Tag: 2010

Okude PhD Seminar, Nov20th, 2010

Review: Nov20th 2010

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Portrayed

Likewise

Depends on

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In Navinko, What point is the most distinctive part of design or design process differ from other design theories, such as User Centered Design and its resulted design? Is it only possible through the evaluation?

Ethnography
Interpretation
Variables(includes materials, semiotics?symbiosis?)
Put variables into network of probability ..with actor/network theory

How people experience the city?
Thay started from Kevin Lich’s book. And start to think what has changed after trains, cars, specially car navigation. Once you have navigaion, now it has memory. It changed driving experiences

What kind of new urban experiences you’re going to produce.
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TIPS: Just start from your best picture.
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斉藤
教育が社会関係資本の形成になにか役立っているのではないか。
researh proposal is not a research plan
1)intro
2)reference どういうものがあって、それぞれがどういう関係にあって、自分の理論につながっていくのか。ピアジェ、なんとか、社会資本、、どうかかわり合ってゆくのか。
3)method　もう一回なにをしたいのかを明確にかいて、どうやるのか
4)evaluation, どう証明するのか
5)conclusion

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Na
これからどんな会社を作りたいのか。自分の貢献先を見つける補助線としてそれを考える。
自分のビジョンを４章で示したら、これからの仕事の青写真になる。
変な統合理論をつけたすのではなく、プラクティスをみながら、３つをつなげるものをみつける
もっと自由闊達に自分をだして枠組みを作る。
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本：Ubiquitous architecture

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Inakage PhD Seminar, Dec 21st, 2010

Inakage PhD Seminar Dec21st 2010

中山さん

大学発ベンチャー企業の研究

既存の研究をマトリックス化、分類している。

 

Peter

Matching serendipity

Mixed variables

Opimize the best match

Value is still a mistery

Simple survey

Use same train

Start with more controlled environment

How may times they have used sns?

After a few months of business service….

We’ll survey/ check if the still use…

Jan to next Dec, 1st prototype in march

 

Jess> it is tough to expect app changes their behavior in urban space.

Peter>ex) Facebook started from a college(?),

Problem is, we have no way to communicate people around us.

 

Dankan> What is the research objective?

Peter>Create more sense of place, community where place is not XX right now.

 

Dankam> Dankan Had prvided  similar service and stopped. You need to find why they stop it.

 

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池田さん

ソフトパワーの定義

イギリスの例

デザイン活用現場に深く入り込んだ啓蒙

韓国の例

金大中大統領いらい、コンテンツ輸出に力をいれている

政府主導でのデザインコンサル

市場の啓蒙、政府がデザイン産業を啓蒙している

 

稲蔭＞自分の主張を通すためにありとあらゆるソースをあつめ、自分でまとめる。人の作ったものを読んでも、作った人の論理に誘導されるだけ。

＞ソフトパワーに力をいれている国がどれだけあるのかを、いろいろな資料を網羅したうえで自分でまとめる。

＞池田さんのやったことを池田さんの言葉で語らなくてはいけない。

徳久＞資料は要約だけでよい。自分の研究との違いを述べればよい。最終的に何を作るのか？

池田＞今後どうやって日本のクリエイティブ産業を発展させるのか、という（戦略？）を出すのが目的

稲蔭＞１）自分の主張が存在すること　２）いろいろな資料を主張に結びつける　３）どうやって主張を裏付けるか。

中山さんは、こういう方法で、、というのがいまの段階まである。

PeterのLinkUは、実は機能設計がおわっていて、来月から開発がはじまる。

これを読んだときにドクター論文がなにになるのかというのがてにとるようにわからないと。

リアルプロジェクトがないとどうしてもいけないわけではない。石倉さんの戦略シフトのような自分の戦略シフトをまとめる、体系化するという方法もある。

徳久（？）検証方法をいれないと。。。いってみれば妄想になってしまう。

Jess

Community building by interactiv evironment

urban foraging

urbanforage.org

public/private state of micro agriculture-ing

Inakage>phd quality..social impact.. should go beyond very naive data. you’ve to have different levels.

