Sunday 28 February 2010
Saturday 27 February 2010
Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see
Interesting video for people collaborating with blind users and especially now after attending the workshop at FFO. The video offers interesting insight into treatment and how the brain develops in relation. The last part of the video is especially interesting.
Thursday 25 February 2010
Copenhagen Teaser
Invisibles in Copenhagen ..... sensory experiences of architecture and accessibility!
As mentioned today the program is almost ready, just needs a few minor details, but at this point there are a few important dates and times to note in your planner:
Monday March 8
We start the study trip at 10.00AM meeting at Nørreport station in central Cph
We will be visiting the Snoeuzelhaus in Hellerup, learning about the sensory stimulation theraphy theories of the Snoeuzel and trying it out on our own bodies.
We kick off the study trip with an evening of classic concert in on of the icon projects of Nordic Functionalism: the former Danish Radio Concert Hall, so mark the evening in your calender.
Tuesday is a full day on bike in Ørestaden and Amager Strand
Wednesday starts at Louisiana and goes into the evening too as we are visiting Force4 architects from 5:00PM to 7:30PM
Thursday is a full day bus trip outside of Copenhagen
Friday is on site visits in Cph city and a visit to MLM architects ... as well as Dinner at Camilla's place - you bring the wine, I'll take care of dinner. Welcome drinks are served at 6:30PM
Saturday you are on you own all day
Sunday we go north of Cph to study Sarah Hadid and Finn Juhl amongst other projects
Monday we'll stay in Cph, visiting a senior home as well as leaving you time to go back (or forward) to things you want to see more of ... and finally
Tuesday march 16th we'll stay at the absolute center of Cph visiting various sensory stimulating museums and the Danish Architecture Center (DAC) ending around 3:00PM
A complete and detailed program including an assignment brief for your 'study trip group assignment' will follow as soon as possible. In the mean time please make sure to remember that you are responsible for having your own insurance while on the trip ....
- Camilla
As mentioned today the program is almost ready, just needs a few minor details, but at this point there are a few important dates and times to note in your planner:
Monday March 8
We start the study trip at 10.00AM meeting at Nørreport station in central Cph
We will be visiting the Snoeuzelhaus in Hellerup, learning about the sensory stimulation theraphy theories of the Snoeuzel and trying it out on our own bodies.
We kick off the study trip with an evening of classic concert in on of the icon projects of Nordic Functionalism: the former Danish Radio Concert Hall, so mark the evening in your calender.
Tuesday is a full day on bike in Ørestaden and Amager Strand
Wednesday starts at Louisiana and goes into the evening too as we are visiting Force4 architects from 5:00PM to 7:30PM
Thursday is a full day bus trip outside of Copenhagen
Friday is on site visits in Cph city and a visit to MLM architects ... as well as Dinner at Camilla's place - you bring the wine, I'll take care of dinner. Welcome drinks are served at 6:30PM
Saturday you are on you own all day
Sunday we go north of Cph to study Sarah Hadid and Finn Juhl amongst other projects
Monday we'll stay in Cph, visiting a senior home as well as leaving you time to go back (or forward) to things you want to see more of ... and finally
Tuesday march 16th we'll stay at the absolute center of Cph visiting various sensory stimulating museums and the Danish Architecture Center (DAC) ending around 3:00PM
A complete and detailed program including an assignment brief for your 'study trip group assignment' will follow as soon as possible. In the mean time please make sure to remember that you are responsible for having your own insurance while on the trip ....
- Camilla
Sunday 21 February 2010
STAGES
"THE MOVIE: In New York City’s changing Lower East Side, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, evolution, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the liberating power of their own stories." - meerkatmedia.org
I like this stream of approach that I feel should be manifested somehow within architecture. It puts social infrastructure above other conventional infrastructure that we are surrounded with.
Wednesday 10 February 2010
blindness
Recommended reading for those interested in blindness:
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the unexplained good fortune that the doctor’s wife has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures.
The first part of the novel follows the experiences of the central characters in the filthy, overcrowded asylum where they and other blind people have been quarantined. Hygiene, living conditions, and morale degrade horrifically in a very short period, mirroring the society outside.
Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the unexplained good fortune that the doctor’s wife has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures.
The first part of the novel follows the experiences of the central characters in the filthy, overcrowded asylum where they and other blind people have been quarantined. Hygiene, living conditions, and morale degrade horrifically in a very short period, mirroring the society outside.
Monday 8 February 2010
Introduction
We see, hear, feel and move through space and the experience and our body is in constant dialogue with the physical form in which we exist. Aware and unaware we constantly register form, texture, scale and movement and in doing so we perceive seen and un-seen architectural intentions and quality in a never ending dialogue with space.
Universal design is a new design concept focusing on physiological diversity and equal rights. Universal design points to the responsibility of the architect to design spaces for all, spaces for participation and social interaction – and spaces for experience! Often functionality is considered the core issue of universal design but in this course we will focus on the senses – vision, hearing, touch and the kinaesthetic senses – and through these discuss the balance between aesthetics, functionality, architectural quality and universal design.
As architects and humans we will look at our potential for inspiring socially sustainable living. We will discuss how to coexist in our complex urban environment, and how to stimulate social solidarities. Social sustainability is the examination of the social processes underlying sustainability: particular, universal and their interdependence.
We will explore the use of our body and our senses in the experience of architecture as well as investigate architecture's invisible details as an enhancing factor for social interaction and bodily awareness.
Studies will be based on universal design theories and methodologies as well as readings on social sustainability, perception, architectural experiences and sensory disabilities. Through 1:1 exercises and collaboration with impaired users we will explore aspects of architectural space which are invisible to the eye.
The semester will take us through 4 phases of studying form and space as facilitator of the meeting between diverse individuals using Universal Design as a design tool to investigate the relation between the individual and the general in architectural design.
Objective
The objective of the course is to understand the concept of Universal Design through the study of the multi sensory experiences of space and of architecture as facilitator of social sustainability and the meeting between diverse users.
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