Project 2

Project 2 continues from Project 1 in exploring Australian Health Care Potentiality.

Follow link to Project 2
http://dab810-project2-dalepartridge.blogspot.com.au/

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"Individual Project One Statement"

Public Heath Care

The Australian public health care system, an institution that Australians take for granted and have enjoy for many years. However, this life giving service is under threat. Three indicators, Health Care costs as a % of GDP, Medical Care Inflation index (MCI) and average premiums of health insurance illustrate the severity of the problem.

Source: Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, Jesse Colombo

The MCI and average premiums of health insurance are statistics show that health care costs are growing at an unsustainable rate. Soon the availability of health care will only be to a select few how can afford it.

The MCI and average premiums of health insurance are statistics from America; however Australia does have a tendency to follow in its footsteps. The Australian statistic, Health Care Costs show a 100% increase in over a 30 year time frame illustrating we are going down the same path. 

The consequences are an increase in percentage of people who cannot afford private health cover. 

This and the increase in health care costs will cause the burden of the health care system to the Government to increase exponentially beyond what it will be able to afford.

Government Agenda

New technologies have come online that have the potential to minimise the Burden on the Government. Through the national implementation of the Nano-chip it has been advised that the burden will be all but eliminated and the potential for medical research capabilities that have not been seen to date. Therefore the government has made it a top priority to ensure the population accepts this new technology. Public health care is now conditional, to be eligible an individual needs to have adopted the Nano-chip.

Information and Research Capabilities

Nano-chip ability to integrate and de-fragmentation of Medical information, centralise information security and storage and real time medical data collection. Approved researchers will have access to complete real time data minimising costs, time, effectiveness and success rate of research projects. Centralise information security and management will increases national medical response rates to new diseases and medical problems.  This improved information can be used to improve the medical service to the public.

Heath Care Outcomes

The Nano-chip, this device will provide – proactive, predictive, personalised, preventative, participatory health care. This will lead to individual investment into good health and minimise costs of poor health. Nano-chip will mobile real time health care assessments, recommendations and treatments and life style advices to minimising health care on lifestyle and day to day activities.

Public Response
The potential for "pro" & "anti" technology groups to emerge is high. This could create a class based society of "haves" & "have nots". The dynamic of these two groups is unpredictable and the roles that they will play within society unknown.


Commercial Response
The motive for the Nano-chip to be adopted nationally is a political attempt to reduce the burden of the health care system on the government.  All changes create risks and opportunities, an no group is better at taking advantages of opportunities as commercial enterprise.

Virtual User Interface

ACTIVE LIFE ^TM have been developing new software for the for the nano-chip.

Cover-page of the Car Guide 23/08/2012

Nano-chip technology 2

There has been some resistance to adopting this new technology. 

These issues include 

• privacy concerns
• potential loss of the personal relationship developed with a personal or family GP
• reliability of a new system
• reliability of medical care
• greater reliance on technology as everything becomes digital
• data and information security
• risks and consequences or errors and mistake within the system.

Consequently attempts have been made to show the benefits of adopting the Nano-chip.

• historical statistics on medical errors from diagnosis, medication and operations and information showing how these can be improved with the Nano-chip.
• illustrations on how the doctor/patient experience is improved
• the establishment of the Medical Research Bureau, that monitors and assess population medical information in real time, this as many opportunities such as reduction in response time to flu epidemic, and greater and more complete information for research purposes will lead to greater medical understanding, medical break-troughs and cures 
• preventative capacity to improve health and reduce burden on health care system. resulting in reduction in waiting times.
• automatic administering of medication to minimise risks of human error and impact on lifestyle.

Levels of Change

Shearing Layers 

Blackboard Reading.

Explore the different layers of a building identified by their rate of change.

These rates of change play a big role in the construction of the building, 

the relationship between the different layers, and their interaction with people and society.

The relationship between these layers are similar to the different layers within society in terms of rate of change eg. pedestrians will respond to and avoid slower pedestrians, the same as bikes will ride around pedestrians rather than perestrains avoiding bikes. However is there is a lot of bikes using a particular path, pedestrians will leave space for them.  

Therefore the relations and dynamic interactions of society can be explored through layers of dynamics similar to buildings and insights into society can be found through understanding buildings and the relationship and attributes of their layers of change. (Not to be forgotten that built environment is a layer within society)

All this leads to the question: How does the rate of change and fluctuations of the built environment influence society and its layers?

Recorded Memories

Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone
by Martin Fackler
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

Touches on the issue of recollection and memory of events and disasters at the individual and community level.

At the individual level, memory has stated by Wikipedia (2012) is the recording of stimuli and emotional responses to those stimuli to be accessed at a later date. At the individual level memory has inherent meaning, however, memories fade over time.

At the community level memories can come in different forms such as stories, laws, cultural values and behaviours. Therefore memories are longer lasting; however, the meaning of the memory can be lost, underestimated or misunderstood over time.

It is due to this nature of memory that history has a habit of repeating itself.

