Architecture as a Sounding Board

"The proclivity to unrest and 'culture of conflict' can be linked, in part, to Berlin residents' characteristic tough, combative physiognomy and how they have imagined and represented themselves and their city over time" (Davis, 2007). Berlin has witnessed conflicts on various fronts, including politics, social issues, economics, and culture,...

Modern architecture in twentieth century protestant church design in The Netherlands: The design of protestant churches in a modern style

Since the beginning of the twentieth century modernistic movements gained influence in architecture and also in church architecture. Specified on protestant churches, we find that a church is a really special building. The design as to be serving the congregation, so they can serve their God. But the design also has to say something to the world...

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...

Who are they? What do they want? And why do they want it?: An explorative case study to the diverging and converging ideas on housing of attendees of the 2021 housing protest in Amsterdam

The Dutch population is facing a housing crisis. This crisis has slowly been affecting housing options in the whole country, but it predominantly shows problems in the densely populated urban regions. In September 2021, approximately 15000 gathered in Amsterdam at a large housing protest: the Woonprotest. This research is an explorative case...

Towards an Architecture Activist Practice: A Position of Design in the Climate Catastrophe

Scientists observe changes in the registers of our earth, rising Co² levels, changes in methane concentration, acidification of the oceans, and the degradation of soil. These changes in the registers of our earth proliferate environmental catastrophes that destabilize intricate webs of life. The human in the Anthropocene, and with it its...

#Hashtags as a Means for Political Action: Exploring the Impact of Hashtag Activism on Political Processes Using Geolocated Social Media Data

Throughout history, social movements have often been catalysts for radical societal change. In the past two decades, hashtag activism, the use of social media platforms for internet activism, has become a driving force behind the development of social movements across the world. From #MeToo to #IdleNoMore and most recently #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd...

The public interior: A Social condenser in Hong Kong

Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...

Decolonising the City: Public Space as Cultural Resistance in Santiago de Chile

Protest has become a ubiquitous part of urban life as a result of the conditions that command processes of urbanisation. This project concerns itself with the advocation for spatial agency in cities by understanding how public space can contribute a form of cultural resistance within turbulent political and social contexts. The thesis aims to be...

Landscapes of Resistance: documenting the frontline of Climate Change in Louisiana

Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity through the oil and gas industry. Combined with sea level rise, this has resulted in continuous land loss since the fifties, making the Louisiana coast one of the fastest declining in the world. As a consequence, many communities are living on...

Framing Protest

The section of the street, being a constitutive unit of every city, as a design task requires constant reworking and adjustments according to changing socio-political conditions. The society of the 21st century looks different than it used to, the authorities changed along with social stratification models, technological solutions evolved and,...

Conflict over mining in rural China: A comprehensive survey of intentions and strategies for environmental activism

Mining causes severe adverse effects such as pollution and forced resettlement. Accordingly, it has prompted conflicts that are also evident in China. Our study assesses whether and how rural residents' engage in environmental activism (EA) against mining. This is achieved by constructing a model of EA strategies, coupled to variables that...

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Space and protest: A tale of two Egyptian squares

Protests and revolts take place in public space. How they can be controlled or how protests develop depend on the physical layout of the built environment. This study reveals the relationship between urban space and protest for two Egyptian squares: Tahrir Square and Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo. For analysis, the research uses space syntax method....

Projecting Urban Revolution - Civil Resistance & Space, Tirana Train Station

[Studio Border Conditions] graduation project researching and reacting on civil resistance & space, resulting in the design of a train station in Tirana.

De domo dei ad habitationis usum

Deze scriptie behandelt het onderwerp herbestemming van kerken in het algemeen over de redenen van leegstand, de keuze tussen behoud, herbestemmen en sloop en over de haalbaarheid. Hierbij is extra aandacht uitgegaan naar hoe de Katholieke en Protestantse kerk hun kerkgebouw gebruiken en wat de verschillen ten opzichte van herbestemming zijn....