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“EXCELLENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE” P A G E 29 Concretizing Tacit Knowledge: Belize City Urban Study Faculty of the Built Environment The Belize City urban study drawings of Design Studio 8, The Caribbean School of Architecture, concretize a tacit knowing of the city. The work includes stages of field notes, documentation and proposed interventions. The project’s epistemology examines boundaries in urban form and space making by unfolding experience as construed utterances of urban elements, historical data, development imperatives and topography. These enunciations present orthographic drawings as discursive statements. The drawings probe aberrations of the figure ground plan in relation to the active measure of a human body, most visible in street sections, elevations and mixed use studies. Augmented reality projections question how space mapping can inform provisional modes of conceiving and perceiving an imagined city. The intervention projects are sited along the city’s natural edge. They explore responses to the current Mayor’s urban renewal vision to activate the coastline, through public spaces that connect with the urban fabric, and proposals that celebrate the cultural and entrepreneurial identity of Belize. The Belize City Urban Study (2014) is a joint project between the Caribbean School of Architecture and the Board of The Association of Professional Architects of Belize, member of the Federation of Caribbean Associations of Architects. Project Leaders: Arch. Jacquiann T. Lawton, Senior Lecturer, The Caribbean School of Architecture, UTech, Jamaica Arch. Sue Courtenay, Association of Professional Architects of Belize Board Member. Visiting Lecturer : Dr. Elizabeth Pigou‐Dennis ( ST second wk) Design Studio 8 : J. Acham, K. Austin, K. Baker, A Bennett, C. Berkley, J. Cato, J. Chang, J. Channer, K. Cowan, A. Hall, A. Headley, A. Hill, S. Jackson, K. Johnson, L. Jones, O. Lewis, A. Louis, J. Neil, T. Pinnock, W. Quest, C. Ricketts, J. Riley, C. Robinson, T. Sealy, S. Serrett, J. Solo- mon, M. Spooner, M. St. Juste, M. Wade, S. Wellington, K. Witter.