Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Habitat for Humanity'

When US veterans return home from serving their country reintegrating into civilian society is difficult. Adjustment is often associated with mental health stress and personal instability. One of the biggest predictors of successful reintegration is homeownership. The research is in partnership with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. The research seeks to explore the challenges veterans face when seeking homeownership.

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A pesquisa em tela trata da paisagem da Vila de Paranapiacaba, que está localizada a aproximadamente 50 km da capital paulista, no Município de Santo André, São Paulo. Paranapiacaba é considerada patrimônio ambiental, histórico, tecnológico e arquitetônico, tendo sua origem ligada à instalação do sistema funicular inglês na região, em meados do século XIX. Trata-se de um conjunto arquitetônico tombado nas instâncias municipal, estadual e federal e indicado para pertencer ao Patrimônio Mundial pela UNESCO. Todas essas características fazem com que a experiência de seu habitar seja peculiar, sobretudo no que concerne às particularidades do tombamento, dos bens imóveis (a casa, o conjunto) e móveis (artefatos), pelos órgãos de proteção que visam à preservação e manutenção do patrimônio cultural. Por essa razão, o trabalho em tela tem como objetivo apresentar a experiência vivida dos moradores junto à paisagem. Acreditamos que a natureza intrínseca do habitar complica-se, ainda mais, quando a casa é “tombada”. Como, então, o fenômeno da paisagem se apresenta nessa circunstância? Esse fenômeno, que amalgama a expressão do patrimônio habitado, eleva exponencialmente a experiência vivida na casa. As ações foram realizadas em colaboração com os moradores, poder público e órgãos de proteção ao patrimônio cultural. Por tratar-se de um complexo sítio histórico, arquitetônico e tecnológico, de contexto ferroviário, com poucas intervenções de trabalhos arqueológicos, muitos dos vestígios materiais estão de posse dos moradores, que realizam, eles próprios, a curadoria de seus achados. Esses objetos jazem espalhados pela vila, seja nos quintais das casas, nos “lixões”, nas ruas e em outras dependências e/ou instalações da SPR (São Paulo Railway). Com o tempo, os moradores passaram a guardar esses objetos em suas casas, incorporando-os ao seu mobiliário doméstico. Sabendo das implicâncias implícitas em tal fenômeno, articulamos os diversos sujeitos sociais envolvidos, procurando, de forma dialógica e transversal, realizar atuações no âmbito da educação patrimonial. As reflexões aqui levantadas dizem respeito aos processos relacionados às ressignificações dos artefatos arqueológicos. Tomamos tal situação como contextual, cuja prática é uma forma de fortalecer identidades, por meio de novas narrativas, que se canalizam na cultura material.
This work deals with the landscape of the village of Paranapiacaba, which is located approximately 50 km from the city of São Paulo, in the city of Santo André, São Paulo. Paranapiacaba is considered an environmental, historical, technological and architectural patrimony, having its origin linked to the installation of the English funicular system in the region, in the middle of the 19th century. It is an architectural complex registered in the municipal, state and federal instances and indicated to be listed as one of the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage sites. All these characteristics make the experience of its dwelling peculiar, especially concerning the particularities of its heritage listing, its real estate (the house, the set) and its movable property (artifacts), by the protective organs that aim at the preservation and maintenance of the cultural heritage. For this reason, this work aims to present the experience lived by the residents along with the landscape. We believe that the intrinsic nature of dwelling becomes even more complicated when the house is a "heritage listed place." How, then, does the phenomenon of landscape present itself in this circumstance? This phenomenon, which amalgamates the expression of the inhabited patrimony, exponentially increases the experience lived in the house. The actions were carried out in collaboration with residents, public authorities and organs of protection of cultural heritage. As it is a complex historical, architectural and technological site, with a railway context, with few interventions of archaeological works, many of the material remains are in the possession of the residents, who curate their findings by themselves. These objects lie scattered throughout the village, either in the backyards of houses, in the garbage dumps, on the streets and in other facilities of the SPR (São Paulo Railway). Over time, residents began to store these objects in their homes, incorporating them into their home furnishings. Knowing the implications implicit in this phenomenon, we articulated the various social subjects involved, seeking, in a dialogical and transversal way, to perform actions in the area of heritage education. The reflections raised here refer to the processes related to the re-significances of the archaeological artifacts. We take this situation as contextual, whose practice is a way of strengthening identities, through new narratives, which are channeled into the material culture.
CNPq: 131828/2014-2

