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Tactics for Forsaken Territories: Infrastructural Catalysis Within Disturbed Residual Spaces

Cook, Tim Patrick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The perceived dichotomy between the industrial and the ecological or amenity has led to a loss or misperception of identity and value of industrial landscapes. Conventional industrial precinct greening moves or the design ...
The Tailored Traveller: Exploring digital vehicle data and large-scale FDM 3D printing to produce a luxury sleeping space

Rykers, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This research is focused towards the use of large-scale FDM 3D printing within the automotive industry, specifically to design a bespoke habitable sleeping environment attached to a Range Rover Sport. 3D printing has risen ...
Tailorizing Taylorism: to Investigate the Principles of Taylorism and How They Can Inform the Design of a Contemporary Movement Efficient Dwelling

Gasson, Lauren Maire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Despite contemporary social activities changing drastically at the turn of the twenty-first century, residential layouts have not changed. This thesis takes the position that dwellings should be designed to facilitate ...
Taimi Tonu - Just in Time: an Evaluation of Tonga's Restorative Youth Diversion Scheme

Mackesy-Buckley, Sean Fergus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In November of 2006, a number of young people under the age of 18 were involved in rioting that destroyed a large portion of the Kingdom of Tonga's capital city, Nuku'alofa. The Government of Tonga (GoT) responded by ...
Taking Charge After Stroke: A novel, community-based intervention to improve the lives of people with stroke

Fu, Vivian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Background and aims: Stroke is the third leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite the recent development of hyper-acute therapies for stroke, outcomes for people with stroke and types of rehabilitation interventions ...
Taking the high road: Retrofitting amenity onto urban arterial roads

Dey, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Amenity values on urban arterial roads are fraught. This is largely due to the traditional traffic capacity versus amenity trade-off. This trade-off implies that high-capacity roads must be inherently deficient in amenity ...
Taking the Roof off a Modern Building

Brunskill, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Taking the Roof off a Modern Building explores ways to appropriately reactivate modernist architecture, acknowledging the social, economic and contextual constraints of a contemporary provincial New Zealand township. This ...
Taking the Stand: Women as Witnesses in New Zealand’s Colonial Courts c.1840-1900

Bowyer, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The study considers women as witnesses in New Zealand’s colonial courts from c.1840 to 1900. An analysis of women as witnesses adds another dimension to what is known about the everyday but often compelling presence of ...
Taking Up the Practice: Conversion and Buddhist Identity in New Zealand

Kemp, Hugh P (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In a similar fashion to other Western nations, Buddhism is gaining traction in New Zealand. This thesis seeks to answer the question "why do New Zealanders convert to Buddhism?" Implicit within the question is "how do New ...
A Tale of Place

Edwards, Jazmyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The purpose of this research is to develop a cultural centre for Paraparaumu College that will aim to counter the number of students leaving school without any formal qualifications. The need for such a centre, with ...
A Tale of Two Cities?: The Literary and Historical Relationship of Argos and Mycenae

Simpson, Sheryn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis is a case study of the relationship between Mycenae and Argos. It has been a longstanding tendency in scholarship to assume that Argos developed primarily in comparison to and in competition with Sparta. This ...
A tale of two suspended cities

Dench, Jacob (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Thesis investigation looks to allegorical architecture as a means of enhancing our awareness of our environment. This investigation began in early 2016 with the discovery of a little-known architectural history of the ...
Tales of Possession: A Study of Possession in the Novels of A. S. Byatt and John Fowles

Edwards, Samantha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis focuses on four works: John Fowles’s The Collector and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and A. S. Byatt’s The Game and Possession: A Romance. The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Possession have frequently been ...
‘Tales of Wonder and Horror’: Coverage of insanity in the Leeds press, 1808-1840

Kryssova, Evgeniya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The press was at the centre of the reform of the meaning of insanity, during its evolution from an equivocal eighteenth-century concept of melancholia to a medicalised Victorian notion of ‘lunacy’. During the late Georgian ...
Tales to tell - Weaving Indigenous Narratives in Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour

Leiataua, Baby (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

How does one design a contemporary Indigenous Pacific architecture? Can the structure of Indigenous narratives of multiple Pacific cultures reposition the space of contemporary architecture? This thesis primarily drives ...
Talkin' bout a revolution: Cultural Effects on the Transition from Oral to Written Literature

Poelina-Hunter, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Using language and writing to distinguish cultures from each other is commonplace. They are defining characteristics of culture that enable members to identify themselves within their group - by having communication they ...
Talking About Transition: An Exploration of the Secondary to Tertiary Transition Process for Music Students in a New Zealand Context

Wenden, Lynne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

There are complex challenges facing music students majoring in performance in New Zealand as they transition from secondary to tertiary study. As a result of their pretertiary experiences, these students form identities ...
Talking at cross-purposes?: the effect of gender on New Zealand primary schoolchildren's interaction strategies in pair discussions

Stubbe, Maria (Victoria University of Wellington, 1991)

This thesis explores one aspect of the relationship between sex and language. Twenty pairs of eleven and twelve year old children were tape-recorded during two discussion tasks. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the ...
Talk It Out: Promoting Verbal Communication Through Virtual Reality Games

Bodnar, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Verbal communication skills have been shown to be important for both social and professional settings. However, a need for greater communication skills has been identified for graduated students entering the workplace, ...
Tamana: a Study of a Reef Island Community

Lawrence, Roger James (Victoria University of Wellington, 1984)

This thesis is an exploration of the factors which give the tiny reef island of Tamana, in what is today the nation of Kiribati, its particular character. The research falls into three main sections. The first reviews the ...