Posted: April 24th, 2009 | Author: elbert | Filed under: Assignments, Featured, Meetings, Presentations | Tags: Parking, Public Transport, Shopping, Street Markets | No Comments »
Prior to the meeting and roundtable discussion of last wednesday a text by Svetlana Boym was handed out as reading material and thus preparation for this roundtable discussion. Anna Fenko, a Russian raised researcher at the faculty of Industrial Design in Delft, held a presentation on the way inhabitants and the city of Moscow reacted to the transition from communism and Perestrojka to the submerging into capitalism. Next to the presentation the take-home assignments were shown on the wall which portrayed several examples of ‘urban interventions’ in the Netherlands, the United States, Russia, the UK and China.
Anna Fenko stated that Moscow reacted on 70 years of Communist repression in an extravagant way. On the one hand the city center has become a consumer paradise for the very rich (cup of coffee: $10), and on the other the outskirts of Moscow turned into a theater of street vendors, which have no legal permission and due to the lack of regulation attract all sorts of criminal activities.
Anna Fenko considered several problems that are occuring throughout the city: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 15th, 2009 | Author: shauna | Filed under: Assignments, Content, Meetings, References, Theory | No Comments »
In continuing our study of the neighborhood, we consider design interventions on the neighborhood scale. For your own neighborhood come up with some examples of interventions that could improve the quality of your neighborhood. These can be products, services, events, etc. Go crazy, there are no wrong answers!
Alternatively/additionally please give some examples of good and bad design interventions.
Reading
Boym, Svetlana. “Nostalgia, Moscow Style”. Harvard Design Magazine, 2001.
Geraci, John. “The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory“, April 6th, 2009.
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Posted: April 9th, 2009 | Author: shauna | Filed under: Assignments, Content, Meetings | Tags: assignment, Content, Meetings | No Comments »
In thinking about what “the Collective” means, we will first examine our own neighbourhood situations. Please take either your current or home situation. What makes your neighbourhood a neighbourhood or not? What are the qualities it exhibits that make it a neighbourhood? Are these qualities good/bad/neutral? What are other qualities (tangible/intangible) that create neighbourhoods?
Some questions to think about:
- is a neighborhood necessary?
- how are neighborhoods different in urban and rural settings?
- what is the ideal neighborhood (please bring some pictures of ideal neighborhoods)?
Also, please read the Communist Manifesto in preparation for our discussion.
Posted: March 24th, 2009 | Author: shauna | Filed under: Assignments, Meetings | No Comments »
What does “the collective” evoke for you? Please write a short paragraph and find some representative images and send these digital to info@futurefaculty.org and bring them to the first meeting (April 8th). We will be brainstorming and discussing our (pre)conceptions, ideas, expectations, etc. This assignment is meant to be fun and open ended. There are no wrong answers! If interested please send a mail to info@futurefaculty.org
International participants who can’t join the round table discussion, you can join the project by sending your thoughts and images via the mail!
