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EXPLORE LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES
THIS DOCUMENT IS A SUMMARY OF THE BLOG THAT WAS KEPT THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. IT TRACKED THE DEVELOPMENT + CRITICAL REFLECTION OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATION. THE CATEGORIES WERE ARRIVED AT DURING THE COMPILATION OF THIS BOOK; FOUND RATHER THAN ORGANISED. KEY TAGS ARE DISPLAYED ON EACH SPREAD.
UNSEEN WALLS LIGHT + ARCHIVES IBIZA
Italics indicate quotes. Bold is important thoughts.
Pink is key thoughts.
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architecture is just a shadow it is always with us - beneath our feet before us reacting to light, water, the temperature, contracting or expanding sometimes the shadow becomes unseen; we don’t need it we forget about it we intergrate it
Dietmar Eckell Photography it was a pleasure #51, japan, 2014. even though this amusement park is on the opposite side of the world from where i grew up it triggers own memories and fits perfectly to my (romantic) idea how the amusement parks that i enjoyed should look like today. but they all have disappeared a long time ago. it was a pleasure #11, merry-go-round, taiwan, 2014.
uncanny
ʌnˈkani/Submit adjective adjective: uncanny; comparative adjective: uncannier; superlative adjective: uncanniest strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. “an uncanny feeling that she was being watched” synonyms: eerie, unnatural, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, otherworldly, unreal, ghostly, mysterious, strange, abnormal, odd, curious, queer, weird, bizarre, freakish; More antonyms: ordinary, normal, unremarkable, run-of-the-mill Origin late 16th century (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un-1 ‘not’ + canny.
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Exploration into scale A detail is just part of a whole - when the whole is brought back together at the level of a detail does the image remain whole? A series of images animated to form a gif of an exploration between two points in the water. The footage is then fractured, exploring how detail is perceived. When the sections are brought together at different scales is the image still legible. The left shows sections of the original gif, the right maintains the scale of the water. In this way the figure could appear not to be moving. How the frames meet also fool the eye. Film is moving image, which is constructed through a series of still images. Gifs highlight this trickery by using fewer frames and repeating the story again and again. Human Endeavour There is no such thing as society. There are men and women‌ - Margaret Thather ¡ #design detail
ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION collage section in construction - bringing together disparate elements
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams p. 1 (1982
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Designing no threshold for the continuum of movement - a single shot 路 #design #detail #threshold #draw
Experimenting with projection. 路 #video #projection #experiment #gif #space
Party in Copenhagen
#INSPIRE, #ADMIRE #TECHNOLOGY Visual performance - 3d, 2d , POSSIBILITIES 路 #media #projection #video #interactive #technology
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exploring ideas of 3d space, from the encompassing to the never ending… part of a larger whole, drawn up from a section, imagined from a collage of continual change. · #space #draw #movement #whole #flux #architecture
uh-oh, we cant control the rate at which it multiplies. the space has a glitch and is creating a duplicity…what is sky, what is ground, where are the boundaries now?! · #space #draw #glitch #duplicity #arch #Architecture
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WE ARE INHABITING THE SECTION Large scale projection + volunteers = a new perspective. The drawing becomes interpreted, post-rationalised by the user, the forgotten
They dictate the spatial qualities
inhabitant. of space, another user controls the movement with their hand on the mouse, dragging the space around. I just stand and watch, filming the event of other people in a space i drew, using it in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
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BRIEF ONE Briefly exploring the brief through found, caught, borrowed footage…key themes: Language as technology The FOUR forces Boundaries: social, cultural, physical, intangible Affected by elements: water, wind, solar to be continued …
First of all, any language is grammar. The thing that changes from Italian to English
So, if architecture is to be considered a language, ‘elements’ don’t matter. I mean, whatever the words are, they’re all the same. is not the words being different, but grammar.
Peter Eisenman: http://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/09/rem-koolhaas-at-the-end-of-career-says-petereisenman/ · #media #language
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Only use will keep them alive I used to be quite ‘darwinian’ about languages - if they’re obsolete, why should we mourn their demise? But now that I’m learning language number 12, I realise that languages teach us different ways of thinking and therefore, even the study of a dead language is a worthwhile and enlightening mental exercise. It is not enough to ask politicians to influence this ‘from the top down’ - only by speaking and learning endangered languages do we create a demand for eg. the teaching of native languages in schools. It is up to the individual to sit down and study, and to parents to instruct their children (or engage a private tutor), to lead by example and influence others to do the same, not to the state to dictate what languages we should speak. Just a point of interest though: in the interest of communication amongst the different cultures which now make up Britain, might it be more appropriate to teach Arabic in schools rather than Welsh or Gaelic? Personally, I think there is scope to expose children to both! Sent by: Cosima http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/yoursay/language_and_identity/endangered_ languages/only_use_will_keep_them_alive.shtml · #language
· #language #media #philosophy The importance of language.. “abstract thinking made possible by language…” “its this…that differentiations us from animals”
“through the acquisition of language we become selves” 2 notes
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How Language Transformed Humanity Composition of film stills taken from the Brief Development Video. Language enables us to share information about the world around us, from which berries are poisonous to eat, to where to get the best bagel. It is seen by some as a barrier to possible human collaboration - The Tower of Bable is - after all - a demonstration of collective human effort to reach that of the Gods. But perhaps the Gods were correct in breaking up humanity into different languages.
We have evolved to developed different languages to benefit our communities, to explain the world around us most clearly. It
has enabled us to rise up and take control of our environment. Language is thought therefore restricting languages, restricts our thoughts. But a language dies every 14 days. The proposal aims to capture the languages, so we don’t loose the knowledge it has taken millennium to foster, the identities it has shaped, creating the world we live in. It also aims to break down the borders between these languages…[haven’t quite figured that bit out yet though…] (Source: louisapreece) · #define #brief langauge #brief #landscape #culture #identity #architecture #draw #language 2 notes
And how, after all (if not by a slow and laborious technique), are we to discover the complex relation of representations, identities, orders, words, natural beings, desires, and interests, once that vast grid has been dismantled, once needs have organized their production for themselves, once living beings have turned in towards the essential functions of life, once words have become weighed down with their own material history - in short, once the identities of representation have ceased to express the order of beings completely and openly? The entire system of grids which analysed the sequence of representations (a thin temporal series unfolding in men’s minds), arresting its movement, fragmenting it, spreading it out and redistributing it in a permanent table, all these distinctions created by words and discourse, characters and classification, equivalences and exchange, have been so completely abolished that it is difficult today to rediscover how that structure was able to function. Michel Foucault The Order of Things THE ORDER OF THINGS An Archaeology of the Human Sciences Michel Foucault A translation of Les Mots et les choses http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Foucault,Michel/Foucault,%20Michel%20-%20 The%20Order%20of%20Things%20-%20An%20Archaeology%20of%20the%20 Human%20Sciences.pdf · #language #thought #foucault`
The Internet Is Killing Most Languages Ninety-five percent of languages aren’t leaping the digital divide. · #language
Cultural ecology · #culture #define
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Studies into Light and Language. | exploring language through travel - where are the conversations happening ? where do languages mix ? - how do actions and sound work in space ? || | light, natural and man-made, different qualities that react uniquely to the world around - from candles in caverns to transforming a refectory into a dance club || language and light studies from tashberry on Vimeo. 路 #light #language #studies #exploration #video #draw
Derrida & Google translate Derida looks to Plato to explain speech and language. This is summarised below [see grey] Google translate then recreates the summary in various languages. Occasionaly I translate back to English [see yellow] to look at how the structure and meaning has been altered. Google translate is powered manually, by using texts already translated by people, this is then searched digitally to act as our online Bable fish.
SENSIBLE = A constantly active language search that utilises human power INTELLIGIBLE = A permanent way of recording information that lasts ‘beyond politics’ CHORA = A space-between that calls both formats forward into existence.
= A constant active see human power INTELLIGABLE = perm that takes out the polic > Chora = space betw Tenter d’utiliser la puissance des principaux moyens du langage humain = constante = INTELLIGABLE embauché un enregistrement permanent des informations . » > Chora = Cryer espace entre la vie devant
ةطلسلا ةتباث لواح = ةيرشبلا ةغلل ةيسيئرلا ةليسول [ ةمئاد ةموهفم تامولعم = لجس راجئتسا انأ. “ ةايحلا اروش ناكم ريارك يف = > يف
Sinvolle = A voortdurend aktiewe taal search wat gebruik maak van die menslike krag INTELLIGABLE = ‘n permanente manier om die opname van inligting wat duur ‘verby politiek “ > Chora = ‘n ruimte tussen wat roep Albei vorentoe in die lewe .
Intente o poder dos principais medios da linguax humana = constante = INTELLIGABLE contratou un rexistro perman información. “ > Chora = espazo Cryer entre a vida antes
Manukhī bhāśā dā mukha sādhana dē = lagātāra dhārā dī kōśiśa kītī ika niyamata ādhāra’tē ika rikāraḍa hai = samajha jāṇakārī nū kirā’ē. “ Hōrasa dī zidagī vica mainū > = Cryer jag’hā hai Det främsta medlet för mänskligt språk = försökte stadig ström Jag hyr en logg = begriplig information permanent .“ I > = Cryer plats i Chora livet
Rhowch gy = gyson = Llogi dea > Chora = g
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eking meaningful language that uses
manent way of recording information cy. “ ween Cryer ahead in life.
The primary means of human language = attempted steady stream I rent a log = understandable information permanently. “ I> = Cryer place in Chora life Forsøger at bruge magt af de vigtigste midler til menneskelige sprog = konstant = INTELLIGABLE hyret en permanent registrering af oplysninger. “ > Chora = Cryer plads mellem liv forude
人類語言的主要來源=絡繹不絕嘗試 定期為創紀錄的租金=理解的信息。 “ 馬在我的生活> = 克萊爾的地方
Основным средством человеческого языка = попытался устойчивый поток Аренда рекордное = понятную информацию на постоянной основе. “ I> = Крайер место в жизни Хора
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Tractant d’utilitzar el poder dels actius importants de la llengua humans = constant INTELLIGABLE = que ha contractat de manera permanent de registre de la informació “ . > Chora = Cryer espai entre la vida per davant
ynnig ar y pŵer y prif ddull o iaith ddynol
alladwy cofnod parhaol o wybodaeth . “ gofod Cryer rhwng bywyd cyn
Pokušavajući iskoristiti moć glavnih sredstava ljudskog jezika = konstanta = INTELLIGABLE je angažirao trajni zapis informacija . “ > Chora = Cryer prostor između života naprijed
人間の言語の主要な手段とは=パワーに試し定数 NB: 永久的な記録=理解可能な情報を雇う。 「 ..chora is the ‘space of human creation > = クライヤー置きチョーラの人生の中で and participation’ and ‘an invisible ground’ existing beyond language and yet makes language and culture possible (Perez-Gomez, 1994, p.9) from (Coyne, 2011, p.70)
· #draw #light #shadow Light observations
The Rosetta Project A ‘Long Now Foundation’ Library of Human Language Currently all the world languages are etched onto a nickel disk, as the Foundation search for a way of preserving the worlds languages that is not digital. Meanwhile they are collection Audio, Video and Text, archiving it based on dialect, penology etc all digitally on the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject] Where this information is to be stored is not mentioned, but they are intent on finding
Words will not be enough however, for people to learn the language there must be visual imagery too. an analogue way to preserve it.
http://rosettaproject.org/archive/collection/ · #languages #archive #preserve
#DRAW #LANGUAGE #DEFINE Lost in the Google Translation #1 ’In addition to’ the sign of the area, the development points out the, promises the future; our men, also mean finishing him leave the middle wall of partition, or - the act of, in addition to - is unknowable, unrepresentable, to return to work alone, which in most cases you have to say in the way it is, is part of it, and natural force abated. The above is translated from English >Welsh >Latin >Esperanto >English by Google Translate from the below quote from Homi Bhabha. ‘Beyond’ signifies spatial distance, marks progress, promises the future; but our intimations of exceeding the barrier or boundary - the very act of going beyond - are unknowable, unrepresentable, without a return to the ‘present’ which, in the process of repetition, becomes disjunct and displaced. · #language
Brief Google Translated [16.11.2014] Seat shadow H>U>S>H> < ________________________________________________________ _> Architecture as a shadow [ that need light - sometimes ] language: A unique perspective of the world through the available sounds , symbols , etc … Language is culture / society [ ? ] For the language we need to preserve capture both static and evolves . Static file [see Time] The trend should be monitored [see time ] Sensible = A search of the ever- active language used human power [ 1 ] INTELLIGABLE = A recording hotline “beyond politics” takes [2 ] > Chora = A space between [3 ] , that appeals to both formats later in life . determinants : Geographical it is useful to have a port location / s. - What’s the meaning of this intelligibility and identity: language is driven by two forces ? , Material is always available , but the language must be preserved ? , HUSH housing must be flexible ; therefore assessed magnetic selforganization structures . , Shadows need light to exist. Light can act flexible Boudar I is of particular importance when creating the underlying nature of a society or culture. [Language as a boundary / border ] , Mumbo Jumbo _________________________________ [ I need regular . ] Is it worth saving - caring ? Half the world’s languages are in danger. [1] Google translate human use energy to run the algorithms . OSM uses voluntary consumption. Anyway, you need people . [2 ] Quartz Crystal . Crystal can be grown , the specific temperature and can continue to grow . [3 ] Chora is free to translate the following elements : strange , not exalted place in other places , space , location, location, location , subject , region, country , user, person … · #Brief #translate #define #mumbo jumbo
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· #draw #atlantis #quarry 1 note otterclou likes this findingquestions posted this The locals do not actually speak true Catalan, rather they speak a Catalan dialect called Ibicenco. Valencia and Alicante also speak Catalan dialects called Valenciano and Alicantino. The Ibicenco of the North in villages such as San Mateu or Santa Agnes is noticeably different to the Ibicenco of La Ciutat de Eivissa (Ibiza Town). http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/ibizamagic/catalan_i.htm · #ibiza #languages #language 2 notes melearninglanguages likes this clubticketsofficial likes this findingquestions posted this
Does each language have boxed up within it some irreplaceable beneficial knowledge? Are there aspects of cultures that won’t survive if they are translated into a dominant language? What unexpected insights are being lost to the world with the collapse of its linguistic variety? http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text · #define #languages #language 4 notes fawlinbetween likes this translatorslife reblogged this from entranslation translatorslife likes this entranslation reblogged this from findingquestions findingquestions posted this
what is the code to self-assembly? 路 #magnets #branches #found #draw
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Language extinction is a worldwide crisis.
