TY - THES ID - 135804098 TI - Possibilities of Architecture : Three case studies on local housing in Tanzania AU - Candel, Freya AU - Cassiman, Ann. AU - K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen. Opleiding Master of Cultures and Development Studies PY - 2014 PB - Leuven : K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135804098 AB - C-re-aid is a young development organisation based in Northern Tanzania. With architecture being the professional background of the founder of C-re-aid, the concentration of the organisation lays on housing in informal settlements. The organisation is active since 2012 and has conducted several projects in rural areas of Moshi, Tanzania. The projects are conducted with the assistance of Western students of architecture and aim to create cooperation between the C-re-aid team, students and beneficiaries. C-re-aid collaborates on projects with families of various backgrounds, social relations and material possessions. However, the crucial similarity is that all the families received assistance from C-re-aid to make a specific material change. Thus, while the projects themselves are different, their common baseline is the research to the reception of a material change. For this thesis I have selected three projects that are most relevant for the specific topics cited in this thesis. These case studies show the social and material context, social relations within the community, and events during the process of the project. With the diversity of the projects, I can draw attention to theories on poverty, material culture, social relations and especially how those theories collaborate. Interventions undertaken in the built environment led to questions about how people involved in a project interpret the process of a project and the changes implemented by a project. This thesis deals with the conception of poverty and the reception of people to a material and social change to the house and its close physical environment. I defined my research question into "the possibilities of architecture for people confronted with poverty." Furthermore I research the influence of the presence of Western students of architecture in a Tanzanian context and what this could mean for the students. I seek to determine whether C-re-aid’s concept of people as "limited by infrastructure" is a... ER -