>We start to compete with birds and animals.

>you shouldn’t limit the idea only fro Tokyo even it was the starting point of the idea.

>Public space belongs to city or some kind of goverment. If you think about picking a flower in a sidewalk,,,, they would not allow you to do that.

Jess> Global gardening

peter>

 

Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Places, R.Klanten et al., 2010

from amazon

Product Description

Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Using any and all of the components that make up urban
and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover
our environment and interact with it in new ways. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents
this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound
mark on our contemporary visual language. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation.
Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities
including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way.

 

MEMO

Chapter 1: Urban Canvas

  • Haas & Hahn, Favela painting; Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2006 (p31)
  • ZASD,Berlin based artist
    • Arrow Pieses
    • Arrows Generation I,II
    • Acupunture Attempts; Berlin, 2009
  • Graffiti Research Lab
    • Laser Tag
    • LED Throwies
  • VR/Urban, SMSlingshot, Berlin, 2009
  • Electroboutique, Digiluck, Oslo, 2008-2009
  • Johannes Vogl, Five Moons, Vienna, 2007
  • Haque Design+Research, Open Burble Burble: Singapore, 2006 & Burble London, 2007
  • HeHe with Helen Evans, Nuage Vert(Green Cloud), helsinki. 2008

Chapter2: Localized

  • Pilar Lopez Baez, Little pieces of paper in the walls; Madrid, 2009(p79)
    • ‘The artist writes short texts in small pieces of paper and inserts them into little crannies in street walls. This project aims at giving buildings a voice. The pieces of paper are left to be found by pedestrians at an improbable moment.’
  • Slinkachu,
    • Slinkachu is also featured in book”Beyond The Street(p330)”
    • What brings us together and what keeps us apart, 2009 (p85)
    • installation made at Fame Festival, at Grottaglie(South of Itary, near Brindisi) ,
    • ‘For this street art and photography project, the “Little People Project”, the artist remodels and paints miniature model  train set characters, which are then placed on the streets and in public spaces…’
  • Dan Witz,
    • Third Man Series; Brooklyn, New York, 2008
    • Dark Doings’ series, New York, 2009
    • Ugly New Buildings series, New York, 2009
    • In Plain View, Williamsburg, New York 2009
    • ‘The “Kilroy Variations” are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers glued to the walls of new modern architecture.

Chapter3: Attachments

  • ‘extensions within the cityscape’
  • ‘parasitic takeover of evーeryday spaces and structures, to which we adapt ourselves as we move through the city, can be witnessed in a wide array of works..’
  • Luzinterruptus
    • A lot of policeman for so few people..;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
    • Urban Trash(IV); Carretas st., Madrid, 2009
    • Public toilets;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
    • ‘Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group that carries out urban interventions in public spaces using light as a  raw material and darkness as the canvas. The three members of the team come from three different disciplines: art, lighting, and photography.’
  • Jan Vormann
    • Dispatchwork; Berlin, Belgrade, Arnsberg, Israel, Arnsberg, Amsterdam
    • Using LEGO block to fill gaps and nicks in urban spaces.
  • Dan Wits
    • Prank;Greenpoint, New York, 2005
      • balloon on building facade to make it looks like a face.

Chapter4: Public Privacy

  • (the chapter) follows very different strategies that dissolve the boundaries between the private and the public, the familiar and the alien, in the urban realm.
  • Jason Eppink
    • Take a Seat; various metro stations, New York, 2007-ongoing
    • ‘Take a seat’ is an ongoing series of public furniture installations aimed at increasing the availability of seating options in New York City subway stations. Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations.
  • Arno Piroud
    • Assises ephemeres (ephemeral seats); Paris, 2007-2009
  • Cedric Bernadotte
    • Sofa at “grenier a sons”; Cavaillon, 2004
    • Interventions in public space; Toulon, 2003, Pau, 2009
    • Cedric Bernadotte’s experiments focus on the human presence in cities, namely how to adapt public spaces using inexpensive and ephemeral means. Questioning the frontier between public and private spaces, he works with tape, cellophane, and inflatables and creates new spaces by grafting existing urban furniture (p143)
  • Liesbet Bussche
    • Urban Jewelry, Amsterdam, 2009(p145)
  • Carol Hummel
    • Knitscape Larchmere, 2009(p149)
  • Kristof Kintera(p 157)
    • Lay down and Shine; Paradubice, 2008
    • Miracle(500 days from 12th September 2008); Tilburg, 2008
    • My Light us Your Light; 2008
  • Michael Rakowitz
    • paraSITE, New York, 1998-2000