When we lose a
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language, we lose: Cultural heritage - Language is one of the things that defines a
culture, both through who speaks it and what it allows speakers to say. Words that describe a particular cultural practice or idea can never be translated exactly into another language. Many endangered languages have rich oral cultures, with stories, songs, and histories passed on to younger generations, but no written form of the language. Without speakers of these languages, an entire culture is lost.
Knowledge about the natural world -
Most endangered languages are spoken by indigenous groups that have interacted closely with the natural world for thousands of years. These languages have developed words that hold huge amounts of information about the natural world, with information about species or natural phenomena that has not been recorded by scientists. Learning from these groups may be key to preserving species and ecosystems. Knowledge about the human brain - Each human language teaches us about how the human brain can work. Without studying each language spoken in the world, we will never understand all the ways humans can communicate and store knowledge. Every time a language dies, we lose part of the picture of what our brains can do. http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/langhotspots/intro.html · #define #media #language
· #media #admire #drawing Rudyard Kiplings illustrations echo the text, in that their peculiar nature is both humorous and requires some deciphering. They are a moment of his imagination, relaying in ink that tells more about the story than the story lets on. 1 note platypusradio likes this findingquestions posted this
And after thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and after Hieroglyphics and Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics and Cufics, and Runics, and Dorics, and Ionics, and all sorts of other ricks and tricks (because the Woons, and the Neguses, and the Akhoonds, and the Repositories of Tradition would never leave a good thing alone when they saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet—A, B, C, D, E, and the rest of ‘em— got back to its proper shape again for all Best Beloveds to learn when they are old enough. HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE - Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories [p.54] http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/kipling/justsostories.pdf · #define #stories #words #language
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Zone 5 space #1 路 #space
A closer inspection of space Dislocating space. An exploration through watercolour and editing. 路 #space
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We create these territories give them names, like cherry blossom drive and autumnal leavesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; this ensures that each postal code has fluctuating economies, isolating neighbourhoods, sort of stagnating and exacerbating different personalities this forms large and misinformed disparities. So how do we, begin to break down, erase, forget these boundaries?
Google keeps everyone happy - manipulation of perceived borders - so which is correctâ&#x20AC;Ś?!
WHAT WE NEED ON THE GROUND : * Tents, tarps and sleeping bags – we always need lots of them; * Bikes, bike trailers and bike repair stuff – are always needed and really useful for people to stay mobile and get around; * Pots, pans, utensils, plates, cups, cutlery – for people in the squats and jungles; * Books, dictionaries, texts, zines etc – in any and all languages. Especially, English, French, Italian, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Tigrinya, Amharic and Greek; * Games & music making – card games, board games, footballs, basketballs, and any instruments etc; * Tools – for fixing stuff; * Phones, phone chargers and sim cards; * Cameras – we are always in need of good cameras as they are often damaged / destroyed by the police; * People – if you have time, energy and any skills come and support people in Calais “We remind that the migrants are persons fleeing from distraous living conditions or that simply want to live a different life. We remind that in the 19th century millions of Europeans have immigrated in all directions, fleeing from the misery on the « old continent » We remind that the wealth of occidental countries is also based on the plundering and the exploitation of the resources and populations of the regions where the migrants come from. ” -Calais Migrant Society · #media #define #borders #need #hope #language
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Borders - the body of water that makes up the English Channel presents a larger obstacle than the mountains and plains passed by those previously. With immigration a heightened issue for most of the EU, for some it forms a strong reason for the UK to leave the EU and thus tighten measures. But who would a stronger border control help? Those trying with desperation to reach the UK - what is the dream they chase and surely their determination would only be beneficial to the UK? Refugee asylums accompany airports within the UK also, as small airfields are being used to smuggle people in. Borders make a place desirable - from the line you cross to enter a glamorous store to the no-mans land between cultures. As we have seen with Scottish Independence and the Catalonia call for independence,
cultures are calling to be preserved, and the way people see this happening is through the physical act of forming intangible walls.
The drifting dust from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, and the cliff chaffs and willow warblers, were both telling us something about England that April. Neither respected any of our human borders and boundaries, airspace or extents of the realm. Next to them, our airports seemed impossibly fixed and leaden, and the only thing certain was that the world would move on from them, as it has done from ports since human time began. Edgelands - Paul Farley & Michael Symmonds Roberts [Vintage]
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#BOUNDARY Emma McNally - mindscapes
Maps are “one persons view of the world” therefore a map will tell you more about the person who drew it than the landscape they represent. Google maps are monetized, driven by a large paid workforce and OpenStreetMap is driven by a motivated public sphere, thus the nature of maps revealing their cartographer are becoming lost. Google creates maps to extract information to earn advertising revenue, OSM is a map wiki - but as with all publicly driven projects - the contributors all have motivations of their own. Ownership of the map is increasingly lost, Emma’s ‘mindscapes’
the maps we leave for the past will no longer be drawn interpretations - but a 1:1 scale that is constantly changing. Google may pander to different countries reveal a person and their reflections on the world…
as it re-draws the borders, but as people are put in control of the borders what will
We wont be leaving behind a static map for future generations, because we are creating one all the time. As we update from happen?
satellite imagery, from experience we shape the world that others see, with OSM the control is in the hand of the people and not governments or corporations [Google], maybe this is a good thing…
¡ #maps #world map #the world #draw #language |World languages - grouped into the main families [different line directions indicate different language groups]| |The gaps in the top image show the language â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hot-spotsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; where the languages are in danger of dying out| 30 notes captainamericasteveandbucky likes this language-soup reblogged this from afuturepolyglot and added: this is beautiful, and sad pampelius reblogged this from eagleflight pampelius likes this cartersons likes this eagleflight reblogged this from linguisten winterfrostrose reblogged this from polyvoxx tastyoatmeal reblogged this from linguisten ideologicallysinful likes this brunapoly likes this elreydelmar likes this polyvoxx reblogged this from afuturepolyglot polyvoxx likes this francisco-higo likes this geesemafia likes this nellekwan reblogged this from afuturepolyglot hazelbeewitched likes this afuturepolyglot reblogged this from linguisten only-in-movies likes this simply-falling-apart likes this pee-wee-stairmaster likes this the-mugwump reblogged this from linguisten the-mugwump likes this amythestquill likes this thebeginningsofanend likes this hartmace reblogged this from linguisten linguisten reblogged this from findingquestions korvur likes this
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MAP OF EVERYWHERE THAT’S NOT IMPORTANT unfinished · #map #draw #drawn
You couldn’t decide where to go so we followed the signals sent out by those who wanted to exploit our stories, but they weren’t a corporation they were a collective of spaces that wanted to tell these invisible tales and keep them safe so they could be told forever all over the world, and it led us here, to where all places
The place that captures the light and plays it back so our eyes can see and not see, the unseen. come together and are the same place at once.
