Showing posts with label Focus 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Focus 1. Show all posts
The Crack
The Tate Modern was commissioned in 1947 as a power station to reconstruct post-war London. Labour migration increased at the same time increasing London's Multicultuality
'The history of racism, running parallel to the history of modernity & its untold dark side' .....'By digging beneath the surface, Salcedo reconnects the building to its colonial & post colonial histories, to the operations of power & the ideological creation of artificial notions of difference & otherness.'
Text from Tate Leaflet
Monaco November 07
Between Fance and Itally
Monte Carlo in Monaco is a strange little place, between mountain and sea, it is easily seen in a weekend. It is beautiful and nice to visit but has little identity or culture of its own. Its a mix match of spec materials, random sculptures, flash cars and hotels amongst the older forgotten buildings, hilly terrain and lush vegetation. Nothing seems quite at home, not even the people as they are mostly there to remain rich and dodge tax! This plant, along with the curry plant appears all over the Principality, If you know what it is please tell me!
and I discovered 'mind your own business' Soleirolia soleirolli (Helexine soleirolii)
and I discovered 'mind your own business' Soleirolia soleirolli (Helexine soleirolii)Climate Change- the challenge for Landscape architecture
The Landscape Institute held a Climate Change Conference in Regents Park 01-02 November 2007. I attended and focusses on current issues for my 1st Focus week. 29th Oct- 3rd Nov.
Regents Park in Autum colours
We are the make or break generation of designers, we can turn the world around for the future of the human race. This will take much testing, experimenting and innovation.......
There were some fabulous talkers, some not so fab talkers and here's my favorite points:
Tim Lang
main message Be Veggie! 2/3 of our seared food is fed to animals.
Well actually 'What is land for?
Housing? Transport? Recreation? Food Production? Biofuels?
The World Wild Life Fund states that 3 planets would be needed to sustain our current lifestyles,
however in food terms we are looking at 6 planets to sustain our greedy guts!
Britain is 63% self sufficient this is 15% less than three years ago therefore Britain is living off other peoples land.
Tim Lang also talked of the 'nutritional transition' which is facinating and is basically showing how less people are dying of infectious disease's & there are more deaths caused by none communicable illness. Which indicates an increased life style quality globally.
to read more about nutritional transition CLICK
He questioned if progress really meant spending less on food, cheap imports, having shops such as Primark! Where somebody else Is paying the price for our cheap goods through being forced into poor quality of life.
David Burnie on Edible new Middlesborough
A step towards self sufficiency of the urban. Food Soveriegnity.
Community allotments have been integrated into the public realm of the ASBO capital of the UK! Middlesborough has been voted by channel 4 to be the worst place in the UK to live- an amazing show of community involvement proved them wrong. Over 1000 participants worked on allotments which fed 3,500 people in a town Food Feast! This is to happen every year and the estimated upkeep cost is £70 per year
EAT That!
CLICK for more on Edible Middlesborough
Kim Wilkie Don't panic!
Possibly the most inspiring talker of the conference, here's some of his points:
Accross London 32 square kilometers of our green space being eaten up by 'modern' paving over front gardens, that's 22 times the size of Hyde Park & the City's Urban Drainage system is dramatically & negatively affected.
Farmers markets-- rejuvenation--bring good food for a good price into our conciousness
There is a new common agriculture policy since the 2nd world war when farmers were encouraged to produce as much as they could using pesticides and herbcides. Now we seek organically produced quality stamped food however many still opt for he cheaper option.
Map Ramble with Tim Waterman
Regents Park to Kings Cross
Focus week 1. 29th October
The BLog becomes an on-line diary for you to record your aspirations and achievements, and reflect on the value that this opportunity has, as a complement to the other aspects of your study.
The blog is fantstic, an opportunity to be graded on your interests and continuous encouragement to reach out from Knights Park and to take the time to be inspired.
This focus week I will be looking at:
Habitat Creation
Sustainable Design &
Vocabulary
I am lucky enough to have a free place on a conference about Climate Change,it was awarded to two people form each accredited university from the LI. I have access to many journals to touch up on my landscape linguoe and my knowledge.
One week definately isn't enough but I will try my best!
What resources can you exploit to meet your needs? LI library, talks, conferences
The blog is fantstic, an opportunity to be graded on your interests and continuous encouragement to reach out from Knights Park and to take the time to be inspired.
This focus week I will be looking at:
Habitat Creation
Sustainable Design &
Vocabulary
I am lucky enough to have a free place on a conference about Climate Change,it was awarded to two people form each accredited university from the LI. I have access to many journals to touch up on my landscape linguoe and my knowledge.
