base map feedback

what the class pinned up on wednesday 28-03-12 was totally unacceptable.
the maps were flat and didn’t tell or say anything at all -- there was a lack of a narrative and continuity.
they were not even 1 dimensional and at this academic level, sub par.
to know more + help unpack the complexity people have to read + do some basic research to go beyond mapping.
another thing is that the library isn’t utilized sufficiently + efficiently.
look up sdf and see how maps are done.
a lot of work goes into a map and it’s not something that can be done last minute.

see these for references . . .
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/sdf/pages/southerndistrictplan.aspx
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/sdf/publishingimages/southern_apr2011/subdistrict%201_s.jpg
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/sdf/publishingimages/southern_apr2011/emf_zone_h_cultural_new_insets_s.jpg
http://www.joburg-archive.co.za/2004/budget/ch8.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spatial_analysis
on how to construct a map, with legend et al . . .
these are a drop in an ocean of how maps are articulated.

get vigorous and invest significant time in articulating [graphically + textually] the concepts you are attempting to deal + grasp.
print, read and try, as best as you can, to understand bill hillier’ paper on the city – http://www.palgrave-journals.com/udi/journal/v7/n3/pdf/9000082a.pdf
another things is that students don’t seem to be reading through the course outline, which neil oh-so-graciously + sagaciously-put-together, which covers all the layers required in fine great detail.
this might also help in graphically refining the argument – http://ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/scdg/docs/position/roche-position-paper.pdf

this demonstrates how different maps are illustrated – http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=drawing+urban+design+spatial+maps&view=detail&id=a8698b9c7484fe187e5efd2118260326718fff1a&first=91&form=idfrir
click on any on the maps to get a detailed rendering of the subject matter like here – http://www.except.nl/present/systemmaps/images/space_maasterras_transport_spacemap.jpg


the main thing is to get drawing, to think by doing + production.

wednesday 21 march 2012

due to a lack
of interest
there will be no
class on wednesday
the day of the
public holiday.

INFRASTRUCTURE OF SOCIAL SPACES ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

Urban-Think Tank is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. Alfredo Brillembourg will be presenting as a founding partner of U-TT, jointly invited by the School Talk series of the Wits School of Architecture and Planning, and the Faces of the City seminar series hosted by CUBES, Gauteng City Region Observatory and NRF Chair in Development Planning and Modelling Programme. This invitation reflects a shared interest in, and commitment to re-working the city, through interactions between progressive social change, strategic thinking, and creative design and building, with a particular focus on Johannesburg.
Alfredo Brillembourg completed a Master of Science in Architectural Design in 1986 at Columbia University, and a degree in architecture from the Central University of Venezuela in 1992. In 1993 he founded Urban- Think Tank (U-TT) in Caracas, an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner. Since May 2010, Brillembourg has held the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) Zürich in Switzerland.
The respondent will be Zahira Asmal, Director of Designing_SouthAfrica.
INFRASTRUCTURE OF SOCIAL SPACES
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG
URBAN-THINK TANK
SCHOOL TALKS
06 03 2012 16:00 -18:00
A1 JOHN MOFFAT BLDG