· #maps #draw #unseen #invisible
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gradually everything is eroded magnetic pull from the moons gravity swings water around the globe, slowly tearing the landscape apart, with help from the tug of the earth’s molten centre we accept the longevity of the houses we now build, 50 years, not even a lifetime, perhaps a deliberate attempt architecture is a pretence to hold onto something permanent we must accept that what we build is just a shadow, to frame the world around us for a moment the irony being that the landscape we look out on to will remain long after the structures become uninhabitable
I like to stare from these now-redundant voids in the crumbing walls of castles, and image what the landscape looked like before the road wound through, before the housing estate was erected, before all the wood was burnt.
I like to imagine that one day it will look as it did before, covered in forest, quiet and foreboding. So perhaps I am looking forward, into the past. · #view #ruin #erode #shadow #Architectur
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the island has fulfilled it use slowly it dies buildings once magnificent, now crumble concrete doesn’t last forever neither does the forest · #imagaine #imagine #future past #shadow #define #draw
Why can’t an architectural project be explored through the medium of stories? In the end isn’t that what the degree becomes, a story of imagined ideas, nothing realised. Just a vast picture-book of all our thoughts, neatly categorised into a portfolio. This drawing is part of the beginning of writing a story of my project. I have a rough outline of the script, but ultimately it will develop through the illustrated exploration. The brief: languages, boundaries, stories. The HeadQuarters of Stories and Happenings. HUSH. Hopefully it will exist, like every good story, in the spaces between. · #stories #briefs #brief #architecture #draw
casting the voids Time is recorded in the layers of rock sandwiched and curling most visibly on the eroding coast lines. Scientists can read off the past from these archives, plastic notice boards highlight these facts along coastal paths - here you see some red rock that originates from the sands of the equator, whereas just a mile along is a lovely example of some northern limestone. Thus the idea of continents flowing around the globe becomes a reality beneath out feet. But culture cannot be so preserved, unless a volcano distributes ash over an entire city. But even so, the sounds remain unheard, the commotion of the city - the bits between the buildings. And as with the erosion of the coast, the quarrying of earth neither the world nor culture remains static. Imagine capturing this in-between, creating a layering of language and preserving it in such a way that it can be interpreted around that world, highlighting the shifts
. As if casting the cities, not for the solids, but the voids - an inverted space. But one that is constantly evolving, eroding. Where the relenting elements are always altering the buildings, the landscape, and thus, what happens between. of culture and society
Homi Baba: “The imaginary of spatial distance - to live somehow beyond the border of our times - throws into relief the temporal, social differences that interrupt our collusive sense of cultural contemporaneity. The present can no longer be simply envisaged as a break or a bonding with the past and the future, no longer a synchronic presence: our proximate self-presence, our public image, comes to be revealed for its discontinuities, its inequalities, its minorities. Unlike the dead hand of history that tells the beads of sequential time like a rosary, seeking to establish serial, causal connections, we are now confronted with what Walter Benjamin describes as the blasting of a monadic moment from the homogenous course of history, ‘establishing a conception of the present as the “time of the now”’.” · #voids #space #between #culture #language #time #preserve #define #draw
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Space for conversation
Sound Absorbed
Mosque Low ceiling panels Thick carpet Narrow, long room Small windows Two people
Bus Padded seating Close proximity Metal and plastic frame Lots of pvc window Warm About 10 passengers
Mosque High ceiling, sloped to central dome. Windows along both sides Ceiling panels and plaster Thick carpet Large, square room Warm Two people
Market Tarpaulin covered metal frame Outdoors Traffic close Stalls piled with vegtables Cold Lots of people
Cafe Stone floor Wood-panelled walls Wood furniture High ceiling Open plan Soft lighting Warm Very busy
Reverberation
Fire Place Stone floor + walls Wooden seating Stone fireplace High ceiling No doors ABout 5 people
St Marys Church Stone tiled floor Stone columns and thick structure Glass windows Very High wood roof Wooden pews Warmish One cleaner
Party Copenhagen Art School Large stone contruction Square space free of columns Hanging trace partitions Plastic + wooden seating DJ system Bar Very Warm Lots of people
Cisternerne Copenhagen Low, thick stone arches Underground Damp Continuous space Barrel vaulted ceiling Thick stone Cold Few people
St Mary Maudlen Church Cirenceter Church Stone tiled floor Stone tiled floor - underfloor Stone columns and thick strucheating] ture Stone columns and thick structure Glass windows Glass windows Very High wood roof Wooden pews Very Very High wood roof Wooden pews Bus station just outside Wooden furnishing Cold Bus station just outside No people Warm
Some people
Space for passing through
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High Street Stone paving had just rained, wet surfaces Stone buildings Wide road Glass fronted stone buildings Quite Cold Not many people
Clardendon Shopping Centre Med-High, domed plastered ceiling Glass fronted stores No natural light Concrete/stone floor Warm Busy
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Airport Lounge Concrete, screed floor Thick glass Metal frame limited furnishings Warm Quite Busy
Westgate Mall High, arched glass roof Concrete frame Screed floor Glass fronted stores Small tempory stalls in the centre Plastic flags Warmish Quite busy
Describing materiality, thermal comfort and use. 路 #draw #sound #sounds #exploration
The monument: Against: “essentially repressive” as it is “the seat of an institution (the church, the state, the university)” (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 21) For: brings people together. “They have always been u-topic. Throughout their height and depth, along a dimension that was alien to urban trajectories, they proclaim duty, power, knowledge, joy, hope” (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 22) · #language #monument #lefebvre
The street: For: Safe because of the ‘we’ element [Jane Jacobs research showed less crime on busy streets. “The street is disorder” (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 18) “A place where speech becomes writing” (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 19) Against: network of consumption - spectacle of objects (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 21) “In this sense we can speak of a colonization of the urban space, which takes place in the street through the image, through publicity, through the spectacle of objects - a “system of objects” that has become symbol and spectacle. Through the uniformization of the grid, visible in the modernization of old streets, objects (merchandise) take on the effects of colour and form that make them attractive.“ (Lefebvre, 2003, p. 21) · #place #speech #language
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood. Wordsworth, W.(1888) The Complete Poetical Works. London: Macmillian and Co. · #define #quote #poem 1 note ishanijasmin likes this findingquestions posted this
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Where the drawing is an explanation and exploration of a concept that has not yet fully emerged, but when it does, it offers both the mind to the hand a reasoning that the mind alone could not have foreseen. In her work, to me, it appears that Aycock uses metaphors, here language is a tool with which drawing plays. Thus the mind can behold an interpretation language alone cannot convey. #alice aycock #drawing #language #explaination #admire #inspire
Roland Barthes - The pleasure of the text In order to approach bliss and therefore wisdom, Roland Barthes appears to assert that the text needs to connect on a level beyond pleasure. Barthe’s see’s the closest realisation of this in the cinema, where the actor reads a script to you as an audience. This he explains is not speech, which differs from text, as the material, sensual, breath, guttural and ‘whole presence of the human muzzle’ brings the text away from boredom to break in the bliss.