Chapter 5: Activated( p 173-)

  • The projects here range from flash mobs and other choreographed events within the city,…
  • Compagnie Willi Dorner (p179)
    • Bodies in urban spaces
  • The Yes Man(p191)
    • The New York Times, New York, 2008
  • LIGNA, Radio Ballet; Leipzig, 2003 (p196)

Chapter 6: Advertised (p201-)

  • Filippo Minelli, (p241)

Chapter 7: Natural Ways(p245-)

  • Vanessa Harden(p255)
    • The Subversive Gardener/Precision Bombing Device II/Precision Bombing Device I/MkII Agent Deployed Field Auger; London , 2009
      • Guerilla Gardening subculture
  • Markus Mai(p279)
    • godlovesoul
      • God; West Carpathians, 2004
      • Mind; Magdeburg glacial valley,2004
      • Play; Black Forest, 2004
    • Beautiful Bastards; Berlin, 2005

Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design, David Gissen(Ed), 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Territory-Architecture-Beyond-Environment-Architectural/dp/0470721650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314778583&sr=1-1

Product Description

Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting which pre-exists the production of new things. Ultimately, it suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.

Cities for People, Jan Gehl, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Cities-People-Jan-Gehl/dp/159726573X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Foreword and preface

  • Foreword
  • Preface
    • interaction between form and life as a crucial precondition for good architecture

1. The human dimension

  • 1.1 The human dimension
    • P3 the human dimension -overlooked, neglected, phased out
    • a question of life and death -for five decades.
  • 1.2 First we shape the cities – then they shape us
    • P10 case: Copenhagen
    • P14 case: Melbourne, 1993 to 2004
  • 1.3 The city as meeting place
    • P20
      • necessary activities -under all conditions
      • optional activities -under good conditions
    • P21 Graphic representation of the connection between outdoor quality and outdoor activities.
    • P25 The city as meeting place – in an historic perspective
    • under pressure from the car invasion and modernistic planning ideology.

2. Scenes and scale

  • 2.1 Senses and scale
    • P32 The basic elements of city architecture are movement space and experience space. The street reflects the linear movement pattern of feet and the square represents the area the eye can take in.
    • P43 Human scale vs Car scale. 5km/h architecture and 60km/h architecture
    • P44 Photos
  • 2.2 Senses and communication
    • P52 Warm, intense contacts between people take place at short distances.
      • small in scale means exciting, intense and “warm” cities
      • large spaces and large buildings signal an impersonal, formal and cool urban environment
  • 2.3 The shattered scale
    • P58 Lack of understanding and respecting the human scale impacts on the great majority of new cities and built-up areas. Buildings and city spaces grow increasingly larger but the people who are expected to use them are as always -small.

