Grades

Hej!
I've just sent your grades to the adresses you use in this blog. If you didn't get a messages please send me an e-mail.

See you,
Take care

Sabina

Mission completed or project supplementation

You all recived a message to the e-mail adress you used for this blog to know if you have supplementations.

You will recive further information and your grades to the same adress.

Thank you for a nice project,
We hope you'll like to complete the exhibition and we will inform you when we are launching the printed version of the project.

Presentation, evaluation and exhibition

Presentation
Thursday is presentation day. Gunilla Lindholm and (Tiina Sarap) will be the external critics. The schedule is posted below. As always we have a tight schedule so please, be precise in your presentation. We have 20 minutes per group, but quite many breaks, so if a discussion is to interesting, I’m sure we will be able to finish it. Sabina has promised to be a very orderly timer, though!

Cocktail hour
After the presentation – at 16.00 - the course management will provide you with drinks and snacks, so please don’t book something else right afterwards!

Evaluation
Friday morning, 10.00 – 12.00 we will have a common course evaluation. It will be done digitally in Spiltan and Stallet (in the library) Sabina will supervise it. Handing in the evaluation is compulsory and a must for passing the course. We are of course eager to hear your opinions, critique and ideas for improving the course!

Exhibition
We would like the course process and results to be visible to the rest of the school. Therefore, we would like you to print you presentations and other material and place it in the corridor on Friday afternoon. Don’t think about this before Friday – just focus on your presentations! More details on how to place you material on the walls will follow! Make sure that all your material is nicely organized and placed in the o-vision map at Lerbert.

300 kr
Please bring 300 kr, as we agreed will be the administrative costs for this course, to pay to Sabina at friday.

Grading
Gunilla, Sabina and Fredrik will meet and grade all foreign students. Swedish students can also be graded if that is a whish. Please mail one of us in that case.

NEW --Thursday's schedule -- NEW

09.00 INTRODUCTION

09.20 A Productive Landscape
09.40 Regional Village Urban Extension

10.00 – 10.20 PAUSE

10.20 Space Hunters
10.40 World Wide Water

11.00 – 11.20 PAUSE

11.20 Little Denmark
11.40 Brain Gain

12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH

13.00 The Station City of Tomorrow
13.20 Path Planning

13.40 – 14.00 PAUSE

14.00 Fresh Breeze for the Region
14.20 Bike Region

14.40 – 15.00 PAUSE

15.00 Enjoy the Landscape
15.20 Mall Rats

15.40 – 16.00 SUM UP

Hi,

at Calmers in Gothenburg I attended a number of inspiaring lectures yesterday - all in the topic of gender and architecture. Here are some tips!

Katarina Bonnevier - "Behind straight curtains" (will be released in pocket in a few weeks)

Camilla Andersson - "Abnorm" (final theses where the image below is taken from)http://www.arkitekturmuseet.se/utstallningar/abnorm/slutpres_A1.pdf

/liv

YIMBY and BANANA

While searching for definitions of different planning expresions, I stumbeled across theese words related to NIMBY. Check it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIMBY

Henrik

Notice our schedual

Notice our schedual

Monday
05-mar
UP-BEAT Gunilla Lindholm
09.00-10.00
sal 107
(no Fredrik)

Tuesday
06-mars
Fredrik and Sabina are at Hyllan

Wednesday
07-mar
10.00-12.oo
Agricum Economi
Mijan Lööf, "Agenda 21 is great! What do we do next"
13.00-14.30
Sal 107
Jesper Meijling, "Everything fluid becomes solid"

Thursday
08-mar
PIN-UP internal discussion
09.00-16.00
Hyllan

A shift in perspective

The Öresund region has the potential for a multi-layered landscape. We have the cities that offer cultural productivity, recreation, intellectual development opportunities and good connections. The countryside offers healthy lifestyle, good agricultural production, potential for recreation, and production of goods. Is that all? Could these things be mixed? Cultural production and technological innovation in the countryside, urban agriculture and a farm park in the cities. Recreation accessible and everywhere! A shift in perspective.
What if we measure the territory in productivity? What would this look like? We used new categories to measure productivity instead of only economic gain. Use all that you can get from a portion of territory but in a sustainable and efficient way.

/Susana, Kate & Liv

Thinking Outside the Box

"Mallrats"

We're exploring the dark side of consumerism, which would be the planning and architecture.
We have been looking at how the Öresund Region will deal with population growth in the future, as pressures increase on infrastructure and services to the public. We think the edges of urban areas are key points for this growth, which makes shopping centers a great place to start.
The shopping center today plays an important role in people’s daily lives. It is used for shopping, leisure and as a meeting place. However, the planning of shopping centers currently creates many challenges to make future growth in the region more sustainable. It is our goal to come up with a future plan that is both sustainable and innovative.

group-www: futurecity-saltholm

hallo!

we have splitted up now into 2 different groups. we are still 1 group, but we develop 2 differential scenarios/visions for a rising seelevel (because of the climate change) in the oresundregion.

maggy and me are working on the vision `futurecity-Saltholm´. if the seelevel would rise 1 meter, this island between denmark and sweden would be flooded. we want to create there something like venice. a new city/livingspace for swedish and danish people. it should be a sustainable idea of creating a new city: it will probably include sustainable means of transport, protected areas and recreationareas, and so on.
we started with an analysis of the island ( size, ground level, animals, ...) and to find out information about sustainable urban structur.
our idea won´t be 100 % realistic but it should be an idea/ vision of how it could look like in about 100 years.