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the collective experience
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where is the best place to have a conversation? analysing spaces and arrangements we use without thinking or questioning. 路 #draw #analysis #space #arrangment
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wiki ˈwɪki/ noun noun: wiki; plural noun: wikis a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. Origin 1990s: from WikiWikiWeb the name of the first website of this kind, from Hawaiian wiki wiki ‘very quick’. https://www.google.co.uk/ search?q=define+wiki&oq=define+wiki&aqs=c hrome..69i57j69i60l5.1511j0j7&sourceid=chrom e&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 · #define #wiki #open source
the listening table = sketch #1 · #table #draw #sketch
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Table - defined NOUN What is a table? Does a desk count? Does the sideboard count? Does eating sat on the sofa off your lap count? Does sitting in a circle on chairs with only space between you…? a piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at. a meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute. a group seated at table for a meal Old English tabule ‘flat slab, inscribed tablet’, from Latin tabula ‘plank, tablet, list’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French table. It appears that the majority of definitions point to: a place that enables a level and equal form of engagement between a group of people. So a level surface for writing on also provides a level place for discussing. The physical presence of a table is a reminder of this platform, it is also useful for putting things on and leaning on. · #define #table
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City Hall element of Arcadi City. ARCADIA B, 1977, PETER COOK 路 #admire #inspired #inspire #Peter cook 1 note yougotthisbro likes this findingquestions posted this
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walled cities & walls and curved walls, star walls, castle walls, house walls, walls for sitting on, walls for hiding things in, walls to write you lovers name on, walls to hide behind, walls to leap over, brick walls, concrete walls, stone walls, never-woodenwalls, high walls, low walls, do-not-cross-this walls, playful walls, ruined walls, walls with crenelations, walls with decoration, walls to build, walls to destroy, walls that symbolise the past, walls the symbolise the future, walls to keep you in, walls to keep you out, a noun or a verb… dividing up, enclosing, restricting, lining, confining… · #WALLS #draw #colalge #collage
boundary a line which marks the limits of an area; a dividing line. a limit of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere of activity. · #define #boundary
· #admire #inspire #media #rem koolhass #yokohama OMA Yokohama masterplan, a wonderful colourful diagrammatic drawing. 1 note
So DOGMA is pretty cool: “Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara.” Their graphic is great and I enjoy the titles to the drawings - making them each a glimpse of a story.
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The parc begins by recreating the environment of the original agricultural use. Follys and a Theatre are built within the Parc where people can meet, the wilderness that currently exists is encouraged. All of these places are synthetic and act as devices to record or project the stories that are told or read or uploaded whilst in the parc. To the North of the site a Quartz Glass Factory is constructed, this etches stories that are captured by the Follies using locally quarried sandstone. These physical acts of data are then constructed into a long wall that runs down the center of the site. Once this is constructed more walls are built, these follow the lines of the feixes [fields] that were once integral to the site. The rate of building relies on the rate of stories being told within the Parc.
Time is indeterminate.
alliance between data and physical space, public and private, whilst questioning the role of recording and preserving the past. The proposition is a fantastical Parc, a narrative that relies upon narrative to enable the architecture to appear. The static architectural elements are the Follies and Attempting to create an
Landscaping. The transient elements are the Walls of Stories that are built. The Trending crane prioritises and categorises, altering heights and depth of walls. It aims to be serious in that it is looking philosophically and rationally at the current social, cultural climate and wants to present a physical presence that approaches the loss of culture and growth of corporate, digital society - but ridiculous in that it understands that this climate only accepts that which it can relate to and that something of this nature needs to be ridiculous to be accepted or rejected, and therefore believed. 路 #draw #define #student #architecture student #architecture #wilderness of walls #propositon #brief
ALICE AYCOCK 1. The New China Drawing (The World Above, the World Below) 2. “The City of the Walls” 3. The Hundred Small Rooms (Another Tower of Babel) on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution (A Pictorial Re-Creation of the Raising of an Egyptian Obelisk In the Piazza di San Pietro, Rome 1586) with Turning, Cranking… Alice Aycock again uses narrative titles for her drawings. Whether they describe them or draw them I don’t know. That would be interesting to find out - whether Aycock knows what she is attempting to draw, or if drawing is a way of bringing out the imagination.
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Parc view of the story unravelling - concept · #draw #story #walls
Echoes in a Neolithic stone circle David Hendy demonstrates the acoustics properties of Orkney’s Ring of Brodgar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016bff9
wall noun a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land. a thing regarded as a protective or restrictive barrier. verb enclose (an area) within walls, especially for protection or privacy.
A STORAGE DEVICE · #define #wall
Today, UNESCO’s message has never been more important. We must create holistic policies that are capable of addressing the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development. This new thinking on sustainable development reaffirms the founding principles of the Organization and enhances its role:
In a globalized world with interconnected societies, intercultural dialogue is vital if we are to live together while acknowledging our diversity.
In an uncertain world, the future of nations depends not only on their economic capital or natural resources, but on their collective ability to understand and anticipate changes in the environment - through education, scientific research and the sharing of knowledge. In an unstable world - marked by fledgling democratic movements, the emergence of new economic powers and societies weakened by multiple stress factors – the educational, scientific and cultural fabric of societies – along with respect for fundamental rights - guarantees their resilience and stability. In a connected world - with the emergence of the creative economy and
the full participation of everyone in the new global public space is a prerequisite for peace and development. knowledge societies, along with the dominance of the Internet,
- See more at: http://en.unesco.org/about-us/introducing-unesco#sthash.3EctRc3m. dpuf · #quote #unesco #admire #inspire
wall concept #1 boy and brush and the wall original feixes entrance to the right · #draw #fiexes #wall #concept
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#DEFINE #BOUNDARY ___________________________________ THE PARK THE MUSEUM IS A THEATRE THE PARK IS A THEATRE THE PARK IS A GRAVEYARD THE PARK IS A DATA CENTRE OF STORIES > CIVIC SPACE ________________________________________________ THE WALL THE WALL IS A CORRIDOR THE cloisters LEAD OFF THE CORRIDOR WE WRITE OUR STORIES UPON IT THE data feixes LEAD OFF THE CORRIDOR THE CORRIDOR IS A JOURNEY IT GROWS AND UNRAVELS ________________________________________________ THE THEATRE A BREAK IN THE WALL, ALIGNED TO DALT VILA REVERBERATION ________________________________________________ THE CLOISTERS [archive] WE DRAW THE STORIES UPON THE GLASS PANES THE LIGHT WRITES THEM ON THE WALL WE TELL THEM MORE STORIES SOMETIMES THEY LISTEN _______________________________________________ THE DATA FEIXES [storage] THE STORIES ARE KEPT BENEATH THE GRASSED FEIXES THE WALL LEADS TO THEM _____________________________________________ WORD SORTING SILOS WORDS FLASH UP HERE AND DOWN SIT IN THEM AND WATCH THE WORDS THE DICTIONARY SILOS - TRANSLATING INSCRIBED UPON GLASS OF cloisters _____________________________________________ THE RADIO ANTENNA GATHERING AND BROADCASTING ______________________________________________ FOLLY’S + FURNITURE PLACES TO GATHER TO SHARE STORIES CONVERSATION SPACES OF VARYING QUALITIES + DIMENSIONS COVERED + OPEN > Bridges / Pools / Paths / Piers / Benches / Archways < __________________________
Why should the park be divided by language when we have the ability to translate everything? · #DEFINE #BRIEF #CLASIFY #classify
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distance + time are irrelevent now
Proxy trace to google.com 22 hops / 23.7 seconds [http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/] 1. Unknown 2. 217.32.141.183 3. 212.140.235.73 4. 31.55.164.236 5. 31.55.164.108 6. 109.159.248.196 7. bt.net 8. bt.net 9. bt.net 10. 213.248.82.250 11. telia.net 12. telia.net 13. telia.net 14. telia.net 15. 198.199.99.253 16. 107.170.234.253 17. 198.199.99.253 18. telia.net 19. telia.net 20. 209.85.249.5 21. 66.249.95.29 22. 1e100.net ~6,515 miles traveled Compare this to: post takes approximately 3-5 days to reach America from the UK. 路 #technology #distance #time #information
ibiza - uk 11 days [fast] 5-7 days 23 hours 3 hours 30 secs
PERSON ON BIKE POSTCARD DRIVE FLY EMAIL
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#INSPIRE, #ADMIRE #TECHNOLOGY Humanism gives way to archivism // Because of the formation of mass culture through the media … the coexistence of people in the present societies has been established on new foundations. These are … postliterary, postepistolary, and thus posthumanistic. // Two thousand years after Plato wrote it seems as if not only the gods but the wise have abandoned us, and left us alone with our partial knowledge and ignorance… … Letters that are not mailed cease to be missives for possible friends; they turn into archived things. Thus this - that he important books of the past have more and more ceased to be letters to friends… - this has deprived the humanistic movement of it previous power. … Everything suggests that archivists have become the successors
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For the few who still peer around in those archives, the realization is dawning that our lives are the confused answer to questions which were asking in places we have forgotten. of humanists.
