Dear all, Please see above an invitation to ‘Social Skills’, an exhibition of the graduation projects of Mark Smyth and Sigrun Sumarlidadottir.

We hope you will join us on Tuesday 29th June 2010

in room 01West290, from 17.00 - 20.00.

Our aim, in presenting our work in this way, is to highlight the importance of student initiative and informal architectural debate.The common themes in our projects will form a backdrop to an evening of drinks and conversation;

Continuity in the built landscape

Cultural spaces that facilitate participation

Everyday spaces, from the familiar proportions of the domestic to the monumental scale of industry

...

City planners versus architects

After visiting the Bo01 'neighborhood of tomorrow' in Malmö, Sweden, my point of contact in the City Development Office sent me the Quality Programme that the City of Malmö used to coordinate their ambitions with the developers. In the first part of the document, they were quite frank to write:

"Architects and builders are not directors but rather propmen and stage designers."

Now, from the perspective of a City Development Office, I can see their point. They have a certain ambition, and they are the directors of the urban development. They see architects as one step down the analogous movie-set food chain as the decorators of their ideas.

How true is this? In Explore Lab it seems that there a number of architects who, in this analogy, would be writers, directors and producers of their own stories.

awesome!

http://vimeo.com/7405947

fotomuseum rotterdam

film by photographer Olivier Jobardof the illegal migration of a man from Cameroon to Europe
(THIS IS FOR YOU NATALIA!)

Working hard or hardly working...?

Kinetic Art Fair London

Hey peeps! This Kinetic Art Fair reminded me of Felicity's project, but interesting for all!

Dear Explorelabers 9,

Whoever has Mr. Egbert van der Zaag as a firt, second, or third mentor,
he/she can meet him, from now on, every Thursday afternoon, in the explorelab space on the first floor of the Oost wing.

The P2 stressout

With the p2 coming up, we have a lot of stress coming our way. On Saturday the 23 of jan. (or the Sunday if that is better) we are planning a explore international dinner again. We need to see which space we can use (we have some options), but the cooking facilities are not as impressive as at Felicity's kitchen.

Please let us know if you come, and what your contribution will be (remember the kitchen space we have).

Sassen lecture

Thursday January 7th:

Lecture at NAi by Saskia Sassen about urban migration.

€3 for students, reserve your tickets at:

http://en.nai.nl/activities/lectures/detail/_pid/left1/_rp_left1_elementId/1_609963

Opening .DGN file(microstation)

Hi there,
anyone able to open a .DGN file and convert it to DWG?
please email me... thanx!
Joeri

Movienight five!

DELICATESSEN (1991)

Datum:	donderdag 10 december 2009
Tijd:	19:45 - 21:30
Locatie:	Architecture Department; oost-serre (the orange tribune)

Omschrijving

Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (known from Amélie, Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles and Alien: Resurrection (really..)). This should be enough recommendation in itself; if not watch the trailer!!

"A hugely enjoyable film, "Delicatessen" welds comedy and magic into a bizarre, grotesque fantasy of an oddball dystopian future. The directors are constantly playing curveball with the audience's expectations and nothing can prepare you for the sheer weirdness of it all." (BBC Review)

iMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/
Youtube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYo_SkERMNI
Youtube amazing scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJU4IwC3LjQ&feature=fvst

Free!

Bring your own food and drinks. Keep in mind to also leave the space clean, so that we can organize future events :)

Pre-Movie

from 1:50!
enjoy

Pretpark Nederland

Movienight 4 - Thursday 3rd December, 20.00h (we start later so that you can see Sarah Wigglesworth lecture in Room A first).

Next time Paris, but as we are right before Sinterklaas, we feel that we first need to talk about Holland! As the foreigners in our group only spend time with us, the intellectual elite of the Netherlands, the smartest 10% of Dutch people, we think that you should also know the other 90%. It is also a really good film for the Dutch to watch!! Feel free to do some PR and invite your Dutch and non-Dutch friends, the tribune is big enough...

About the film

Pretpark Nederland - a film by TU Delft alumni Michiel van Erp - beautifully portrays leisure in the Netherlands. It takes us on a trip to themepark Efteling, a fair for 50+ housewives, the gay-parade, the chocolate festival of the small city Zutphen, and other activities organized for and by Dutch middle-class. Moreover, by showing how the Dutch middle-class choose to spend their free time, the film portrays who the Dutch really are. Michiel van Erp looks beyond the stereotype. From a review on the NRC-website (Dutch quality newspaper):

"After seeing Pretpark Nederland, you could state that the majority of the Dutch population is on a permanent bus trip through a gigantic open-air museum, without taking any notion of large-city problems, immigrants, unemployment, religious revival or poverty. But also the invisibility of the architectonic and planning implications of this perpetual ongoing consuming: more shopping centers with more similar shops and the vanishing of local and regional differences and identity. You could wonder if Michiel van Erp really cares about this, because other than that, it is quite 'gezellig' in the Netherlands!" (souce)

IMDB

Ape(t)rots

http://www.dearchitect.nl/nieuws/2009/11/27/Winnaar+LAI2009.html

"De tribune is daarmee ook een pleidooi voor korte, maar krachtige ontwerptrajecten..."

Chihuahua diver

Anouk it is not only for duyven , it's also for chihuahuas...

NO MOVIE

Hello everybody

Because not many people are on school today, and because the bouwpub has his own French night were nog having the movie tonight. Next week will be movie night again.

Proposal for next film on Thursday nights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrqtxogmME

After Tokio, it could be Paris.

So, it is "Paris je t' aime" for next Thursday, 19:00?

A bientot!

EKISTICS

Hi all,

I will attach a link to website on "ekistics". The word comes from the greek "οικιστική" and has to do with anything dealing with housing and habitation. It was used as a term for research by a Greek architect - urbanist called Constantinos Doxiadis that was responsible for many projects around the world (Brazil, Cyprus, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Greece, Jordan, Iran, Italy, Lybia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, USA, Zambia, etc.). His projects were big settlements starting from the scale of urbanism and reaching the scale of architecture. His major concern was the best living conditions in respect to social changes and cultural background.
Despite his death, there is organization with ongoing research on this subject and which organizes also conferences. To be able to have access to the research and the proceedings, I think that you have to subscribe (and therefore pay).
However, it is very interesting work, so the link is http://www.ekistics.org/ .

10 minute break