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Echoes of Industry: Reinterpreting Artifacts of the Lachine Canal

2012· dissertation· en· W2610545920 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kathryn Bell

Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2012
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArchaeology and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEngineeringBusiness
DOInot available

Abstract

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Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once the cradle of Canadian industry, is now riddled with industrial ruins, testaments to its productive past. Since the canal’s closing in the 1970’s, different attempts were made to reinterpret its role within the city. Contaminated sediments pollute the manufactured waterway, now stagnant and derelict. These toxic remains impact the redevelopments and heritage parks of the canal corridor. In the absence of any holistic future vision, these conditions pose a threat to local inhabitants and industrial artifacts. Meanwhile, Parks Canada’s approved heritage status pertaining to certain parts of the canal, further contributes to the segregation of the corridor into sporadic developments and static voids. 
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\nAntoine Picon refers to these networks of technological remnants as ‘Anxious Landscapes’ – landscapes of artifacts that exist in the realm between technological obsolescence and ruin in the process of returning to nature. These landscapes are charged with industrial ruins and their residues in decay, perceived as waste, make us feel ill at ease with them. Portions of the canal and its industrial artifacts have been identified as having significant heritage value, but what productive possibilities do these heritage artifacts hold beyond their identified status? What possibilities do these imaginative playgrounds possess to reshape the corridor beyond its static blight?
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\nIn abandoned industrial icons such as the Canada Malting Plant, resides the potential to address the remediation and reinterpretation of the corridor. The thesis investigates whether interaction with these industrial remnants can permit a tactile connection that allows us to uncover and explore the significance of such landscapes in a larger temporal perspective that considers past, present, and future. It proposes to reveal and express the historical development of the canal, exploring remedial solutions and spaces of community participation, energizing the Lachine Canal and its anxious landscape.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.334
Threshold uncertainty score0.665

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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