As information becomes more widely available, the library finds itself in a position where new paths need to be explored on which to reach out to users. Learning Commons have developed internationally as a way to stimulate active learning and to prioritise social interaction over the material collection. By using Chalmers University of Technology as a case study, the aim of this study has been to clarify the concept of Learning Commons from a Swedish perspective and to contribute to the representation of diverse interpretations worldwide by so doing. Chalmers was the first Swedish library to institute a Learning Commons in 2016 and so the study has come to focus on organizational factors driving its establishment and on how the term is used locally. The library’s perspective has been point of departure with a rich material found in business plans, project plans and other officially drafted documents concerning its coming into existence and evaluation thereof. Complementary information was gathered from e-mail conversations with the prefect and a more informal perspective added through the library’s blog and some newspaper articles on the topic. All documents have been studied using a qualitative content-based analysis with a concept analytical angle. Theoretical premises were found in materiality and constructivism as concepts, in combination with an overarching starting point in organization theory. The analysis showed that the library and the Learning Commons were seen as two distinct concepts, where the main distinguishing characteristic was found in the focus on the collection and user respectively. The Learning Commons further functions as a testing ground for new ideas, which fit more easily in a new context. Related to these questions of organizational development, the physical structure has shown to be an efficient mediator of change, imprinted as it is with symbolism prompting certain behaviour. A closer collaboration with Chalmers University and a more perceptive way in relation to users has, together with adjustments to prevalent pedagogy, environmental thinking and strengthening of the profile internationally as well as socially formed the Learning Commons of Chalmers. It has shown to be an appreciated part of the present and future library.

Through a theoretical and practical examination of how space is socially constructed and perceived, this study hypothesizes that the monolithically negative portrayal in the media and academic literature of the Indian residential school experience does not adequately reflect the full range of the experiences of all children at such institutions. A typology of spaces is constructed which establishes that concepts of gender, race and age impact the ways that institutions and institutional spaces are organized and perceived. This typology is applied to the Coqualeetza Residential School and the Coqualeetza Indian Tuberculosis Hospital in Sardis, BC for the period 1935 - 1950. Interviews were conducted with former Coqualeetza residents. Their comments, along with extant accounts of residential school experiences were examined within the context of this typology. The results reveal that, at Coqualeezta and at other residential schools, social constructions and personal perceptions of spaces affect and reflect peoples' experiences in profound ways. Examining such perceptions has revealed that residents' experiences and memories are heterogeneous, diverse and very personal. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

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To establish the in-between is to reconcile conflicting polarities. Provide the place where they can interchange and you re-establish the original twin phenomena. Aldo Van Eyck The thesis of this project focuses on the transition between a town and campus. The proposal is made for a shared urban room or plaza space that demarks the meeting place of the inherently different orders of the town and campus. Here a tower is proposed to better define the existing plaza space between four academic buildings. Finally, a wall reaching towards the town from the plaza space is proposed as an element of connection that defines a unique place between the town and campus. / Master of Architecture

"The immeasurable is the one thing that captivates the mind: the measurable makes very little difference.” Kahn Transition could be thought of as the only constant—life being in itself a transition, composed of a myriad of inseparable transitions—a continuum of events "taking place." This work imagistically explores the evocative nature of transition place as it is manifested in architecture, art, and poetry, and prepares an architectural place for the transitions of life. / Master of Architecture

Für einen Einstieg in die erste eigene Forschungsarbeit haben sich die Studierenden im Rahmen des ARCH4HEALTH Student Research Labs zu Beginn einen umfassenden Überblick zu dem Thema „Psyche & Raum” sowie zur Architektur von psychiatrischen Einrichtungen verschafft. Daraus wurden Ideen für die eigenen Forschungsprojekte und Forschungsfragen entwickelt. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden verschiedene Einrichtungstypen und Stationen untersucht und dabei die verschiedenen Nutzergruppen wie die Patient:innen mit ihren spezifischen Krankheitsbildern, die Mitarbeitenden, das Fachpersonal und die Besucher:innen näher beleuchtet. Des Weiteren haben die Studierenden wichtige Grundleitsätze der Architektur von psychiatrischen Einrichtungen wie Suizidprävention, Sturzprophylaxe und deeskalierende Architektur eingehend untersucht. Dieses Kapitel gewährt einen Einblick in die Ergebnisse der ersten Recherche der Studierenden und erhebt nicht den Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit. [... aus dem Text; Autor:innen sind die Seminarteilnehmenden]

