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2016-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The importance of the body in fashion and the radical adoption of street styles by the elite go back to eighteenth-century Europe. This study examines the effects of the French Revolution on European and American style. It asks how 1790s fashion drastically changed to...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: While behaviours related to lower relationship satisfaction and increased risk of divorce are understood, factors that contribute to flourishing relationships are less so. Relationship paradigms have focused on personality traits, behaviours and skills not demonstrated by...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: This mixed-method, qualitative critical policy analysis project builds on preliminary analysis of data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey, to explore in greater depth the phenomenon of under-employment of women in Canada, beginning with mothers of preschool children....
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: This research-creation project asks “What is a contemporary landscape?” Building on cultural geographers' insights that the natural environment provides a setting for cultural processes and belief systems, we will explore the history of ideas and images in traditional...
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Integral Urbanism: Investigating the Materiality and Spatiality of the University of Alberta Quadrangle
DownloadFall 2015
The university quadrangle is a space that exists on the majority of North American campuses, yet detailed investigation into the creation, existence and perpetuation of the quadrangle has been minimal. Considering how universities look to distinguish themselves from one another in search of the...
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2023-02-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: This IDG proposal is for a study of Community Design Education (CDE). Also known as Design/Build or Live projects Education, in CDE, educators and students work with local clients to design and construct community centres, urban gardens, park benches, and other items....
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Spring 2019
Raw denim jeans are an emerging trend where a unique pattern of fading is created as the jeans mold to the wearer’s body. Raw denim differs from traditional denim as it has not been treated or washed before being sold to consumers. Brand new raw denim has been suggested to be worn continuously...