Phase 4: Space

Phase 4 presentation navjeet

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'Light killing light'

Artificial light vs. Day light

Catching light and redirecting and highlighting

Phase 3: membrane - thought process

Phase 3: membrane -May 5th presentation brainstorm

Following is what we decided from the brainstorming session this past friday. Nothing is concrete and we can shuffle responsibilities. We'll add a detailed list in class and discuss this monday.

Event: May 5th, Phase 3 - membrane

*Plan is to limit membrane installations to the ground floor and make all exhibits accessible. Also need accessible toilets (need to check teacher’s toilets next to the canteen to see if they are fit)

*Canteen is going to be the base

*Camilla has stressed that this event and inviting users is as important as the membrane

Membranes:

*need to also be aware of connections between each others exhibit, eg, like the game we play with Svien with all the objects next to each other - balance, communication...

Team 1: invitations [wed, April 14] - Luciana + Henrik + ...

-Info. on invites: presentations during day and exhibit afterwards, lunch, evening exhibit? Key scheduling.

Team 2: Program - Henrik +...

-program of the day - order

-canteen arrangements - drinks, food, bbq?

Team 3: accessibility - Markus + Eirik + Gunvor (already working with concrete and casting)+...

-ramps - guerrilla ramps - to be permanent even after the exhibition

-railings - where support is required

-assessment [mon, April 12] - what needs to be changed (on ground floor) in order to be made accessible

Team 4: plan - Therese, Mari (worked with ‘touch’ on study trip) +...

-plan - that users can understand and navigate through exhibits

-tactile markers - using existing universal design language to communicate

Team 5: signs/ understanding - Maria, Navjeet, Bruno +...

-signs: images, punjabi characters (Nav’s user) *keep all users in mind

-documentation; film the spaces that they will not see, eg. the spaces above ground floor

-this can be played during the exhibit in the canteen.

-1:50 model of the school

Team 6: Cleaning - Everyone

Phase 2: Element; Growing old in a foreign place

Phase 2 Pdf Pres

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Sensing in Barcelona during Easter break!

Experiencing 'touch' in Copenhagen

Touch

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Black Room - Snoezelen House

Black Room - Snoezelen House from Navjeet Ghuman on Vimeo.

A room that has limited stimulation. It is a room for people who cannot sort their senses. A 'normal' brain has the capacity to store away 80% of things we sense and if one is unable to do that, they can enter madness.

Growing Old In A Foreign Place...

User:

Since I've changed my user from the last time. I will mention a few things about her. Naseeb Kaur, 82 years old has been living in Bergen for the last 40 years. She can speak Norwegian just as much as I can, which is very basic. Yet she manages to grow old and continues a fulfilling life in this foreign place that she now calls home. Although, I question her connection to this place. She and her family have created a place within a place for her. She lives with her youngest son and daughter-in-law and her two really cute grandchildren. She also has another place that she calls home and that is in Punjab, India.

Her life story is like sitting through a history lesson. It is full of displacement and many sad chapters. Her father fought in WWII; she has lived through the partition of India and Pakistan; and later when she was living with her husband and family in Uganda, they were forced to leave the country. Eventually they all settled in Bergen, where they have been living until now.

She and I share a love for embroidery. It is the one passion that has stayed consistent throughout her life. Although now, as she grows old, her hands and eyes are no longer as able to assist her as they once did. She lights up when she talks about the things she's embroidered.

Material and Element:

I'm investigating two different materials that perhaps could interlace.

Cotton:

Naseeb Kaur likes how the cotton feels in her hands, she adds "that cotton clothes are the best to wear, you can try wearing lots of other materials but they are all useless, that is why cotton is the best." I've continued experimenting with cotton as a form by pouring wax on it, in it, by creating soft and hard textures, soft and hard sounds.

Assembling techniques:

Naseeb Kaur shows keen interest in my embroidery techniques that I used to join two pieces together. She tells me that they are correct techniques after which, she brings out her embroidered work to show me. I would like to extend this idea of assembling by creating an exchange between her and the native culture of Bergen.

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.

Growing Old In A Foreign Place

Invisible Spaces Phase 1 Presentation

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STAGES

STAGES - Feature Documentary Trailer from meerkatmedia.org on Vimeo.

"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.