Drawing The Void - Fabricating The Ruined Garden by van Dalen, Jana

“…Architecture is considered primarily an en-devour through abstraction, the project draws on the garden as an analogous narrative, constructing within its bounds the translations of cultural subjectivity into the landscape, a container of that which is valued and a measure of ideological shifts over time, in itself a stratified ruin, a marked tabula rasa, much like the city. …”
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Youth employability in ghetto neighbourhoods: The role of personal agency in reproducing or transforming social structures by Ince, Merlin Ince

“…The critical realist framework offers a helpful understanding of social structures as both material and cultural since human agency, or action, is influenced by circumstances that are both materially objective and culturally subjective. By probing the interaction of agency and structure this research shows that individual agency is a response to cultural beliefs and competing cultural norms. …”
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