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Breaking Barriers By Preserving The Future: Fergus Falls Kirkbride, Deanna Hurley
Breaking Barriers By Preserving The Future: Fergus Falls Kirkbride, Deanna Hurley
Architecture Theses
The thought came to me over the Summer when I was visiting my hometown. There is a historical building called the Regional Treatment Center (RTC), and over the years, I have seen many attempts to repurpose it, but all have failed. We have visitors come from across the country and even other continents to see the RTC, and the city is losing out on potential profit for the community by not utilizing the RTC. Now, the city wants to tear the whole structure down (except the main tower), costing over 9 million dollars. Along with the great cost, loss of …
Linguistic Spaces Within The Urban Fabric: Music, Story, And Collective Memory In New Orleans, Caiden Gray
Linguistic Spaces Within The Urban Fabric: Music, Story, And Collective Memory In New Orleans, Caiden Gray
Architecture Theses
The modern American city has been shaped by the aggressive domination of circulation and efficiency leading to a continual decline in urban public space. The potential of qualitative public space are often unmet by modern design solutions. Architects and city planners have deemed language as unnecessary, alternatively shifting their focus to pragmatic, functionalist design concerns failing to offer participatory and communicative spaces within the city. This being just as relevant in cities deep-rooted in stories and narrative such as New Orleans, Louisiana. Canal Street being a historically infamous street in heart of Downtown New Orleans sits as a reflection of …
Building Connections Through Design, Zachary Kenoyer
Building Connections Through Design, Zachary Kenoyer
Architecture Theses
The typology of this thesis will be a modern art / design museum with a civic and education emphasis. The design will feature galleries, classrooms and workshops, hospitality spaces, and include flexible design strategies that will allow the space to accommodate a wide array of events. The museum will also feature and improve the current park located at the site using design strategies to increase usability. I will be using a combination of tactics during my research. A combination of case studies, a site visit, as well as visiting as many museums as I can. Can we create a new …
Concertare: An Architectural Rediscovery Of Spiritual Harmony In A Secular World, Anna Rybacki
Concertare: An Architectural Rediscovery Of Spiritual Harmony In A Secular World, Anna Rybacki
Architecture Theses
Every day, billions of tiny little miracles occur just to give us another breath. From a microscopic level of your heart getting the energy it needs to beat 100,000 times a day to the cosmic level of the rotation of Earth and its perfect distance from the Sun - that keeps us warm enough, but not incinerated - there is a chaos of neurons firing, stars exploding, and atoms colliding, yet in it is a harmony that allows us to go about our everyday lives. We are not independent of this cosmic song. Rather, we are inextricably a part of …
Anonymity, Social Identification, And Online Social Influence, Mir Md Fazla Rabby
Anonymity, Social Identification, And Online Social Influence, Mir Md Fazla Rabby
Communication
This experiment investigated the primacy of social identification in the online social influence process with anonymity as a contextual variable. Other key variables were perceived argument strength and attitude toward abortion. Participants (N = 229) were randomly exposed to four conditions, in which they read three pro-life or pro-choice arguments from either three identifiable people (known) or three unidentifiable people (unknown). Based on the social identity model of deindividuation (SIDE), the study tested if social identification had a greater effect on attitude in unknown conditions through depersonalization. Results demonstrated that social identification predicted attitude, but anonymity did not affect the …
Alexander Cancer Treatment And Research Center: Transformational Healing Through Atmospheric Architecture, Jared Hunt
Alexander Cancer Treatment And Research Center: Transformational Healing Through Atmospheric Architecture, Jared Hunt
Architecture Theses
The aim of this thesis is to study the cognitive effects of architectural design specifically related to patient care in architecture. Much of architecture today is based upon efficiency, potential profit, and aesthetics which mutes the understanding of creating a meaningful and successful building. I challenge the understanding of healthcare architecture today. With the use of research, both in the modern and historical context, a comprehensive design solution is established with the use of the natural environment and more emotionally focused spaces.
