Browsing by Subject "Narrative"
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Childless or Childfree? Women’s Narratives of Ambivalence and Identity
(2017-04)The childlessness discourse is overpowered by biomedical interventions of infertility, while ambivalence is overlooked. This study aims to vocalize this overlooked perspective by focusing on the identity narratives of seven ... -
De(mock)ratizing the Nova Scotia Legislature: A Socio/Architectural Deconstruction
(2014-08-15)This thesis explores architecture as a mode of criticism. The project interrogates the western neoliberal status quo through an architectural deconstruction of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the heart of downtown Halifax. ... -
Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ... -
If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring Architecture as a Narrative Medium through the Rehabilitation of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
(2012-08-07)This thesis explores how architecture, like literature and fi lm, uses narrative techniques to tell a story. The museum exemplifies this concept of architecture as a narrative medium, as its social mandate is to articulate ... -
Invoking Memory: Traced Narratives of Mabou, Cape Breton
(2021-08-31)This thesis investigates how memory is stored and transferred in rural landscapes by analyzing fading cultural histories evidenced in a set of lines in Mabou, Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Traces of the past manifest ... -
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ... -
Pieces of the Prairie: Informing New Architecture for a Saskatchewan Cultural Landscape
(2014-04-04)Since the major influx of settlement in the 19th century, architecture on the Saskatchewan prairie has focused on imported types and products, a condition that has contributed to the lack of a clear regional architectural ... -
Setting the Scene: Cinematic Syntax as a way of Forming Identity in the Generic City
(2022-04-11)There is a syntax that exists in film, architecture, and the city, elements that come together to form a language. This language creates a relationship between different components, forming a point of view, through space ...