One week definately isn't enough but I will try my best!
What resources can you exploit to meet your needs? LI library, talks, conferences
SHEFFIELD. SLIC
Gatley and Manchester airport were the next stops, I could have stayed on the train and gone straight home, but having travelled for 4 hours I hopped off in Sheffield- the Second time I have ever been there despite growing up next door!Oh well it was a fun two day visit but I don't feel massively deprived!!
Had I stayed longer the Peak District would surely have been next on my list and and next time I go it will hopefully broaden my view on the city!
Noticeable characteristic of Sheffield include:
beautiful and various use of street trees,
lots of construction
quirky student character & friendly people
lots of brand new, corporate, high spec streetscape's,
some central drainage channels & mixed use (no pavement) streets,
lots of water features,
generic & commercial high street
Great free botanical gardens with wildflower planting and a bench carved out of a log
Here's a taster:
The reason for my visit to Sheffield was a SLIC meeting. SLIC is the Student Landscape Institute Committee and this was the first meeting of the academic year. We meet up to discuss how we can involve students in the Institue and vise-versa and we often set up stands of students work in conferences.
One competition SLIC is organising this year s a video competition for students as the accredited universities.
We discussed the breif for the competition & decided that the videos should relate to how life changing studying Landscape is! 'Its always on my mind'
We deliberated over how to produce a green wall for the SLIC stand at an up coming cityscape event. It is to be 17m long, 3m wide, relatively economic. It is to be constructed 3 days before the event, to be demolished three days after! Any ideas?!
SLIC is also planning to create an online overview/introduction to useful computer programmes in the field. The programmes that are to be blogged so far include: photo shop,illustrator, CAD & Sketch up. I will be concentrating on Illustrator.
Roll on the next meeting to be held in Leeds!
Had I stayed longer the Peak District would surely have been next on my list and and next time I go it will hopefully broaden my view on the city!
Noticeable characteristic of Sheffield include:
beautiful and various use of street trees,
lots of construction
quirky student character & friendly people
lots of brand new, corporate, high spec streetscape's,
some central drainage channels & mixed use (no pavement) streets,
lots of water features,
generic & commercial high street
Great free botanical gardens with wildflower planting and a bench carved out of a log
Here's a taster:
The reason for my visit to Sheffield was a SLIC meeting. SLIC is the Student Landscape Institute Committee and this was the first meeting of the academic year. We meet up to discuss how we can involve students in the Institue and vise-versa and we often set up stands of students work in conferences.
One competition SLIC is organising this year s a video competition for students as the accredited universities.
We discussed the breif for the competition & decided that the videos should relate to how life changing studying Landscape is! 'Its always on my mind'
We deliberated over how to produce a green wall for the SLIC stand at an up coming cityscape event. It is to be 17m long, 3m wide, relatively economic. It is to be constructed 3 days before the event, to be demolished three days after! Any ideas?!
SLIC is also planning to create an online overview/introduction to useful computer programmes in the field. The programmes that are to be blogged so far include: photo shop,illustrator, CAD & Sketch up. I will be concentrating on Illustrator.
Roll on the next meeting to be held in Leeds!
poetry workshop
As part of the Kingston UNITY week 22nd-26th October 2007 I attended a workshop devised by Zena Edwards named 'Character development' in short:'an exploration of character from initial creation to a believable living, breathing character in live performance'
We began by discussing what makes a 'character', we also investigated effective describing words:
Smell- Aromas- rounded & full. STINKS- harsh-jagged. Senses and perfume
Touch- Texture & Temperature
Hear- Musical noises & the Soundtracks of our everyday environment
Sight- Movement, bright, vivid, pattern, colour, size/shape
Taste- Body- wines- cheeses, fine/not so fine
Organic- A person's awareness of heart beat, aches, breathing, digestion
kinaesthesia- weight, gravity, movement, balance
My experience of getting up
bang bang bang beep beep bleep bleep squeak goes the alarm dragging me into consciousness
bright light peers through the curtains, I am a heavy warm solid and hibernating
a pang of routine hunger encourages a stir, I clunk downstairs
I routinely munch through cereal and debate on toast, today its Marmite
I greedily gulp down half satisfying instant Kenco with its promising aroma
a splash in the refreshing shower
then I emerge into the day. Riding my bike speedily in the Bright fresh October morning
few cars emerge, a smooth ride with little negotiation
I start my day with the market it is squeaky full and brand new for another day.
Zena was wonderful & full of energy, she had to rework the workshop as only I and Kaori- another Landscape Student were present, she reworked the creative writing programme to fit in with our studies!
