dc.contributor.author | Leung, Vincent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-20T14:29:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-20T14:29:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-19 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82715 | |
dc.description.abstract | Policing and surveillance contribute to the segregation and oppression of marginalized
communities across North America. The police state’s power is maintained through
architecture and urban design, making the architect complicit in these power structures.
In Halifax, the David P Mckinnon Police Headquarters (completed in 1975) has cemented
spatial and social divisions for the communities of the North End and Uniacke Square.
This project learns from contemporary discourses of police reform by transforming the
McKinnon building to a space for public programming. Methodologically, the project engages
twentieth-century history of political action in artistic and architectural representation to
develop a contemporary strategy for spatial resistance. The design incorporates new
community-centric architectural programs and form making to rethink Halifax's urban and
political condition. A broad strategy of "preventive law enforcement" is explored in three
large-scale experimental drawings that reorganize the conventional relationships between
architectural representation and structures of power. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Halifax | en_US |
dc.subject | North End | en_US |
dc.subject | Downtown | en_US |
dc.subject | Police | en_US |
dc.subject | Gottingen Street | en_US |
dc.subject | Cogswell Street | en_US |
dc.subject | David P McKinnon Police Headquarters | en_US |
dc.subject | Defund the Police | en_US |
dc.subject | Art History | en_US |
dc.subject | Dadaism | en_US |
dc.subject | #Neo_Dadaism | en_US |
dc.subject | Memes | en_US |
dc.subject | Contemporary Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture Representation | en_US |
dc.subject | Community | en_US |
dc.subject | Power | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture | en_US |
dc.subject | Panopticon | en_US |
dc.subject | Derive | en_US |
dc.subject | Surveillance | en_US |
dc.title | Defunding Halifax Police with an Art Historical and Contemporary Framework in Architecture | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2023-06-19 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Catherine Venart | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Bruce Barber | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Nichole Wiedemann | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Michael Faciejew | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |