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Chowdhury, Meena

This thesis explored my mother’s story of displacement in an attempt to show that storytelling can help create better architectural representation. While hearing my mother’s story, I realized that she had an interesting relationship with architecture and time.  She was forcefully moved from place to place without ever knowing what was going to happen next, and she would always make changes to her space in order to adapt to her needs. The current way to represent architecture does not represent this complex relationship with space. Architects need to develop new ways of representing the spaces that refugees live in and that highlight these temporal aspects. As a case study, I created a garment that incorporates elements of her story as a refugee as she verbally reported them to me, as well as visual representations of multiple places where she lived as a refugee.

Graduating Project

eng

2024-05-06

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88233

UBCV

Graduate

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