Protest and Checkmate: Breakthrough in the temporality of mapping

their places of living. This media became popular and applied as real-time responses during the massive protests in 2019 in Hong Kong. One of the anonymous streams of mapping produced more than 500 maps over the year and attracted thousands of views per each map. To understand the significance of real-time maps, this thesis investigated the...

An Interdisciplinary Study on the Parana Delta of Argentina

With combined efforts from water management, architectural and hydraulic engineering students, an interdisciplinary and resilient design is set up for the Paraná Delta. The design relates to all the current environmental, architectural and flood risk challenges - among others, as well as the potential issues in the future since the Paraná Delta...

Reading the Dirty, Thick, and Open: Two Theoretical Understandings of Digital Maps and Our Position as Reader

This thesis aims to revisit the conventions of digital mapping, by undergoing the theoretical endeavour to understand digital mapping beyond the convenient dichotomy, and find our position as readers. Two theoretical lenses are borrowed from the field of anthropology and art history, first being the “thick <br/>description” from Clifford Geertz,...

Suzhou Classical Gardens: The content, value and protection process of Suzhou Classical Gardens

This historic thesis is about the content, value and protection of Suzhou Classical Gardens. The author finds a clue that implies a historical timeline in these three aspects, and provides readers with an opportunity to have a more comprehensive understanding of Suzhou Classical Gardens. And this clue is based on the three different subjects:...