Queer(ing) Space: Potentials of the In-Between

We have come to accept that architecture sustains matrices of patriarchy and heteronormativity. This thesis frames the subject around those who have been excluded from the canonical discourse, in the wider scene termed 'Queer'. It asks how we might begin to think of architecture beyond accepted structures - beyond binarization and oppositional logic. By tracing the historical context of specific events, sites, and urban zones, that have come to define LGBTQI2+ movements and culture, this study remains grounded in queer identities while uncovering an attitude of resistance and transformation. Born often out of necessity and survival, and existing outside heteronormative boundaries, these moments of appropriation begin to define an active queering of space. Taking a turn towards architecture and the potential for queering, the emerging project analyzes the bounds of inside/outside rhetoric and questions how to create new significations with a charge of multiplicity, openness, contradiction and contention.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Mclean, Mackenzie Victoria

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2020 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2020-14118

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/40612