Abstract
dc:description.abstractFor many, the gender binary is an experience of tyrannical and oppressive force upheld by the patriarchal and heteronormative power structures enmeshed in the built environment. Through investigation of the complex feedback relationship between our bodies and the social and physical landscapes in the performance and embodiment of gender, this thesis asks how non-heteronormative perspectives of self-understanding can construct liberatory spaces for us all. The theory of ‘transing’ spatializes the logic of expansive ideas of gender, integrating design as research method to explore a speculative transgender architecture as resistance to heteronormative spatial production. The sex-segregated washroom is unravelled as a rich ecosystem of gender affect, studied through spatial disciplinary tools, gender delineation, and matrices of power. In response, the potential of transed spaces is explored through architectural representation focused on embodied and relational experiences to create an ever-shifting and collaborative archive of gender affect.
Degree
thesis:*- 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
- 2025
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stokes, Micaela Louise
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright © 2025 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, distribution to students, research and scholarship. Theses may only be shared by linking to the Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be copied 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
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/43930