McCLELLAND, MAC, “How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp” The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 13 2014.
In “How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp” the author were talking about the Syrian refugees in the Turkey’s refugee camp. In the camp, they have a very decent live compare to live in their own country. The camp provided them health care, education and some luxury things at the home like television. However, they do not have much freedom in there, for them to come to the camp is like a pause in their life. They still want to go back no matter how good the camp is.
I think the reading is very helpful for me. After reading this I have more understudying of people who were force to leave their country and how the monetary value could not make them satisfied. Also I could related this reading to many others.
I believe this is a reliable source because is a article from The New York Times. I think when I do the research of the neighborhood that I choose I could think about more what is the story behind every residents. Do they want to live in here or it is just temporary for them.
“When A Budget Motel Is ‘Home,’ There’s Little Room For Childhood,” npr, August 16, 2015.
This is a podcast host by Tess Vigeland. She was interviewing a single mom in San Bernardino. The podcast talk about in San Bernardino, some people they lose their house because could not afford the rent. They stay in the cheap motel for a period of time. However, people who live in the budget hotel are usually drug dealer, prostitute or just not normal people. The single mom who was interviewed said they are not homeless because they have a place to stay and this is just temporary. Also she taught her kids that the hotel is a home for them, and she use some pillows to make it comfortable like home for them.
This reading is sort of related to the perfect refugee camp. Actually it have connection with lots of reading that I have done. It help me to think about the formal and conceptual ideas of how pillow ab physical thing could created the feeling of home.
Also the situation in the reading is similar with the New York City neighborhood. In NYC there are lots of people are homeless because the housing is not affordable. So it could definitely help my research of New York neighborhood.
“Author Profiles The ‘Traumatized People’ Living In The World’s Largest Refugee Camp
” podcast by npr, Jan 4, 2016.
This podcast host by Terry Gross and Dave Davis were interviewing the author of “ the City of Thorns” Ben Rawlence. In City Of Thorns is the other refugee camp in Kenya Dadaab. This refugee camp was founded as a temporary shelter for Somalis refugees in 1991. Unlike the perfect refugee camp this camp has a very terrible living quality. More, in the book Ben Rawlence put the attention on one young man Guled, he was kidnap from his school and then he was sent to the camp. I the camp they do not have a good health care, they definite have not enough of food. People if wanted luxury stuffs they need to be hunger exchange food to money in order buy things they want.
This is another reading that I read was about, home and refugee camp. It provide me a new ways to think about the refugee camp. How is it different compare to the one in Turkey. So for men it could easily to compare and contract with the perfect refugee camp. Also, what are the different ideas of living in the camp between these two camp.
“The Indigenous memory code: Song line” All In The Mind podcast, July 3, 2016.
The Podcast was talking about the ancient indigenous culture by the Australian Aboriginal. How do they use the technique of through singing could help them remember lots of information. No matter is the land scape, space or hunting tip. They could use physical activity like singing and dancing to remember or teach others. The song line not only help them to remember information . It also helps them being back memory and their culture to them.
After listened to the podcast, I thought it was a really smart technique. Even is a ancient culture, I think it could still help me a lot if I use kind of technique probably could help me to remember more. However, I do not think it will be relate with my research of the New York City neighborhood much. Yet it is still to learn new information.
Salloum, Jayce, “ untitled part 4: terra (in)cognita” Documentary on Vimeo. 2005
This video were focus on Syilx people in Canada. It gave information of how these first nation people were taking away their land by the government. In the past they don’t have right and power they just saw their lands and space to be take away and not be able to do anythings. Also people’s memory of be sent to the residential school project and their experiences of it.
Like the song line, this video gave me new information and thinking of different informations. However, I do not really know how to connect this to other reading or the research I am doing for the neighborhood . For me this is not a really useful to look at it for researching neighborhood. Yet in the future if I am doing historical research or aboriginal study. This is help me a lot.
Henry Urbach, “Exhibition as Atmosphere.” , 2009.
This article was begin with describe the foggy weather in Los Anglos, and then further discuss about how a gallery’s interior design affect to readers, how every details could create the atmosphere of a space. Moreover, the atmosphere is not only the air, it could create a feeling for a space. Even though we could not see the atmosphere but it could bring feeling or memory to us and make individual space special.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 1961.
