Carolyn Butterworth article Gian was talking about, there is some other interesting articles on there too!
http://www.field-journal.org/index.php?page=journal-2
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Saturday, 24 October 2009
110: Mapping ===> http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/110.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php
** guys, click on the link and listen the video clip!
Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way—by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.
Prologue.
Ralph Gentles and five other people spend each summer creating a map of every crack, every depression, every protrusion, every pothole in the sidewalks of New York City. We hear why, and we hear all the things their map does not include. Mapmaking means ignoring everything in the world but the one thing being mapped, whether it's cracks in sidewalks or the homes of Hollywood stars. And, according to cartographer Denis Wood, we live in the Age of Maps: more than 99.9 percent of all the maps that have ever existed have been made in the last 100 years.(5 minutes)
Act One. Sight.
Denis Wood talks with host Ira Glass about the maps he's made of his own neighborhood, Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina. They include a traditional street locator map; a map of all the sewer and power lines under the earth's surface; a map of how light falls on the ground through the leaves of trees; a map of where all the Halloween pumpkins are each year; and a map of all the graffiti in the neighborhood. In short, he's creating maps that are more like novels, trying to describe everyday life.
See some of Denis's maps.Denis Wood is author of The Power of Maps. (8 minutes)
Act Two. Hearing.
TAL contributor Jack Hitt visits Toby Lester, who has mapped all the ambient sounds in his world: the hum of the heater, the fan on the computer. (11 minutes)
Song: "Way over Yonder in the Minor Key," Billy Bragg and Wilco
Act Three. Smell.
A story about a device that charts the world through smell—and only smell. TAL producer Nancy Updike visits Cyrano Sciences in Pasadena, California, where researchers are creating an electronic nose. (9 minutes)
Act Four. Touch.
Deb Monroe reports on how she has been mapping her own body through her sense of touch. (9 minutes)
Act Five. Taste.
Jonathan Gold goes to the places on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles that he visited back in the early 1980s. He tells the story of how he decided to map an entire street using his sense of taste, and how doing this changed his life.
Song: "I Love America," Noel Coward
** guys, click on the link and listen the video clip!
Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way—by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.
Prologue.
Ralph Gentles and five other people spend each summer creating a map of every crack, every depression, every protrusion, every pothole in the sidewalks of New York City. We hear why, and we hear all the things their map does not include. Mapmaking means ignoring everything in the world but the one thing being mapped, whether it's cracks in sidewalks or the homes of Hollywood stars. And, according to cartographer Denis Wood, we live in the Age of Maps: more than 99.9 percent of all the maps that have ever existed have been made in the last 100 years.(5 minutes)
Act One. Sight.
Denis Wood talks with host Ira Glass about the maps he's made of his own neighborhood, Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina. They include a traditional street locator map; a map of all the sewer and power lines under the earth's surface; a map of how light falls on the ground through the leaves of trees; a map of where all the Halloween pumpkins are each year; and a map of all the graffiti in the neighborhood. In short, he's creating maps that are more like novels, trying to describe everyday life.
See some of Denis's maps.Denis Wood is author of The Power of Maps. (8 minutes)
Act Two. Hearing.
TAL contributor Jack Hitt visits Toby Lester, who has mapped all the ambient sounds in his world: the hum of the heater, the fan on the computer. (11 minutes)
Song: "Way over Yonder in the Minor Key," Billy Bragg and Wilco
Act Three. Smell.
A story about a device that charts the world through smell—and only smell. TAL producer Nancy Updike visits Cyrano Sciences in Pasadena, California, where researchers are creating an electronic nose. (9 minutes)
Act Four. Touch.
Deb Monroe reports on how she has been mapping her own body through her sense of touch. (9 minutes)
Act Five. Taste.
Jonathan Gold goes to the places on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles that he visited back in the early 1980s. He tells the story of how he decided to map an entire street using his sense of taste, and how doing this changed his life.
Song: "I Love America," Noel Coward
political
long..go tu this website have something to do with political isu i think..http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/travel/airport-comments-page.shtml
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Event 2
Second main event.
Lunch. bumping into Marks and Lees group. Then exploring the train station waiting room and platform. This is a perfect "non place"
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
We were talking about this earlier today and the idea of how territories govern our life . I think this is pretty relevant.
Architectural structures have a significant existential and mental task. They domesticate space for human occupation by turning anonymous, uniform and limitless space into distinct places of human significance and equally importantly they make endless time tolerable by giving duration its human measure...
Juhani Pallasman.
Architecture helps to replace meaningless reality with a theatrically, or rather architecturally, transformed reality which draws us in and, as we surrender to it, grants us an illusion of meaning.. we cannot live with chaos. Chaos must be transformed into cosmos.
