Due to the cancellation of the field trip this week I have had to re-jigg the schedule for the rest of the semester. I want to make sure that we fit in some further discussion of readings and some field trips as well as setting aside time for individual tutorials on your project work. This is my current proposal, although for weeks 9 and 10 I still need to get confirmation.
Week 8 / 21 Sept
Please look at the following readings, choosing one that you read in depth, being prepared to discuss in relation to the questions:
De Certeau, M. (1984) Spatial Stories. From The Practice of everyday life. Berkely: University of California Press. 115-130. (Start at page 117, end at new section on page 122)
1- List the attributes on place and the attributes of space in terms of De Certeau's analysis.
2- What do stories do in terms of places and spaces?
3- Summarise the difference between maps and itineraries.
4- De Certeau identifies an important historical change in mapping practices. What is this change, why did it occur and why does De Certeau think it is important?
Wortham-Galvin, B.D. (2008) Mythologies of placemaking. Places: forum of design for the public realm. Vol. 20, No. 1. 32-39
1- Wortham-Galvin suggests a number of motives for the enactment of place. What are these? Locate some visual material of examples. (Hint, think advertising.)
2- What does the term tabula rasa mean? Why is this an important concept in terms of the example of North America that this author discusses?
3- Why does Wotham-Galvin think that shared myths of place are powerful and important? Why does this have implications for virtual and technologically mediated places?
4- Summarise the critique of New Urbanism given in this article. Find two other discussions of New Urbanism, one from a founder
of it and one from another commentator. What are their views?
Abrams, J. & Hall, P. (Eds.). (2006). Where/Abouts. From Else/where: mapping new cartographies of networks and territories. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Design Institute.
1- What key aspects of maps and or mapping does this author(s) discuss?
2 -Why do they consider mapping to be an important process?
NB* When copying images/texts make sure you reference the source.
The second part of the class can be used for individual tutorials.
Week 9 / 28 Sept
Project Twin Stream field trip (tbc)
Planning students are going on their own trip and cannot come to this class so as its is a small group we will organise to travel by car or train.
Week 10 / 5 October
"Your Are Here: mapping Auckland" field trip Auckland Museum (tbc)
Week 11 / 12 October
Group meeting exhibition design followed by individual tutorials
Week 12 / Crit week no class
Week 14 Exhibition - details TBC
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Field Trip this week
Hi all,
just a reminder that we are going on a field trip for class this week. We will be starting early, meeting outside 26 Symonds Street at 8:50am. The Ritchies transport bus will take us all to the Corbans Estate Art Center in Henderson where we will be talking about Project Twin Streams. The bus will return us to the university by 12:00 midday.
just a reminder that we are going on a field trip for class this week. We will be starting early, meeting outside 26 Symonds Street at 8:50am. The Ritchies transport bus will take us all to the Corbans Estate Art Center in Henderson where we will be talking about Project Twin Streams. The bus will return us to the university by 12:00 midday.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Class next week, Wed 17 August
Hello all,
Thanks very much for your attendance and open mindedness in today's session. It's a big jump from reading philosophy on "place" one week to looking at effluent the next! We probably need to spend a little bit f time next week stitching these things together.
As you know we have had to delay the field trip until after mid semester break. I had suggested that next week (week 5) we would return to our usual class format, discussing the readings that we are yet to get to. However I have now realised that we WILL NOT have a formal class session in week week 6 as academic staff in the Tertiary Education Union will be on a one day strike. This includes me. (For further info on strike action please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kfcmUGHTk I expect that the university will also publish information for students via the web page).
Therefore I think its really important that we move your seminars forward so that you can work out if you are on track prior to the mid semester break. So be prepared next week to use 10 –15 mins of class time outlining your water mapping project. Look at the assignment in the course reader for a guide to what you should be talking about and showing. (Alex and Sally, I know that you will be missing this class, please email me to make a time for us three to meet separately.)
Next week we can also work out what you would all like to do in my absence for week 6. There are some options that I can put to you.
Ka kite
Kathy
Thanks very much for your attendance and open mindedness in today's session. It's a big jump from reading philosophy on "place" one week to looking at effluent the next! We probably need to spend a little bit f time next week stitching these things together.
As you know we have had to delay the field trip until after mid semester break. I had suggested that next week (week 5) we would return to our usual class format, discussing the readings that we are yet to get to. However I have now realised that we WILL NOT have a formal class session in week week 6 as academic staff in the Tertiary Education Union will be on a one day strike. This includes me. (For further info on strike action please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kfcmUGHTk I expect that the university will also publish information for students via the web page).
Therefore I think its really important that we move your seminars forward so that you can work out if you are on track prior to the mid semester break. So be prepared next week to use 10 –15 mins of class time outlining your water mapping project. Look at the assignment in the course reader for a guide to what you should be talking about and showing. (Alex and Sally, I know that you will be missing this class, please email me to make a time for us three to meet separately.)
