In Amy Smiths Ted Talk on simple and sustainable designs, she focuses on working with low income farmers and village people in third world countries. With a team of students each year she uses science and lab work to design new technologies that don’t just get sold to the people in need, but allow them […]
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Constructed Environments Studio # 7: ‘The beauty of Data visualization’ Ted Talk
In David McCandless’ Ted Talk he shares his practice of data visualization, and how looking deep into solutions visually he is able to move an idea further. When presented with visual information McCandless adds different variables to show different outcomes, and is able to produce a better picture of what is happening through his data visualization. […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: Strategies of Home Making
I accociated my strategy of bringing home with me, or determining what is home, through my record play and records. If i am anywhere long enough to bring my stereo setup that place becomes my home, and the music that I play brings me back to different times where it was a band seen at […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: Spaces of Freedom, Spaces of Joy – Press Review
Solidarity created by Abigail Meyer, Jamie Taylor, Myles Arkins, and Lucy Zeng, performs as a solution for any time and any place, bringing the necessity of public space in an articulated in political design. Bringing a grass filled park to the corner of this urban environment, the design uses a circular stepped path around the […]
Constructed Environments Seminar: The Walking assignment
Taking the downtown 4 train from Union Square I road 30 minutes to Crown Heights where I immediately started talking and walking with a man who was giving me directions the way he was walking. He quickly went on rants about the neighborhoods being taken over by Jewish real estate companies that buy rebuild and […]
Constructed Environments Studio #6: My Neighborhood Visit – Crown Heights
I began my visit to Crown Heights on the Union Square 4 Train that took me 30 minutes to Eastern Parkway. After asking directions to a main strip I walked with a blue collared Dominican man who was heading to the street, and quickly became friendly, opening up about his day. He finished by going […]
Constructed Environments Studio BRIDGE 1: Spaces of Freedom, Spaces of Joy – Solidarity Model
Through the idea of solidarity this park performs as a solution for any time, bringing the necessity of public space in an welcoming and political design. The grass filled park on the corner of this urban environment uses a circular stepped path around the park to lead to an organic and peaceful scene of running water, grass, […]
Constructed Environments Studio #5: NYC Neighborhoods: Video Reflections
All the neighborhoods represented in the videos show unique qualities that make them very local based neighborhoods with a diverse and social community. Jackson Heights, Queens is a great melting pot of all cultures, with a heavy influence food culture. Lots of public transportation runs through the neighborhood along with being close to the airports, […]
Constructed Environments Studio #4: ‘Making as thinking as asking’
Looking at the shape and form of a triangle I continued to split triangles into smaller versions of the same dimensions to create a form with the limitation of one shape. This forced the form to evolve based of the shapes possibilities of connection, but allow certain pattens and consistencies to reappear throughout the piece. […]