Karsten Harries
hi guys i have read some article and news about why the facebook being blocked ,this actually related to the topic which we discussing.
After the deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and even bar its citizens from accessing Facebook from most parts of Mainland China. Because those websites are examples of strong media which can actually spread news very fast and threaten a country. so the china blocks some website to protect its own territory. Besides that, like north korea, Isereal and some countries, they actually also blocking some info from getting into their territories. all of these political moblity is control by the governments. but what i was thinkin is that we have the rights to know what is happening out there? don't we?
After the deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and even bar its citizens from accessing Facebook from most parts of Mainland China. Because those websites are examples of strong media which can actually spread news very fast and threaten a country. so the china blocks some website to protect its own territory. Besides that, like north korea, Isereal and some countries, they actually also blocking some info from getting into their territories. all of these political moblity is control by the governments. but what i was thinkin is that we have the rights to know what is happening out there? don't we?
Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport
Hey guys, i found something interesting here about the physical mobility.
"We envision a transport system producing zero emissions and sparing the surface landscape, while people on average range hundreds of kilometers daily. We believe this prospect of 'green mobility' is consistent in general principles with historical evolution. We lay out these general principles, extracted from widespread observations of human behavior over long periods, and use them to explain past transport and to project the next 50 to 100 years. Our picture emphasizes the slow penetration of new technologies of transport adding speed in the course of substituting for the old ones in terms of time allocation. We discuss serially and in increasing detail railroads, cars, aeroplanes, and magnetically levitated trains (maglevs)." from: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/green_mobility/
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Understanding mobility begins with the biological: humans are territorial animals and instinctively try to maximize territory. The reason is that territory equates with opportunities and resources.
However, there are constraints to range -- essentially, time and money. since ever and in contemporary societies spanning the full range of economic development, people average about 1 hour per day traveling.
Transport matters for the human environment. Its performance characteristics shape settlement patterns. Its infrastructures transform the landscape. It consumes about one-third of all energy in a country such as the United States. And transport emissions strongly influence air quality. Thus, people naturally wonder whether we have a chance for 'green mobility', transport systems embedded in the environment so as to impose minimal disturbance.
"We envision a transport system producing zero emissions and sparing the surface landscape, while people on average range hundreds of kilometers daily. We believe this prospect of 'green mobility' is consistent in general principles with historical evolution. We lay out these general principles, extracted from widespread observations of human behavior over long periods, and use them to explain past transport and to project the next 50 to 100 years. Our picture emphasizes the slow penetration of new technologies of transport adding speed in the course of substituting for the old ones in terms of time allocation. We discuss serially and in increasing detail railroads, cars, aeroplanes, and magnetically levitated trains (maglevs)." from: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/green_mobility/
====================================
Understanding mobility begins with the biological: humans are territorial animals and instinctively try to maximize territory. The reason is that territory equates with opportunities and resources.
However, there are constraints to range -- essentially, time and money. since ever and in contemporary societies spanning the full range of economic development, people average about 1 hour per day traveling.
Transport matters for the human environment. Its performance characteristics shape settlement patterns. Its infrastructures transform the landscape. It consumes about one-third of all energy in a country such as the United States. And transport emissions strongly influence air quality. Thus, people naturally wonder whether we have a chance for 'green mobility', transport systems embedded in the environment so as to impose minimal disturbance.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
territorialised
hi guys. regarding lee's theory of territorialised. sad to say it sort of happen in our uni. i am not saying it wrong, that a nature of human. i've read few research on why individuals create this 'circle of trust'. Individuals often join a group to meet their interpersonal needs. William Schutz2 has identified three such needs: inclusion, control, and affection.
a)Inclusion is the need to establish identity with others.
b)Control is the need to exercise leadership and prove one's abilities. Groups provide outlets for this need. Some individuals
do
c)not want to be a leader. For them, groups provide the necessary control over aspects of their lives.
d)Affection is the need to develop relationships with people. Groups are an excellent way to make friends and establish
relationships.
as a conclusion to what i've read,
Group Synergy
Group synergy refers to the idea that two heads (or more) are better than one.
You may have also heard the phrase, "The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts," which also refers to group synergy. Put simply, groups are often capable of
producing higher quality work and better decisions that can an individual working
alone.
Support and Commitment
A group may be more willing to take on a large project than would an individual. In
addition to its increased ability to perform work, the group can provide
encouragement and support to its members while working on a big project.
Interpersonal Needs
Individuals often join a group to meet their interpersonal needs. William Schutz has
identified three such needs: inclusion, control, and affection.
* Inclusion is the need to establish identity with others.