We (Karolina and Sara) are working with Falsterbo, which is one of the areas that will be worst damaged by higher sea levels. We work with a more realistic and protecting suggestion.

Skanör- Falsterbo has both valuable small scale residential areas, nature reserves and beautiful beaches that we consider to be very important to the region. With an increased water level of 1 m more than half of the area will be flooded. In some areas the problem is already a fact and something has to be done very soon.

Our strategy is to analyse the area with SWOT-analysis and then go deeper into analysing the values that exist and will disappear with increased water levels.

We will go on with the analysis of Falsterbo and then focus on how to protect Falsterbo from floods without loosing the identity of the area.

Identity – deconstruction – new identity?

see you tomorrow, or today in magasinet..we will be there today very very very long, because we have much work.

with love from www-group

Hi, me and Matilda are now working on graphic style of homepages about countryside tourism. One of our page topic is "You are exotic enough". We found some information about Japanese tourist and made poster with graph.

Spacehunters

SWOT

Please take some time to post the reflexions you hade while SWOT analyzing as comments to this post.

Thanks!

Notice our schedual

Thursday
01-mar
PIN-UP Discussion, Ewa Westermark, Jan Gehl Architects
09.00-16.00
Ateljén

Monday
05-mar
UP-BEAT Gunilla Lindholm
09.00-10.00
sal 107


Wednesday
07-mar
Jesper Meijling, "Everything fluid becomes solid"
13.00-16.00

Thursday
08-mar
PIN-UP internal discussion
09.00-16.00
Hyllan

PIN-UP, Discussion Thursday the 1st of mars

09.00 INTRODUCTION

09.20 PATH PLANNING - Jenny, Tina
09.40 REGIONAL VILLAGES URBAN EXTENSIONS - Helena, Johanna

10.00-10.20 PAUS

10.20 RAIL TRAFFIC ON THE GO - Elin, Christina, Oscar
10.40 LITTLE DENMARK - Peder, Niklas

11.00-11.20 PAUS

11.20 VIEWING FROM THE OTHER SIDE - Liga, Rosie, Marketta, Claire
11.40 BRAIN GAIN - Clara, Barbi, Rita

12.00-13.00 LUNCH

13.00 PRODUCTIVE TERRITORIES - Katie, Susana, Liv
13.20 THE EVOLUTION OF SHOPPING CENTRES - Esbjörn, Laura, Suzie

13.40-14.00 PAUS

14.00 IN MY BACKYARD - Nora, Gunnar, Henrik
14.20 WWW - Sara, Karolina, Maggie, Julia

14.40-15.00 PAUS

15.00 SPACE HUNTERS - Andrea, Matilda
15.20 THE FRESH BREEZE FOR THE REGION - Hanna, Katerina, Linnea

15.40-16.00 SUM UP


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Pairs of groups discussing each others projects:

PATH PLANNING - RAIL TRAFFIC ON THE GO

REGIONAL VILLAGES URBAN EXTENSIONS - LITTLE DENMARK

VIEWING FROM THE OTHER SIDE - THE EVOLUTION OF SHOPPING CENTRES

BRAIN GAIN - PRODUCTIVE TERRITORIES

IN MY BACKYARD - THE FRESH BREEZE FOR THE REGION

WWW - SPACE HUNTERS

Some things about the future

First I'd like to say that I'm really impressed what you came up with last friday. I hope that you also saw your projects from a different angle by laying out your information in a readable way!

Since information hasn't really been the strongest part of my appearance in this course I'd like to remind you that the following three presentations will be on thursdays instead of the usual fridays:

Next thursday [1 march] will be an external presentation with invited critic Ewa Westermark from Jan Gehl architects in Copenhagen. You may present as you whish, with paper material/models or a digital presentation. Just be precise and clear! We will return with a schedule next week.

Thursday 8 march will be an internal presentation. Let's call it a talk. The objective of this talk is to help you organize your material before the final presentation.

Thursday 15 march is the final presentation. Every group should make a digital presentation, but you can also present additional material in the form of models, sketches etc.

See you tomorrow at 10 for Johannes Pedersens lecture!

report form the europe group

Hej everybody!

We are finishing our posters for tommorow.
We tryed to make a clear statement what our group is working on.
This week we focused on our diffenrent topics within the group and stopped searching on the internet. Now everyone has her own topic to work on it.

Claire, Liga, Marketa, Rosi

Sustainable?

Hi there!

So what is sustainability and is there different types or degrees of sustainability?

Well I thought about building a transport system that is sustainable in that way it produces energy in the same time as it uses it. Anyway, it looks brilliant I think!

Snow outside... stay inside or go racing downhill?

Cheers!

