time and venue for tomorrow, tuesday 16 feb

Date: 16/02/2010
Time: 14h00-16h00
Venue: 2nd floor for Planning, CadLab Room 229

tuesday 16 feb

there will be a literacy
intro to urban design
from 14:00 to 16:00
please make sure you attend
will post the venue
as soon as its been booked.

The representation of social space: mapping the city
The aim here is to offer a diverse account of the city, primarily through a process of ‘mapping’. The intention is to describe how space can be constructed through a series of networks and relational systems and then go on to explore the different ways in which these spaces are revealed in film, visual images, music, architecture, audio + text.

Economic and cultural [dis]enterprise and [un] developments have made a real and strong change to the landscape of Yeoville. But whilst these [un]developments generally bode well for a certain sector's economic growth, there is a danger that the memory and reality of historical spaces are erased in favour of the new + recently emergent physical and psychological constructions.

How we document and archive these changes is a challenge for all those involved with research and necessarily bound up with notions of value and ownership.

below is the greater site

yeoville: proclaimed in 1890

bellevue: proclaimed in 1889

bellevue east: proclaimed in 1889

http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za/

this is an interesting blog where one gets all kind of views
http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/2006/07/visit-to-yeoville.html

site

Open City: Designing Coexistence

In an age when migration is changing the face of many cities, when mass mobility and communication are altering our perception of distance and difference, when individualism has become a driving force of social life, the Open City is a tenuous notion. As our cities grow and diversify, the question is no longer if we want to live together, but how to live together - how to share the resources and opportunities cities offer.
http://www.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/program/publications.php

COURSE PROGRAMME

date Topic Research
04 February Briefing Spatial Vocabulary
11 February Site Visit
18 February Seminar Presentation1 Recording Techniques
25 February Seminar Presentation 2 Themes*
04 March Seminar Presentation 3 Themes*
25 March Seminar Presentation 4 Themes*
01 April Seminar Presentation 5 Themes*
14 April Seminar Presentation 6 Matrix
08 April Seminar Presentation 7 Matrix
15 April Seminar Presentation 8 Matrix
22 April Seminar Presentation 9 Matrix
29 April Seminar Presentation 10 Masterplan
07 May Seminar Presentation 11 Dictionary
10May-04June Take Home Test