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No Brasil, a pesquisa jurídica quase sempre é desenvolvida por profissionais institucionalizados. É sobre o que acontece neste campo profissional que se concentra esta pesquisa. Esta pesquisa interpretativa constrói enquanto objeto de estudo as ideias filosóficas que orientam o trabalho concreto dos cientistas jurídicos humanistas no âmbito da Faculdade de Direito do Recife (FDR). A formação jurídica humanista foi tradição na instituição por mais de um século a partir da sua fundação (1827). Com fundamento na orientação metodológica da sociologia do conhecimento, em especial do referencial elaborado por Bourdieu, foi possível identificar essas ideias de base no seu processo de construção e difusão institucional ao longo do século XX. Nesse período de tempo, percebeu-se uma desvalorização do capital simbólico desses profissionais num contexto de fortalecimento do habitus tecnológico no campo jurídico profissional. Sob a orientação metodológica do estudo sistemático, isolaram-se igualmente para a contemplação científica as pesquisas elaboradas por Nelson Saldanha. O trabalho desse agente institucional é considerado em caráter exemplar no âmbito da produção jurídica não dogmática e humanista da instituição. A pesquisa heterodoxa desse profissional humanista foi examinada no contexto do fluxo de ideias institucionalmente mediadas. Percebeu-se que a característica fenomenológica da pesquisa realizada pelo agente pode ser relacionada a um referencial filosófico existencial desenvolvido por diversas gerações de pesquisadores no âmbito institucional e, mais amplamente, no campo intelectual da cidade do Recife. Em termos epistemológicos, esse fundamento filosófico existencial conduz o autor à elaboração de uma pesquisa jurídica com características antropológicas nas décadas de 1960 e 1970.

A digitalização do território e a sua transformação em fluxos informativos (DI FELICE et al, 2012) resultaram em um outro modo de ser sobre a Terra, de ser-no-mundo contemporâneo, mais particularmente no que o sociólogo Massimo Di Felice (2009) define com o conceito de \"habitar atópico\", desenvolvido a partir da pensamento de Heidegger. Para ele, mais do que residir, o habitar refere-se a um relacionar-se, a um comunicar, caracterizado pelas interações em rede dos diversos coletivos humanos e não-humanos, tecnológicos, territoriais. Assim, mais do que a reprodução digital do território, trata-se de um novo ambiente, um \"metaterritório\", metageográfico e informativo, portanto, dinâmico e manipulável, cujas dimensões são sempre reticulares e indelimitáveis (DI FELICE et al, 2012). É nesse panorama que se pretende esboçar os caminhos para a proposição do conceito de \"ecopoiese\", entendida como uma ecologia que, ao contrário do que o sentido etimológico possa induzir, é do âmbito do atópico e do indizível. Seu oikos não se localiza e seu logos não se explica. Essa ecologia é pós-humanista e assim sendo, o somente humano não a define e nenhuma perspectiva única a reivindica. Nessa ecologia, as interações entre humano, natureza e tecnologia comunicativa assumem um caráter complexo e produzem sempre agenciamentos hibridizantes, divergindo de quanto preconizado pelas interações somente técnicas atribuídas à Internet das Coisas
The digitalization of the territory and its transformation into information flows (DI FELICE et al, 2012) resulted in a further way of being on earth, of being-in the contemporary world, more particularly in what the sociologist Massimo Di Felice (2009) defines with the concept of \"atopic inhabit\", developed from the thought of Heidegger. For him, rather than reside, dwelling refers to a relate to, to a communicate with, characterized by networked interactions of the human and non-human, technological, territorial collectives. Thus, more than the digital reproduction of the territory, it is a new environment, a \"metaterritory, a \"metageographical\" and informative one, and therefore dynamic and manipulable, whose dimensions are always reticular and unlimited (DI FELICE et al, 2012). It is in this scenario that is intended to outline the ways to propose the concept of \"ecopoiese\", here understood as an ecology that, instead of what the etymological sense may suggest, is the scope of the atopic and unspeakable. Your oikos is not localized and its logos is not explained. This ecology is post-humanist and, therefore, what is only human cannot define it and no single perspective can claim it as theirs. In this ecology, the interactions between human, nature and communication technology play a complex character and always produce hybridized assemblages which are different from merely technical interactions attributed to the Internet of Things