Esbjorn

PIN-UP Friday 23 of feb

9.00 BRAIN GAIN - Clara, Barbi, Rita
9.15 THE EVOLUTION OF SHOPPING CENTRES - Esbjörn, Laura, Suzie
9.30 PRODUCTIVE TERRITORIES - Katie, Susana, Liv
9.45 THE FRESH BREEZE FOR THE REGION - Hanna, Katerina, Linnea
10.00-10.15 PAUS

10.15 WWW - Sara, Karolina, Maggie, Julia
10.30 RAIL TRAFFIC ON THE GO - Elin, Christina, Oscar
10.45 REGIONAL VILLAGES URBAN EXTENSIONS - Helena, Johanna

11.00 PATH PLANNING - Jenny, Tina
11.15-11.30 PAUS

11.30 VIEWING FROM THE OTHER SIDE - Liga, Rosie, Marketta, Claire
11.45 IN MY BACKYARD - Nora, Gunnar, Henrik
12.00 LITTLE DENMARK - Peder, Niklas
12.15 SPACE HUNTERS - Andrea, Matilda

Cancelled

Hi
Jeppe Aagaard Andersens lesson is cancelled today. It will probably be resceduled 14 or 15 March.


//Jenny and Tina

How Big is a wind power station?





We took a trip in the surrounding area too get an idea of size and sound of a power mill. There are several stations near Lund.


From afar they are beautiful and almost elegant. When we got near the mill it felt a little frightening, they are really huge and felt somewhat scary!


But the sound was comparable with the one from ski lifts, that was a positive knowledge because of the rumours that the noise are disturbing.

/The breeze

PIN-UP 23 of feb visualizing sketching

This is not a big pin-up.

It is a way to put focus on visual comunication since we noticed that several groups didn't work with visual sketching.

6A3 Doesn't mean that you should make posters for presentation, if you are in a sketching stage, this is what you will put on your posters. Let the posters show that you are in an elastic stage where you're still searching.

We have had questions on how projects can be visualized to comunicate more direct and think it can be an oportunity to focus this pin-up around this.

This way we can secure an even more consecvent presentation the 1 of mars when we will have external guests.

Hopefully all projects will benifit from the discussions that your posters may start.

/Fredrik and Sabina

Study trip in Scania

Working with the train infrastructure and the living situation in some smaller towns and villages in the region we decided to take a study trip out in the landscape of Scania. We decided to take a drive where we think that the railway can develop and to investigate the towns/villages next to it.

We went from Lund through Hurva, Hörby, Tollarp, down to Tomelilla where we had some time for some shopping at Bo Olsson. We continued back to Lund driving through Sjöbo, Veberöd and Dalby. It is truly amazing how the landscape varies in Scania and how we always seems to forget this from time to time. Along this trip we found some places that we will continue to work with. Hurva is one of the places that we immediately found very interesting and will take a closer look at. We also found that all these villages that we visited had so much more to offer than we thought...you learn something new every day. Our spirits are up and it will be exiting to see where this will lead us in the project.

One of the architectural highlights of the day was this "korvkiosk" in Tomelilla...nice don't you think!?

Helena & Johanna

PIN-UP friday 23 of feb 9.00-13.00 at hyllan

"When image says more then words..."

This Pin-up will focus on visual communication and informative images.

Imagine we lived in a world without words (or that you just would like to compress meaning into non verbal information). Images can communicate as well as text, but off cause it is a skill to handle them.

“We have spent the last 100 years inventing less demanding, less time-consuming alternatives to reading: radio, TV, movies, video games, the internet and now mobile phones that can take and send pictures…we are following the advice of a million symbols, signs and logotypes. There’s a symbol that stands for something every where you look.”

“World Without Words” by Michael Evamy

Try to visualize your thinking.

Make 6 A3 posters (laying format), where text and images communicate as image, explaining what you have done and what you already think you will do but haven’t done yet. Use your knowledge about layout and narratives to express the main intensions and important details, than if necessary ad explaining text.

Place your posters at a table, (three lying posters side by side in two rows), at Hyllan Thursday afternoon.

All groups may attend all presentations.

Juan Carlos Peirone, teaching applied aesthetics, will be our guest.

Last week...

...was kind of non-productive, but very creative. Lots of surfing the internet, lots of coffee and talking. Sketching and writing; not so much.

Results from the surfing sessions and a bonus for you guys, check out these pretty cool links:


www.polarinertia.com
This is a site with photocollections with names like "urban deserts", "berlin wall graphics" or "Tijuana storefronts". Lot's of interesting and surreal urban imagery.


www.mic-ro.com/metro/
This site has lots of nice images and info of Subways in various cities. Even some from Stockholm and Copenhagen.


www.m-city.org
A street art group making murals and graffiti based on stencils around Europe. Pretty neat stuff!


Well, maybe not the most planning oriented links you could find, but at least urban oriented..
/Peder Pants

watergroup

After a discussion with frederic-fan we decided to narrow down the project a little and focus on:
how the oresund region will be affected by the future climate change and the increased water level.
with these scenarios in mind we will look further into how we can make use of the increased water level to improve the regions possibilities for recreation and outdoor life.
the oresund region has potential to profile it self as a `health region´ but it has to improve and develop the blue and green structure. (we want to create new landscapes in the border between water and land ...trough this we want to create a better accessibility to the water element and develop these areas in to high quality recreational areas.
our idea so far is to develop the possibles future water barriers outside the coastline into not only barriers but recreational places. the integrate land and water in the waterscape and in the landscape.

vision:
to help the oresund region be prepared for the effects of the climate change. the make use of and develop new areas that will be an asset to the region.

wish you all a nice weekend..
julia and her watergroup

Pin-up Friday

Hello!

