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