Next week we can also work out what you would all like to do in my absence for week 6. There are some options that I can put to you.
Ka kite
Kathy
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Class next week, Wed 10 August
To confirm, the seminar class next week will take place in Building 110, the Thomas Building. This is at 3 Symonds Street, it is the concrete building over the road form the Music School. The entrance to the Thomas Building is on the old Government house side, the side facing away from Symonds Street.
We will meet in the Thomas Building foyer at 9:50. Clark Ehlers will then take us to the lecture room so YOU CANNOT BE LATE, or you will be lost and left behind . . .
The programme for the morning is:
10-11
Kiely McFarlane, PhD student in Geography
This presentation will draw on an understanding of the physical geography of New Zealand rivers, based on courses taught within the School of Environment, as well the experiences of Gary and his students with rivers (and river communities) in the Auckland region. It seeks to build an appreciation of the diversity and uniqueness of river ecosystems in Auckland and wider New Zealand. The conflicts that have arisen around these landscapes and the community level response to river degradation will be explored.
Dr Clark Ehlers, Centre for Microbial Innovation, School of Biological Sciences
Wastewater treatment processes and how it interconnects with other water bodies & different scales of operation
11-12
Clark will take us to his lab where we will have a basic water microbiology lab (mostly around microscopy work looking at stream biofilms, sludge samples, petri dishes etc).
See you all there
Kathy
We will meet in the Thomas Building foyer at 9:50. Clark Ehlers will then take us to the lecture room so YOU CANNOT BE LATE, or you will be lost and left behind . . .
The programme for the morning is:
10-11
Kiely McFarlane, PhD student in Geography
This presentation will draw on an understanding of the physical geography of New Zealand rivers, based on courses taught within the School of Environment, as well the experiences of Gary and his students with rivers (and river communities) in the Auckland region. It seeks to build an appreciation of the diversity and uniqueness of river ecosystems in Auckland and wider New Zealand. The conflicts that have arisen around these landscapes and the community level response to river degradation will be explored.
Dr Clark Ehlers, Centre for Microbial Innovation, School of Biological Sciences
Wastewater treatment processes and how it interconnects with other water bodies & different scales of operation
11-12
Clark will take us to his lab where we will have a basic water microbiology lab (mostly around microscopy work looking at stream biofilms, sludge samples, petri dishes etc).
See you all there
Kathy
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Reading week 3: What is place anyway?
Please make the effort to do the reading ahead of the class. This week we have:
Casey (history of place as a philosophical concept)
Calvino (a short excerpt from a short novel, you can all read this as well as another text)
De Certeau (a philosopher thinking about the difference between space and place)
Entrikin (thinking about place in relation to other spatial and regional concepts in geography)
Wortham-Galvin (a critic looking at ideas of place-making)
Question of the week for all!
From the author you are reading what are the key characteristics defining "place"?
Also: remember to send me your blog address.
Casey, E. S. (1998) Disappearing places, from The fate of place, a philosophical history. Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, ix-xv
1- Identify some reasons why Casey believes that the idea of place has been hidden in philosophical discourse, both historically and in more recent times. (your should find at least 4).
2- What does Casey mean by the term universalism? Give an example. Why is this detrimental to place based thinking?
3- Casey says that disruption to a place, in the aftershock, can bring about "a revitalized sensitivity to place". He gives the possibility of nuclear annihilation as an example. Can you think of some historical examples where this new sensitivity to place might have occurred in this way?
4- Casey says that even the 'virtual' can provide elements of a place based experience, and can make us feel 'in place' though physically distant. Think of a virtual experience that you frequently have (online banking / computer gaming / using mobile phone) and analyse it in terms of providing a place based experience.
Calvino, Italo. (1972) Invisible Cities. Harcourt, Orlando Florida. 10-11, 88-89
All read and answer question of week!
De Certeau, M. (1984) Spatial Stories. From The Practice of everyday life. Berkely: University of California Press. 115-130. (Start at page 117, end at new section on page 122)
1- List the attributes on place and the attributes of space in terms of De Certeau's analysis.
2- What do stories do in terms of places and spaces?
3- Summarise the difference between maps and itineraries.
4- De Certeau identifies an important historical change in mapping practices. What is this change, why did it occur and why does De Certeau think it is important?
Entriken, J. N. (1991). Chapter 2 The Betweeness of Place. From The Betweeness of Place. London: Macmillan. 6-26
1-What is the difficulty does Entriken identify with a 'scientific' point of view of place?
2-Describe the two opposing positions for viewing place that Entriken describes.
3- On page 11 Entriken uses the term "semantic density". He gives Jonestown and Chernobyl as examples. Think of another example.
4- Under the section Specificity Entriken discussed the unique view of place and the fused view of place. Summarise these ideas.
