Thursday, 26 July 2012

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

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