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Public awareness of nature and environmental issues has grown in the last decades and zoos have successfully followed suit by re-branding themselves as key representatives for conservation. However, considering the fast rate of environmental degradation, in the near future, zoos may become the only place left for wildlife. Some scholars argue that we have entered a new epoch titled the “Anthropocene” that postulates the idea that untouched pristine nature is almost nowhere to be found. Many scientists and scholars argue that it is time that we embraced this environmental situation and anticipated the change. Clearly, the impact of urbanization is reaching into the wild, so how can we design for animals in our artificializing world? Using the Manoa School method that argues that every future includes these four, generic, alternatives: growth, discipline, collapse, and transformation , this dissertation explores possible future animal archetypes by considering multiple possibilities of post zoo design.
ContributorsAlshaheen, Rua (Author) / Hejduk, Renata (Thesis advisor) / Allenby, Braden (Committee member) / Finn, Ed (Committee member) / Petrucci, Darren (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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Investigating effective elements of the interior environment in which are proactive strategies related to active shooting prevention are explored through passive and active measures. The research analyzes changes to the interior environment at Virginia Tech after the 2007 shooting based on the strategic implementation of certain actions, features, and experts involved in the decision-making process. This study aims to investigate effective proactive interior design strategies for higher education campuses (or classrooms) that engage both passive and active tactics, and to identify the process in which the decisions are made and implemented. The reviewed literature identifies important aspects of the policies, procedures, psychological/behavioral contingencies of space, and the convergence of design and the built environment. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study will use interviews, photo-ethnography, and forced connections to identify changes made in policies and design which have impacted the higher education environment and safety. The findings are expected to suggest an intersecting approach between decisions made by outside experts and their effect on the interior environment. The potential impact of this research will guide and encourage collaborative, standards, and best practices relative to evidence-based decisions on protection and proactive actions against active shooter situations at Institutions of Higher Education.
ContributorsBurnett, Brooklyn Kate (Author) / Hejduk, Renata (Thesis advisor) / Barton, Scott (Committee member) / Mejía, Mauricio (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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Children, everywhere around the world, are deprived of their basic right to play. More than half of these children are urban dwellers who have limited access to outdoor and natural play areas, whose indoor environments are injected with technological attractions that keep them occupied in a sedentary life. This play deprivation is prompting a global reaction towards what the American play historian Joe L. Frost calls a “contemporary child-saving movement” that aims to save children from a “dual crisis:” decrease of outdoor play and alienation from nature. Studies demonstrate the importance of contact with nature, either by bringing nature into the urban environment or by taking children out to nature’s wilderness. However, the question is: What are the play-space principles that allow natural environments to afford children with play opportunities of developmental value?This descriptive case study utilizes a sensory ethnographic approach to observe the interaction of children with the natural environment at The Native School, a nature school in Carlsbad, California. Data is collected in intervals for six months to consider the impact of dynamic and cyclical processes of nature on play. The collected data is coded and analyzed using multiple lenses. The “functional approach” by the environmental psychologist Harry Heft, is used to categorize the observed play affordances into a “functional taxonomy.” Secondly, the non-linear dynamic theory is used to identify dynamic play-conducive aspects of nature: transformation, organized complexity, diversity, and ecological attunement. These play-space making principles can guide a biophilic approach to designing play-conducive and developmentally beneficial environments.
ContributorsMalak, Sarah Khaled (Author) / Hejduk, Renata (Thesis advisor) / Petrucci, Darren (Thesis advisor) / Bradley, Robert (Committee member) / Brooks, Kenneth (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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This dissertation focuses on thermal comfort and walking as an experiential phenomenon in outdoor urban environments. The goal of the study is to provide a better understanding of the impact of psychological adaptation factors on thermal comfort. The main research questions included the impact of psychological factors on outdoor thermal comfort as well as the impact of long-term thermal perception on momentary thermal sensation. My research follows a concurrent triangulation strategy as a mixed-method approach, which consisted of a simultaneous collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Research consisted of five rounds of data collection in different locations beginning February 2018 and continuing through December 2019. During the qualitative phase, I gathered data in the form of an open-ended questionnaire but importantly, self-walking interviews where participants narrated their experience of the environment while recording one-minute long videos. The visual and audible information was first processed using thematic analysis and then further analyzed via Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). During the quantitative phase, I gathered information from participants in the form of three-step survey questionnaires, that data was analyzed using T-Test regression analysis in STATA. The quantitative data helped explore and address the initial research questions, while the qualitative data helped in addressing and explaining the trends and the experiential aspects of thermal environment.
Results revealed that spatial familiarity (as a psychological adaptation factor) has a significant relationship for both overall comfort and thermal comfort within outdoor environments. Moreover, long term thermal memory influences momentary thermal sensation. The results of qualitative and quantitative data were combined, compared, and contrasted to generate new insights in the design of outdoor urban environments. The depth and breadth of the qualitative data set consisting of more than a thousand minute-long of narrated video segments along with hundreds of pages of transcribed text, demonstrated the subjective aspects of thermal comfort. This research highlights the importance of context-based and human-centric design in any evidence-based design approach for outdoor environments. The implications of the study can provide new insights not only for architects and urban designers, but also for city planners, stakeholders, public officials, and policymakers.
Results revealed that spatial familiarity (as a psychological adaptation factor) has a significant relationship for both overall comfort and thermal comfort within outdoor environments. Moreover, long term thermal memory influences momentary thermal sensation. The results of qualitative and quantitative data were combined, compared, and contrasted to generate new insights in the design of outdoor urban environments. The depth and breadth of the qualitative data set consisting of more than a thousand minute-long of narrated video segments along with hundreds of pages of transcribed text, demonstrated the subjective aspects of thermal comfort. This research highlights the importance of context-based and human-centric design in any evidence-based design approach for outdoor environments. The implications of the study can provide new insights not only for architects and urban designers, but also for city planners, stakeholders, public officials, and policymakers.
ContributorsGarshasby Moakhar, Mohsen (Author) / Hejduk, Renata (Thesis advisor) / Cheng, Chingwen (Committee member) / Coseo, Paul (Committee member) / Margolis, Eric (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020