The importance of public place in the United States of America as an environment for communication, the transmission of cultural values and for the enhancement of society and community, using a comprehensive notion of entertainment as a catalyst.creative projectThis project intends to develop a catalogue of design implications for the design of a public place that successfully serves the community enhancement and the cultural transmission. This catalogue of design implications will be the result of the extensive research on the American culture, on the elements of cultural expression with emphasis on the use of entertainment as a catalyst, on the elements of urban history and the urban environment as well as on the social and commercial success of public place.contextThe context of this research is the number of issues American urban environments are facing. Most of the problems in their combination are the source of numerous urban issues. Some of the key issues that have developed on this basis are e.g. the loss of human scale or e.g. the need for a collective vision, community and cultural identity. These issues are strongly interrelated with another.issueThese are some of the deficiencies that lead to the key issue of this project: the loss of community manifested by urban isolation and fragmentation and problems relating to the humane environments and settings. Nevertheless community and cultural enhancement can help to create a greater awareness for the prerequisites for a healthy living environment. Community and cultural enhancement help to stimulate greater self-sufficiency helping to address the previously mentioned issues at their sources. The premise is that community is an essential ingredient in cohesive urban and suburban neighborhoods and is part of the positive image of a well designed and maintained city fabric.positionThe focus of this work is the community, the public place and the cultural expression with emphasis on entertainment. In the same order they represent the issue, the place and the catalyst. This work claims that entertainment can be used to design an environment enhancing community and communication. The assumption related with entertainment is that social interaction and collective well being are essential parts of community structure and therefore activities related to entertainment help to foster a collective vision.methodThe first step to prove this position is to identify the issues concerning urban settlements in the United States of America. The urban context has to be defined. The second step is to define the cultural context and to analyze the notion of entertainment as a means of cultural expression and its potential to serve as a catalyst. The third step is to identify the elements of social and commercial success of a public environment using at least two models defining those elements. Each of the three steps concludes in a set of architectural values and design elements. The fourth step is to deduce a catalogue of design implications from the information collected. This last step proposes the practical application of this research. The anticipated results of this project should be regarded as a suggestion for the practical application of this research based on the observation of and reflections on the research results, hopefully resulting in the identification of additional questions for further research. / Department of Architecture

M.Tech. (Architectural Technology) / This dissertation explores the opportunity and necessity of a connection between Braamfontein and Newtown Johannesburg's landscape developed as a result of decades of socio-economic and geographic fragmentation where planning policies etched permanent boundaries of exclusion. The focus is to form a more integrated city fabric in the area to allow for a cross-pollination of people and activities between Braamfontein and Newtown At the same time the proposal aims to create a more socially Inclusive space that connects the urban users to each other and to the city as a whole...

<p>U ovom radu kreiran je novi poluautomatski normativni sistem za generisanje prostora na osnovu perspektivnih slika. Sistem obuhvata niz postupaka čijim korišćenjem se na osnovu dvodimenzionalnih medijuma, najčešće fotografija, generiše trodimenzionalna struktura. Pristup je prilagođen rešavanju složenih problema iz oblasti vizuelizacije graditeljskog nasleđa, što je u radu potkrepljeno praktičnom primenom sistema.</p> / <p> In this research a new semi-automated normative image-based modelling system is created. The system includes number of procedures that are used to transform two-dimensional medium, such as photographs, to threedimensional structure. The used approach is adjusted to the properties of complex projects in the domain of visualization of cultural heritage. An application of the system is given demonstrating its practical value.</p>