Walker Reimagined, Mckenna Reller
Walker Reimagined, Mckenna Reller
Architecture Theses
Tourism has the unique opportunity to support and create a thriving community in locations across the world that would otherwise be small and sleepy. But what are the impacts of tourism on the local communities of those towns; there are the obvious financial benefits to tourism but how does the fluctuation of tourist throughout the year impact the social and cultural health of the local community. When focusing on catering to a transient community, what becomes of a town’s identity? A town has much more to its story then the expensive boutiques and tourist destinations; there is the story and …
Play And The Public Realm, Gabriella Toquam
Play And The Public Realm, Gabriella Toquam
Architecture Theses
Play is what makes us human. Play provides new perspectives which are required. Play promotes relationship, of those close to us and those in public, both needed relationships. We are more connected than ever in the modern day, yet we feel distant from our fellow man, especially when we meet him on the street. Symptoms of isolation include an unbalanced personal life and an empty social life. The comfort one feels at home, even with other people, is rarely or never experienced in public. The modern city can function as a creative space, but rediscovering the power of the public …
Regenerating Space For Community Enhancement, Emily Kreil
Regenerating Space For Community Enhancement, Emily Kreil
Architecture Theses
Urban development and master planning of a large site that lies within a growing city can unify and influence expansion in a community, if done so in a strategic and deliberate way. My thesis project will analyze the community benefits, best methods for urban regeneration, and eco-friendly improvements that can be made when transforming a vacant site into an innovation district. Innovation districts adjacent to university campuses are becoming more and more prominent throughout the United States, allowing for the sharing of facilities and resources needed to discover and create new ideas. Research of other large regeneration projects, as well …
Exploratory Analysis Of Mass Shooting Offenders In U.S. Journalism, Dominic Davis
Exploratory Analysis Of Mass Shooting Offenders In U.S. Journalism, Dominic Davis
Criminal Justice and Political Science
Mass shootings are commonplace in media. The media reports as to why the events happened, often within days or hours. These reasons attributed often lead to political debates on how to deter future mass casualty events. The portrayal by the media is important because their perceptions influence the perceptions of their audience. As of beginning this thesis, there is a lack of research utilizing qualitative analysis to analyze the offender reports using large datasets from the media. This thesis is an exploratory analysis and examines the number of times the offender's name is mentioned to determine whether there are sufficient …
Architecture's Spiritual Utility In The 21st Century, Luke Gulbranson
Architecture's Spiritual Utility In The 21st Century, Luke Gulbranson
Architecture Theses
How does architecture, in the built sense, influence humanity’s desire to connect with something beyond ourselves? What responsibility does an architect hold in that condition? Tracing history through religions, movements of culture and the subsequent architecture erected, we can see how various built forms simultaneously reflected and influenced people’s connection to worlds both earthly and celestial. Is there a chance, at this moment, to build upon our historical accomplishments toward a broader engagement that stirs the most fundamental longings within us? A chance to resurrect stories and analogies beyond the frames of traditional religious architecture in a poetic, ecumenical sense. …
Disruption Of Gender Norms To Advance Contemporary Politics: A Radical Feminist Analysis Of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's In The Chest Of A Woman, Abigail Chrappah
Disruption Of Gender Norms To Advance Contemporary Politics: A Radical Feminist Analysis Of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's In The Chest Of A Woman, Abigail Chrappah
English
This paper deconstructs leadership and kingship politics in the Ghanaian West-African culture as it pertains to gender. It proves that what governs the concept of the throne is unequivocally masculine and simply a game. The thesis further argues the need to encourage subversively radical methods in dealing with entrenched sexism that permeate the royal system and the current political system. Through Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's play In the Chest of a Woman, the research establishes that the concept of power in the Ghanaian traditional system is rigid and, consequently, requires unorthodox deviance to challenge gender oppression. It concludes that for women …
The Development And Dissemination Of The Collaborative Piano Program From The United States To China, Xiang Wei
