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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"research-by-design"”.
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Time catalysts: research by design in the loose ends of Barcelona
… rights of appropriation and transformation. This research enquires about the use of time as a design tool in pursuit of such potentials. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks and architectural precedents, it establishes a critical under standing of the capacity of a deep, cross-scalar territory of …
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Unlocking Physical Spaces
This research examines how an architect might contribute to the social and public dimensions of contemporary Australian cities through small-scale, low-tech, object-based interventions. Employing a research-by-design methodology, original interventions that invigorate everyday, abandoned and …
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Repacking the supermarket: food retail evolution and futures
… chains. Spatially, supermarkets are generic, designed to create a convenient shopping experience but beyond the consumer-facing space hides a complex, often invisible, food supply system. On the supply side, food continues to become more global, moving further than before to sustain cheap …
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The Form of Energy. Solar landscapes in Europe as an architectural issue
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Space & event in contested territories: Public assembly through place-making tradition exploring tectonics and materials of the circular economy
Design is an iterative process. This design dissertation explores 'concept-form' by Tschumi (2010, pp. 15-19) who argues it is a generator of new conditions to freely inform or locate activities to generate events. Concept-form reflects a specific moment in a thought process when an architectural …
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Ready, Teacher One
… professional development sessions. The overall research by design model allowed the researcher and the teacher participants to address one of many gaps in the research on VR by investigating how three areas intersect: (1) teacher professional development, (2) immersive technologies, and (3) …
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LIFE ON THE EDGE: The Archeologist, the Oil Rig, and the Newfoundlander
… of the site and its immediate surroundings. This research by design project engages with questions of monumentality, counter-monumentality, and changing heritage through critical and speculative drawings and maps in a back-and-forth between water, landscape and the possibilities of a reconstituted …
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Challenges Facing Small Hotel Operators in Tanzania –A Case Study of Arusha Municipality
… Municipality; and to identify measures taken by small hotel operators towards addressing challenges they face. This was essentially a descriptive research by design. The sample for this research comprised of57 managers of the selected hotels, hotel staff and supervisors. Purposive and simple …
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City Farm Garden : countering the impacts of urban expansion in a rural valley in the Western Cape through a gardening approach to place-making
… gardens provided the basis from which a research by design methodology could be developed. Michel Desvigne’s methods and approaches to multi-scalar landscapes led to the exploration of pilot gardens, as places of experimentation and exploration of regional landscape character on a small …
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Territory, Settlement, Household: A Project of Rural China
… and intellectually under-developed. The key research question is thus: what does being rural mean socio-spatially? Structured by three main studies of the rural-urban relationship, the cross-scalar framework and research by design, the thesis explores ‘rurality’ as a spatial question at the …
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The particlizing of matter between ORDER & CHAOS. Analisi e sperimentazione
… perseguendo la logica della metodologia ‘research by design’, è rintracciabile nell’indagine sull’apparato teorico – ovvero di concetti quali particellizzazione, spatial layering, ordine e caos, natura e anti-natura, forma e informe, computazione e computerizzazione - e nella definizione, …
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Exploring architectural knowledge in water sensitive design
Across the academic sphere, much research has been conducted into the development of water-sensitive elements to address issues around urban water management. However, these elements are commonly investigated in isolation, with little consideration for initiatives from other disciplines that may …
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Reimagining Urban Leftover Spaces Under Overpasses: Mitigating Urban Heat Islands and Heatwaves Through Green Space Transformation
… in the Urban Canopy Layer (UCL). Recent research has investigated the contribution of microclimate parametric in specific urban typologies such as plazas and streets. However, the wasted under-bridge space, which is hard to utilize and usually deemed an obstacle to community connection, …
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Architecture of the Everyday: a Design Response for the Gaza Strip, Palestine
This research by design project draws on the notion of the ‘Architecture of the Everyday’ in order to investigate the relationship between the active and on-going situation of conflict and the changing social needs of occupants in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Gaza is a setting with profound …
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Process oriented infrastructure for climate-driven forest migration through cities
… of suitable climates is highly constrained by species dispersal capabilities and human-created barriers. In order to assist forest migration, many efforts have been made to translocate tree species from their native ranges to locations where the climate is projected to be suitable in the …
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Performative Interventions In Public Space: Moments of Urban Transformation in Athens
This research by design is concerned with forming a critique of the temporary uses of public space by socio-cultural activists in Athens, Greece, through the development of notational drawings and filmic experiments. The aim is to propose a method to sustain and construct conditions for temporary …