Here's the time schedule for tomorrow:

0900 Elin, Christina, Oscar
0920 Peder, Niklas
0940 Andrea, Matilda

1000 Hanna, Katerina, Linnea
1020 Clara, Barbi, Rita
1040 Katie, Susana, Liv

1100 Liga, Rosie, Marketta, Claire
1120 Esbjörn, Laura, Suzie
1140 Nora, Gunnar, Henrik

1300 Sara, Karolina, Maggie, Julia
1320 Jenny, Tina
1340 Helena, Johanna

Please note that since you only have 20 minutes per group, prepare what you wan't to say and how to phrase it. And remember that you can explain a lot using images and diagrams, not just words!

Mud and forest and recreation

We are looking into the recreation in central and north eastern Skåne. The places you can go are very nice, but are not very well known. It´s also easily accessed. We went there yesterday to check it out. Maybe we came there out of season, because it was muddy and deserted. We also tried Skånes Djurpark. There were some visitors (lots of danes and some polish). We didn´t enter though, because it was expensive (140 SEK!!!). Instead, we left Höör for Lund and on the way we stopped by Flyinge and saw some horses in MUD and a stork. In mud.

So, now we´re eager to get started with recreation in the region.

Gunnar, Henrik and Nora

Our status and the pin up

We are continuing working with our project, that is going to be a book. We have slightly shifted focus, and are now not working so much with the ecological focus. Instead we have folmulated some aspects that effect sustainability and good development. These aspects are to found some sketches or ideas, presented in various scale and detailing. These will function as strokes in the topik as well as the region, and become a "toolbox" of ideas.

About the PIN UP:
We have'nt had any opportunity to come to school this week to sign the list that we have heard circulates the school. Since Jenny has to leave for Gothenburg at 15.00 (latest) we would like to present before this.

Also we have got no information what so ever in the schedule or the blog on what times the presentation are, (from early morning or just the afternoon?) so we would be glad to hear some update on this.

Hugs and kisses
/ Tina and Jenny

Öresund: A Productive Landscape

Hello Everybody!
We are continuing to develop our ideas... so here is a brief update!
What is productivity nowadays? We are working with a different perspective of productivity that involves natural, cultural and intellectual dimensions. There are three parts to our method: First we are developing a formula -a new tool- that will help us to see the gaps in productivity for the region. Second, we are using these categories to produce existing productivity ratings to illustrate how the region looks in terms of this "multi-layered productive landscape". Lastly, we are creating design ideas of how improved productivity would look in the landscape.

What principles should productivity entail in the future? What are the ways to improve it?
So many questions... we are working on producing the answers!
/Liv, Susana, Kate

Info on pin-ups the next weeks

I made a mistake when describing the pin-ups the next couple of weeks. This friday is an internal presentation with me and Sabina. Next friday (23 feb) is also internal with me, Sabina and Juan Carlos Peirone, from the SLU aestetics department. Thursday (please note the day) 1 march is an external presentation with me, Sabina and Ewa Westermark, Jan Gehl Architects, Copenhagen.

View from other sides

We are planning to look into the Öresundregion from the view our home countries.
For what is this region known as? How could we promote this region in our home countries?
We want also to do some visions, what happens if we change the parameter of this region?
Many interesting questions, hopefully we get some answers!

Enjoy the weekend!

"the europe group"

"Little Denmark" in Malmö?

In lack of a "China Town" we think that Malmö needs a "Danish Town".
We will design a neighborhood called: Little Denmark.

/Peder-Niklas

Interview with manager of Real Estate Agent 'Mette Lykken Bolig'

Today Niklas and I interviewed The manager of the Malmö branch of 'Mette Lykken Bolig'.
She gave us some valuable insight into what danish people are looking for when buying real estate in Sweden. Hopefully this will help us develop our idéa of a "Little Denmark" in Malmö.

/Peder-Niklas

rail network

How can we make the rail a superior alternative to car traffic in the O-region? What needs to be done in order for people to choose to go by rail instead of by car? This we´ve decided to investigate further. Though it might had been even more interesting and relevant to look at public transport in general, time limitations made us decide to focus on rail traffic. We haven´t yet made our interview, but we´ll try to arrange one with Peter Möller from Öresundskommittén next week.

Brain attraction

Hej,
We finally did our interviews and we managed to get an interesting melting pot for our investigation (Hungarians, Dutch and Swedish).
Brain gain in the O-region is our mission, attraction is our codename!
Next week: investigation level...
Até já, Viszlát, Salut!

Rita, Barbi, Clara.

Renewable !!

We have decided to work with wind power
Pure and renewable energy is important for a sustainable living.

• How to combine wind power and environment in a aesthetic way?
• How can we establish living areas and powerfarms in the same neighbourhood?
• Can we create a positive opinion of wind power?
• Are there other alternativ of energy sources?

This subject has many aspects and we are looking forward to work with it. Hopefully we'll find some answers and come up with new ideas.

/The Breeze

A Productive Landscape...

Hej!
We are working hard towards developing a stronger image for the Öresund region. We are playing with the idea of "a Productive Landscape". For us this holds so many possibilities. The areas we are focusing on are the borders or urban fringe... also known by some people as the "non-places". Let's see if we can change that!
All for now, over and out.
/Kate, Liv & Susana

our little group

Hej!