The Development And Dissemination Of The Collaborative Piano Program From The United States To China, Xiang Wei
Music
For over 71 years, the collaborative piano major has been one of the most important music performance programs at American universities and conservatories, such as the University of Southern California, the Julliard School of Music, and the New England Conservatory. For over half a century, these collaborative piano programs have been successful in the United States, and they continue to influence the field of music world-wide. Therefore, the development of collaborative piano programs in the United States not only plays a significant role for students who want to have a career in this field, but it has also influenced universities …
Community, Culture, & Compassion: Creating Space For Exchange & Community Building, Thomas Davy
Community, Culture, & Compassion: Creating Space For Exchange & Community Building, Thomas Davy
Architecture Theses
Every person has a different background and personal perspective. This background shapes how we perceive and interact with others in our daily lives. Can shared spaces and experiences shift our perspectives and make us more understanding and compassionate to those who share our present, but come with varied pasts? This project proposes that by creating a space focused on interaction, service, and exchange amongst people from a variety of backgrounds; a city and community can become more positively connected. Many people often feel misunderstood and isolated within the places they live. This may be due to recent relocation, marginalization, cultural …
Redefining The Cybernetic Being: Reconstructing The Theatrical Origins Of The Contemporary Metropolis, Samuel Goodman
Redefining The Cybernetic Being: Reconstructing The Theatrical Origins Of The Contemporary Metropolis, Samuel Goodman
Architecture Theses
We live in the information age. This means that our collective existence lies within a global society supported by an economy that is almost entirely structured by information technology, the study or use of systems for storing, retrieving, and sending information. This has led to a modernization of global data into a rigid system of, inputs and outputs. We have all unknowingly become an array of transistors in a system based on efficiency and results. The introduction of developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence has resulted in an even more systemic process whose sole purpose is to see the …
Designing Emotion, Mitchell Meier
Designing Emotion, Mitchell Meier
Architecture Theses
This thesis revolves around the question of how can we push and use certain parts of our designs to influence people’s attitudes and reactions to create a better experience for the people who experience our designs. Through the use and control over multiple characteristics within architecture such as color, shape, material, lighting, and a few others, we can learn to better utilize the subtle effects they have on the human mind to improve our capabilities for creating better spaces for all. By combining the knowledge from multiple studies about each aspect, it will be used to create more positive spaces …
Space Sky Earth: Weather Learning Museum And Research Center, Benjamin Gutowski
Space Sky Earth: Weather Learning Museum And Research Center, Benjamin Gutowski
Architecture Theses
A rainstorm now and again can be a calming experience. With our climate changing and a focus on more sustainable built projects, we can only wonder if it is enough to help offset the carbon footprint that architects create. Through the creation of a research facility to monitor and observe natural phenomena, researchers and the public can learn and study the weather and climate that surround us in our everyday lives. The building itself will be used as a learning tool by integrating sustainable building practices mixed with interactive spaces to learn about green building. The three areas of focus …
Revolution, Spencer Bumby
Revolution, Spencer Bumby
Architecture Theses
How can we design stadiums to better serve their communities: visually, physically, and financially? In the last decade, there has been a trend in the United States to design and build soccer-specific stadiums for Major League Soccer (MLS) teams. While most teams now have a soccer-specific stadium, there are few teams who have not yet followed on the trend due to no immediate desire to move to a new venue. Like most stadiums and arenas, the general public does not view the public funding of them in a favorable manner. This is due to their increasing costs and lack of …
The Cathedral Of Consciousness: The Liminal Dimension Of Dreams And Meditative Thinking, Justin Todd
The Cathedral Of Consciousness: The Liminal Dimension Of Dreams And Meditative Thinking, Justin Todd
Architecture Theses
