Browsing by Subject "Adaptation"
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Adapting Tristram Shandy
(2011-09-07)Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has been noted as an unconventional eighteenth-century novel and it has long been considered unadaptable and unfilmable. In the last decade, however, ... -
Amphibious Islands: Decay, Ecology, and the Future of the Venetian Lagoon
(2023-04-11)Venice, Italy is a city of constant fluctuations, existing amphibiously between fixed states, of past and present, fact and fiction, restored and ruin. For centuries, Venice, its peoples, and its lagoon have formed a ... -
Built for Change: An Adaptive Approach to the Diversification of Halifax’s Residential Neighbourhoods
(2021-07-26)Residential patterns across Canada have longstanding social and urban qualities that are no longer suited to our current socio-economic world, including smaller and more diverse households and the need to integrate activities ... -
Identity Erosion: Adaptive Architecture for the Evolving Coastline of Fortune, Newfoundland
(2019-08-13)Newfoundland’s cultural identity is derived from a historical relationship with the sea. Situated to ensure access to fishing grounds, outports’ dependence on the fertile waters of the Atlantic guided the settlement patterns ... -
Recognizing the Passage of Time to Auschwitz-Birkenau: An Admonishing Memorial
(2012-08-23)The grounds and buildings of highly loaded historic sites are continually changing due to environmental and human interaction, ecological erosion, disposition, erasure and the various levels of human intervention. ... -
Time, Space and Adaptation: A Strategy Towards Growth From Within
(2016-04-11)To adapt is to transform to become better suited to the conditions of an environment. Through expressing a narrative of adaptation in architecture we can evoke both cultural continuity and the potential for change through ... -
Updating Library, Architectural Adaptation in Response to the Virtual Space of the Internet
(2013-12-13)The explosion of new technologies, predominantly the increased inhabitation of the virtual space of the Internet, implies an emergent organization that challenges the existing structures of our established institutions. ... -
WHAT’S YOUR NEXT MOVE? MULTIPLE SPATIALLY DEFINED RESPONSE BIASES AFFECT CONSECUTIVE EYE AND ARM MOVEMENTS.
(2018-07-18)Inhibition of return (IOR) is an orienting phenomenon thought to promote efficient visual search by biasing attention, eye movements, or both, toward novel locations. When IOR is present, reaction times (RTs) are slowest ...