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Soft City: Reclaiming Urban Public Spaces For Play, Jennifer Pham
Soft City: Reclaiming Urban Public Spaces For Play, Jennifer Pham
Masters Theses
This thesis explores the relationship between children’s play and urban public spaces. What kinds of play are prioritized, and consequently, what ways of learning are celebrated above others? How are public spaces serving or not serving to nurture children’s development and joy?
The thesis design project is a strategic plan for spatial activism. Using a “guerilla architecture” approach, I am developing a series of workshops with the local community that culminate in collectively designed urban installations. This participatory design process enables people to perceive public spaces in new ways, and it invites community members and children to become active parts …
Equal Standing, Benjamin Thomas Dance
Equal Standing, Benjamin Thomas Dance
Masters Theses
My goal in this thesis is to challenge the social issues that can arise from current downtown redevelopment plans throughout the United States. This proposal seeks to break down physical, spatial, and social barriers that can result from commercial development by creating a design intervention that is economically beneficial for the city while remaining inclusive to the community as a whole. This particular thesis will focus on the current downtown development in Muskegon, Michigan.
The challenge is to create a design and program that is as central to the community as industry once was. This will come in the form …