Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "home"
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Between Technological Flesh and the Technological Field: A phenomenology of the domestic interior
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)Swift and radical technological change necessitates a re-appraisal of the phenomenology of the house. Canonical phenomenology often has been technologically averse and the phenomenological appraisal of the house, as offered ... -
Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best Friends
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-21)Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best friends is a multi-media exhibition that investigates the personal, the socio-political and the cultural notions of home. The mind’s vision of home is most often ... -
Condocracy: The con-dos and the con-don'ts of condo community
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Condo development, as a form of housing, currently comprises almost half of all housing starts in Ontario. This type of development is aided by policy directives (Lehrer and Wieditz, 2009), and it is what Rosen and Walks ... -
A Dive into Chinese Science Fiction: A Language of the Chinese Dream
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)This thesis investigates an emerging international wave of fantastical writings that surfaced roughly a bit over a decade ago, the globalization of Chinese science fiction (SF or sci-fi). Underdiscussed in overseas modern ... -
Enduring Gardens: Woven by Friends into the Fabric of the Urban Community
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-13)For the most part, academic literature neglects the psychological impact of public gardens and the landscape on human well-being. Literature about botanical gardening and urban landscape design provide the foundation of ... -
How Do We Belong Here? The Evolution and Expression of Incidental Spaces of Belonging for Toronto's Chinese Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-13)The Chinese diaspora of immigrant cities have historically created spaces of enclosed cultural spheres for collective survival and adaptation and this thesis examines those of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Such ... -
I Have No Home But Me
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)I Have No Home But Me explores themes of home and duality through personal narratives embedded in my paintings and artists’ books. A duality that exists within a body does not necessarily exist as a pair of oppositions. ... -
I love my house. I am my house.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse out- side of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and ... -
Imperfect Heart
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Herein lies a personal inquiry and collection of beautiful ruin in an imperfect architectural world. The journey into abandoned ruin, born out of a curiosity to see what comes of viewing architecture in its darkest hours. ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
London Layover: Impermanent dwelling in a nomad's city
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-19)Presently, 190 million people live outside of their countries of origin. Almost all have moved in search of a better life: higher wages, or an escape from war or persecution. However, a small but growing demographic is ... -
Monster
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-09)451 Manning Avenue, home to an architect and an artist, has generated an adverse reaction within its community. The property is maintained as a testament to the Rao family history in Canada, but most visibly, Villa Rao ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Portable Post-Disaster Home
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)According to the United Nations statistics, since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced per year because of natural disasters. In other words, one person loses his/her home every second. This is ... -
Recreating a Taste of Home in Canada: A Radical Interpretive Inquiry into Toronto’s Intergenerational Chinese Food Sharing Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)In multicultural Toronto, there is a large and increasing Chinese population. However, only very limited recent sociological research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Chinese immigrants and the children of ... -
Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora presents works that contemplate the notion of home, post-migration. Inspired by my family’s journey from the Middle-East to Canada, the thesis examines ways in which the juxtaposition ... -
Where Ravens Dream: Encountering Property in Relation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)This thesis asks a personal question that I have struggled with since before the Masters program: Is Architecture inherently an imposition on place? Through personal relation, reciprocity and dialogue with a particular ...