Essays about: "Empowerment Project"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 133 essays containing the words Empowerment Project.
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21. Multi-Purpose Women Center for a Community in Kisarawe,Tanzania - Enhancing social resilience through architecture
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : Architecture greatly influences people‘s lives regarding health, stability, and education and is crucial for economic and social development. This architectural thesis project aims to improve the living conditions of a marginalized community in a rural Tanzanian village, Kisarawe, through a design proposal. READ MORE
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22. Making stuff- the agency of doing in non-growth contexts
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : This project has developed from the site and building conditions in an area of central Boden, a town in the inland north of Sweden. In post-war times, the city grew thanks to the military and regional hospital resulting in the development of the site Prästholmen that was realized true to the modernistic ideal of the time. READ MORE
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23. Generation Y’s attitude towards femvertising in cosmetics: women empowerment or purplewashing? : A mono-method qualitative study
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : In recent years, femvertising has become a new issue of interest for companies, specifically in areas targeting women. Indeed, some companies in the cosmetics industry, such as Dove - a pioneer in the field - have been addressing the representation of women in advertising by tackling issues of equality, inclusiveness, and self-acceptance. READ MORE
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24. Garden of the Hesperides - Female Futures in Rural Morocco
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : My thesis proposes a female community and maternal health care center, run by the local Kablas themselves, that is linked to the Tangier hospital in order to provide all necessary medical supplies and offer prosperous opportunities to the local commnunities traditional birth attendants and girls.Linked to this, my thesis proposes a maintained “garden of health”, where all local medicinal species of plants are grown and nurtured and the knowledge around their healing properties is shared, in order to conserve both knowledge and species around the local realm of ethnopharmacy regarding female health. READ MORE
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25. The creation of a democratic food certification : How the Slow Food Participatory Guarantee System attempts to defend local food systems and traditions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. READ MORE
