Thesis defences

December 16

• 9:00 am — Ward Room
  • Ricardo Espinoza — Beyond the Frame: Culture, Identity, and the Caribbean Sea Diaspora in Canada
    • Supervisor: Adrian Blackwell
• 9:00 am — Ventin Room
  • Catherine Zheng — A Game of Urban Resilience: Playing the Social-Ecological System of a Rapidly Developing Caledon, Ontario, Canada  
    • Supervisor: Fiona Lim Tung
• 10:00 am — Ward Room
  • Jasmine Devgan — A Sanctuary inspired by Gurbani in Gati Harike, Punjab: A Spiritual Journey of Awakening
    • Supervisor: Marie-Paule Macdonald
• 2:00 pm — Ventin Room
  • Theresa Farmer — Static-to-Kinetic Solutions in Adaptive Reuse: Mechanisms for Transformation. Ventin Room
    • Supervisor: Mohamad Araji
• 2:00 pm - The Loft
  • Rabbiya Ahsan — Sanctuaries of the Heart: Perception, Phenomenology and the Architecture of Salutogeni Healing
    • Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton

December 17

• 9:00 am — Founder’s Lounge
  • Jordana Polera — Negotiating Restoration Through Representation : The role of visualization in the public process of Riverside Dam
    • Supervisor: Jane Mah Hutton

September 22

• 9:30 am

  • Angeline Reyes - Manila’s Other City: Toward a Counter-Relocation Approach, Founder's Lounge

September 23

• 10:00 am

  • Kenyo Jacob Musa - Decolonizing Disability: Access Without Erasure, Loft Gallery

September 24

• 2:00 pm

  • Yiqing Liu - Reparative Infrastructure: Reimagining Water Kiosks in Ulaanbaatar’s Ger Districts

September 30

• 9:00 am
  • Alison Yu - A Seat at The Table: Placemaking in the Hong Kong-Canadian Diasporic Landscape

  • Areeba Akhtar - PIECE IT TOGETHER: Rebuildable Homes for Post-Disaster Resilience

• 11:30 am

  • Syed Bahroz Ali - Healthy Living by Design: Exploring the blue zones as a framework for a multi-generational housing typology

• 12:00 pm
  • Derrick Clouthier - Artisanship in a post-industrial present: A physio-biological framework for restorative design artifacts 
• 2:00 pm

  • Ahan Dasgupta - IN BETWEEN LAND AND SEA: Adaptive Redevelopment of the Indigenous Fishing Villages at Mumbai’s Coastal Fringes

October 3

• 1:00 pm
  • Jikyung Jeon - Multisensory Immersion in Architectural Virtual Reality: Effects of Visual and Auditory Cues

November 27

• 11:00 am

  • Jamie Verdell Ferreira - Pretending Architecture: The Journey Towards Verne Station, Ward Room

January 7

• 9:00 am
  • Meaghan Roberts - Reimagining High School: A Guide to Renewing Post-War Secondary Schools in Waterloo Region, Ward Room

August 5

• 1:00 pm
  • Alexis Kirkwood - Exploring the Relationship between Concrete and Mycelium Through an Integrated Design Methodology
• 3:00 pm
  • Calvin Liang - Beneath the Tracks

August 6

• 11:00 am
  • Yeshwanth Mani - Wandering / Sanctuary: Perceiving Learning Spaces Through A Tamil Sangam Lens
• 1:00 pm
  • Vindhya Murthy - Mapping Absence, Making Presence: Hydrosocial Repair Along Proctor Creek in West Atlanta
• 1:30 pm
  • Drashti Mehta - Generational Weave: An age Inclusive Community Centre

August 7

• 9:30 am
  • Xiaoyu Wang - Urban Fragmentation in the Age of Digital Platforms：Rebuilding the Nearby in Guangzhou, China
• 11:30 am
  • Ali Hasan - Reclaiming Absence: Building collective futures in Ontario's Gravel Belt
• 1:00 pm
  • Yanbo Zhu - Housing Public-Private Partnerships in Toronto’s Regent Park

Friday, January 24

• 9:00 am

  • Inam Zehra Rizvi - The Architecture of Grief: Representing the Evolution of Shia Mourning Spaces and Contributions to Islamic Architecture

• 10:00 am

  • Carlo Adrian Flores Rosel - A Stay in the Interchange: Regenerative Cohousing in the Greater Toronto Area

• 1:00 pm

  • Hiba Hisan Zubairi - A Woven Divide: Cotton, Property and Partition in the Indus River Basin

• 2:30 pm

  • Lauren Mok - Gentle Densification: Strategies for Integrating Low-Rise, Medium-Density Housing into Toronto’s Yellowbelt Neighbourhoods

• 3:00 pm

  • Marc- Fournier - From For To With: Towards an Allographic Approach in Architecture

Wednesday, March 19

• 10:30 am
  • Vanessa Drmac - The Voice that Travels from Vessels to Other Worlds: Extracting Narratives from the Cave of the Sibyl

Wednesday, March 26

• 9:30 am
  • Han Guo - Reassembling Moments in Aldershot Quarry, Burlington: A Narrative Outside of Time
• 2:00 pm
  • Leo Wu - SWAMPY URBANISM: Make a Little Room for the Elbow River 

Thursday, March 27

• 10:00 am
  • Yoon Hur - MATERIAL WORKS: Optimizing Material Circularity through Reversing Architecture

Friday, March 28

• 10:00 am
  • Simon Liao - Queer Arrival: Uncovering the Spatial Narratives of QTPOC Newcomers in Toronto
• 2:00 pm
  • Katia Myers - GYNOCENTRIC SPACE: Neolithic Architecture in Europe and Anatolia 

Monday, March 31

• 9:00 am
  • Simon Eustace Peiris - From Time

Friday, April 4

• 9:30 am
  • Ilsa Khan - A Place in Between. A study of the role emotions play in designing an architecture for teenagers.
• 2:00 pm
  • Claire de Jeu - An Architecture of Happiness: Home in Harry Potter

Monday, April 7

• 9:00 am
  • Jason Cai - Architecture Between Commodification and Community: Navigating the Margins of Institutionalized Capitalism
  • Liam Connor Fujita - Redefining Senior Housing: Architecture as a Catalyst for Health, Autonomy, and Community in Toronto
  • Monica Gutierrez - From Classroom to Garden: Bridging Education and Ecology in School Landscapes
  • Alexa Megan Holder - Facing the Flood: Amphibious Architecture for Flood Resilience in Peguis, Manitoba
• 12:00 pm
  • Johannah-Gwyneth Del Rosario - Beyond Brutalism: Reimagining Manila's Folk Arts Theater
  • Sepehr Fathi - Unfolding Morphologies: The Dynamics of Folding for Adaptive Spatial Design
• 3:00 pm
  • Mahirah Rohail - Optimizing Steel Connections in Spatial Structures: Prototyping Joinery with a Focus on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing for Structural Efficiency and Fabrication

Monday, April 21

• 3:00 pm
  • Zhoya Khan - Maasai Women in Architecture: Navigating the Journey from Thorny Branches to Resilient Roots.