Rules for the Human Zoo: a response to the Letter on Humanism Peter Sloterdijk - From Nicht gerrette: Versuche nach Heidigger (Suhrkamp, 2001) pp 302 - 333 Available from: http://www.iperbole.bologna.it/iperbole/adi/XoopsAdi/uploads/ PDdownloads/sloterdijk_rulesforthehumanzoo.pdf · #archives #culture #humanism #peter sloterdijk #wisdom
A packet analyzer (also known as a network analyzer, protocol analyzer or packet sniffer, or for particular types of networks, an Ethernet sniffer or wireless sniffer) is a computer program or a piece of computer hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network or part of a network.[1] As data streams flow across the network, the sniffer captures each packet and, if needed, decodes the packet’s raw data, showing the values of various fields in the packet, and analyzes its content according to the appropriate RFC or other specifications. Packet capture is the process of intercepting and logging traffic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_analyzer · #media #gathering
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Where things sit out of the sky and they glow with all the stories no-one realised had been told out loud, for it listens to the fingers and threads of our lives and pulls them inwards, and everyone exists through this but they never realise because if you can’t see it with your own eyes then it doesn’t exist, okay? · #hidden #architecture #drawn #draw #felt tip
Eavesdropping on wifi Use unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots much? You’ll rethink that practice after we show you what can be captured from those connections. · #stories #tales #wifi #language
the triangle of a physical and imagined architecture Network; noun, a system of interconnected people, the database Hardware; noun, durable equipment/ infrastructure, immersive equipment Software; noun, used by the Hardware, interactive experience · #define #architectural triangle #architecture #draw
PRIVATE DATA excerpt from Architecture Review. “The popular myth of an immaterial internet is allowing our cities to be covertly corrupted by private infrastructure desks of any sense of public generosity.” · #inspire #admire #article #data #civic #ar #private data
Samsung warns about ‘listening’ TV thedigitalhuman: Samsung is warning customers to avoid discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature.
Such TV sets ‘listen’ to every conversation held in front of them and may share any details they hear with Samsung or third parties, it said. Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell’s 1984, which spied on citizens. · #technology
Shining a Light (and Lots of Color) on Previously Invisible Wi-Fi Signals Since the dawn of the radio, over a century ago, there has been buzz about the invisible rays that make our tech go ‘round… and what they’re doing to our bodies, and as our lives become more wireless, the myths and rumors presumably expand into an ever denser unseen web…. · #technology
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heathwest: Boullée, Deuxieme projet pour la Bibliothèque du Roi (1785) (via superarchitects) 422 notes
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The Wind Garden 路 #insipre #inspire #inspired #admire
Facebook processed over 500 terabytes of data a day — fifty times the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/big-data-drones-privacyworkers/ · #data technology #tech #technology #data
· #technology #follys wandrlust: Frei Otto, 1925-2015 (Source: phdonohue, via superarchitects)
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“The magnificent buildings at Nimrud and Hatra and the precious sculptures
Marvels that have persisted for thousands of years were levelled in hours with explosives and bulldozers. These people have inflicted a great wound upon the world. and friezes they held were, to Isis, nothing more than deviance.
But while this destruction, as Isis doubtless intends, is shocking, for me it is also
I find in my inbox similar stories of the razing of priceless treasures. But they tend to involve natural marvels, rather than manmade ones.”
familiar. Almost every day,
- George Monbiot http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/mar/12/isis-are-notthe-only-ones-committing-great-acts-of-vandalism?CMP=fb_gu
British Library digitises 4m photos from endangered archives (Wired UK) A pioneering initiative from the British Library has seen over four million images from endangered archives all over the world digitised and put online Trying to gather the world memories together, digitising them on the network. But as Digital Human points out - what software are they using, could they be doing all this work only to lose it twice? ‘Endangered archives’ highlights how important the past is to us, that the British Library has stepped in to ‘save’ photos of other cultures and other times. But is digital the most permanent way? (Source: thedigitalhuman) · #define #technology #archive
Forever Data The future of digital archives. The ‘digital dark age’ is upon us, where formats quickly become outdated and therefore unreadable. Already optical drives are not being included in apple products, the usb is king. So information that we have so lovingly stored is made obsolete. Unlike a letter a CD cannot simply be picked up and read. In the past you picked up your grandmothers letters to read them - now you can’t even open an email from 10 years ago. Vint Curf [a ‘father’ of the internet] suggests we keep a ‘digital snapshot’ of the hardware + software readers so we are able to recreate them in the future. Therefore, much like the Greek + Roman empires, this information doesn’t have to be rediscovered. At the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley where all technology is on show. All documents are saved in archival paper form - faith in paper as a stable archival medium for long-term data storage. · #archive #technology #data #draw Advantages Since it is analog (an actual image of the original data), it is easy to view. Unlike digital media, the format requires no software to decode the data stored thereon. It is instantly comprehensible to persons literate in the language; the only equipment that is needed is a simple magnifying glass. This eliminates the problem of software obsolescence. Disadvantages Like all analog media formats, microfiche is lacking in features enjoyed by users of digital media. Photographic illustrations reproduce poorly in microform format, with loss of clarity and halftones. · #technology
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Gradually everything is undone
I began with looking at whether we should try and preserve language [on average a langue dies every fortnight], and how in a world of ‘sharing’ boundaries are become ever more declared as people try to cement culture. Meaning that we are all trying to hold on to the past. Its like we are scared of what will happen if we forget. and this got me thinking… Are libraries and archives worth it? We want our memories and ideas to last forever, but only a few books have made it from 2000 years ago, what remains is the architecture, be it landscape or built. And even that is a ruin of what once was. Entering the ‘digital dark age’ there is already the assumption that what is around now will not last, so science is now looking at what could stick around. But even if we can make our culture last beyond the next 1000 years, is there any point? Hmmmm…..