This thesis explores how architecture can redefine the human relationship to consciousness and how we experience consciousness itself. Specifically, this project will address different ways to bring participants face to face with our growing disconnect between perceptual experience and what we call reality. In other words, the Cathedral of Consciousness is a place for meditative thinking, showing how our current culture is headed down a destructive path, discounting particular modalities of perceiving a highly externalized and vision dominated world. Our reductive school of thought has changed the way we think and act, especially in terms of dreams. We have become …
Vaccine Skeptical Mothers In The Upper Midwest And Their Kitchen-Based Care Practices, Kimberly Allison Haarstick
Vaccine Skeptical Mothers In The Upper Midwest And Their Kitchen-Based Care Practices, Kimberly Allison Haarstick
Sociology and Anthropology
While many Americans view vaccination and medical intervention as benefits to society and for the greater good, vaccine skeptical mothers not only reject vaccinations but most biomedical interventions as well. In place of biomedical interactions vaccine skeptical mothers here focused on daily care practices centered around a healthy diet and eating whole foods. Further, they then create alternative forms of care that are founded in their kitchens and based on their own expertise as mothers, rather than with the expertise of biomedical experts. Based on nineteen months of in-person and virtual ethnographic research in a mid-size Upper Midwestern city in …
Post Pandemic Shopping, Karlie Matejcek
Post Pandemic Shopping, Karlie Matejcek
Architecture Theses
Shopping malls were originally designed to give people the opportunity to socialize and shop within the same environment. The shopping mall concept is extremely important within the urban spacial system, as it connects both leisure activities and commercial businesses into one environment for pedestrians to enjoy. Retail consumers and visitors are able to fulfill their need for visual stimulation from their surrounding environment as well as the ability to enjoy various relaxing activities in this area. The concept of the retail experience was to bring people together and provide many opportunities for social exchange in one setting. How will this …
Designing For Play In Island Park, Halley Bartlett
Designing For Play In Island Park, Halley Bartlett
Landscape Architecture Theses
‘Planning for Play in Island Park’ is a design thesis based meant to identify a realistic and multifaceted response to the removal of Ash Trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) from Fargo North Dakota’s downtown Island Park. Within evaluating the site a clear need for playground redevelopment and expansion was identified due to it’s context within the community. Development and design of the project is rooted in providing opportunity for play to occur. Types of play are referenced from developmental psychology research and organized within the site with consideration of age. Designing for Play exists on multiple layers within the project. Directly designing …
Rko Ruins & The Surreal Fragment: Dreams, Film, And Architecture, Maria Valentina Contreras
Rko Ruins & The Surreal Fragment: Dreams, Film, And Architecture, Maria Valentina Contreras
Architecture Theses
This thesis explores the primacy of dreams on our experience through the space of literature, film, and architecture. In contrast to the modern definition of “reality,” much of our waking experience is structured in the same way as dreams, as we stitch together fragments of memories we have to make meaning in the world and navigate our daily rituals. This is never reducible to a direct picture or a purely rational organization of time and space. In fact, as many philosophers suggest, looking at creations such as poetry, literature and film may show us how we actually see. Inspired by …
Revisiting Riverfronts: Creating Safe Urban Waterfronts That Can Be Used Outside Of Large Storm Events, Sam Kerfeld
Revisiting Riverfronts: Creating Safe Urban Waterfronts That Can Be Used Outside Of Large Storm Events, Sam Kerfeld
Landscape Architecture Theses
Blue Spaces - areas along rivers, lakes, oceans, etc ... - in Urban Areas have shown to improve pedestrians physical and mental health. Due to climate change these spaces are in danger of becoming deserted and forgotten. Rising sea level and stronger storm systems are causing these urban waterfronts, that were once destination draws of the city, to become overly engineered spaces that are uninviting to pedestrians. Rather than designing these spaces to fight against these storms by using floodwalls and dikes, which create areas that are inaccessible to the public. How can we design a waterfront that embraces flooding …
'They Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts': Dark Tourism At Historic Sites, Kaci Lynn Johnson
'They Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts': Dark Tourism At Historic Sites, Kaci Lynn Johnson
