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Mapping Possibilities for Conviviality: Inclusive Dialogues to Revitalize Calgary's Heart

dc.contributor.authorWeiss, Jared
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorSteve Parcellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerSarah Bonnemaisonen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerJoyce Hwangen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorChristine Macyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T13:19:00Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T13:19:00Z
dc.date.defence2023-06-21
dc.date.issued2023-07-13
dc.description.abstractThis thesis serves as a framework for the re-imagination of urban infrastructure. Calgary’s Canadian Pacific rail corridor is the study site, bisecting the downtown and creating exclusionary space in the city’s heart. The exploration of unconventional mapping methods reveals the space’s latent potential, allowing the conviviality of a broader variety of inhabitants, particularly those marginalized or voiceless in current municipal planning processes. The thesis investigates the origins of Calgary’s exclusionary approach to urban planning and proposes alternative methodologies that give agency to the disempowered—particularly ‘design by improvisation’—a rehearsal of engagement processes inclusive of human, animal, and environmental inhabitants. This method is employed through the speculative design of three projects along the corridor: a landscaped park accommodating wildlife and children, a commercial-to-residential adaptive reuse providing housing for the elderly and those experiencing houselessness, and schematic design reinterpreting the Fort Calgary site, from the perspective of Indigenous communities and rivers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/82691
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectCalgaryen_US
dc.subjectPublic Spaceen_US
dc.subjectInfrastructureen_US
dc.subjectUrban Geographyen_US
dc.subjectMapping in Architectureen_US
dc.subjectRevitalizationen_US
dc.subjectRail Corridoren_US
dc.subjectCo-existenceen_US
dc.subjectConvivialityen_US
dc.titleMapping Possibilities for Conviviality: Inclusive Dialogues to Revitalize Calgary's Hearten_US

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