5- What useful synthesis does Entriken see narrative as having the potential to do?
Wortham-Galvin, B.D. (2008) Mythologies of placemaking. Places: forum of design for the public realm. Vol. 20, No. 1. 32-39
1- Wortham-Galvin suggests a number of motives for the enactment of place. What are these? Locate some visual material of examples. (Hint, think advertising.)
2- What does the term tabula rasa mean? Why is this an important concept in terms of the example of North America that this author discusses?
NB* When copying images make sure you reference the source.
Casey (history of place as a philosophical concept)
Calvino (a short excerpt from a short novel, you can all read this as well as another text)
De Certeau (a philosopher thinking about the difference between space and place)
Entrikin (thinking about place in relation to other spatial and regional concepts in geography)
Wortham-Galvin (a critic looking at ideas of place-making)
Question of the week for all!
From the author you are reading what are the key characteristics defining "place"?
Also: remember to send me your blog address.
Casey, E. S. (1998) Disappearing places, from The fate of place, a philosophical history. Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, ix-xv
1- Identify some reasons why Casey believes that the idea of place has been hidden in philosophical discourse, both historically and in more recent times. (your should find at least 4).
2- What does Casey mean by the term universalism? Give an example. Why is this detrimental to place based thinking?
3- Casey says that disruption to a place, in the aftershock, can bring about "a revitalized sensitivity to place". He gives the possibility of nuclear annihilation as an example. Can you think of some historical examples where this new sensitivity to place might have occurred in this way?
4- Casey says that even the 'virtual' can provide elements of a place based experience, and can make us feel 'in place' though physically distant. Think of a virtual experience that you frequently have (online banking / computer gaming / using mobile phone) and analyse it in terms of providing a place based experience.
Calvino, Italo. (1972) Invisible Cities. Harcourt, Orlando Florida. 10-11, 88-89
All read and answer question of week!
De Certeau, M. (1984) Spatial Stories. From The Practice of everyday life. Berkely: University of California Press. 115-130. (Start at page 117, end at new section on page 122)
1- List the attributes on place and the attributes of space in terms of De Certeau's analysis.
2- What do stories do in terms of places and spaces?
3- Summarise the difference between maps and itineraries.
4- De Certeau identifies an important historical change in mapping practices. What is this change, why did it occur and why does De Certeau think it is important?
Entriken, J. N. (1991). Chapter 2 The Betweeness of Place. From The Betweeness of Place. London: Macmillan. 6-26
1-What is the difficulty does Entriken identify with a 'scientific' point of view of place?
2-Describe the two opposing positions for viewing place that Entriken describes.
3- On page 11 Entriken uses the term "semantic density". He gives Jonestown and Chernobyl as examples. Think of another example.
4- Under the section Specificity Entriken discussed the unique view of place and the fused view of place. Summarise these ideas.
5- What useful synthesis does Entriken see narrative as having the potential to do?
Wortham-Galvin, B.D. (2008) Mythologies of placemaking. Places: forum of design for the public realm. Vol. 20, No. 1. 32-39
1- Wortham-Galvin suggests a number of motives for the enactment of place. What are these? Locate some visual material of examples. (Hint, think advertising.)
2- What does the term tabula rasa mean? Why is this an important concept in terms of the example of North America that this author discusses?
3- Why does Wotham-Galvin think that shared myths of place are powerful and important? Why does this have implications for virtual and technologically mediated places?
4- Summarise the critique of New Urbanism given in this article. Find two other discussions of New Urbanism, one from a founder of it and one from another commentator. What are their views?NB* When copying images make sure you reference the source.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Reading week 2, 2011
Allen, S. (2000). Mapping the unmappable, on notation. From Practice, architecture, technique and representation. London and New York: Routledge. Pg 31- 45
1: What does Allen mean when he says that architectural drawing is instrumental?
2: What change in the literary descriptions of the city does Steven Marcus note, and why is this relevant to Allen's argument?
3: What is the main argument that Allen is making?
4: Suggest some areas, topics, or relations that could be mapped in relation to water in Auckland that would include aspects of anticipation, invisibility and time as discussed by Allen.
Cosgrove, D. (2006) Carto-city in Abrams, J. & Hall, P. (Eds.). Else/where: mapping new cartographies of networks and territories. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Design Institute. 148-157
1: Cosgrove says that urban maps, "continue to control the daily lives of citizens through zoning ordinances, zip codes, and the myriad territorial regulations that shape daily life". Locate, and bring to class, at least 5 maps of Auckland city that operate in this way and explain how they operate in Cosgrove's terms.
2: Radial axis and the grid. Cosgrove mentions Versaille, Rome and Paris as radial axis cities and Greek colonies of the Mediterranean, imperial Chinese cities and modern American cities as being based on the grid. Locate some historical maps of Auckland, and bring to class. Are they radial or grid? Find other examples of radial and grid cities.