3. The lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy city

  • 3.1 The lively city
      • P62 Life in the city is a relative concept. It is not the number of people that counts but the feeling that the place is populated and being used (local streets in Brazil and the Netherlands and a city street in Flashing, NY)
    • City life as process
      • P64 Life in the city is a self-reinforcing process. Something happens because something happens because something happens.
        • Once a children’s game gets going, it can quickly attract more participants.
        • Corresponding process are at work with adult activities.
        • People come where people are.
      • P66 New residential areas are sparsely populated. A century ago seven times more people lived in the same amount of space.
      • It is important to assemble people and events. However, too many and too large outdoor spaces are typically provided for new residential areas. The process that encourage city life never have a chance to get started.
    • Dense city – lively city?
    • How many and how long: quality and quantity
      • P72 A study of outdoor activities in 12 Canadian residential streets
      • lengthy stays mean lively cities.
    • Soft edges -lively cities
      • P75
        • Where city and building meet
        • edges that define space
        • edges as exchange zone
        • edges as staying zone
      • P78
        • soft edges -and hard
        • seven times more city life in front of active facades.
      • P81 closed ground-floor facades -lifeless cities
      • P83 69% took place in or around the semiprivate front yards
        • The remaining 31% of the activities took place in the streets.
    • Lively city -process, time, numbers and invitation
  • 3.2 The safe city
    • The safe city
    • Safety and traffic
    • Safety and security
      • P97 safe city – open city
      • The Death and Life of Great American Cities> importance of safety in the streets. Her expressions ‘street watchers‘ and ‘eyes on the street‘ have since become integral to city planning terminology.
      • safety and society
      • The light from building along city streets can make a significant contribution to the feeling of security when darkness falls
      • life in the city means safer cities – and safe cities provide more life
      • soft edges mean safer cities
  • 3.3 The sustainable city
  • 3.4 The healthy city
    • P112 Exercise by choice
      • Providing opportunities for exercise and self-expression is a logical and valuable answer to the new challenges.
      • Exercise as a cause,a choice and a business opportunity
      • Exercise as natural part of daily life
    • P115 City life, safety, sustainability and health as an integrated city policy!

4. The city at eye level

  • 4.1 The battle for quality is on the small scale
  • 4.2 Good cities for walking
  • 4.3 Good cities for staying
    • P136 Edge effect
    • Good and bad places to sit
    • P145 Movable chairs
  • 4.4 Good cities for meeting
  • 4.5 Self-expression, play, and exercise
    • The city as playground
      • More energy and creativity
      • in good shape(of body)
      • have: indoor life -wanted:fresh air and exercise
      • Good cities have built-in opportunities for play and self-expression. Simple solutions are often the most convincing.
    • P160 Fixed, flexible and fleeting
      • Fixed: Space, furniture and set up.
      • Flexible: Special, often seasonal activities
      • Fleeting: Short term but important activities
  • 4.6 Good places, fine scale
  • 4.7 Good weather at eye level, please
  • 4.8 Beautiful cities, good experiences
    • P176 concern for visual quality must include all urban elements
    • P177 The interplay between functional and spatial qualities has been convincingly treated in Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy, one of the reasons the square has served as a meeting place for 700 years.
    • P178 aesthetic quality -for all senses
    • P180 Lighting is the focus of conscious artistic treatment in many cities. Pioneering efforts were made in Lyon in the years after 1990.
  • 4.9 Good cities for bicycling

5. Life, space, buildings -in that order

  • 5.1 The Brazilia Syndrome
  • 5.2 Life, space, buildings – in that order
    • P208 Ponpidou Center/Guggenheim Bilbao VS Melbourne Museum in Federation Square/ Opera house Oslo for urban mountain climbing.
    • P209 making life in the cities visible.

6. Developing cities

  • 6.1 Developing cities
  • 6.2 The human dimension – a universal starting point

7. Toolbox

  • Planning principles: to assemble or disperse
  • Four traffic planning principles
  • To invite or repel -seeing and hearing contacts
  • The city at eye level:
    • 12 quality idea
    • designing the ground floor
  • Reordering priorities, please

Appendix

  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations and photos
  • Index

 

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. In this fascinating look inside the key architectural factors that determine a city’s livability, award-winning Danish architect and author Gehl (Public Spaces, Public Life) examines the factors he deems essential to a successful city. Not surprisingly, places designed without good room for safe walking and biking lead to a sedentary life “behind steering wheel and computer screen.” A “lively” city, on the other hand, “counters the trend for people to withdraw into gated communities… serving a democratic function where people encounter social diversity.” It’s in examining architecture’s psychological effects that Gehl truly shines; public spaces without comfortable seating and properly-scaled “talkscapes” evoking Italian piazzas enact a high human toll and greatly impact how the city functions at eye-level. Soaring, dehumanizing architecture has a diminishing effect on the individual, creating a shocking “high-rise” in crime rates. Even those without a professional interest in architecture will be fascinated by the assertions, like “slow traffic means lively cities,” that Gehl makes. Coming to the conclusion that “a good city is like a good party: guests stay because they are enjoying themselves,” Gehl keeps his latest effort engaging from start to finish. Illus. (Sept.)
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Review

“This book elaborates on many of Gehl’s seminal ideas, examines some of the world’s cities that have successfully improved over the last few decades, and states the challenges for the future. Many generations will lead happier lives and cities will be more competitive if their leaders heed his advice.”