L'objectif de cette thèse est de contribuer à la compréhension du rapport sensible à l'espace de marcheurs, visiteurs en montagne et l'hypothèse est posée que, à travers des significations variées attribuées à l'espace, leur pratique relève d'une découverte et d'une (re)présentation de soi et, au delà, de la définition d'une identité collective. J'ai, pour mener ma recherche, mobilisé le concept d'expérience de l'espace et, surtout, mis au point une méthode adaptée à la fois un ancrage phénoménologique, à la situation de visite et à la pratique de la marche à pied. Cette méthode met en œuvre trois entretiens successifs ainsi qu'une observation participante. L'analyse du matériau produit met en évidence la construction d'une expérience de l'espace en six dimensions à la fois diversifiées (dans leur mobilisation et leur expression) et interdépendantes : sociale, savante, esthétique, corporelle, ludique et cueilleuse. Des phénomènes sont ensuite examinés pour expliquer cette construction et, précisément, les conditions de sa spatialité et de sa temporalité. Il est enfin montré que, parmi les dimensions identifiées, le registre social est omniprésent. Les participants se reconnaissent à l'intérieur d'un même groupe social (et ses codes et valeurs) et le rôle central du groupe de marche et des personnes qui le constituent est souligné. À partir des notions de rite et de cheminement, il est possible de montrer dans quelle mesure la marche en montagne est source de lien social ; dans quelle mesure, aussi, à travers des objets comme la carte et le chemin, l'expérience des marcheurs se joue sans cesse entre le matériel et l'immatériel, entre le temps et l'espace.

Employable humanists. A qualitative study on humanist students' views on employability. The crisis of the humanities is a controversial debate in the media and within academic settings. Because of lack of request for humanists in the labor market, the question of humanistic skills and employability is becoming increasingly important. The concept of employability importance not only echoes within the economic discussions, but also on everyday agenda in the academic world and takes a large part in the communication between the university and the students. It is therefore important to get answers to the question whether there is conformity in the interpretation of this concept between the university and the students. The aim of this desk study is to examine how the concept of employability has its significance in the academic communication and how the responsibility for employability is portrayed. This is done by studying how the concept of employability is formed and how the responsibilities outlined in texts from Career Center at the University of Umeå, and by comparing study results with the students' perceptions of the concept of employability and responsibility. The study has a qualitative disposition and consists of two main methods: qualitative interviews with focus groups to explore students' views, and critical linguistic analysis of texts with a focus on metaphor analysis and syntax analysis which are also supplemented by the multimodal text analysis. Results of this study indicate that the concept of employability takes a central part of the university’s communication. There are many common starting points in the interpretation of the concept and the responsibility between the university and students. Both the Career Center at Umeå University and students believe that actual knowledge, skills, experience as well as network forms the meaning of the concept of employability, and has a big importance in the student’s position on the job market. However, because the students look at the use of the concept of employability in the texts as acceptance to the social ideological perception of the individual as objects, there is some criticism of the use of the term employability in the university’s communications.

This thesis chronicles my experiences with developing a panelized wall system for use by Habitat for Humanity and with testing that system in the design and construction of a house. Presented as a series of narratives, it follows the progress of the project from August 2003 to December 2005. Described is my motivation to test my theories through design and construction, the applicability of prefabrication to Habitat for Humanity’s use of unskilled volunteer labour, the incorporation of panelization into the design of a house for the Waterloo Region affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, the prefabrication of preclad wood framed wall panels for this house by students at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, the erection of these wall panels on-site, and the completion of the house to a weathertight state. The thesis concludes with discussions of the understanding I gained through my experiences, the necessity for further development and testing of the panelized wall system, and the future use of prefabrication by Habitat for Humanity.

In the United States, Habitat for Humanity is at the forefront of the providing affordable housing to low income homeowners. Because of this work, Habit for Humanity is one of the leading homebuilders in the United States. A recent development in the assessment of home building is an increased emphasis on the use of technology and methods that reduce the impact of housing construction and occupation on the world’s environment. Numerous methods exist to assess this impact, a major one in the United States is the LEED system developed by the US Green Building Council. Two problems exist with the LEED system, one being cost and the time of preparation of the necessary paperwork. Other research work exists on these implementation problems for the broader community, but this study looks at the specific impact and impediments to obtaining LEED certification for Habit for Humanity housing, specifically in Texas. This study assesses Habit for Humanity affiliate’s involvement with LEED and sustainable building. This is accomplished in two parts, a survey and an analysis of LEED scorecards. To gauge the current state of sustainable building in Habitat for Humanity affiliates of Texas a survey was conducted. There were 15 participants out of 84 affiliates. The survey looked in to the current sustainable practices and barriers for the affiliates to participate in the LEED program. Then LEED score cards were obtained and analyzed, eleven scorecards total were obtained. Six scorecards were from homes built by Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the United States, and the other five scorecards came from a production home builder in Texas. The scorecards were then compared by determining the mean of points for each question. From this case study, the survey shows cost and knowledge to be the largest barriers to LEED certification. The data from the LEED scorecards showed Water Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality to be the two weakest categories for the HFH affiliates compared to the production homes. These barriers can potentially be overcome by the availability of grants for sustainable building and by educating the affiliates on LEED and sustainable building. The fact that HFH is a leader in affordable housing means if HFH affiliates can build to LEED standard so can other affordable builders.