Finally we formed our group and we found our perfect topic on yesterday. In time I think. We will work on the brain gain of the region. You will see it.

Clara, Rita, Barbi

carrot cake anyone?

We have interviewed Alf Hornborg, a professor at the University of Lund. when asked about the possibility of a future sustainable relationship between shopping centers and cities, his suggestion was to simply 'shut down the shopping centers'. If you are a customer at a shopping center in the öresund region, than you are a european with more money than meaning in life! Over the next few weeks, we are hoping to provide a more optimistic view for how shopping can evolve in the region.
We have also contacted architects and city planners, and we will keep you posted with the outcomes.
have a nice weekend!
Suzie, Laura, Esbjörn (cc)

We have decided to work with sustainability and urban water. This week we will interview Katarina Pelin at Region Skåne to find out how they are working with water and sustainability.
With love from Watergroup

Lecture at A-huset LTH

The famous landscapearchitect Jeppe Aagaard-Andersen is having a lecture at A-huset in Lund on the 22 of february. The lecture is held in english and will take place in room A:C (entrance level) between 13.15-15.00.

Everbody is welcome

Helena & Johanna

strategies for urban ecological sustainable development

We are planning to form a strategy for sustainable urban development with an ecological aspect, that can be applied on city parts, residentioal areas and regions. This will be put together in a small booklet that holds three parts. The first is the background, where we investigate existing plans, areas and also make an interview. The second part is our strategy. The third part is the application of the strategy on to a certain place. This will be presented with drawings, text etc.

Looking forward to it!
Tina (twirlingstick) and Jenny (jingles)

SpaceHunters interview

We have now sent mails to Novasol (a danish company that rents out cottages all over Europe) and LRF (The Federation of Swedish Farmers) with questions about countryside tourism. When their offices are in Gothenburg or Stockholm, we decided to do the interviews via mail. Now we are waiting for response and hopefully some good answers...
/SpaceHunters

The interview phase

We are going to interview the swedish municipal commissioner of Malmö Ilmar Reepalu and the danish planner Henrik Valeur.
Of course we´re hoping for interesting answers!!


Hanna, Katarina and Linnea

Report on O expansion

In today's Sydsvenska dagbladet [Skånes biggest newspaper] There is a debate article on page A5 written by Peter Möller from the Oresundskommittén. He names a project called Örib, Öresundsregionens infrastuktur- och byudvikling. [infrastructure and urban development in the O region]. The project's prognosis shows an increase in O population with 500 000 to 800 000 people until 2045. This could be an interesting scenario for one or more of the groups to work with. How to make room for all these people? And in a sustainable way?

Interview templates on Lerbert!

The templates for the interviews are now put on the lerbert server. The adress is //lerbert/o-vision/templates. There you will find two illustrator files, both 21 x 21 cm. The first page is a page where you put a photo of the person you make an interview with [in black and white]. The resolution should be about 200 dpi on a 21 x 21 cm picture. You also write the name of the person and where he/she works. Finally you take a quote from the interview and put it somewhere suitable on the page. The other page is a text page with questions/answers. Please use the fonts in the template. Questions, mail me on ff@uid.dk

Big plans! for future...

Andrea and Matilda is forming a group that wants to look into the opportunity of countryside tourism in an extended O-region. We plan to do a draft for a homepage that could give tips and information to both future tourists and also to farmers that would like to join this business. We are planning to do interview with someone either from Novasol or from The Federation of Swedish Farmers. We'll see...
/The SpaceHunters! (we are hunting space for the crowded city people...)

To Fredrik:

After we in the "Sweden vs. Denmark" group interviewed Ole Reiter this week, we thought that maybe you could invite him to the final presenations of this course? He seems very interested
in the subject matter.

Hey everybody,
we have now posted our project as an interactive site on the internet. Check it out!
http://www.stud.slu.se/~l03mahe1/projekt4/
Duality/graffiti --- Clara, Katie, Matilda & Oskar

Invitation to the presentation of the health region!

Welcome to our presentation this afternoon!
Our group has been working with the ecological aspect of sustainability in the region, presented in a touristic way.

Sara, Christina, Maggie and Barbi

Testing

http://www.stud.slu.se/~l03mahe1/projekt4/
/Matilda

Out of CONTEXT

Look at this great advert from SEGA... it doesn't get better than this. What a brilliant way to sell a product! Makes you look twice, at least!

Another intresting link: http://www.deadmalls.com/

/e

O investigation

We wanted to compare the Oresundregion with other regions with simular structur, an area seperated by water or other natur elements. We have studied the expansion of the cities in San Francisco Bay Area and Istanbul metropolitan. In both cases the bridges have been an important structur for the areas expansion.

/cheers group O

Beaches-investigation

We have been looking into the beach life in general to understand the role of the beach in the region. What is a beach? Is water and/or sand needed? What kind of beaches are there in the region? How is the beach used? When and why?

Is Oresund defined by Its beaches? In that case how does it affect the identity of the region?

Our beach investigation has included field trips, research on the internet but mostly group discussions. The phenomenon of beaches is very interesting and far more complex then we thought.

See ya on friday

Liv/Katarina/Rosie/Helena

PIN-UP friday 2 of feb 13-16 sal 106

The pin-up will be power point presentations showing the whole investigation phase.
Tiina Sarap will be our guest between 14 and 16.