(Enrique Pe�alosa former Mayor of Bogot�, Colombia 20100426)

“Jan Gehl continues to astonish us with his insight into what really makes cities work. He has a global reach in this book based on work he has done in Europe, Australia, and America with comparative data on how pedestrians use public spaces. The deep appeal is how quickly he has been able to assist some cities in turning their traffic-riddled streets into havens for people.”

(Peter Newman Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia )

“Jan Gehl’s new manifesto…Pages will be dog-eared, margins annotated… accessibly deployed framework of research and a logical, lucid framework for all the telling details and surprising data. The book organizes a set of observations that will strike some readers as obvious, others as radical, but practically all as convincing, revealing how deeply grounded Gehl”s system is in common sense. This kind of synthesis is no small task, and Gehl performs it with aplomb.”

(ArchNewsNow )

“If Cities for People is widely read and widely applied, the world’s urban life will be immeasurably better.”

(New Urban News )

“Fascinating guide on how to create cities that local residents fall in love with, rather than simply put up with.”

(Shareable: Cities )

“Jan Gehl’s most recent book – Cities for People – brought with it a lot of excitement and expectations. With a track record like his, however, it comes as no surprise that Gehl’s strong perspective, clear prose and rigorous research is not a disappointment. Continuing his quest to secure the importance of the human experience as a top priority when planning and designing cities, Cities for People is a succinct collection of his experience and lessons to-date.”

“Ultimately, Cities for People is one of those books that everybody – no matter what level you are in the industry – is bound to learn from. Clear and accessible, it’s a must-read for students and early practitioners of planning, architecture, and landscape design, as well as anybody interested creating humane pedestrian cities. If one hasn’t read any of Gehl’s previous books, this is also a great place to start.”

(Re:place )

“Jan Gehl is our greatest observer of urban quality and an indispensable philosopher of cities as solutions to the environmental and health crises that we face. With over half the world’s population now in urban areas, the entire planet needs to learn the lessons he offers in Cities for People.”

(Janette Sadik-Khan Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation )

Public Places Urban Spaces,2nd Ed: The Dimentions of Urban Design, Matthew Caroma,et al, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Public-Places-Urban-Spaces-Second/dp/1856178277/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Review

…a thorough and workman-like reference for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of urban design.
Architect’s Journal‘This will become the standard textbook on its subject, and deservedly so.’
Robert Cowan, Director, Urban Design Group, UK. –This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

 

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Public Places Urban Spaces 2e is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2500 postgraduate students on Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1500 students on undergraduate courses in the same subject.The second edition of this tried and trusted textbook has been updated with relevant case studies to show students how principles have been put into practice. The book is now in full colour and a larger format, so students and lecturers get a much stronger visual package and easy to use layout, enabling them to more easily practically apply principles of urban design to their projects.

Sustainability is the driving factor in urban regeneration and new urban development, and the new edition is focused on best sustainable design and practice. Public Places Urban Spaces is a must-have purchase for those on urban design courses and for professionals who want to update and refresh their knowledge.

. Tried and tested textbook in urban design, giving a comprehensive introduction to the principles and theory of urban design
. New and key focus on trends in sustainable design
. Now full colour to better visually demonstrate to students the application of design principles

‘Tvor’, Jindřich Vodička,2010

Tvor (the creature) is a lamp endowed with artificial intelligence. With the help of sensors, it moves towards the darkest place in the room. It seeks out darkness relentlessly and its illuminating presence transfers the darkness to another place. Tvor is thus doomed to endless travel.

Tvor Beta made its debut in June 2010 in the Gallery of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

http://www.ziveveci.cz/blog/?page_id=139

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