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Small, Slow but Steady : Rebuilding Memories and Intergenerational Connections in Lost Space Liu, Summer Xia

Abstract

The rapid modernization and economic development in China exacerbated lost space in urbanized cities, especially along infrastructures. Using an autoethnographic approach, this thesis seeks to foster a socially and environmentally sustainable community that could foreground and celebrate one’s aging process. An infrastructure corridor, where a railway, commercial and residential buildings meet, provided the site and material for an intergenerational community to come together, share knowledge, and re-imagine assemblies of upcycled material into a cultural landscape that promotes a sense of collective belonging and well-being. Daily activity patterns and annual rituals are embraced to facilitate social engagement and chance encounters between adjacent neighbourhoods. The series of connected sites becomes a proxy that evokes the sense of collective memory while reintegrating sensual and spiritual qualities in the ever-accelerating and rationalized city of Shijiazhuang.

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Title
Small, Slow but Steady : Rebuilding Memories and Intergenerational Connections in Lost Space
Creator
Liu, Summer Xia
Date Issued
2022-12
Description
The rapid modernization and economic development in China exacerbated lost space in urbanized cities, especially along infrastructures. Using an autoethnographic approach, this thesis seeks to foster a socially and environmentally sustainable community that could foreground and celebrate one’s aging process. An infrastructure corridor, where a railway, commercial and residential buildings meet, provided the site and material for an intergenerational community to come together, share knowledge, and re-imagine assemblies of upcycled material into a cultural landscape that promotes a sense of collective belonging and well-being. Daily activity patterns and annual rituals are embraced to facilitate social engagement and chance encounters between adjacent neighbourhoods. The series of connected sites becomes a proxy that evokes the sense of collective memory while reintegrating sensual and spiritual qualities in the ever-accelerating and rationalized city of Shijiazhuang.
Subject
Intergenerational; Bottom-up; Community; Infrastructure; Lost Space
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2023-01-03
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0422941
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83533
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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