3: Locate and bring a copy of Charles L'Enfant's map of Washington, DC. and describe it in Cosgrove's terms to the class and compare to the map of Auckland from number 2.
4: Take a look at Braun and Hegenberg's city maps from Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1570). (Click here for good res versions). Find a copy of Turgot's 1739 Plan de Paris. Using these describe the visual differences that Cosgrove identifies. Why are these differences important?
In relation to pg 1 See Wikipedia on redlining
Questions for Corbellini, G. (2006). Diagrams, instructions for use. Lotus International (127), 88-95.
- What is the panopticon? (Locate an image)
- Make a list of the functional attributes of the diagram as discussed by this author.
- Is a map a diagram? Yes - why? No-why?
- What are the differences that this author describes between a compositional approach and a diagrammatic approach to design?
NB* When copying images remember to reference the source.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Thinking about place / mapping gardens in Montreal
Place as assemblage: Montreal Garden Mapping
Abstract
This paper borrows Manual De Landa’s assemblage theory, an elastic schema of society, to consider places as dynamic and extroverted entities, made up of spatial, social and material component parts. The paper also discusses the potential of mapping as an operational practice championed in Landscape Urbanism to harness the dynamic qualities of place for making design. Then follows a description and discussion of Montreal Garden Mapping, a project for the 2010 Arts and Cartography Workshop: Mapping Environmental Issues in the City. In this project a landscape urbanist approach to mapping was engaged to map the municipal gardens of Montreal against De Landa’s assemblage schema, in order to unfold some of the spatial, social and material component parts and contingent relations of the Montreal place assemblage.
Kathy Waghorn, The University of Auckland
To be published in a forthcoming book (as me if you would like a draft copy).
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
waitemata to manukau
A 16km walk North to South across the isthmus of Tamaki Makaura Auckland. Starting at the Waitemata Harbour and finishing at the Manukau, photographing East and West approximately every 500m.
Friday, February 25, 2011
waitemata to manukau by kathywag at Garmin Connect - Details
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Visualisation of Auckland's public transport
An animated map of Auckland's public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo.
read about this on http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10700893
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
New blog to look at
Fields is a collaborative space where ideas and projects involving places, memories and people are shared. Fields is made up of researchers within ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) who examine subjects such as digital technologies, urban planning and social architecture.
Click
Click
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
DavidMcCandless: Visualising Information
This is a really fantastic exploration of the ways is which data visualisation (such as maps) can make us see new relationships between things.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Assignment 1 / part A
Fieldwork: the RWC walking route mapping project
Just a reminder that the due date for this has changed. This part of the assignment is due and will be presented on Friday October 1. This will be a discussion of your projects with the Ahi Kaa project team, including staff from Auckland Museum and design staff and students from Unitec School of Design.
Just a reminder that the due date for this has changed. This part of the assignment is due and will be presented on Friday October 1. This will be a discussion of your projects with the Ahi Kaa project team, including staff from Auckland Museum and design staff and students from Unitec School of Design.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Seminar schedule
We have made a schedule for your 10 min seminars, remember that these are more like workshops, use the time to test out your ideas with the class. We will start brainstorming mapping possibilities in the second part of this weeks class. If I have missed anyone out please get in touch with me.
Friday 20 August
Joseph C
Marion
Jae Yong
Jae In
In Hye
Sommer
Linda
Chelsea
Friday 27 August
Bhavina
Angus
Ruby
Divya
Chloe
Renee
Lucia
Friday 20 August
Joseph C
Marion
Jae Yong
Jae In
In Hye
Sommer
Linda
Chelsea
Friday 27 August
Bhavina
Angus
Ruby
Divya
Chloe
Renee
Lucia
REading week 3: Making data visual
Please choose a text from Abrams & Hall, Corner or Treib.
The two questions for all are -
What key aspects of maps and or mapping does this author(s) discuss?
Why do they consider mapping to be an important process?
Bring your notes to class (and last week's also)
The two questions for all are -
What key aspects of maps and or mapping does this author(s) discuss?
Why do they consider mapping to be an important process?
Bring your notes to class (and last week's also)
Notes from the Corbellini Text
We were discussing the differences between operating compositionally and diagrammatically as described by Corbellini :
"compositionist" / "diagrammatician"
plastic / infrastructural
formal / operational
representative / performative
tectonic / virtual
object oriented / process oriented
specific / inter-disciplinary
tangible / conceptual
paradigm / programme
talent / ideas
tactical / strategic
"compositionist" / "diagrammatician"
plastic / infrastructural
formal / operational
representative / performative
tectonic / virtual
object oriented / process oriented
specific / inter-disciplinary
tangible / conceptual
paradigm / programme
talent / ideas
tactical / strategic
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