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World Court
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste, nine billion dollars in damages, trials across five countries, hundreds of lawyers, millions of dollars in litigation fees, and a corporation with an annual revenue of two hundred ...
International comparative analysis of urban water systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This dissertation presents a new approach to structuring global diversity for a large number of urban water systems, so that trends observed in a small number of cases can contribute to a more general understanding of the ...
Peripheral timber applications for waste wood material in extreme climates and earthquake risk regions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Worldwide, discarded construction and demolition material account for 40% of all municipal solid refuse including residential, commercial, institutional, and agricultural waste flows (Elgizawy, El-Haggar, and Nassar 2016). ...
Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In light of Yugoslavian socialist heritage, the violent transition into capitalism and current developer's logics, this thesis is using architecture to imagine a path not taken, an alternative outcome and value system which ...
A dedicated mechanism for forgetting : fiction and the ghosts of the plantationocene
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
A Dedicated Mechanism for Forgetting, narrates the process and research behind the films Botanical Ghosts and The Density of Breath, expanding on two years of my artistic research and practice. Part fiction, part epistolary ...
In between empathy and wonder lies the contamination that makes us human
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis reinspects the biological subjectivity of empathy, to reconstruct the act of empathic projection through its "auto-hetero-subjects," encountering the microbial universe via empathy as an aesthetic experience. ...
The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis broadly interrogates the way three media technologies in the history of the United States have been used in relationship to wealth, sexuality, and the emergence of "the right to privacy" in the late 19th century. ...
Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This dissertation examines the negative dialectical relationship between state-building and sarifa (reed) and kukh (mud) dwellings built by rural migrants in Baghdad. Rural migrants served as the paradigmatic developmental ...
Human intent prediction for adaptive lighting based on a limited data scenario
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
An adaptive environment involves various ubiquitous computing and computer-aided technologies. It provides users with environmental supports such as lighting, air conditioning, motion assistance. Among the different control ...
Towards a Third World housing approach case study : Lebanon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)