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Synopsis and final CD

Hello all,

The final synopsis (per our discussion during your final review) and the final (2) CD's can be brought to my desk in Avery 600 North. I have already recieved a number of these from you, but since there was some confusion, it will be fine to bring the material to my desk by this Friday 1 pm. Please be sure to include the cd's and give us you're presentation in its original format (indesign, powerpoint, etc) as well as the pdf version.

Also, to piggyback onto this posting a big thanks to all of you for your efforts this semester. I feel lucky to have been able to participate with you all and wanted to thank you for including me in your thought process and experience in the program. I'm looking forward to hearing about your next pursuits (Paris, home university, working, etc) whatever it may be. See you all soon, and definitely at the final dinner!

Best,
Amy

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'Literary' texts no more?

Project reduces classic works to text messages

LONDON, England (AP) -- "Romeo, Romeo -- wher4 Rt thou Romeo?"

It could be the future of Shakespeare.

Dot mobile, a British mobile phone service aimed at students, says it plans to condense classic works of literature into SMS text messages. The company claims the service will be a valuable resource for studying for exams.

Academic purists will be horrified. Hamlet's famous query, "To be or not to be, that is the question," becomes "2b? Nt2b? ???"

John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" begins "devl kikd outa hevn coz jelus of jesus&strts war." ("The devil is kicked out of heaven because he is jealous of Jesus and starts a war.")

Some may dismiss the summaries as cheat notes for the attention-deficit generation, but John Sutherland, a University College London English professor who consulted on the project, said they could act as a useful memory aid.

"The educational opportunities it offers are immense," said Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Booker Prize for fiction.

Sutherland said the compressed nature of text messages allowed them to "fillet out the important elements in a plot."

"Take for example the ending to Jane Eyre -- 'MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus.' (Mad wife sets fire to house.) Was ever a climax better compressed?"

But political commentator and author Oliver Kamm said the terse texts were "more than a travesty."

"What you lose with text messaging in literature is what makes literature what it is -- the imagery, the irony, the nuance," he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.

"What I fear will happen with text versions of Shakespeare is that students will be encouraged not to read the books but to settle for something else, and people don't need excuses not to read books. They don't read enough as it is."

Books planned for the service include Charles Dickens' "Bleak House," whose tale of the interminable legal suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce is reduced to a few snappy lines, and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," which describes hunky Mr. Darcy as "fit&loadd" (handsome and wealthy).

Dot mobile said it planned to launch the service in January, with Shakespeare's complete works available by April. The texts will be free to subscribers to the company's phone service.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/11/17/literature.text.ap/index.html

advice from today's critics on refining our presentations

make sure your point is clear, and that everything in your presentation relates to/supports it

keep moving forwards with each page: don't get stuck in just one place

think about your audience: remember that they haven't seen the entire process -- they aren't familiar with what we're doing

MODELS:
use the different media to focus the discussion,
make sure the models support your argument and are actually related to what you're saying
think about operational models: showing the relationship between the parts of your project
think about models as installations, toys, games, animations, etc

Schedule for the week of 11/14

Tuesday:
Juried Pin-up with Amy at 2:30 (be set up and ready to present by 2:30) Buell Room 200

Thursday:
TA Hours 12-3 in studio

Friday:
Last Pin-up with Moji 2:00, Avery Room 114

Sunday:
LAST TA Hours!! 12-3 (this will be your last opportunity for feedback before your final review)

NEXT TUESDAY, November 22:
FINAL REVIEW 10-3:30, Buell East Gallery

Dana's excuse.

Gideon's Project

Chapter 1

Gideon's Project

Chapter 2

Gideon's Project

Chapter 3

TA Hours this week 11/10 and 11/13

Thursday: 12-3

Sunday: 12-3

Dia: Beacon

Moji suggested trying to get out to Dia: Beacon as a personal fieldtrip this week. Here's the website with transport info etc. (This is a fantastic facility and I also highly recommend checking it out, it really is an inspiring space in addition to the collection of art there, which is also extremely impressive.)

www.diabeacon.org

11x17 format for presentations Tuesday

Hello all,

As you discussed with Moji on Friday, presentations for Tuesday will be presented in printed format as follows:

11x17
black and white printout (feel free to bring your computer with color if you'd like feedback on that as well, the b/w print is intended to be easy and cheap for this first run through)
horizontal format, no limit on page number just anticipate 'reading' through your project from left to right and consider the sequence of images/text/ideas.

Feel free to bring a mock-up into TA hours today (12-3) if you'd like me to look them over.

Best,
Amy

Conceptual Model Assignement for Tuesday

Due Tuesday for review with Moji:

Conceptual Models and Drawings (as many as you need to convey your point)

issues to consider:
-use the models/drawings as a way to shift point of view of your own project/process/thesis
-begin framing your conceptual ideas for the next step of the thesis by looking back at the Bryant Park project and the Barge project to draw out a 'conceptual framework' for your progress through the semester
-draw issues/results/successes/interests from all of your cell phone/blindfold exercises

Feel free to call Moji with any specific questions: 917-881-5611

schedule this week

Tuesday:
2-4 "desk talks" with Moji, Avery room 505-go over conceptual models (see assignment posting and call Moji with questions), changes made per Amy and Moji's comments to Thesis presentation
4-5 Process presentation with with former Urban Studies NY/Paris student
5-on continued discussions with Moji

Thursday:
1-4 TA Hours with Amy, see line-up below, please email your timeslot to Amy, those of you who I didn't Thursday or Sunday or both(!!) MUST come this Thursday.

