Category: ARCH926
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Titles and hypothesis
[title] Disrupting your City: Fostering Interaction through Technoland [title] Interrupting the Social Structure: The Virtual World and Interactivity through Intervention [hypothesis] To promote social interaction in cities through the use of interventions which encourage play through interface.
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Wandering Cricket Night Market
Last night I participated in an event called the Wandering Cricket Night Market. DigBOSTON put together an article explaining what it’s all about. “Here’s the basic Night Market idea: a time and place is selected by The Manager, who then alerts volunteer proprietors who plan to rent and trick out a mover’s truck for one night of revelry…
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ARCH 926: Assignment 3b classroom discussion – Bits and pieces I’ll stitch in time
Let me try to remember this as best I can… ———————————— So at the end of Thesis Prep II I went down to the studio and talked to one of my classmates who told me, “Dude, you think too much”. Hearing him say that encouraged me to re-examine why I was drawn to topics I…
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ARCH 926: Assignment 3b
[Will edit to reflect classroom discussion] Topic: Can architecture promote spontaneity and social interaction similar to the playfulness and imaginative exploration/fulfillment we experienced as children? Because this topic is fun and something I’ve been interested in since sophomore year of college. To help others understand that you don’t have Peter Pan syndrome if you want…
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Thesis Prep II: Collages 2nd set
To recap, my earliest explorations in Thesis Prep I and II dealt with sustainability, globalization, and China. Upon investigation it appears that my interest in these topics is based upon the concern for how future environmental pressures may affect the way we live moving forward in the 21st century. Focusing even more suggested that I…