* Control is the need to exercise leadership and prove one's abilities. Groups
provide outlets for this need. Some individuals do not want to be a leader.
For them, groups provide the necessary control over aspects of their lives.
* Affection is the need to develop relationships with people. Groups are an
excellent way to make friends and establish relationships.
i dont know if this help with what we talk about yesterday..plz give some feedback...thanks.
a)Inclusion is the need to establish identity with others.
b)Control is the need to exercise leadership and prove one's abilities. Groups provide outlets for this need. Some individuals
do
c)not want to be a leader. For them, groups provide the necessary control over aspects of their lives.
d)Affection is the need to develop relationships with people. Groups are an excellent way to make friends and establish
relationships.
as a conclusion to what i've read,
Group Synergy
Group synergy refers to the idea that two heads (or more) are better than one.
You may have also heard the phrase, "The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts," which also refers to group synergy. Put simply, groups are often capable of
producing higher quality work and better decisions that can an individual working
alone.
Support and Commitment
A group may be more willing to take on a large project than would an individual. In
addition to its increased ability to perform work, the group can provide
encouragement and support to its members while working on a big project.
Interpersonal Needs
Individuals often join a group to meet their interpersonal needs. William Schutz has
identified three such needs: inclusion, control, and affection.
* Inclusion is the need to establish identity with others.
* Control is the need to exercise leadership and prove one's abilities. Groups
provide outlets for this need. Some individuals do not want to be a leader.
For them, groups provide the necessary control over aspects of their lives.
* Affection is the need to develop relationships with people. Groups are an
excellent way to make friends and establish relationships.
i dont know if this help with what we talk about yesterday..plz give some feedback...thanks.
my little summary of Meeting1.
1. physical mobility:-
-why did our "home" become statics?
*human's needs/wants?
*why people stay? and why they move?
2. virtual mobility:-
-why human rely on virtual mobility more and more?
-"Territorization"
3. political mobility:-
-physical: Iran, Iraq? the old china? any issues that happened.
-virtual: freedom of speech on internet?
* why? issues? problems? reasons? consequences?
4. Social mobility:-
-what causes?
-what happened?
*changing structures... communism ->capitalism.
guys hope tis is useful to you all. cheers!
-why did our "home" become statics?
*human's needs/wants?
*why people stay? and why they move?
2. virtual mobility:-
-why human rely on virtual mobility more and more?
-"Territorization"
3. political mobility:-
-physical: Iran, Iraq? the old china? any issues that happened.
-virtual: freedom of speech on internet?
* why? issues? problems? reasons? consequences?
4. Social mobility:-
-what causes?
-what happened?
*changing structures... communism ->capitalism.
guys hope tis is useful to you all. cheers!
hey guys, this is the our coming plan timeline:-
19th Oct (Mon) - Meeting 1: Stage1= revised and improved. (1pm)
20th Oct(Tues) - Researches and Reading for Stage2 (Individually)
21st Oct (Wed) - Meeting 2: Stage2= Discussion about the site analysis info and site visit. (11am)
22nd Oct(Thu) - *
23rd Oct (Fri) - *
24th Oct (Sat) - Meeting 3: Final Discuss about Stage1 for group direction
: Compilation of Stage2 analysis.
25th Oct (Sun) - **
26th Oct (Mon)- Meeting for the presentation preparation
27th Oct (Tues)- Formative Review
30th Oct (Fri) - Submission/ Presentation?
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* either 22nd or 23rd will be our site visit date. we'll discuss it during the meeting 2 ok?
** family day? take a small break. (=
19th Oct (Mon) - Meeting 1: Stage1= revised and improved. (1pm)
20th Oct(Tues) - Researches and Reading for Stage2 (Individually)
21st Oct (Wed) - Meeting 2: Stage2= Discussion about the site analysis info and site visit. (11am)
22nd Oct(Thu) - *
23rd Oct (Fri) - *
24th Oct (Sat) - Meeting 3: Final Discuss about Stage1 for group direction
: Compilation of Stage2 analysis.
25th Oct (Sun) - **
26th Oct (Mon)- Meeting for the presentation preparation
27th Oct (Tues)- Formative Review
30th Oct (Fri) - Submission/ Presentation?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* either 22nd or 23rd will be our site visit date. we'll discuss it during the meeting 2 ok?
** family day? take a small break. (=
Monday, 19 October 2009
Shared Space
The more territorialised we become, the fewer options we have, a car will not give way to a pedestrian on a road "this is a road, it is for cars", so if something were to have multiple uses; be less territorialised there are more possibilities (at every scale) it is as simple as that?
Below is a video of a shared space sceme in ashford kent, which does this.
Below is a video of a shared space sceme in ashford kent, which does this.
