excursion

Well, hi everyone, here's a thought on an excursion.
Laura, Eva and me were thinking that proposing a destination might not be equally interesting to all people and projects. Of course, there are places, cities mainly, with many things to do and see, but we thought it could be interesting to focus on the trip itselft before arriving to a specific destination.
We could be separated in groups of 4 or 5 and each group could follow a different route. Meeting points can be arranged maybe we could even change the group synthesis before arriving to the final city. Another thought could be to have no actual destination but only in-between meeting points.
We can rent cars from here www.kohler.nl/index.html and a rough estimation shows that for 7 days and 1000 km we need 80 euros p.p for all car expenses (50 for car rental, 30 for fuel and toll).
After discussing with other people today we said that Paris can be our destination city, since we have information that interesting things are taking place there this fall. Well, we can all improvise on our trips.

Harvard GSD website

Harvard Design School has a website where they publish student work. It may be inspiring to look through it. There are some quite interesting projects (although there is a bit too much emphasis on digital fabrication in my opinion).

For Martine and Joeri, one of the spring 2006 studios might be of particular interest. A studio on the 2012 Olympics in London.

3rd: Renewable Energy Sources & Bioclimatic Architecture for shells, to shelter people affected by Natural Disasters.

I also have a pdf of the draft of the competition in english.

2nd: Renewable Energy Sources & Bioclimatic Architecture for shells, to shelter people affected by Natural Disasters.

Renewable Energy Sources & Bioclimatic Architecture for shells, to shelter people affected by Natural Disasters.

This is a competition that took place a few years ago in Greece.
It might be interesting to some of you.
The resolution of pics is not very high, but if someone wants more details I could try to find

Railway Market

This is the market Jaron mentioned on friday. One of the most fascinating representations of an informal use of public space: the railway market in Bangkok.

Olympics

(To Joeri)

A funny reference of how you can combine housing and stadium into one in Japan, Osaka

..Not a photoshop

A goodmorning everyday

Hello everyone!

You may have heard of this website before, but I can recommend everybody to take a view at this evry morning before you start working. It's an inspiring funny website full of design jokes that will make the morning grumpiness fly away and enables you to start the day with a smile. Enjoy!

Erik

http://www.crookedbrains.net/

workshop proposal: Creative Facilitation

Workshop proposal_Creative Facilitation, explore lab 9 September 2009

All our thoughts, ideas, concepts and eventually designs are coming out of an creative mental process, influence by several parameters. We all are struggling with it, so it’s fruitful to find a consistent method to support successfully artifacts.

The purpose of this workshop would be to introduce fresh and different creative problem solving techniques which are already used by the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. With the main goal to inspire students, so in the end we will use them or look for other techniques that satisfy our creative mind, besides of using the conventional ones.

The workshop will have the following content. Students will be faced with one or a few problems and try to solve these problems with a number of prepared creative problem solving techniques. The duration of the workshop will be around 12 hours. Throughout this time set this day would have the following line up: In the morning there will be a creative session with techniques involving diverging, opening ours minds and souls without any kind of restrictions or limitations. In the afternoon the results from the morning session will be used for converging using different techniques. The evening session will addicted ourselves towards reflection of our daily activity, to fit it into our discipline of architecture.

From the beginning and between breaks there is also time for warm-up sessions which contribute to team building and collective creative thinking. The whole session will take place on an stimulating alienate environment, such as on a table in the middle of the Dam in Amsterdam, Rotterdam station or even on the transfer space inside Schiphol.

In this manner the students can get a clear overview of the process of creative problem solving. This will be from problem statement up to the beginning of an idea and/or even a concept. This workshop will hopefully as earlier mentioned be a great inspiration towards new and creative designs by explore lab students. It will broad out our modest knowledge about the creative design processes.

Benny Munsters; student, explore lab 9, faculty of architecture Delft
Kah Kih Yau; student, faculty industrial design, Delft

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workshop proposal

Workshop Proposal
Director’s Cut

Be the director of each others project.
Make a 2 minute film about each others project.
The director might have an other approach towards the project (and therefore pick up other interesting aspects) of the project than the original designer.

Time span
When working in duo’s, this workshop can be easily fitted in the regular schedule around the P3. The reflection of the ‘other director’ might actually help filter the actual project and be a huge step towards the P3.
The workshop starts on a monday, the 2 minute clips should be handed in at the following Thursday and finally a one hour documentary will be shown at the Friday.

for questions or comments about this proposal, please contact me,

Joeri

Explore Lab 9 Blog

Today we started with the blog of explore lab 9. This blog is meant for sharing, showing, telling, discussing, arguing and planning our interest and work with each other. It is a portal for us to use, but also a portal to communicate with the world. Right now it is still very empty, but the idea is to fill it with different and useful apps. But the idea is also that we all will fill the site. I wish everyone good luck and an active year.