives and in the context of ‘normalizing’ discourses and spaces in Ireland. The relational, spatial and institutional contexts of …