Interconnected Identity
June 8, 2021 11:04 pm“There are two ways to shun alien others: flee them or isolate them. Each way... View Article
Categories for Stage 5 | Ethical Interventions
The Agora of Glasgow
June 8, 2021 6:35 pm“At the end of the day, the protests change the narration of the city,” –... View Article
Health, Ecology and Civic Life in Rainforest City
June 3, 2021 9:08 pmThe space of the city can be said to be defined by our relationship to... View Article
The Acropolis of New Industrial Education
June 3, 2021 9:07 pmThis thesis aims to respond to two juxtaposing ideas and interests that are present within... View Article
A Dear Green Place
June 3, 2021 9:05 pmThis thesis argues that while society influences architecture, architecture in turn conditions us through the... View Article
Past Forward
June 3, 2021 9:04 pmDerelict land and loss of identity are the common sore points for post-industrial cities. The... View Article
Bridgegate Market Meets the Union Highline
June 3, 2021 9:03 pmGlasgow’s history is shown through what’s left behind: the cranes that still sit along Clyde... View Article
A Material Algorithm: The Library as Word and World
June 3, 2021 9:01 pmThe thesis takes basis in Jorge Luis Borges story ‘The Library of Babel’ where the... View Article
Govan Green Hub
June 3, 2021 8:58 pmRapid urbanisation breaks the balance between nature and the city. It leads to the occupation... View Article
De-Scaling the City
June 3, 2021 8:49 pmWe all occupy the places of people who have gone before us; those never known,... View Article
The Forgotten: Loss and Memory during the Pandemic
June 3, 2021 8:41 pmMany people have suffered different kinds of losses during the pandemic, some have lost family,... View Article
The Atlas of the North
June 3, 2021 8:37 pmTo preserve fragments of a disappearing Glasgow through a Monument to immortalise the lost and... View Article
Manifesto for Scarcity and Abundance
June 3, 2021 8:34 pmThis thesis seeks to propose a controversial economy that profits from climate change to the... View Article
Autonomy through Modular Design, Supported by Industry and the Arts
June 3, 2021 8:30 pmThe relationship between Living and Working in the city is in constant flux. As society... View Article
Mersus Memoria: Storytelling Underground
June 3, 2021 8:28 pmOnce upon a time, Mersus Memoria began its life as two thesis ideas responding to... View Article
A Timber Academy for the Emerging Knowledge City
June 3, 2021 8:25 pmIn a post-pandemic world, the city centre of Glasgow is at risk of becoming a... View Article
In Place but out of Time
June 3, 2021 8:21 pmIt has been proposed that Glasgow is a proto-knowledge city, reliant on its emergent knowledge... View Article
The Ecozoic: Herbarium of Reconnections
June 3, 2021 8:20 pmWe are in the Anthropocene Era: a human-revolving society of mass consumption and lack of... View Article
Re-Made Nature
June 3, 2021 8:19 pmNatural resources are drawn from environments aggressively and with disregard toward the damage inflicted on... View Article
How can Successful River Edge Management Re-Activate the River Banks, Foster Future Developments and Reconnect the City?
June 3, 2021 8:18 pmThe history of Glasgow and the Clyde are closely entwined, one wouldn’t truly exist without... View Article
The Urban Mantelpiece
June 3, 2021 8:10 pmThe Urban Mantelpiece is a speculative response to the the consequential effected of population displacement... View Article
Post-Industrial Re-Mediation of Scotland’s Coastal Condition
June 3, 2021 8:06 pmThe Final Design Thesis considers the architectural relationship between the built and natural environment, and... View Article
The Child in the City
June 3, 2021 8:00 pmIn modern society the design of spaces for play remains lost within a realm of... View Article
Beyond Barlinnie
June 3, 2021 7:58 pm“Every building creates associations in the mind of the beholder” (Nikolaus Pevsner) There are few... View Article
Opening the Edge
June 3, 2021 7:56 pmWe are facing a climate crisis that requires us to rethink about how we live... View Article
Creating Environments for People to Live ‘With’ rather than ‘In’
June 3, 2021 7:54 pmUsing landscape and context to inform the design process, how can we create a harmonious... View Article
(Un)natural Urban Seed
June 3, 2021 7:52 pmThis thesis speculates on the future of the urban city. By 2050 it is estimated... View Article
Return to Earth
June 3, 2021 7:42 pmThe year 2020 has left us facing a world we don’t recognise, we have been... View Article
Glasgow Mega City
June 3, 2021 7:39 pmGlasgow is a city of relatively low lying and small scale buildings compared to other... View Article
In the Edge
June 3, 2021 7:38 pmGlasgow is host to a breadth of challenging liminal spaces engendered by extreme physical boundaries... View Article
Remembering the Dark Past
June 3, 2021 7:37 pmGlasgow has a dark past associated with the transatlantic slave trade. Amid the rise of... View Article
A New Kinetic Architectural Approach for the Provision of Amenities in Glasgow
June 3, 2021 7:35 pmCovid-19 has exposed and exacerbated great inequalities across the UK: the more deprived the area,... View Article
The Living Artefact: A Space for Connection through Storytelling
June 3, 2021 5:16 pmThis thesis investigates how reconfiguring a structure of historical significance can create a node of... View Article
Food for the Open City
June 3, 2021 5:14 pmContinuing on the themes of Richard Sennett’s Open City, the thesis acknowledges public space, movement... View Article
Situated Approaches to Urban Regeneration
June 3, 2021 5:13 pmAll across Glasgow’s post-industrial landscape, vital structures of the past are decaying and new ecologies... View Article
Between Form and Life
June 3, 2021 5:11 pmThe thesis explores the interconnection between patterns of urban form and the creation of livable... View Article
Commonplace: Terra Firma
June 3, 2021 5:10 pmThe language around migration in many western countries have been weaponised with terms such as... View Article
Glasgow’s Show Quarter
June 3, 2021 5:09 pmThe show people of Scotland have an incredibly rich history and have been providing services... View Article
Urban Hybrid: The Redesign of the Urban Block
June 3, 2021 5:07 pmAs the contemporary city advances to the digital age, it shifts away from the previously... View Article
The Child’s City
June 3, 2021 5:07 pmThe current bubble wrapping of children and increased focus on risk reduction has seen a... View Article
Assembling Communities by Disassembly
June 3, 2021 4:28 pmToday’s construction industry mainly functions within the principles of the linear economy. This finite one-way... View Article
Connecting through Fragmented Landscapes
June 3, 2021 4:26 pmHistorically a site of extraction and only recently incorporated into the city, Easterhouse sits on... View Article
Industry, Landscape and the City
June 3, 2021 4:25 pmFor as long as cities have existed, they have held a relationship both productive and... View Article
Under the M74: Celebrating Glasgow’s Gaps
June 3, 2021 4:23 pmHow can building upon existing urban and cultural fabric revitalise local centres and create sense... View Article
Perception of Permanance
June 3, 2021 4:20 pmThe vast body of scientific research shows we are causing irreversible damage to our environment,... View Article
A Place for Culinary Exchange
June 3, 2021 4:16 pmIntervening in the existing built fabric to represent the migrant cultures of Glasgow through a... View Article
A City Defined by Sound
June 3, 2021 4:12 pmLife is experienced through listening, and place is defined through its specific soundscape. The acoustic... View Article
Reconnecting Food and the City
June 3, 2021 4:08 pmMy thesis focuses on the issue of global food security and the rising concern that... View Article
Landscapes of Activism: A Piece of Urban Dialogue
June 3, 2021 4:06 pmThere is a natural imbalance developed by the centrality of the Glaswegian institutions, in comparison... View Article
Meeting with Govan Graving Docks Halfway
June 3, 2021 4:05 pmOur Thesis explores ways in which people can meet with Govan Graving Docks, through direct... View Article
The Ruin and the Garden
June 3, 2021 3:31 pmThis thesis utilises uses repurposing of existing urban fabric as an ethical approach to architectural... View Article
Healing the Wound
June 3, 2021 3:12 pmThe influence of modernist town planning in Glasgow and the creation of the M8 motorway... View Article
“IT WISNAE US” : Rewriting Glasgow’s Historical Narrative
June 3, 2021 3:06 pmMonuments and placenames across Glasgow’s urban fabric give an insight into the cultural hegemony of... View Article
Burn to the Light
June 3, 2021 2:53 pmThis thesis centres around the idea of rediscovering what is lost.A thriving birthplace of a... View Article
The Weird New Clyde
June 3, 2021 2:50 pmMany Post-industrial cities have taken it upon themselves to revive their once key industrial rivers.... View Article
Weaving the Context
June 3, 2021 2:44 pmThe most sustainable building is the one that already exists. However, all buildings are designed... View Article
Islands in the City
June 3, 2021 2:42 pmFragmented pockets of vacant land litter the city. These weaken the city structure, creating undesirable... View Article
Nurturing Creativity through the Structuring, Layering and Planning of our Cities
June 3, 2021 2:39 pmMy thesis investigation looks at how places in our cities can encourage, value and nurture... View Article
Weaving Routes Together to Reconnect Glasgow
June 3, 2021 2:28 pmGlasgow is a city with spatial experiences that are unique. Many of the densely populated... View Article
Theatre Hybrid: Reconnect the Fragmented
June 3, 2021 2:17 pmOver the years, Glasgow witnesses all kinds of transformation from an industrial centre to culture... View Article
Reverse, Re-Balance, Re-Connect: The Ethical Grid
June 3, 2021 2:15 pmThinking about the future of our cities, can we affirm that they are ready for... View Article
A Living Monument: The Re-Use Centre
June 3, 2021 2:07 pmGovan was once a neighbourhood formerly at heart of Glasgow’s ship-building industry. However, there is... View Article
MC² – The Maryhill Connection Centre
June 3, 2021 2:06 pmIn order for Glasgow to create a fairer, low carbon future it needs to invest... View Article
The Tectonic Poetics of Empathy
June 3, 2021 11:12 amToday’s current monocultural climate pushed forward by the post-industrialist modernist agenda is actively un-weaving the... View Article
Imagine a City
June 3, 2021 10:41 amPublic spaces have played a major role in the development of democracy, serving as places... View Article
Regenerating the South-Side of Glasgow
June 3, 2021 10:39 amThe context of his thesis is about the idea that the problem of dereliction and... View Article
What about Joy?
June 3, 2021 10:17 amHow movement and placing people first could save our relationship with our cities? What is... View Article
Stage 5 The Ethical City
November 13, 2020 12:12 pmThe Ethical City? Glasgow, Gaelic Glaschu, city, west-central Scotland, is situated along both banks of... View Article