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A Creative Exploration of the Use of Intelligent Agents in Spatial Narrative Structures

Roth, Andrew Christian (2015-01-26)

This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of authoring tools for creating spatial narrative structures– exposing the relationship between artists, the tools they use, and the experiences they create. It is a research-creation ...

All of Us? Marginalizing Dissent in Toronto's Jewish Community

Katz, Amy Sarah (2015-08-28)

Mainstream Jewish institutions like the Canadian Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada largely communicate the impression of community-wide support for Israeli government policies and actions to the ...

"Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future": Negotiating Spaces for Somali Women in Toronto through Gashanti UNITY

Ali, Muna (2019-03-05)

This research presents and analyses the experiences of second-generation Somali women in Toronto, and argues that there is a significant gap in research about young Somali-Canadian women, and the way they utilize different ...

Architectural Consumption in Los Angeles: Modernism, Power, and the Aesthetic of Plenty

Busgang, Alexandra (2015-08-28)

This paper examines the economy produced by modernism as the site for developing an aesthetic grounded in opulence and consumption. While early modern architects aimed to break with tradition and create a new language of ...

Art, Community & Belonging

Afshar, Niloufar Shahriar (2018-08-27)

Communication with others and developing a sense of belonging are challenges that immigrants, including children, must face in a new society. These challenges become a major obstacle when paired with lack of knowledge of ...

"Ask the Colonial Ghosts": Intimate Histories, Harmful Complicities, and the Search for an Accountable Relationship with the Past

Lewis, Johanna Madeleine (2016-11-25)

I take episodes from my life and my familys past as sites through which to explore connections between individual lives and larger structures, between the ways we tell our stories and the ways that histories are constructed, ...

Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System

McBean, Marcell Allison (2018-11-21)

This research paper is concerned with the problem of black youths educational underachievement in Ontario public schools. The general aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that this problem is not one that education policy ...

"Can Anybody See?": Masculinities in Musical Theatre and Post-Secondary Musical Theatre Training

White, Thomas Adam (2021-11-15)

Twenty first-century post-secondary students demonstrate a dissonance with the musical theatre canon and current training methods. My research invites post-secondary students to contribute as critical co-investigators, ...

Challenges of Humanitarian Aid International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs) in Myanmar

Kyawt, Khin May (2019-11-22)

In Myanmar, there are currently over 100 INGOs, and out of these, 43 are providing humanitarian aid and development activities in conjunction with eight UN organizations. However, whether humanitarian operations have ...

Chasing Vapors within a Disappearing Mist: Conceptualizing Dementia Narratives

Francis, Keith John (2016-11-25)

The built environment within healthcare institutions is of critical importance to persons with dementia, as the characteristics of the interior environment, the lived experience within, and the reciprocal nature of that ...

Chronic Kidney Disease Unidentified (CKDu) in Sri Lanka: Towards an Integrated Solution

Ranasinghe, Sattamabiralalage Maxwell (2018-03-01)

This study sought to understand how the problem of the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu), which has affected the paddy farmers in the North Central Province (NCP) of Sri Lanka is being addressed by the ...

Cross-Sectoral Policy Coalitions: A Case Study of Sustain Ontario: The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming’s Efforts to Reform Policy. How a Policy Coalition's Choices Contributed to its Legitimacy and Influence

Lee Trillo, Sandra (2015-08-28)

This paper is a case study of the formation and early development of one civil society organization (CSO), Sustain Ontario, the Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming (Sustain, the Alliance, the Network). Sustain is an ...

Decolonizing Technology through a Tipi: Creation of an Indigenous Mobile Application at York University

Banos, Alejandro Mayoral (2016-11-25)

This research explores the possibilities of how Information technologies can be designed and created by/for/with Indigenous peoples in order to be potentially decolonized. Indigenous members of the Centre for Aboriginal ...

Doing Just Business: An Empirical Analysis of Mining Multinationals, Human Rights and Sustainable Community Development in Western Ghana

Kwakyewah, Cynthia (2019-03-05)

This interdisciplinary research examines the ability of gold mining multinationals to fulfill their human rights obligations and investigates how local communities in Ghana attempt to hold these corporations accountable ...

Encountering the Other: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Horse/Human Interaction

Gartner, Hana (2018-03-01)

This thesis asks how and why a serendipitous and spontaneous personal encounter with a being from another species created an ongoing bond. Through the lens of three intersecting disciplines: environmental studies, animal ...

Evaluating the Shopping Aisles for Emotional Needs (SAFEN) Assessment: Promoting the Emotional Health Needs of Children and Youth

Gamble, Samartha Sharon (2018-11-21)

This creative thesis consists of a preliminary evaluation of SAFEN (Shopping Aisles for Emotional Needs), a self-assessment design for youth. SAFEN engages youth in identifying their internalizing feelings, strengths, ...