This reading by Jane Jacobs was talking about the three uses of sidewalk in one’s daily life, first was her points of how to create a safe sidewalk with trust between people. Then we see interesting connection of people’s casual interaction on street sidewalk created the sense of belonging. Last one is assimilating children, she gave examples about when kids have problem arise the neighborhood should be able to ask for help. And this definitely involve trust in the neighborhood. Overall, street sidewalk is a interesting space, if you pay attention to people and surrounding, you can get to know more about the neighborhood, create the trust with others ,and it will be a best way to find out how to change or solve any frustration in the neighborhood.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Design and Order in Everyday Life, The MIT Press,1991.
The reading started with how art brings in order to people’s life, and then it discuss deeper of one’s personal objects and their connection between them. Csikszentmihalyi talked about sometimes the sentimental value happened to be much more important than monetary value. The memories that object holds for people, becoming like a reminder for them and it helps them to remember and bringing their own order to their life.
Peter Hall,TEDxAustin Peter Hall 2011, Tedx Talks, Mar 24, 2011
Peter explains mapping in the video, how it could be a useful tool for our life, there are different types of maps, from the artist, scientist and journalist. They all have different styles for mapping and they all have some advantages and disadvantages. However, we should not trust all the maps because sometimes the details are miss out or change by the person who made the map. Overall, mapping and reading maps are good skills for one to understand and organize a situation and it is very important skill for everyone
John Zeisel, Observing Physical Traces, W.W. Norton, 2006
This reading knowledge people how to observe and record the surrounding in detail, readers should plan out what exactly they could be observe, not looking around without any plan. Author guiding readers use different methods to record and observe the surrounding, and he encourage readers to look for details and human’s left over but not overlook something and put your personal feeling to the studies. Overall, the reading is a guilde line that teach people how to find physical traces that create by human’s activities. It not only will help one to have an better idea when they need to research a broad contexts but also helps one to find interesting details that easy to be miss out.
Petter Hall, Bubble, Lines, and String: How Information Visualization Shape Society, 2011
The article starts with introducing three categories of data visualization, sciences practice, they wants a lot of datas to representation and measurement to help their data to more accurate. Second one is Journalistic practice, they like to explore and make data visible and accessible for everyone. The last one is the artist practice, they focus on visual more than the function. Its role is to bring in light and challenge for data visualization. Furthermore, Hall claims the absent of critique, people are lack of critical discussion yet critical thinking is the key for data visualization.
Danielle Elliott, and Dara Culhane, “A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and …”2016
This book talks about the contemporary ethnography become more complex compare to the past, so it introduces a different kind of ethnography, the author pay close attention to the meaning of imagination, not abstract philosophy. Also introduces the core of ethnographic research practices are participant observation, interview and analysis of documentary, archival and scholarly literature. The author use sensory ethnography as a method to analyze representing and communicating the results.
Sharon Zukin, Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
The author is talking about gentrification and public spaces in the book, more specifically it gives two examples, one is private own public space which is Union Square and other one is for city to run the public space and the example is the World Trade Center. The author show how these two places have been changed and gentrified to see people’s connection with the public spaces and arguing about what is the authentic urban life.
Ali Madanipour, Whose public space?: international case studies in urban design and development, Routledge, 2010.
The reading is talking about the connection between the public space and the urban societies. How in the past the public spaces was open for everyone without segregation between classes, but nowadays, lots public open spaces turn to a privately own public space and it change the atmosphere the space had before. It also discuss that public space is the key for urban design and play an important role in the city, but they are also contested under the pressure from different group of people.
Brian McGrath, Resilience in ecology and urban design, published by Springer, 2013
This reading is talking about the a project that tried to use art and science to change New Orleans’s environment problem.The author with the group first to understand and research about the problem that happen in the area and then they started to interview and get the residents involved to work together with the project and use their own way tp solve the problem in the space. This reading is kind of like a documentary but also a design proposal.
Bryan Bell , Kate Wakeford, Expanding Architecture Design As Activism, Metropolis Books (October 1, 2008)
There was a creek in the East of Taiwan was under utilize so people thought about to change the creek to a better pleasing place that would attract people to here for tourist which would help the economic for the locals, so they started their plan of design the river and they were successful of the change, people loved the new creek and it idid bring in more people to the area.
Alejandro Aravena, My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process, published by TED, 2014
This video by Alejandro was about the design’s power of synthesis. He mentioned the three S menace which are scale, speed and scarcity, he talks about different difficulties that they have discovered like the city has not enough and too many people, lots of people lived in slum favelas and informal settlements so they designed a half good house for people, other that this he also mentioned the design of the office building from using glass outside change to more sustainable material that could help the environment. And the third situation was designed for people who met natural disaster. In conclusion, he mentioned that design’s power of synthesis is to coordinate the difficulties that people have but not use money and listening to what the people really wants is very important key for design.
