Relinquish to Dust: A Centre for (w)Resting Grief in Toronto's Community
| dc.comment.hidden | June 24, 2014 Comments: Hello, I was trying to contact Trevor this morning (email & phone) about some of the changes requested to my pdf, however, I didn't hear back before uploading this pdf to meet today's deadline. My concerns are regarding how some of the text is deemed not visible, but this is intentional. "1. Title Page - the text should be centred. DONE 2. Title Page - remove your student id number. DONE 3. Title Page - remove the following words 'in Engineering'. DONE 4. Page 4 - it appears as though the text and image on page 5 are creating a 'mirror effect' on page 4, as a result some of the content on page 4 is not visible. * 5. Pages 12, 142 - remove the blank page OR remove the visible page number AND footer title. DONE - removed number and title 6. Pages 15, 16, 37, 38, 55, 56, 71, 72, 85, 86, 102 - text is not visible due to the 'mirror effect'.*~" *The pages indicated 4,16,38,56,72,86,102 are printed on translucent paper. So in the hard copy you have an image printed on one side with a poem printed on the other side. However, due to it being translucent - information from the next page or previous page subtly bleeds through. For example the text that is showing on page 16 isn't supposed to be legible until flipping that page over - revealing the poem on page 17 and the beginning of the section text on page 18. Does this make sense? Can I just leave this? These pages act as 'images' - not 'text'. ~The pages preceding these: 15,37,55,71,85 have also been indicated as having text not visible. I'm assuming this is referring to the headers with colour blocks behind. There should only be one word legible (in black) with the other words fading into the background (in grey). I don't want those other words to be legible. For this upload I made the words in grey even lighter. Thanks! June 20, 2014 Comments: Hello, I am so excited to be in the final stretch of the thesis process! Just some comments to help move this part along: - For my printed copies I have been working with some special pages that introduce each section in the book. These include full bleeds, a translucent page and a trimmed page with a small wedge cutout. I have tried to accommodate in the pdf for how this would look. The cutouts & trimmed edge reveal the next page beyond and the translucent page allows some of the next page to read through. However, if I need to change these pages even more for the online pdf, please let me know how I can accommodate to get a similar effect! (example pages: 13,14,15,16,17) I also have some oversize pages that fold out: p 28-33. 8.5x17 (some of which bleed off the top & bottom, since that is easy to trim down from an 11x17 page). So if I need to bring up white space here for the online version, let me know. - Is the hyphen in my first name considered a diacritic? (I am referring to the labelling of the pdf itself) - Also, in my abstract I’d like so put ‘grief work’ in italics (last paragraph, first sentence), but there doesn’t seem to be a ‘Special Characters’ button to do so. That is all I can think of for now. Thanks! | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Veenstra, Anna-Joy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-24T19:32:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-24T19:32:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06-24 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Currently, the spaces designated for death in the city of Toronto are separated from other programmes — in states that range from neglected, full, inactive or marginalized — while any new sites are pushed to the outskirts. The decrease in time provided to grieve and in places to face the mystery of death means Toronto residents are losing their connections to the sacred. The proposal aims to embrace grief in order to integrate this shadow of death into the urban fabric and everyday life of the Toronto community. Without this integration, loss, grief and death will remain on the periphery, increasing the danger of creating a city without memory — a city in denial of both death and its citizens’ mortality. So how can we acknowledge and address grieving, both as individuals and as a city? How can we, as a community within the city, grieve together? How can we make space for grief in the city? Seeking to implement a new vision for Toronto, this thesis project looks for ways to incorporate the cycle of life, death and rebirth into the city, allowing grief to be part of the urban reality. Locating a new centre for grief on the lakefront, the project learns from a variety of people, built works, data, sketches and books that range in reference from psychology and anthropology to sociology and architecture. All these disciplines are appropriated in order to inform the creation of a new centre that makes room for grief in an individual’s life, a community and the city. The thesis proposes “A Centre for (w)Resting Grief” that can be employed as a restorative, liberating, learning and socially-cohesive medium to facilitate and embrace each other’s life-long search for meaning after loss through grief work. The “Centre” designates a place for grief in the heart of urban Toronto. “Wresting Grief” describes the intention to regain the proper position of grief as a natural process in our lives. “Resting Grief” refers to then being able to confront and be at peace with loss in our contemporary society. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8553 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | Veenstra | en |
| dc.subject | Anna-Joy | en |
| dc.subject | Toronto | en |
| dc.subject | Grief | en |
| dc.subject | Death | en |
| dc.subject.program | Architecture | en |
| dc.title | Relinquish to Dust: A Centre for (w)Resting Grief in Toronto's Community | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | School of Architecture | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |