Commoning architectural knowledge
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Sedehi, Nastaran
issued: 2025-05-15T22:50:58Z
issued: 2025
related degree: Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture - MASA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Most architectural discussions around the commons focus on reclaiming public or underused spaces as shared resources, often linked to ideas like the Right to the City and designing spaces for collective use. This thesis expands that conversation by introducing the concept of knowledge commons in architecture, reframing architecture not just as a physical practice but as a shared body of knowledge, including theories, methods, and tools that can serve the public, especially marginalized communities. Just as spatial commoning reclaims land, commoning architectural knowledge aims to make architectural knowledge more accessible, equitable, and useful to all. It advocates for a two-way exchange of knowledge between experts and non-experts, where both contribute to and benefit from a shared intellectual resource. In this way, knowledge becomes a commons: co-created, co-owned, and collectively used. The project is presented through three interconnected components: A poster that visualizes the concept of architectural knowledge commons and how this thesis theorizes it. A Lexicon of Commoning Architectural Knowledge, which gathers and organizes precedents where expert and non-expert communities share knowledge. This lexicon appears in this booklet and on an interactive website with links and images serving as a directory for the precedents. The website is not presented in this document. A comic book imagining a mobile app as a tool for commoning architectural knowledge. Because accessibility is central to this work, the content is communicated through clear language and multiple engaging formats—poster, booklet, comic book, and website—to explore how different media can support the practice of commoning.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/91148
note: COMMONING ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGEbyNastaran SedehiA THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFMASTER OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN ARCHITECTUREinThe Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Vancouver)May 2025© Nastaran Sedehi, 2025The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Commoning Architectural KnowledgeSubmitted by Nastaran Sedehi in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture.Examining Committee:John Bass, Associate Professor, Architecture, UBC(Supervisor)Matthew Soules, Associate Professor, Architecture, UBC(Supervisory Committee Member)Germaine Koh, Assistant Professor, Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, UBC(Supervisory Committee Member)Tijana Vujosevic, Associate Professor, Architecture, UBC(Supervisory Committee Member) iiABSTRACTMost architectural discussions around the commons focus on reclaiming public or underused spaces as shared resources, often linked to ideas like the Right to the City and designing spaces for collective use. This thesis expands that conversa-tion by introducing the concept of knowledge commons in architecture, reframing architecture not just as a physical practice but as a shared body of knowledge, including theories, methods, and tools that can serve the public, especially mar-ginalized communities.Just as spatial commoning reclaims land, commoning architectural knowledge aims to make architectural knowledge more accessible, equitable, and useful to all. It advocates for a two-way exchange of knowledge between experts and non-experts, where both contribute to and benefit from a shared intellectual resource. In this way, knowledge becomes a commons: co-created, co-owned, and collectively used.The project is presented through three interconnected components:A poster that visualizes the concept of a…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0448902
language: eng
degree discipline: Architecture
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Bass, John
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91148