Re-Anchoring Bloomfield: Cross Programming a Makerspace to Foster Equity and Inclusion in North End, Halifax
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis proposes the creation of a Makerspace to re-anchor the Bloomfield Centre site within North End, Halifax. The Bloomfield Centre was previously a hub for making, community resources and collaboration, its closure left a void in the urban and social landscape. The lack of diversity among Makerspace users prompts this thesis to question the current organization of mainstream Makerspaces while also studying the rise of feminist Makerspaces. This study provides a design framework which implements cross programming to increase access while also increasing visual connections to the Makerspace activities through program adjacencies and voids. Urban strategies implemented deal with degrees of observation and movements through the site based on current and historical paths. Through the preservation of two historical Bloomfield school buildings and the redevelopment of the site now occupied by the Bloomfield Junior High building, this thesis imagines the site in a way that reveals its history of equity and inclusion.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".