Territories
Hey Guys,
Talking about territories i felt the need to move on slightly and try and make it a little more expicitly relevant to architecture even though with each explaination i feel like it is loosing the essence of what it could mean. it is about people not buildings.
Territories are a product of consciousness. Of our own absurd existance. We become aware that we live in a world, where we have no consequence whatsoever. that we are heading nonchalantly towards death, with no meaning and no purpose.
Now this is either an infinate resource to draw upon or it is a crushing acceptance of death, which in turn calls us to choose between hope or suicide.
Throughout history we have chosen to give ourselves hope by choosing to transcend this life on the premise of eternal life.
We create god in the image of ourselves who in turn creates man. and it is from this point of perceptual saliency (that man is above all other things) that we move forward.
We confine and order space by means of territorialisation to provide meaning for our existence.
architecture can and has become the embodiment of this state of stability, order and permanence as a product of our cultured'perception of the world around us. it becomes the ultimate absurdity.
i'm not saying the world is shit, i am asking just as before we could not accept our absurd existence.... i am asking can we live in a world so limited?
"A SUDDEN SHIFT IN THOUGHT BRINGS BACK INTO THE WORLD A SORT OF FRAGMENTARY IMMANENCE WHICH RESTORES TO THE UNIVERSE ITS DEPTH". (CAMUS)
I'm asking should we question the role of culture in architecture and vice versa? should architecture take a more collaborative approach to culture rather than being a product of it?
Talking about territories i felt the need to move on slightly and try and make it a little more expicitly relevant to architecture even though with each explaination i feel like it is loosing the essence of what it could mean. it is about people not buildings.
Territories are a product of consciousness. Of our own absurd existance. We become aware that we live in a world, where we have no consequence whatsoever. that we are heading nonchalantly towards death, with no meaning and no purpose.
Now this is either an infinate resource to draw upon or it is a crushing acceptance of death, which in turn calls us to choose between hope or suicide.
Throughout history we have chosen to give ourselves hope by choosing to transcend this life on the premise of eternal life.
We create god in the image of ourselves who in turn creates man. and it is from this point of perceptual saliency (that man is above all other things) that we move forward.
We confine and order space by means of territorialisation to provide meaning for our existence.
architecture can and has become the embodiment of this state of stability, order and permanence as a product of our cultured'perception of the world around us. it becomes the ultimate absurdity.
i'm not saying the world is shit, i am asking just as before we could not accept our absurd existence.... i am asking can we live in a world so limited?
"A SUDDEN SHIFT IN THOUGHT BRINGS BACK INTO THE WORLD A SORT OF FRAGMENTARY IMMANENCE WHICH RESTORES TO THE UNIVERSE ITS DEPTH". (CAMUS)
I'm asking should we question the role of culture in architecture and vice versa? should architecture take a more collaborative approach to culture rather than being a product of it?
Sylv I like your previous blogs on how you are drawing comparisons of our world to the matrix. Is this where we are heading? Its an interesting point. Will there be a time where we don't actually have to leave our home, our pod.. Perhaps we can commune, work, learn all by plugging into a virtual world in the comfort of our own home?? and be static.
Mobility is of goods, people and information. What happens if we didnt move in the physical anymore.. just in the virtual.. Anyway thats just an idea......
I'm reading invisible cities. Its a series of descriptions mostly by marco polo of his travels to different cities.. He depicts fantasy cites to Kublar khan the emperor.
Its plays on his imagination. On our imagination.. and how we imagine a place to be. We can imagine a place that is not confined to physical principles..
In response to what you said about the Pyramids we need to see them in reality to really experience them (in context.)
I'm interested in our preconception or perception of a place. We all have a mental image of what New York is like or Rio. However we know our preconception will differ to the reality of the place... we will not have had the full sensory experience of the place.. We will miss the smell the hustle and bustle the noises the real atmosphere.
We will all have a different perspective of a place. due to infinite factors. Take Birmingham for instance we all have a different mental map or emotional mapping of the place. We pick out urban landscape to create a mental map of a place. This is owed to how we experience our city. Some of us travel by bus, some by car some walk or cycle. Sometime the same routes but we will all have a different image of the city.
Leading on from this I began to think about physical mobility in our society. Yes it can be banal. The regular journey to work or school every day.. the same traffic lights, stuck on the same road. or waiting for a train in the same waiting room. In this place of insignificance. A NON PLACE.
But these NON places are valuable. An airport waiting room, a stretch of motor way. these places give time to our emotions. A place for anticipation to build, For us to develop our preconception of a place. How we choose to move through it.. Is this similar to the different types of territories you mentioned lee? How our own different territories personal to us, influence our experience of a space. We will move differently through different space.
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