Prianka Smita will defend her thesis “Render Authenticity” on Tuesday September 15 at 6:30 PM at the BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design. Her thesis examines the rich history and unique culture of the Shakhari Bazar and proposes to instigate a healthy and informed dialogue to create a common goal of sustainable micro economy that refuses to accept uniformity and the disappearance of memory.
Kassie Miedema will defend her thesis “Urban Agriculture as an Agent for Social Change” on September 16 at 11:00 AM in ARC 3003. Her work proposes the creation of healthy, socially inclusive public and private spaces that reconnect people to nature through urban agriculture in London Ontario.
Vacant Storefront at 35/37 Main Street – September 14th 2014 Opportunity in Absence: Activating Vacant Space in The Temporary City Abstract by Zak Fish The vacant buildings in Cambridge await new uses as traditional commercial activity has shifted to the sprawl that defines the landscape between the city’s historic cores. Downtown businesses have been replaced by big-box suburban developments, leaving the question, what will fill the city’s urban voids? In declining manufacturing-based economies, like Cambridge,...
Karan Manchanda’s will defend his thesis “RAM [Remote Arctic Memory]” on Thursday September 10th at 11AM in the Cummings Lecture Theatre. His work investigates the coupling of communications and research infrastructure together to create a flexible and scalable connective network for the North. The proposal describes a “New North”, an Arctic networked through a series of monitoring towers deployed across the North to foster gathering of data and sharing of knowledge between researchers and the indigenous communities.
Animals are invading the city. Coyotes are sighted on downtown streets, raccoons notoriously forage through greenbins, and bears are trapped in suburban backyards. Sarah Gunawan’s thesis entitled “Synanthropic Suburbia” explores these conditions and re-imagines human animal interactions in the domestic realm. A series of telescoping design experiments use architecture to structure hybrid relationships that positively contribute to the suburban ecosystem. Her thesis defence will take place on Thursday September 10th at 2PM in the Loft.
Patti Beaulieu will defend her thesis entitled “Forgotton Landscapes: Restoring our Rural Imagination” on Thursday September 10th at 10am in ARC 1001. Her thesis challenges the existing remediation approaches to problems of dryland agriculture in Western Australia by attempting to address the disconnect between consumers and their rural footprint.
Mathew Winter’s thesis, Variations on a Theme of Deep Time: From Geology to Architecture draws a comparison between geology and architecture, to create an architecture of simultaneity. Everyone is welcome to attend his defence on Friday August 21, 2015 at 10:30 AM in ARC 2026.
Jennifer Beggs’s thesis entitled “Healing through Architecture,” explores the relationship between environments and the chemical reactions in the body that enable healing. She focused specifically on how architecture can have a positive impact on patients receiving chemotherapy. Jennifer will defend her these on Tuesday August 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM in ARC 1001.
“All matter is expressive. All matter, animate or inanimate, sentient or made, is filled with the infinite potential for difference and articulation. All things, all bodies, are equal.” Karine Quigley will defend her thesis entitled Vibratory Lines on Tuesday August 4, 2015 at 2:00 PM in the ARC Loft Gallery.
Farimah Tehrani’s thesis investigates the impact on the buildings in suburban areas that immigrant communities move to, and proposes to develop design strategies to establish a common built identity for communities shared by Canadians and new immigrants seeking a life in Canada.