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Record W4285012076 · doi:10.22215/etd/2022-15066

Tending to Weeds: A Ruderal Approach to Architecture

2022· dissertation· en· W4285012076 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Sean Broadhurst

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicArchitecture and Computational Design
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRuderal speciesThrivingGeographyEcologySustainabilityArchitectureEnvironmental ethicsEnvironmental resource managementSociologySocial scienceArchaeologyEnvironmental scienceHabitatBiology

Abstract

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Could tending to weeds inform more reciprocal modes of occupying space? Noticing the mutual thriving of unlikely neighbours, this thesis learns from the resilience of undesirable ecologies to investigate how we might better grow together more sustainably. The entanglement of social and environmental needs is addressed by drawing on ruderal ecologies (a term for disturbance-prone plant communities) to develop an interdisciplinary and transcalar approach to architecture. Tools for noticing overlooked worlds are first created to learn specificity through modest site interventions in ruderal places. Like the dandelion rooted in a sidewalk crack, a reflective design project then imagines how unsealing paved grounds would reconfigure relations among human and nonhuman occupants in Ottawa, Canada. To find more hospitable grounds for growing and dying in common, a ruderal approach shows that ecotones of abundance can flourish among the gaps in things that matter, if tended to carefully.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.011
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.215 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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