I am sending my abstract for THIS. are you? It is a great opportunity for all students in the creative field.
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Creative Industries Conference 2010
May 8, 2010NZiLA Annual Conference 2009
September 26, 2009Queenstown, NZ is a fabulously gorgeous town if it isn’t for the rows of non-descript, cookie-cutter motels puncturing the landscape. Nevertheless, the town pulls it off with its astonishingly beautiful-clear lake Wakatipu stretching the valley till the commanding and visually dynamic “Remarkables” that are snow-capped during the winter months. All year round water/land/air activities abound making it truly a tourist-heaven!
The NZILA 2009′s, The Big Picture Workshop April 2-4, 2009, was held in this very town. Shay and I teamed up for the adventure; both being students amongst all the professionals we felt thoroughly educated not just in learning, but networking as well by the end of the conference. I think we were the only two students… The field tours were fun and of great learning experiences. We drank biodynamically produced red wine on a Viticulture tour at 9AM, visited an architect/landscape architect’s home that had the most breathtaking views from his self-designed home in the Central Otago valley. Mingling, learning, discussing, and brainstorming with all the professional landscape architects, and finally to top it off, lovely farewell dinner in the awe-inspiring Jack’s Point was wonderful.
The tours were: (via NZILA):
Landscapes of recreation: This tour is to touch on issues such as the economic forces that make this sort of development viable, how these forces are changing/might change, energy consumption, the design of these landscapes – deliberately beautiful, the fact that these developments enable a great many people to appreciate these landscapes that would otherwise be the case, how do these developments display New Zealand/Otago particularity.
Landscapes of rural living: This tour touches on issues such as the economic sustainability of farming, the changing of economic conditions that sometimes mean it is no longer desirable, what people want when they choose to live in a rural landscape, tenure review of pastoral leases, how large stations can be sustainably managed into the future with existing/future economic conditions, etc
Landscapes of production: Issues touched on for this tour include the changing market forces through recent history that have led to changing productive use of the land and the resultant changing aesthetics, the part of nostalgia in landscape appreciation – should a landscape pattern be preserved because we grew up with it? The tour will illustrate how market forces determine productive land use and ultimately landscape appearance.
Landscapes of energy: Issues brought into this tour is the seemingly endless increase in energy demand and how this affects the appearance of landscapes, the consequences of flooding for hydro production – has produced amenities that were previously not there in some cases, do people perceive these lakes as natural? – often they seem to, does it matter whether they are natural or not?
Below are some “pictorial essay” where I was pictured more than once. Thank you NZILA!
introduction of new species
April 16, 2009A species is defined as introduced (also known as non-indigenous, alien or exotic) in a certain geographical area, if that area is outside the species’ native distributional range, and the species has arrived there by human activity. Introduced species sometimes are damaging to the ecosystem they are introduced into, others negatively affect agriculture and other human uses of natural resources or impact on the health of animals and humans.
There are many ways in which the introduction of non-native or exotic species negatively affects our environment and the diversity of life on our planet. But what would it mean on our moon or other planets? Sounds like the stuff science fictions are made of. Well, now the US Scientists are to grow brussel sprouts (my fav. by the way) on the moon!
According to telegraph.co.uk, the scientists (US scientists) are planning to grow hardy vegetables such as brussels sprouts on the Moon in an experiment to see if a future colony could produce its own food! Paragon Space Development Corporation in Arizona working with NASA unveiled plans to land mini-greenhouses on the moon. These little 1.5 ft tall greenhouses, capable of growing flowers and veges are designed to safely land a laboratory plant on the lunar surface, and protect it while it grows. They call the mini-greenhouse project, “Lunar Oasis”.
The miniature greenhouse is to be launched into space no earlier than 2012 by Odyssey Moon Ltd, a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize, which will reward any project which can launch, land and operate a rover on the lunar surface.
Read the whole article here.
Apparently, Paragon is very keen on developing other similar and very interesting projects that involve experiments of plants and plant-cycles elsewhere in the galaxy or right here on our earth. From their website;
Mars Greenhouse Experiment Module, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A sealed plant growth chamber designed for deployment on Mars. They have designed the plant growth chamber, including the atmospheric control system and a molecular-level mass balance and flow model for hydrogen, carbon and oxygen throughout the plants’ life cycles.
Closed Ecological Experiment Facility, Tokyo Engineering
Gas Control and Analysis system design for the Closed Ecological Experiment Facility (CEEF) in Japan. CEEF is a human-rated regenerative life support system with controlled plant growth chambers and an animal/human habitat.
Hot Art!
July 14, 2008The MLA1 ’10 Redhook projects from last semester will be showcased at the BWAC gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn July 26 – August 17 as a part of a larger “Hot! Red Hook Pier” exhibit!
We have yet to finish our full installment this week. Nevertheless, we did successfully manage to transport our “not-so-small” model upstairs to the gallery yesterday in the scorching sun. Thanks a ton to Kerry and Emma who worked as a team of two loading the truck and driving it all the way to Red Hook to meet up with Halina, Joe and I at the gallery. Much thanks also go to Ashley and Alexa…. and most of all to our friend Amy! I have no idea how she did it, but she single-handedly moved all the model pieces downstairs from CCAC.
Governer’s Island
July 7, 2008Our friend Halina took the benefit tour of the Governer’s Island along with Achva in June. Here are some photo documentations, thanks Halina!
NYASLA annual meeting
June 12, 2008NYASLA had its annual meeting this past Tuesday at the Center for Architecture, AIA New York Chapter. It was great to meet and hear the candidates who are running for various positions. I wonder if students can vote. I did get an opportunity to ask around, but no one is quite sure.
Here is the recap of the meeting in pictures:
CCNY Open Studio – recap
May 2, 2008Thanks for the photos Cristiane!
Amazonia-Brasil
May 2, 2008A great link from Cristiane! Thank you.
Ecotones @ Center for Architecture
May 2, 2008Thanks Heather!
A CCNY event – from Achva
April 30, 2008