Suggestion for presentation order:
13.00-13.15 Introduction

13.15-13.30 Sweden vs Denmark
13.30-13.45 Identity-Sustainebility
13.45-14.00 Mobility

14.00-14.15 Paus

14.15-14.30 O-investigation
14.30-14.45 Spotting
14.45-15.00 Duality

15.00-15.15 Paus

15.15-15.30 Club O
15.30-15.45 Swe-den

15.45-16.00 Conclusion

Dialogue phase

Next week we move into the dialogue phase. Before this phase starts you should form new groups with 2 or 3 people in each group. These groups start to work with the interviews, and then go on to the design phase. Please write down your names on the list in the studio!

Interviews
Already this week you should prepare for next weeks interviews. These should reflect some of the discussions we have had so far and also raise questions you have got during your work. Who should you talk to? It could be politicians, planners, other civil servants, building contractors, architects and planners working in the region, NGOs (Non Government organizations), citizens with a special interest in the topic…Please note that the sooner you start contacting people, the more likely you will be able to make your interviews during the Dialogue Phase! Don’t hesitate to contact us for suggestions on who to ask for an interview! ff@uid.dk or Sabina.jallow@lpal.slu.se

Please post your choice of interview persons on the blog so we can keep track of who you chose!

Hand-in: Friday 9 February. There will be no oral presentation of your interviews. You should present your interview using the template soon posted on this blog. Print out your interview and post it on the studio wall. You should also make a text file with a full transcript of your interview for documentation.

Program for design phase
Friday 9 February you should also present a program for the design phase. Make an A3-poster in the same way you made the posters the first week, with text, images, and graphic information. The poster should answer: what will we work with, how will we do it, and how will it be presented/what techniques are we using. Put the posters on the studio wall. Fredrik and Sabina will go through your work and discuss it with you in the studio during the following Monday.

club-o

This week club-o has been trying to analyse the nightlife of Malmö. Not so very easy.....One step has been to work with collages.

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I do want to work with rural/countryside planning and tourism. Im thinking of the O-region as the link between the people in Denmark and Germany that do search for the nature, and the vast forests and hundreds of lakes of Sweden. I have some basic thoughts of who to interwiev, but everything is still quite open...
So, who would like to join me?

/Matilda

24hour city- economical aspects of nightlife

The '24 hour city' – condition critical?

Although many '24-hour city' strategies have been economically successful, they have often failed to meet the social needs and aspirations of local communities. Phil Hadfield, Stuart Lister, Dick Hobbs and Simon Winlow look at the problems now facing these night-time economies and examine some of the latest proposals for addressing them.

This text, we found on the homepage of `Institute of Alcohol Studies-United Kingdom´, is about London, but there are many statement which are also reality in malmö. The town-nightlife in öresundregion we´ve investigated.
The following interesting statements we’ve picked out:


While the prophets of 'cultural regeneration' foresaw post-modern 'playgrounds', the market forces unleashed by the deregulation of alcohol-based night-time leisure have contributed to the creation of scenes more akin to the pre-modern battleground.

However, the subsequent strategies of deregulation which have permitted the growth of a market-led monoculture of licensed premises and fast-food outlets are a corruption of Jacob's vision. Alcohol-based leisure now dominates the nightlife of our urban centres, and its expansion has become the gauge of post-industrial prosperity, yet Jacobs specifically warned against what she called this 'duplication of the most profitable use'.

Jane Jacobs's famous arguments regarding the social and economic benefits of the populous after-dark street have been important theoretical cornerstones of the '24-hour city' concept, and also of official crime prevention policy guidance.3

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is Jane Jacobs single most influential book, and quite possibly the most influential American book on urban planning. Widely read by both planning professionals and the general public, the book is a strong critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s which, she claimed, destroyed communities and created isolated, unnatural urban spaces. Jacobs advocated dense, mixed-use neighborhoods and frequently cited New York City's Greenwich Village as an example of a vibrant urban community.

Young drinkers now 'own' many town and city centres at night. When such ownership is established, these areas become even more attractive to young people seeking a permissive leisure environment free from the supervision or censure of the older citizens with whom they share these spaces at other times.5

This 'honey-pot' effect produces social environments in which aggressive hedonism and disorder become the norm, creating nuisance and noise pollution for residents and generating fear, avoidance behaviour, and a loss of amenity for the majority of citizens and potential visitors.

The police are constantly juggling resources in an attempt to cope with the situation on the streets, and control duties within licensed premises continue to be performed by ineffectively regulated teams of bouncers. Yet since such central leisure zones now attract unprecedented numbers of young consumers they have become highly attractive locations for licensed trade investment.

· The current path of night-time leisure development is also having adverse effects upon residential amenity. In addition to crime and disorder and the fear of crime, residents may face an almost intolerable range of problems, including late-night noise, vandalism of property, litter, and the fowling of pavements and doorsteps

· These unpleasant experiences sit uneasily with the vision of 'urban renaissance' contained in the recent Urban White Paper, which seeks to encourage people to remain in, and return to, a 'compact' central core. As the deregulation of alcohol licensing continues, there is now an urgent need to reconcile these competing interests.

· If the '24-hour city' vision of a high-density, mixed-use urban core featuring both a varied and economically prosperous nightlife and excellent residential amenities is ever to become a reality, a much more integrated and interventionist approach to municipal regulation will need to be adopted.

design phase

Hello all,

Elin and I have chosen to look at sustainable development in connection with external shopping centres. Anyone else interested in this?

