Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Van Pelt, Robert Jan"
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Closet Architecture: Reflections on the queer domestic interior
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-15)In the midst of a cultural moment that has seen a moratorium placed on public space, and a growing sense of contraction and isolationism on a global scale, our attention shifts to the private domestic realm. We zoom in, ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
Nala: In Search of a Way
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-16)Bound within two units in a strip of industrial warehouses, the Hindu temple of my youth is a compromise of the ancient to the Canadian. A temple birthed by necessity, it exists in a state of purgatory, doomed to be abandoned ... -
TRANSCENDENCE: Being on the Edge of Meaning
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-13)The erosion of the body, the other, and the tangible world now permeate all facets of contemporary existence, extending beyond the confines of a debilitating disease—a mode of non-existence until death. We are separating ... -
Urban Renewal as Violence: Documenting the Erasure of Wooster Square
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)In American urban development, a defining period known as the urban renewal era took place in the decades after the Second World War. Many cities in the United States experienced a new interest in addressing urban decay; ...