Sunday, 17 January 2010
_Elemental - Design within your means
Documentary of Quinta Monroy Project in Iquique, Chile from elementalchile on Vimeo.
What can we learn from the architectural principles applied here in Chile? What aspects of the process, communication and strategy might we take forward when planning housing projects in the UK?
Thursday, 14 January 2010
_Perennial
Adj. 1. Lasting for a long time; enduring or continually recurring. > continually engaged in a specified activity: a perennial student. 2. (of a plant) living for several years. Compare with ANNUAL, BIENNIAL. 3. (of a stream or spring) flowing throughout the year. From L. perennis ‘lasting the year through’.
[Source: Concise Oxford English Dictionary]
_READING LIST ISSUE 1
Good Deeds, Good Design, Edited by Bryan Bell [Princeton Architectural Press, 2004]
The Community Planning Handbook, Nick Wates [Earthscan Publications, 2000]
Permaculture in a Nutshell, Patrick Whitefield [Permanent Publications, 2008]
The Green Braid, Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity, Edited by Kim Tanzer & Rafael Longoria [Routledge, 2007]
How to Be a Happy Architect, Bauman Lyons Architects [Black Dog Publishing, 2008]
Peak Everything, Richard Heinberg [Clairview, 2007]
Breaking out of the box: The Biography of Edward de Bono, Piers Dudgeon [Headline, 2001]
_LINK - Towards a Zoology of Spaces
Saturday 13th January \ 3pm \ Auto Italia South East
No arts space acting alone can respond to the diverse and conflicting needs, interests and access requirements of all its stakeholders; no insular effort will suffice to critically embrace future technologies ... Instead we offer a toolkit of architectural and political strategies for knitting arts spaces into a tapestry of creative debate, out of which a new and more sustainable global society might one day rise. Art Spaces Lead Global Ecology of Ideas, Hunter&Gatherer (with Yiannis Kanakakis).
_Green Screen at Department 21
Green Screen \ Thursday 21st January \ 6pm \ Department 21
Film \ The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Dialogue \ How can we move forward with lower energy?
Questions and ideas raised by the dialogue will be collated online, both here and on Sustain RCA www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?CategoryID=36755.
_Market Estate Project
Just So Studio has been invited to participate in the Market Estate Project, Islington, during February \ March 2010. New homes from old homes. We will be setting up shop with new household products made from the fabric of the old building – soon to be demolished. Profits will be donated to local charities working with the homeless.
_New Homes in Haringey - Site 26
A recent decision by Haringey Council to approve the idea building on parkland in Tottenham Hale has sparked reaction in local residents. Can the council, planning department, developers and residents be united around a shared vision for the area? What is really needed in this area? Can underlying local issues of transience, unemployment and temporary accommodation be addressed during the design process and proposal for this site?
_Department 21
Just So Studio has set up home in Department 21 at the RCA for 4 weeks. Department 21 is an experimental interdisciplinary workspace at the Royal College of Art.
_New Homes in Haringey - Sites 1-26
The Haringey 5-year land-supply plan outlines plans for the provision of over 4000 housing units in 25 sites across the borough. An additional scheme, outlining a further 1600 housing units is proposed for a further site at Greater Ashley Road, Tottenham Hale. Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115629875761573117981.00047b155f7af234d6280&ll=51.595522,-0.100937&spn=0.06089,0.130634&z=13
There is a large amount of local opposition to the current plans for a number of these sites [most notably Wards Corner, Seven Sisters, and Greater Ashley Road]. What do these reactions tell us? How can we create space for dialogue, consultation and community within the development process?
What kind of development is needed?
How can we open up this question?
_PROJECT 3 - Allotment 138
The new term sees the launch of Allotment 138, at Wolves Lane Allotments. My [very cold] allotment is to become inhabited by artists and designers from the RCA as well as vegetables this spring. Watch this space and the Flickr Photostream for images as the space develops.
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