Christina

heme for design phase?

I have a thought of doing a structure for integration in the region. Maybe in a specific place or a specific kind of integration..? If anyone would consider this to be interesting we could talk about it and see if our ideas match?
/ Tina (twirling stick)

...

Hi!!!
I am really surprised how ugly can be shopping centres! There is no architecture, just boxes, ugly, “empty” boxes… And I have to adjudge that shopping centres are some kind of mirror of nowadays society, aren`t they?!
But anyway these holidays were fantastic! :)

UP-BEAT 10.00-15.30 monday 29 of jan

10.00-12.00 Kine Halvorsen-Thoren, professor Ås University
GREEN STRUCTURE Articum 2

13.00-15.30 Louise Andersson, Länsstyrelsen
NOT USING THE JACKASS METHODE Articum 2

Please notice the changes for monday!

INVITATION!!

We in the clubO group will have a field work shop in Malmö today Saturday!
Studying the nightlife can be a lonely job so we could need some company from you fellow group bloggers, spotters and others.

Today's(-nights) task will be to observe and/or talk to as many people as possible. There will also be some dancing. We have made an easy to follow schedule for the evening and we will start with a formal seminar meeting at a pub at 18.00 where we will work out our strategy.

1. Winny's pub and restuarant St Knut's torg Malmö 18.00

2. Pub to be decided later

3. Pub to be decided later

4. Buddha Lounge night club Djäknegatan 9 ca 23.00

Welcome!

Deep frozen Interviews

Picking the coldest week of the winter, so far, we in the 'Denmark vs. Sweden'-group stood outside train stations and such, asking the people of Oresund the following questions:

1. Where do you live? Why? If you could choose freely would you live somewhere else? What's the most important when you choose a place to live? (Economy/Aesthetics/Comfort)

2. Where do you go shopping? Why? (meeting place?/Convenient?/low prices?)

3. Is facilities for excercising important when choosing a place to live?

4. What do you think about 'allemansrätten'?

5. Do you have an opinion about the difference of the taxes in Denmark and Sweden?

6. What do you think of differences in laws? For instance the smoking ban in Sweden?

7. Politicians wants to make the Oresund region more united and competitive economically.
Do you think this is a good thing. Has this meant anything for you personally?

8. Do you feel mostly Danish or mostly Swedish?

The commuting people were stressed and not always willing to talk. It was cold. It was dark.
We're thawing at the moment and will probably regain normal body temperature until monday.

Peder Pants, signing off

UP-BEAT 29 jan 10.00-15.30

10.00-12.00 Kine Halvorsen-Thoren, professor Ås University
GREEN STRUCTURE Articum 2

13.00-15.30 Louise Andersson, Länsstyrelsen
NOT USING THE JACKASS METHODE Articum 2

Please notice the changes for monday!

spotting shopping.. say that 3 times fast!!

Our group has been focusing on shopping within the region, and have been working through some fundamental questions in our investigation. One of our questions: How has the fixed link affected shopping in the region?

This may be of interest to anybody who is looking at the social and economic implications the Öresund link has had on the region. This particular article is available online, and was published by the Öresund Brokonsortiet in 2006.
http://osb.oeresundsbron.dk/library/index.php?obj=3442&menu=512
It basically looks at the impact the bridge has had on things like transportation, economics, and the environment. Was useful for our group to find out who uses the link and for what reason (shopping!)

Shopping for problems....

Hi fellow investigators!

We've spotted things all week. Like that it's hard to find the information you want (like many has already realised). We've been trying to get statistics on shopping centers and stuff like that without luck most of the time. But hey! Who said this would be a piece of a cake?

We got some numbers and some ideas from the big book (on shopping by koolhaas). The book is great!

It's friday... over and out!

/e and the spotters

Scenic beach

Hejsan,
the mobility group has changed direction and is now investigating the beaches and beachlife in the region. Not too many beachboys and bikinigirls out there at the moment, but it seem to be a trend for the oldies to go to kallbadhus (coldbadinghouse). There are a lot of them.
We havn't found a "scenic beach" yet though (a place where you go because of the faboulus natural beauty...). Please tell us if you know one!

Hej!
Our group are working on a "tourist brochure". It will show to people why should they choose this "healthy" region? Or why shouldn't? Our little study trip was interesting and as cold as a stone. My favourite part was the Botanical Roof Garden in Augustenborg, Malmö. It was instructive. I 'm lookin' for the next week to transplant our ideas into the reality.

Interviews

Hello everybody,
our group did a lot of interviews during Wensday and Thursday. On Wensday we went to Malmö Central Station and we were waiting for trains,which goes from Copenhagen. We met many interesting people and heard a lot of opinions about housing, lifestyle and Oresund region.Next day we were in Lomma and in Burlöv Centre to find people from suburbs and hear their opinion. In the evening we went to Malmö Syd to speak with danish people, who live in Sweden. Now we want to compaire answers. We also sent emails to planning offices in Malmö, Copenhagen, Lomma and other small towns in Sweden. We will see, what they will response.
Andrea

Thursday

Hej!
Yesterday we did a resarching on the internet about timetable. We found information how long does it take to go Malmö from other cites by use different public transport and car.
I made an excel scheme from the information.
We didn’t find information on travelling by car on the Danish side!

after this interesing investigation week- we researched informations in the internet an did a informative but also cold zzzzzzzzzzzssss......... trip to malmö yesterday, we were visiting western harbour and augustenborg, walked around saw green roofs, stormwatermanagemet, talked to people living there... and got a nice insight! I'm looking forward the next week to see how it will go on!?