To solve this problem the virtual world could recorded and
stored electronically memories and stream them back to you as required or planned.
Therefore important historical events, lessons and disasters will no longer be forgotten.


Wikipedia: Memory. Retrieved August 10, 2012, from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory

Architectural Journalism

Interactive Architecture!

Writing about architecture has always been a passion of mine. Form, details and aesthetics has always played a huge role in architectural expression, and it is through these that architecture has played such a beneficial role in organising and framing our social fabric.

 Now don't let us forget about function, it doesn't need to be even mentioned,

it goes without saying, utility is essential. 

Function is such a fundamental and basic requirement that Architecture has no need to address it, Architecture has more important issues to explore such as political and social implications and interpretations of form and aesthetics.

However, it is time to break this unwritten rule, since Dr. Cameron planted the seed of interactive architecture 2 years ago with his AI mechanical monstrosity which he claimed to be architecture, the  frenzy of the population to actuate their homes and other prominent buildings,  form and aesthetics has been thrown out the window.  Functionality is invaded everyone's minds to the extent that architectural form and aesthetics has been completely forgotten. My biggest fear is that due to this infestation, architecture and cultural values will be lost leading to the end of society as we know it.

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Nano-chip technology

Nano-chip technology, has only just been born, however the implications have already been felt.

Governments are encouraging citizens to adopt this new technology to eliminate the need for printed currency, physical ID cards (driver’s licences and bank cards). Nano-chip with eliminate the need for approximately half of the debilitated health-care system and all of the failing education system, the  infrastructure and support industries for these two sectors will be downsized accordingly. Altogether this will create huge savings for the already over taxed government budget.

Plugged in Minds

The Technology Gap

The divide between pro & anti technology groups has not stopped growing.
The question being asked is "How long can this keep going?".
There are huge benefits and costs involved in adopting technology.
And both sides of the debate have very valid argument for their position on the subject, however; as this political dialogue continues.
Technological advancement and implementations continue at escalating rates.
As society develops into a two class society, will the truce between them remain?

'Urban Form and Locality' by Hugh Barton

Reading URBAN FORM AND LOCALITY by Hugh Barton

Barton indicates due to the complexity of our social, political, economic structures, analysing and urban form planning can be quite difficult.

Barton discusses four dimensions of urban form

1) degree of dispersal or concentration
       Barton position is that concentration has greater advantages
       where as dispersal encourages further urbanisation of the countryside

2) degree of segregation or inter-mixture of urban activities 
        Barton states that local density plays a big part in the viability of different services and the scale of
        the services themselves (e.g. local school and regional hospital) as well as the level of diversity and
       density of mixed use

3) settlement density
       Barton argues for a density gradient that responds to arguments for high density adjacent public
       transport and issues of accessibility, and for low density in response to solar power, food, water and
       urban wildlife. This allows for density diversification to gain maximum benefit of both strategies, creating
       suburban variety

4) shape
     Barton argues for a compact linear form as this allows for density variety, high density along infrastructure
     such as water, transportation  while providing access to low density countryside, and services can
     distributed along public transport lines in local centre and major facilities clustered at nodes


These ideas provide a flexible and broad framework for analysing urban form, however; further work is
needed in developing framework for developing strategies for implementing these ideas

Archigram's 'Beyond Architecture'

Reading Archigram's 'Beyond Architecture', 


An interesting point was made on page 94:
Architecture should consider how human communities actually functioned and respond to the existing structure of the community and allow for this structure to development in positive ways
This points to the need to understanding the relationship between social structure and architecture and their ability to inform each other (in positive ways).


The Archigram's position was that relationship between social structure and architecture is dynamic so therefore argued for indeterminate architecture. This is a paradox as architecture is form. And form by its definition is defined.


This draws parallels with the BBC Documentary "Dangerous Knowledge" about 4 great thinkers whose obsessive pursuit of the deepest knowledge led them to madness and suicide. Such as:

George Cantor trying to prove his theories of infinity through the finite language of mathematical expression.  To further clarify: trying to explain non-logic with logic. and,

Bletchley Park died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.

Week 1 Notes

Project 1: Context

Lecture 1 Notes:

Architectural propostion needs to respond to climatic, cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, political, social and technological context. (blackboard)


Define Context: life style, threats, Finance, Food, (Week 1 Lecture)



Personal thoughts: 

life style

during the lecture single people were mentioned, the arguments to design smaller apartments for them in response to space limitations.

In the past the "family" was the standard social economic unit.

what is the social economic unit now and what will it be in the future?


Analysis/Study:
1) historical satistics:  number of singles as a ratio of the population
                                 marrige satistics
                                 devorce satistics

2) Historical social structure: tribal, socialist, individulalist.


3) Social connections, interactions and relationships in a varing social contexts

4) Find the current and historical definition of  the family/social unit.
   Explore possible future family/social unit.



Threats
Urban Resiliance, (personal and social value sustems compatability),
Governance, Government accountability

Communitcations
Attempt to sell story graphicly (shapshots) through a fictional character.
Character to be incorporated in snapshots