Silueta

As we are now getting right into the swing of things with our term project, it is only reasonable to ask how exactly we are going to put our presentations together.
The first presentation ideas that came to my mind that I believe would fully and exemplify what our term project ,in regard to Sustainability in Pune India, was all about were the following…
Video

Incorporating a video would be a nice way to illustrate the organization and Architect that we are working with in out term project. A video would thus inform our audience of who, what, where our term project is targeted at and why we decided on this particular location.
Background knowledge

Besides having a video that depicts what we are all going to talk about, it would be also be beneficial to give some local statistics on the community slums we are researching about as well as information regarding Pratima Joshi, who is the Architect that is working to promote a more sustainable environment in India. It would also be advantageous to our peers and our T.A. that we provide information about the organization, Shelter Associations, Pratima Joshi works with in India. The Shelter Association is a unique organization that works in Pune, India comprising Architects, Social workers, GIS Experts and Community Workers.
Flip Charts

It would also be beneficial to add information such as the GIS to demonstrate how important this tool is in the reinterpretation of Prune slums. With GIS, Pratima has created a spatially-organized slum database that is critical to effective urban planning and the development of public infrastructure servicing the slums. With this said, it is evident that the GIS is an important tool used as a part of this reinterpretation of slums and therefore needs to have a place within our presentation.
PowerPoint

With the accumulating information that we’ve been gathering it would be extremely effective to have our presentation in and orderly manner. Using a power point would be efficient and less costly to have a nicely organized presentation. A PowerPoint would effectively demonstrate all the information onto one screen so that our audience will be able to view and oppose and questions if needed.
Portfolio
And last but not least, I would think that it would important to summarize everything into a nice, organized, and creative manner. Thus a portfolio would be a great way to show how much effort we’ve put into our term project over the course of the last past weeks. It also gives our group a chance to turn in a tangible term project whereas just handing a PowerPoint or just various flipcharts will not obviously be sufficient enough.

With this all said, I think that if we incorporate all these important keys concepts and ideas into our presentation, that we will be successful in our term project.

VOLUNTEERING 3/12/08

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Blog 5: " Explore through image and text how the built environment affects ( support of distracts) who you are. Speculate in terms of frameworks, clockworks, phenomena, and oppositions."
When I first read this blog the first things that came into my mind where…
Family
Friends
Weather

In the essence, these things are some of the things in my “built� environment that I believe have an effect on who I am and what I stand for.
Let me elaborate by going down the list.
FAMILY

The word “Family� and is incorporated into my built environment in many ways. When thinking of the word family, I would like to categorize it in the physical realm as phenomena. The reason why I would say that family to me is a phenomena is because a family in general always exhibits behavior characteristics. For example, stability, and self restoration and at the same time ones family can also be unstable and chaotic while simultaneously spiraling and converging in many ways. For me, my family has impacted me in those ways which is why I would categorize family as phenomena.
FRIENDS

Friends. This word, for me, constitutes the principle of clockworks in the physical realm. Clockworks are frameworks in which a fixed number of things start with a given set of mutual things that go through changes in a periodic manner and keep returning to the original set. In a way, a group of friends may effect who you are, how you act, and why you are the way you are. Friends go through changes as do any other kind of relationships, and change. But in the end the friends that you are closest to are the ones that keep returning. In this manner I can say that friends are like clockworks.

AND LAST,BUT NOT LEAST

WEATHER

When i was thinking about how the built environment and how it affects who I am, I realized that the weather plays a major role into the physical realm. In regards to weather and climate, i think that weather falls into the category of phenomena in a variety of ways that affects who I am. I think it's appropriate to categorize weather in the idea of phenomena because phenomena is described as something that has origins, marked beginings, long term effects, has duration, exhibits change and can be modeled to various degrees. As you all can see that weather plays a role in all of these situations, but especially in the of how it affects who I am. For instance when the weather outside is particularly couldy and cold, it doesn't give me much inspiration to really go out and enjoy my surroundings. On the other hand, a sunny day usually makes me feel in many ways inspired to go out and get things done within my physical environment.

As you can see through my three examples, the ideas of phenomena, clockworks and frameworks have an impact into the physcial realm of who I am. Not only do i think that these ideas have an impact on my life, but i think its also an important aspect in a lot of people lives. Think about it. Who would you be with out Friends, Family and the Weather?

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