TS_19.02.13

Orden del día:

Revisión de los abstracts para FRAGILE.

Durante la sesión de hoy hemos estado trabajando sobre los abstracts en general.

Hemos recordado que un abstract es un resumen informativo de un trabajo primario/principal pero que ha de tener interés en si mismo, y todo ello sin ser un sustituto de la investigación o trabajo primario. El abstract debe contar con un inicio, un desarrollo y un final.

Además, el abstract tiene como propósito dar la información más importante de la forma más precisa. Su formato es corto para acercarlo a un mayor público y que las palabras clave tienen una importancia relevante en su búsqueda informatizada.

Por último, un abstract tiene una organización básica de 3 puntos:
- Introducción con el propósito del trabajo.
- Desarrollo del mismo/descripción del estudio
- Conclusiones/Resultados/o, para qué ha servido el trabajo/estudio.

Entonces hemos pasado a revisar en grupo los abstracts sobre "Atlas of the abandonment" y el de "Diversidad y seguridad" para ver si cumplíamos con los puntos que hemos estado repasando y si surgía alguna otra duda.

TS_15.11.12

Summary today's session.

       Roman's presentation. Roman opened the session with his urban presentation. He has been working and the result has been great with some changes. Mainly, he use a unitary graphic language which made easier the speech, organized the presentation by points and used it as keywords, and he delete some parts which created problems for understanding and he showed clearly the main concepts.

      O. Neurath Challenge. We watched David McCandless conference and was really interesting. We where talking aboute the competition and how we can use all the information we have.

new O.Neurath atlas from comparative sketches / diagrams - based on flows / routes / ????

It is was difficult to define more the "what?" part. It was decided to create the medium for sharing ideas, references and resources. It was selected google docs as the main tool to share the text information and work all together in common, and mural.ly to post the graphics works.

A challenge

During these communication training sessions we have been mainly working on verbal communication and its perception. Participating in this competition gives us a chance to train our graphic communication skills. The goal remains: make certain information accesible and attractive to the recipients. We will still need to filter information, emphasize certain ideas and find ways to explain them in the most attention-catching-way possible, but we will now need to develop different tools in order to synthesize and represent complex ideas and processes graphically.

detailed information about the competition: http://www.archplus.net/home/outofbalance_e

to be discussed:

1. TOPIC

ideas so far:

a) El Cabanyal

b) (inhabited) housing developments built during the last 10 years in a certain area

c) Benidorm

2. REGISTRATION
-Registration till 30th November

-max. 10 members: who would like to take part? -need full names and profession if other than student

-if you agree I could be the contact person, the final A2 need to be send to Aachen and national post will be cheaper than international.

-if we are less than 10 it would be nice to invite people from other disciplines such as designers or historians, geographers, sociologists, economists... who could help us read the information differently

So far I have on the list (because of the comments/e-mails replied):

1. Paula Cardells (architect/urban planner)

2. Rafael Temes (architect/urban planner)

3. Aitor Deza (student)

4. Pablo Lambertos (student)

5. Alfonso Fernández (student)

6. Albert Brenchat (architect/urban planner)

7. Sara Mira (student)

8. Lucía Martínez (architect/urban planner)

Let me if I'm wrong please! 

@Aitor, Albert: did you finish? 

3. INTERNAL DEADLINES

I think it would we a good idea to check the calendar and see which goals could we reach by certain dates. I would suggest to have weekly deadlines with smaller amounts of work rather than a few with loads of work. what do you think?

Final deadline is 31st January

4. GROUP ROLES: If someone thinks has a special skill to play certain rol within the group please let the others know!

UNIVERSE WEEK CONFERENCE

The following fragile's conference is being prepared... so are you? 
 


Review last year's event 



papers                                                                     photos

Tokio from its rivers

Dear all,

I hope you enjoyed your summer,

During my relatively pleasant stay in my town's library, I found an interesting book, published by Taschen, about 100 famous views drawn by Hiroshige. 

This first map, found on the internet, shows precisely the shape of the old genuine city of Tokio, Edo.

 This second map, from the book, is an abstraction of it. The most interesting thing from my point of view, is the sketch at the bottom on the right. The rivers enclose, first the city, and finally the palace.

One conclusion could be that the city, could be drawn and maybe should be, from its rivers, channels and from its centre, the imperial palace.

Alexandre Chemetoff in the IFV: The challenge of the city

Alexandre Chemetoff is a french architect, urban planner and landscape artist, author of the plan for the urban regeneration of the island of Nantes.

 

To readapt an obsolete industrial area in the middle of the Loira river into city, that was the aim of the plan for the island of Nantes. An original plan for its length (9 months), its scale or its social programme.

The main challenge was to respect the memory of the places, to promote public space by the rivershore and to activate the citizen participation, so they developed the plan in collaboration with a public corporation, the SAMOA (Société d'Aménagement de la Métropole Ouest Atlantique).

As a result, today the district has 18000 inhabitants, 10000 housing units, 16000 jobs and several equipments, such as schools, faculties, and cultural spaces, most of them in former industrial buildings.

"We wanted to find a dialogue with the exisiting, and we found ourshelves making archeology of the future" 

Alexandre Chemetoff

- Île de Nantes project webpage

http://www.iledenantes.com/

- SAMOA web (Société d'Aménagement de la Métropole Ouest Atlantique)

http://www.samoa-nantes.fr

http://www.samoa-nantes.fr/fr/pdf/iledenantes2010.zip (PDF)

http://www.samoa-nantes.fr/fr/pdf/dvt_durable08.pdf (PDF)

- The project in the Nantes municipality webpage

http://www.nantes.fr/site/nantesfr/grand-projet-ile-de-nantes

- Île de Nantes in Wikipedia

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_Nantes

Summary 18th April 2012

Basically the decission-making we proceeded yerterday, was created form the ideas that Manuel Cerdá gave Paula about his presentation

            His presentation: 4:05 -5.00 pm

 The discourse stems from the concept of dividing wall, which lacks in the japanese culture.

           Our presentation: 4.00-4.05 pm

We would like to finish in the same way he begins. It could be a good idea to end up with a zoom in of the Tokio city map, as close as possible so as to see the features of the city configuration, specially the dividing wall one. (If you look closer you will perceive the empty space between buildings)


Sara has found a special music for the event. Hopefully we can hear it next monday. It is extracted from the o.s. from the Shichinin no samurai film (Seven Samurai) directed by Akira Kurosawa

 


         We will draw three zooms in three differents ways of representation

_1st zoom: JAPAN
        _Displayed in the projection as an eye's bird image
        _Drawn (analitically) in the blackboard
        _Drawn in an artistic way (synthesized) in the table and transmitted to the projector by camera

2nd zoom: TOKIO CONECTIONS
       _Projection
        _(analitically) blackboard
        _(synthesized) projector by camera

A video from 2nd zoom to 3rd would be ideal to explain completely where the next area is

3rd zoom: TOKIO DISTRICT
       _Projection
        _(analitically) blackboard
        _(synthesized) projector by camera