Browsing by Subject "Phenomenology"
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Between Inside and Outside: Expanding Environmental Context Through Building Systems
(2015-04-06)This thesis explores how architecture can expand the conceived notion of enclosure to a greater environmental context, and how a building may become an instrument for experience and engagement across the interior/exterior ... -
Birthing and Being Birthed: Exploring How the Experience of Birth Trauma Impacts Birthing People in Their Postpartum Lives
(2020-08-10)Birth trauma is experienced by up to 30% of childbearing people and has negative health consequences. Further, birth trauma is poorly understood by healthcare providers and childbearing people’s embodied experiences of ... -
Collage of the Senses: Healing Devices for Transitional Pediatric Care in Calgary, Alberta
(2022-04-11)The current approach to pediatric healthcare design throughout North America produces three care scales: hospitals, clinics, and home care services. These forms of healthcare architecture often fail to create spaces that ... -
Connecting Water and Memory: Reshaping the Poetic Space of Canals in Amsterdam
(2020-08-21)Amsterdam is a poem about water, it sings in people’s mouths, and flows in the canals. Language and people are the carriers of memory and the symbolic composition of poetry. Travellers to Amsterdam end their journeys with ... -
A First Voice Perspective of Homelessness and End-of-life Care: A Vicious Cycle of Deteriorating Circumstances
(2020-12-15)Despite an increased risk of progressive illness(es) and mortality, there are limited resources available to serve the multifaceted end-of-life care (EOLC) needs for those experiencing homelessness. This population faces ... -
Four Architectural Design Methods for the Active Perceiver: A Study of Phenomenology and Place in the Architectural World
(2019-08-22)Dissecting the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this thesis aims to generate a collection of design methods founded in theories of perception and place. In an effort to comprehend the intangible aspects of ... -
Gateway to the Northern Isles: Growing Tourism in Shetland Through the Lenses of Landscape
(2018-04-06)This thesis identifies and seeks to utilize the inherent potential in the Shetland Islands for sustainably growing the tourism industry. It proposes the development of an architecture for observation as a means of reshaping ... -
THE GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF NURSES IN UNDERSTANDING HOPE IN PALLIATIVE CARE
(2015)This feminist phenomenological study explored the gendered experiences of nurses in understanding hope in palliative care. Six nurses from a palliative care unit in southern Ontario were purposely recruited for this study. ... -
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Grade 8 Students’ Physical Education Experiences in Nova Scotia
(2020-07-31)In Nova Scotia, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is responsible for overseeing curriculum changes and providing physical education (PE) teachers with professional development opportunities and ... -
The Meaning of the Breastfeeding Experience for Mothers in Critical Care
(2015)A small percentage of women will require hospitalization in a critical care unit during the postpartum period, and breastfeeding is a goal for many of these mothers. Critical care units are staffed by highly skilled health ... -
Miring in the Muck: Imagining Canada’s Regenerated Peatland
(2023-07-13)It is time that we mire ourselves in the muck. Peat-producing wetlands are disappearing into the atmosphere quicker than arctic sea ice is melting into the ocean, and they are taking millennia of sequestered carbon with ... -
Needing to be Normal: Understanding the Experiences and Barriers of Young Men with Ankylosing Spondylitis
(2013-08-23)Abstract Graeme Kohler BSc. (Health Education), MA (Health Promotion) School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University Objective: To understand the experiences of young men living with Ankylosing ... -
Neuroscience and Architecture:A Study of Housing for Seniors
(2024-04-11)This thesis focuses on the design of kitchen-dining spaces for autonomous to semi-autonomous seniors that addresses their neural needs, taking into consideration the declines that are occurring in the brain. Designers ... -
North Saskatchewan Spiritual: Reconnecting with Nature in the Edmonton River Valley
(2021-04-07)A strong connection to nature, wilderness, and landscape provides the foundation onto which life is constructed. But forces of industrialization and globalization have brought us to a time in which our built environments ... -
Site Based Phenomena
(2012-04-05)With the perpetual advancements in technology and communication the focus and obsession of architectural critique has become surfi cially focused on building “image”. This focus on image of architecture has taken away ... -
WAITING FOR A LIVER TRANSPLANT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS IN ATLANTIC CANADA
(2014-12-10)Liver transplantation is the only life-sustaining treatment available for patients with end stage liver disease, however the demand for these organs far exceeds availability. Many psychological, emotional and physical ... -
Zero Sperm Count and Biological Fatherhood: Elevating the Experiences of Men with Non-Obstructive Azoospermia
(2023-08-24)Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is the most severe form of male infertility that is caused by impaired sperm production. It is crucial to understand the experiences of NOA patients for whom surgical sperm retrieval, which ...