History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Dark tourism, a subsection of heritage tourism, is growing in popularity and center around historic sites and museums. Those sites are put in the position to take advantage of the surging popularity of dark tourism by offering programming that complements it. Ghost tours, paranormal investigations, and haunted houses have all been utilized by museums and historic sites to boost revenue and attendance numbers. The implementation of dark programming raises difficult discussions on the role of museums in society and the ethics of profiting off of ghosts, spirits, and the paranormal. The decision to produce dark programming as a complement to …
Investigating The Relationship Between Community Arts Engagements And College Students' Sense Of Community, Amanda Beth Booher
Investigating The Relationship Between Community Arts Engagements And College Students' Sense Of Community, Amanda Beth Booher
Education
This study builds upon Astin’s (2012) Input-Environment-Output conceptual framework to determine the relationship between college students (inputs), their frequency of participation in arts engagements (environment), and their sense of community (outputs), as measured by McMillan, Peterson, and Speers’ (2008) Brief Sense of Community Scale. A survey was administered to 403 college students from one mid-sized public research university in the upper Midwest region in early spring 2020. Results indicated the most frequently attended arts engagements for college students were festivals and concerts, and the least frequently reported were galas or art receptions and creative workshops. Findings also indicated a relationship …
Bringing The Rave Out Of The Cave, Travis Bren
Bringing The Rave Out Of The Cave, Travis Bren
Architecture Theses
By examing the types of space raves inhabited, from the anarchist grass-root orgins of the urban undergrounds to the vast landscapes of commodified festivals of today, I question: what would the ideal 21st century rave space be? I propose to reinvent the new rave space, to structure the traditions, to reharmonize the powerful connections within body, spirit, culture and place. I aim to reconceptualize the club scene, sythesizing raves past sensibility of place with the innovative technology of today, resulting in an amorphous mixture of space, sound and light. The focus will be acoustically and visually rich environments within architectural …
Overcoming: Guiding Individuals Through Liminal Conditions On The Pathway To Adulthood, Kristopher Kohlgraf
Overcoming: Guiding Individuals Through Liminal Conditions On The Pathway To Adulthood, Kristopher Kohlgraf
Architecture Theses
The approach to student housing has been stuck in the past while its inhabitants are evolving towards their future. This thesis research will examine the significance and importance of a building as a rite of passage in an individuals life by emphasizing its ability to facilitate an individuals transition from one period of their life to another. A proposed university Residence Hall building will engage its inhabitants to overcome liminal periods of their young adult lives and allow them to grow and prosper into productive members of society. The building will focus on facilitating its occupants to move from the …
Enviro-Braille: A Transcribed Language Of Architectural Elements, Laura Cragoe
Enviro-Braille: A Transcribed Language Of Architectural Elements, Laura Cragoe
Architecture Theses
Architecture has an immense effect on our perception of reality. The way one gains understanding of their surroundings depends heavily on stimulation of senses. The pitfall of designers is the consciousness paid to occupants who have an impaired sense of sight or blindness. It is the architect’s responsibility to make design decisions that cultivate environments that everyone can thrive in. Information for this research will be gathered by analyzing perception as it relates to the visually impaired and comparing the principles of language and semiotics to gain an understanding of how architecture is used as a tool of communication. From …
The Evolution Of Wonder Through History: Reopening The Realm In Seven Mythic Experiments Of Technological Interconnection, Daniel J. Marso
The Evolution Of Wonder Through History: Reopening The Realm In Seven Mythic Experiments Of Technological Interconnection, Daniel J. Marso
Architecture Theses
As Henri Frankfort suggests, the sense of interconnection between ancient people, nature, and the cosmos, was perceived as a living “Thou”. As humanity has advanced this emphasis on interconnection has faded from something perceived as alive toward a technologically driven society today that treats Nature as an externalized “It.” The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were erected on the earlier mode of interconnection wherein imagination was interwoven in the world. Not only were many of the ancient Wonders resting places for mortals, they were places that connected the ancient people with the cosmos, their gods, and the nature of …