Hello all,
Well... Our group, formally know as 'Duality', has changed direction with our investigation (perhaps this is a facet of our personalities having a little duality as well!). We were very interested in how people experience and move through a city when they navigate through it for the first time. We recognized that most cities have a face or facade that they design for people to experience when they go there. It's a way of creating a positive image. This is done with landmarks, main pedestrian streets, shopping centres, squares or other tourist attractions. We wanted to contrast this 'ideal' image of a city with the "behind the scenes" route of a city that maps the edge spaces that are not really seen. The tool that we used to discover our own tracking system through the city's more forgotten places was to follow the graffiti trail in Malmö. To do this we spent the day in Malmö on Tuesday. We started from central station and followed our ‘graffiti tracking’ method to wherever it took us, recording and mapping all the way. We are finding it interesting to compare and contrast the 'façade' and 'behind the scenes' perspectives of a place. Although they are essentially opposites, there are surprising similarities in the structures of these two routes. So… so far so good! We'll see where it takes us.
/kate.

nightlife in malmö

hej,
yesterday me and my group went to malmö. we searched different kinds of clubs and places which are popular during the nighttime.
on saturday we will go there in nighttime. hopefully we will find partyanimals, clubmanager etc., we can interview, and find something out about the socialstructur of the 24hour-city.
I´m curious about it, because I´ve never been to malmö at night.
Until now I can´t see a specific goal of our work, but I think this will change after saturday-night. It´s not so easy to manage a project, which you choose on our own.
But it is interesting to find a topic, work on it, find something like a track and to aggrigate the different perceptions of the groupmembers.

Hard to find danish information!

After a nice but cold studytrip to Malmö I'm now back in front of the computer... The internet has given us a lot of information about sustainability projects on the the swedish side, but concerning the danish we have some problems. For example it's hard to know the danish spelling of the subject you are searching for! Even if our languages are similar it doesn't help. We are now thinking about totally concentration on the swedish side becaurse of the lack of information on the danish... / SustainabilitySara

Today we went out for a small trip around Malmoe with our main goals being Augustenborg and Western Harbour, because of their substainability approach. We wanted to try conducting a few interviews with people living or working in the areas, asking them how they feel about the areas and the way they work, what´s good and what´s not so good. Making the interviews meaningful was hard and also we would need to interview a lot of people for the result to representative, so because of time limitations we chose not to use that as a method. Except for this the trip was useful and we discovered a few new things about for example solar energy power which, according to the Green Roof Institute , is on the rise and also getting less expensive.

Movium Conferens

You are all welcome to join the Movium conferens "den lekande människan".
Just go there!

SARAH SZEA Swiftly Tilting Planet

This exibition by American artist Sarah Sze in Malmö konsthall [publicart gallery in Malmö] is a must-see for everybody in the course. Not that it is compulsory, but if you have any interest in organization, non-organization, networks, landscapes, constructions or cities you should go. Until the 18th of February.

http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/o.o.i.s/2741

/Fredrik and Sabina

PIN-UP Friday 26 jan and 2 feb

PIN-UP Friday 26 jan
Friday's pinup will be an informal one with groups presenting your workat the drawing tables. We start at 11.00 with two groups and continueafter lunch. A time schedule will be posted at the studio duringThursday. You don't have to participate in each presentation, unless youhave any special interest in any of the group's work. See it as apresentation though, with clear material that communicate the message!

PROGRAM: 11.00 Swe-den, 11.30 Club O, 13.00 Duality, 13.30 Mobility, 14.00 identity-sustainability, 14.30 Denmark vs Sweden, 15.00 O investigation, 15.30 Spotting.



PIN-UP Fiday 2 feb
This is the pin-up closing the investigation phase. It will be apresentation with some invited guest critic, so this time it's extraimportant that the message gets through. You will get 15 minutes topresent you investigations. Use powerpoint or pdf-presentations. Whenproducing your pp or pdf try to make it in such a resolution that it canalso be printed. The pin-up starts at 13.00.

/Fredrik and Sabina

All over!

Ah, this is nice. Or not at all.
To sit and wait for a mail to arrive.
To wonder where it all is going.
Maybe we´ll se each other at the end. Maybe not.
But at leas Im here!
/Matilda

Why is it always so hard to 'take off'?
There are all these questions and thoughts in your mind, but you can´t really speak them out.
And new projects always has a tendency to feel rather blur in the beginning.

Anyway, I've succeeded with my very first entrance on a blog, that's a start.

Investigation methods

Please post a brief description of your investigation methods and why you choosed to use them.

Have a nice weekend!

This seems to work properly. Just as my computer does after I've spent all night re-installing everything from windows to cad. Remember, ALWAYS keep a backup! always....

/E (etno dancing)

Invitation to the blog

You will get an invitation to the adress I sent the "welcome to the course letter".
Mail your e-mail adress to sabina.jallow@lpal.slu.se if you wouldn't like to use the school mail.

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