Describe a landscape
as male/female
with a name
in a coffee shop
My 2nd Poem:
The Dalyan mud baths lie heavily at the peak of many a mountain in Turkey
Bubbles and Groans of grumbles emerge the strain of tourist troops flouncing through
The mud is thick and slow alike chocolate milkshake,
swallowing what it can a belching a mask of mud
a surreal common identity for all visitors awaits
Barbara an artist, once brilliant and brimming with love, greeting those she meets
is broken, dried out and she waits,
she dresses to impress in her accumulated treasures
Maybe she can impress
once fluid and bubbling with excitement,
now reaped, a fag clinging to her wrinkling lips, a triple espresso fix shaking between her now delicate fingers
Barbara waits
We began by discussing what makes a 'character', we also investigated effective describing words:
Smell- Aromas- rounded & full. STINKS- harsh-jagged. Senses and perfume
Touch- Texture & Temperature
Hear- Musical noises & the Soundtracks of our everyday environment
Sight- Movement, bright, vivid, pattern, colour, size/shape
Taste- Body- wines- cheeses, fine/not so fine
Organic- A person's awareness of heart beat, aches, breathing, digestion
kinaesthesia- weight, gravity, movement, balance
My experience of getting up
bang bang bang beep beep bleep bleep squeak goes the alarm dragging me into consciousness
bright light peers through the curtains, I am a heavy warm solid and hibernating
a pang of routine hunger encourages a stir, I clunk downstairs
I routinely munch through cereal and debate on toast, today its Marmite
I greedily gulp down half satisfying instant Kenco with its promising aroma
a splash in the refreshing shower
then I emerge into the day. Riding my bike speedily in the Bright fresh October morning
few cars emerge, a smooth ride with little negotiation
I start my day with the market it is squeaky full and brand new for another day.
Zena was wonderful & full of energy, she had to rework the workshop as only I and Kaori- another Landscape Student were present, she reworked the creative writing programme to fit in with our studies!
Describe a landscape
as male/female
with a name
in a coffee shop
My 2nd Poem:
The Dalyan mud baths lie heavily at the peak of many a mountain in Turkey
Bubbles and Groans of grumbles emerge the strain of tourist troops flouncing through
The mud is thick and slow alike chocolate milkshake,
swallowing what it can a belching a mask of mud
a surreal common identity for all visitors awaits
Barbara an artist, once brilliant and brimming with love, greeting those she meets
is broken, dried out and she waits,
she dresses to impress in her accumulated treasures
Maybe she can impress
once fluid and bubbling with excitement,
now reaped, a fag clinging to her wrinkling lips, a triple espresso fix shaking between her now delicate fingers
Barbara waits
Urbis- the borrowers
Ever since the URBIS opened it has had a creative buzz luring me to visit every time I'm in Manchester. Every visit makes me feel like the exhibitions are getting more adventurous all the time and I always get inspired! My most recent visit resulted in the discovery of this quirky work by Leo Fitzmaurice:
in'Secret city' exhibited 3-30th September 2007
this piece is called 'Rabbits' Fabulous!
amongst much other great interesting stuff, this is funny creative, simple and encourages all characters to question and consider scale in everyday environments.
in'Secret city' exhibited 3-30th September 2007
this piece is called 'Rabbits' Fabulous!
amongst much other great interesting stuff, this is funny creative, simple and encourages all characters to question and consider scale in everyday environments.
U GOT TREE ID???
5 Give Aways......
-->Overall shape
-->shape of leaves
-->Shape and colour of twigs and buds
-->Colour and Pattern of Bark
-->Size shape and colour of flowers / fruit
**Broard leaved Trees are DECIDUOUS** Wide Flat leaves shed each autumn.
-->Overall shape
-->shape of leaves
-->Shape and colour of twigs and buds
-->Colour and Pattern of Bark
-->Size shape and colour of flowers / fruit
**Broard leaved Trees are DECIDUOUS** Wide Flat leaves shed each autumn.
(Pictures sourced from 'Trees and Shrubs of Britain' )
CONIFEROUS Trees:
- regular in shape
- Their branches radiate in a symmetrical pattern from the straight central trunk.
- bear cones
- needle like /small scaly leaves
- usually ever green
Back to the design Museum
Design museum- ZAHA HADID- beautiful drawings and 3d pictres, some impressive work in quantity and quality, however not too keen on the techno approach to human spaces! And graphic designers- not as amazing as Fletcher who blew our socks off in a previous exhibition!
click on the image for up close version
click on the image for up close version
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