TS_14.03.13

///Meeting with the Liverpool University students and training for the Fragile conference///

Ben, Mikael and Sam were presenting their Master thesis and it gave us the opportunity to rethink our waterfront, provide and receive feedback and compare our vision with the one of a foreigner. 

This meeting resulted in a very pleasant event that we all want to repeat. To enrich our vision and ways of thinking, presenting, etc.

During the rehearsal of the Fragile conference presentation, we agreed to continue practicing as it is the key for a good communication. 

The ideas and the structure got clear.

The group of "Seguridad y Diversidad Urbana" are preparing a really beautiful presentation.  Our expectations are high.

Next training session will be in "Sala de Proyecciones" 21st March at 2.00 pm

TS_06.03.13

Review of the abstract and preparing the Scheme of the presentation.

We have shared our dilemmas concerning the presentation of the paper. Few basic ideas have come to light:

- It is radical to introduce the context involving our situation and the environment of the ideas developed

- It would be interesting and appropriate for such a conference to deal with concepts we really have under control. The process could be the most interesting part of our acquired knowledge. It is important to remember that our target is to share ideas, and receive feedback, create network, and have another excuse for training. This last one has been very remarked.

The following session should already be a presentation. We have decided to work as hard as possible this week, so as to have a transcription of our presentation for Monday. This way anyone can read it and give better advice. 

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? 
 


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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.