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Tectonic Shift: Interpreting the Emerging Cultural Identity of Uganda

Shouder, Timothy D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477762

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2014, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Foreign aid in developing countries has contributed positively in countless ways, however there have also been hidden consequences from aid provided by non-government (NGO) and not-for-profit organizations (NPO). Among these consequences, the cultural identity of Uganda as it is expressed architecturally has been shrouded by the very groups trying to help them. Though these organizations provide tremendous aid and support, within the construction sector they have typically applied the same blanketed approach to building regardless of program or context. This has caused missed opportunities for the communities receiving aid to express themselves through built form as they historically have. Uganda has reached a point in its development where NGOs should begin to move from `aid oriented’ to `partner oriented’ relationships. This thesis seeks to establish a new design methodology applicable to foreign aid projects that might better interpret the cultural identity of Uganda through tectonics, temporality, and craft. These strategies reside within the premise that NGOs will not shift towards `partner oriented’ relationships immediately. It addresses the institutional colonial forms of building that are now accepted as part of the national identity, as well as the approaches that seek to uncover the pre-colonial past to create a method that is more in keeping with the new African identity. Contextually, the research is manifested within an educational program which, today in Uganda, might be the most severed relationship between built form and youth population. The academic environment also offers a direct relationship between tectonic, pedagogy, and youth that might begin to craft an architectural strategy which interprets the cultural identity of Uganda’s younger generation. This strategy may then be adapted towards a building methodology in which NGOs might fashion culturally inspired architecture that begin to interpret the cultural identity of Uganda.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael Zaretsky, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
132 p.
Architecture
Uganda; Non Government Organizations; Tectonic; Africa; Architecture; Identity

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  • Shouder, T. D. (2014). Tectonic Shift: Interpreting the Emerging Cultural Identity of Uganda [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477762

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shouder, Timothy. Tectonic Shift: Interpreting the Emerging Cultural Identity of Uganda. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477762.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shouder, Timothy. "Tectonic Shift: Interpreting the Emerging Cultural Identity of Uganda." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477762

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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