Brief: QUESTIONING THE ROLE OF THE INFORMATION ARCHIVE IN GENERATION Y; questioning the role of forever… maybe. · #brief #maybe #draw
entropy noun 1. PHYSICS a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. “the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time” 2. lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. “a marketplace where entropy reigns supreme” 3. (in information theory) a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language. Mid 19th century: from en-2 ‘inside’ + Greek tropē ‘transformation’. https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF8#q=define%20entropy · #define #entropy #undone
The stories depicted in coloured glass - can they be understood without the Bible? The stories printed as QR codes - can they be understood without Tablets, Phones etc... Tchoban and Kuznetsovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Russian Pavilion The QR code becomes both a graphic and technical device. The codes on the wall gave information about the collaboration effort for the Skolkovo Innocity town project.
Phillips offer a customisable service for their OLED LivingSculpture, whereby the light bases, configurations, heights etc, can all be determined. These panels can be integrated within buildings, become part of buildings. Already as part of an installation, they offer the opportunity to create an immersible environment. If light pulses can be acted out then so will words, images ect. They also move forward and back, pulsing in 3D space as well as in light. They can mimic the movement before them. https://configurator.lumiblade-experience.com/ [Accesed on 28.01.2015]
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GATHERED ORATORY DATA Quartz Glass offers the possibility of permanent data - binary numbers are microscopically layered onto the treated glass. The data can be etched with a laser in three layers on the crystels at a desnity slightly higher than a CD. This information can easily be read out with an optical microscope.
Currently data storage devices last approximately 4 years. Quartz Glass promises to defy high temperatures, direct sunlight, weathering, and last for thousands. The glass is 20mm square and 2mm thick and can hold 40MB of data per square inch, roughly the same as a CD. A high resolution image shows the binary code etching.
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#DRAW We are observed by every unloving institution of the new digital surveillance state, from big data companies and the Government to insurance companies, healthcare providers and the police. Google and Facebook boast that they know us more intimately than we know ourselves. They know what we did yesterday, today and, with the help of predictive technology, what we will do tomorrow. And it is, frankly, our fault for choosing to live in a crystal republic where cars, mobile phones and televisions — hooked up to the internet — watch us. Far from being the answer to our problems, the internet, whose pioneers believed it would save humanity, is diminishing our lives.
Instead of creating more transparency, we have devices that make the invisible visible. The sharing economy is really the selfish economy. Social media is, in fact, anti-social. And the success of the internet is a huge failure.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962509/How-internet-destroyingpioneers-hoped-web-transform-society-devastating-new-book-says-waydiminishes-humanity.html#ixzz3SPIbvp80 Some - errr - ‘insightful’ words from the rag that is the Mail. However the article does hi-light aspects of our digital culture. Even though it goes as far to compare us to unpaid workers for global corporations, I do agree with the sentiment. Yes we get services for free - but what are we exchanging for this privilege? I enjoy the moment of the devices watching us. These apps allow for ease of sharing, but what are we getting in return? EEEEK. Perhaps the architecture on Ibiza is a large mirror, reflecting back the visible world. At least there is a degree of transparency in that, you see yourself stood before yourself, rather than a social media interpretation. There is now even a Facebook tool where it tells you which of your FB friends would be most compatible as a roommate. Maybe this is working towards a FORDIAN world where our lives are predetermined and decisions are made for us. How is this resolved spatially? Where information is filtered out of this wealth of information by corporations who ‘trend’ the most discussed information of the data, rating it based on searches made. Perhaps it looks at the wetlands, where feixes are raised from the brackish water, allowing for strips of fertile land. Is trending the same as this raised field? There must be something
An archive of culture, of the internet that is also a park for the preservation of nature. Can these two ideals in this.
co-exist? Could make some fun drawings… · #define #internet #watching #visible
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Data centre - grid layout 路 #tchnology #technology
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Permanent Data - is it possible? Is it possible to record a sound and hear it 2000 years later? The devices we use now, such as hardrives, or even CD’s and magnetic tape rely on electricity to work, therefore rely on a machine in which to play them. Currently they also have a short and unpredictable shelf life - unreliable past about 4 years. So if an archive wishes to be truly permanent - as the seed bank is - how can the sound, image, word to be recorded in order to have longevity. Even if we still have power [electricity] in 2000 years the data storage devices will be long outdated. The storage will either need to keep up with the development of electronic medium - or not be electronic so as to last beyond the next generation. Permanence. If language is to be archived, recorded, preserved - then the means in which it is preserved is crucial to it being used. Seeds can be vacuum packed - but language is human and therefore it can only last so long. Due to this human desire to have a presence beyond mortal life a new data storage has been invented. One that promises forever - Quartz Glass. This technology can return words back but hasn’t mastered sound or vision quite yet, and the apparatus involved is also unspecified… but it offers up possibilities - a quartz underbelly to H.U.S.H. · #permanence #define #preserve #language #archive #draw
Tatami The tatami mat is a flooring and can act as a seat. However it acts to arrange a group of people together - so perhaps tatami mats are also tables - when arranged together. S a table doesn’t need to be raised - it needs to enable a group of people to come together, and for that group to increase or decrease in number. They are designed at a ration of 2:1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami
A MONUMENT TO THE FUTILITY OF AN ARCHIVE TO LANGUAGE + CULTURE UNESCO You Are Here > ? 路 #define #what #where #archive #monument #what even is architecture now? #pfft
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Theatres are just places of illusion. Shadows thrown on the wall of another story in a real place.
A guided tour of the New Theatre in Oxford revealed a cold, peeling layering of corridors, mirrors, twists, turns, scaffold, wheels, ropes and most importantly lights. Stood on the stage the lights were switched on and the set came alive, the illusion began. These images used photography techniques to play with the light to try and recreate the sense of mystery and wonder of the stage.
Finland’s Lighting Design Collective Transforms A Silo Into A Modern Lighthouse Helsinki, Finland is already known for its beautiful landscapes, sonorous Baltic coastlines and for its focus on civic design (the city having been named the World Design Capital of 2012). To celebrate this honor, Helsinki tapped Madrid-based design firm Lighting Design Collective (LDC) to · #technology #precedent #inspire #admire #lighting #silo #word silo
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Scenic Design A stage set can be in a theatre, or in a tv studio, in a news room, a supermarket, it could be in your house, or your work place. It is the ability to rearranged an environment, transform from one time and place to another. It is a form of illusion, were falsities are acted out, or the truth summarised and mis-directed. Where you pretend to be angry with your mother, or the space your boss vents his ego. But the stage sets in our day to day life are hard rearrange in order to play out the next scene - time and space continue at the normal pace, the illusion doesn’t enter so readily. Excluded from this would be festivities - Christmas brings a stage set, fairs bring stage sets. These fit into the fabric of the urban, the illusion is made visible.
