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