The ridiculous stories, the timelines so eagerly filled out; these need a space in the urban, these need a stage set, a scenic design. · #define #stage sets #time #rearrange #draw 2 notes charlesthekid likes this findingquestions posted this
CHICKEN POINT CABIN BY OLSON KUNDIG and detail
roomonfiredesign: Kolumba Diocesan Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2007 by Peter Zumthor. Photos by Hélène Binet. Interesting use of material to hide, reveal, tell a story… need to think abou materiality more…. (Source: roomonfire-good-design, via leopolitandynamite)
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Memory Cloud Memory Cloud is based on smoke signals, one of the oldest forms of visual communication dating back over 5,000 years. Created by Minimaforms, an experiential architecture and design team, Memory Cloud transformed London’s Trafalgar Square into an ambient and responsive environment by… · #technology 1 note
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SES FEIXES WETLANDS Located just north of Ibiza town, adjacent to the Harbour, a car park and a main bypass. Abandoned farm-land since 1950, the Wetlands were established by the Moors using a complex drainage system which gave slivers of raised fields to grow a variety of crops. It is now home to over 100 bird species and rare reptiles, and is viewed as a parcel of green belt within the ever expanding Town, as well as a type of wetland that is fast disappearing in the Mediterranean. In fact the land is being eyed up by developers due to it central location, but there are plans under-way to get it recognised as a UNESCO Heritage site and have the land cared for and possible adapted into a park. Currently is sits empty, home to a randomly located car workshop and a small holding. Again this is an example of an area that is being challenged by globalisation + travel [arrival + departure of things], and a place that the locals want preserved. Already its sits in isolation amongst the Town. Physical boundaries don’t mark it all the way around, but the thick grass creates a wall of its own. If it was ignored perhaps it could continue as an archive of the past. But Ibiza wont give it up that easily…
Integrating the idea of archiving [preserving] landscape with creating a physical manifestation of the archive of current stories; is it possible? To blend reality with fiction + imagination? · #define #technology #site #ibiza #wetlands #draw
spaces for how your feeling 路 #draw #space #mould #form #feeling
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· #draw #section #thinking #architecture #maybe #not there yet #entropy #ibiza #wetlands #blah g r a d u a l l y e v e r y t h i n g i s u n done its not quite there yet, in fact it may never be there, in fact its already beginning to fall apart, so please don’t invest here, maybe it isn’t recommended, it depends; what’s trending today? not this? okay we will go somewhere else… 1 note louisapreece reblogged this from findingquestions findingquestions posted this
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The site beginning to become part of the town - which has resisted it for fear of contaminating the past, yet the past remains stuck there and instead the landscape becomes the transience that is how the town should have always been. Now instead of crops being grown, the site is storing the stories that pass through and that it deems important, and these become streets and the whole arrangement becomes a monument, but most importantly it is never the same. 1 note
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Exploring the possibilities of the site and the idea of conversation…. · #draw #site #ibiza #doodle #sketch Exploring the possibilities of the site and the idea of conversation…. 2 notes senserecord likes this shinyspartan likes this
REFLECTION + TEA DRINKING 路 #DRAW #TEA #REFLECT #SOFT
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Where Stories Come to Life #1 路 #draw #storytellingroom #stories #space #lights #projectors
Word sorting room #1 Night Day #draw #sketch #space
路 #draw #sketch #room THE QUIETEST ROOM 1 note dominantdinosaur likes this findingquestions posted this
This is how inside the word silo will be, but filled with mist also so the projections become part of the space and not just the lining of the walls. 路 #inspire #admire
catrinastewart: Big Air Package by Christo and Jeanne Claude
#INSPIRE, #ADMIRE #TECHNOLOGY 路 #technology #inspire #admire joanielemercier: mymodernmet: Audiovisual artist Joanie Lemercier recently unveiled Nimbes, a spectacular 360潞 installation that immerses viewers in a breathtaking virtual universe. Created using photography, CGI, laser scans, and projection mapping, the piece takes the audience on a 15-minute journey around the cosmos, displaying constellations, solitary landscapes, and crumbling architectural structures.
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/11/gruff-msa-wind-angular-tower-tilting-viewingplatform-england/ #inspire #admire http://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/11/gruff-msa-wind-angular-tower-tilting-viewingplatform-england/ 1 note rayaypunto likes this
lets have a cup of tea 路 #draw #technology #tea lets have a cup of tea 1 note otterclou likes this findingquestions posted this
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it is clear that the garden has long been understood as a place where the geography of the mind meets that of the earth…
We should understand that the art of gardens, relatively free of the obligation to satisfy any need other than pleasure, would consist of the in situ representation or imitation of the elements, motifs and patterns of wild or transformed nature as they were found in the territory surrounding the site. sub-urbanism and the art of memory, Sebastien Marot · #inspire #admire #media #quote #landscape
THE HILLS · #DRAW #landscape #hills THE HILLS 1 note anouchka-ruth likes this findingquestions posted this
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The idea of nothing, of the disappearance of substance, becomes fundamental to modern experience and provides the context for architectures impetus towards the invisible. DAVID GREENE http://strangeharvest.com/david-greene-the-big-nothing 路 #define #quote #inspire #media #admire
Listening Palms - these are actually receiver towers, but we pretend they are palms as that looks loads better. In fact, why does everything look like something else, something natural rather than something synthetic,
everything pretend.
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Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities 路 #quote #admire #inspire #calvino #define
The Parc begins by recreating elements of the old agricultural wetlands. Follyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are built within the Parc allowing locals + tourists to gather; the current Wilderness of the site is encouraged. All Parc elements are synthetic and act as devices to receive + process the stories that are spoken or read or uploaded whilst within the Parc limits. A Word Silo processes and projects these captured fables + fantasies. To the North of the site a Factory is constructed which etches on to quartz, made from locally quarried sandstone, the captured stories. These physical acts of data are constructed into a walls. They trace the lines of the feixes that once formed a network integral to the agricultural use of the site. The rate of building relies on the rate of stories being told within the Parc. Time is indeterminate.
OLED Solar Sunroofs Coming to a Car Near You http://www.vttresearch.com/services/smart-industry/printed-and-hybridmanufacturing-services/printed-oled-and-organic-solar-cellsBASF and Philips are making headway on OLED panels that soak the sun in the day and light your car interior at night. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/OLED_EarlyProduct.JPG so OLED can power itself using solar cells - can the solar cells also generate energy to run the processors? hmmm, maybe the copse becomes a forest, maybe the walkway generates electricity, the kinetic walkway, thats why its so long, forces the parson to walk, walk, walk, we need to generate more more - maybe some trees are just solar, no, no, okay so what else makes energy, the parc needs to self sustain - in principleâ&#x20AC;Ś ¡ #technology #oled #solar
Mylar is super light weight and strong, its reflective properties would create interesting refractions within the word silo...panes of transparent mylar could allow glimpses of light in and out.... Wnd catcher technology Using the wetlands to cool the air to fill the silo with pressurised air to inflate it... hence why Mylar would be a good material...
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