1:00-Jon
1:30-open
2:00-Becca and Johane
2:30- Caitlin
openings until 4.

Friday:
Presentations with recurring guests of final proposal for Thesis, finished concept models updated with Moji's comments from Tuesday.

cell phones

look at
http://www.textually.org/ ,
if you want

General info

Moji's email:
mb193@columbia.edu

Moji's cell phone for the field trip:
917-881-5611

Fieldtrip info

Dear Amy, please let everyone know that:

1)As we discussed we will be going to Princeton on Friday,see:http://www.princeton.edu/~soa/amer_city/home.htmlwe will be taking the NJ Transit from Penn station to Princeton +shuttle(dinky)to the University. Cost is $20 off peak around trip,either take 2:32pm train if you want to have time to visit thecampus or 3:33 train to be there just for the conference.They should print out map of U. so they know they way around.

2)Anybody not attending need to let us know ahead of time.

3) I will be collecting the hard copies of their entire presentationon Friday at the beginning of the event, will comment and will givethem back after the conference. They should be showing you the samecopies during the weekend for your comments. We will review allchanges on Tuesday October 25th during our class discussion. Weneed to see again the entire project, projected.

4) I do not have scheduled time to review recent developments by:Dana, Thomas. They can meet me at Parsons today between 2 and 6 pmif they wish to at 25 East 13th Street, (between 5th andUniversity) second floor or call to set up another time. I can alsomeet Becca and Johane if they wish to, although I did talk to Beccaa bit yesterday.

Moji

ah, cell phones ......

check it ----- I actually found an example of where cell phones are used for data collection:

"Wildlife researchers in Kenya and South Africa have put no-frills cell phones in weatherproof cases on a collar that goes around an elephant's neck. The phone sends a message every hour, revealing the animal's whereabouts.
It cuts the cost of tracking wildlife by up to 60 percent, said Professor Wouter van Hoven of the University of Pretoria's Center for Wildlife Management.
"You don't have to walk around the bush searching for the animals," he says. "I have sat around in Europe and was able to monitor animals in the mountains using a cell phone that had access to the Internet."

HOWEVER --- .... what's the difference between that, and just a regular tracking device like they've been using for years?

read the whole article at
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/10/17/africa.goes.cellular.ap/index.html

TA Hours

EVERY SUNDAY 1-4

THIS WEEK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 4-7 (LET ME KNOW AHEAD OF TIME IF THIS CONFLICTS WITH OTHER SCHOOL EVENTS)

Citywide Open Studios

another interesting art event going on / coming up is the NY Citywide Open Studios -- various artists in the 5 boroughs let people come into their studios and check out their work and workspaces. They're doing a borough per weekend -- Manhattan and Queens have already past, but this weekend is the Bronx, and next weekend Brooklyn, with Staten Island the week after. There are several DUMBO / Brooklyn Heights studios participating -- it would be interesting to see what it's like inside of some of the buildings we've been looking at .

their website is http://www.isupportart.org/
and their brochure and map guide are at http://www.isupportart.org/LMag_EAI.pdf

Dumbo Arts under the Bridge Festival this weekend

Hello everybody,

This would be a great event to go check out if you get the chance...here's the link with info.

http://www.dumboartscenter.org/festival/2005/

From Moji

Metropolitan Urban Design Program

Design Studio:

w/ Moji Baratloo & Justin Moore

Metropolitan Architecture and Urban Design: land, water, infrastructure

Site: Brooklyn Waterfront (ConEdison site in DUMBO)

Program: high density development and public space/infrastructure

Landscape Workshop:

w/ Andy Moore

Metropolitan Open Space Design: water’s edge/city’s edge and in-between

Proseminar:

w/ Marie-Danielle Faucher

Metropolitan Planning & Design: housing, open space and economic development

site info 2

site info

BRYANT PARK: thoughts on cell phone usage

a snippet of what Jui and I discussed following our Bryant Park exercise, during which we used our cell phone as props and as technology:
as props to help us invade peoples' space ("who pays attention to someone on a cell phone?")
as technology to communicate the situations ("..isn't background noise just as relevant....?")

ISLAND: dana

Gideon's Barge Project, Part II

Gideon's Barge Project

Due Dates this week

Hello everyone,
Here's a quick rundown of assignments due and pin-up times this week.

Tuesday*:
Post ALL assignments to the blog.
Bring all hard copies to class.
Pin-up Brooklyn Bridge research (digital projection)
Room 505 Avery, I will pick up the equipment for the room before 2 pm. You should all be ready to load your presentations promptly so that we can start on time.

*Those of you who have not yet finished the first two projects (Bryant Park and Barge) MUST post both projects to the blog by Tuesday before class or these assignments will be marked incomplete.

Thursday:
TA Hours 9-12, those of you I didn't speak with today should be sure to come with work Thurs.

Friday:
Juried review of final research for Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Room 114 Avery, the equipment is already in the room. You are all responsible for loading your presentations onto the computer in the room before 2 pm (or as early as you can depending on use of the room beforehand).
Thesis statements should be posted to blog and included in your presentations for Friday.

TA Hours for 10/09 and 10/13

Sunday 10/09, 1-4pm

Thursday 10/13, 9am-12pm, (the calendar says you guys dont have APP this Thursday)

Look forward to seeing you all this week, be sure to bring in whatever you're working on so we can look at it together. Thanks!

Katrina Dialogues this Friday!

I highly recommend you all try to attend this before you head out to Brooklyn for your field trip if you can. It should be very interesting.

Public Symposium: The Katrina Dialogues
Friday, October 7, 9:00 am-4:00 pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, GSAPPPresented By:Urban Technical Assistance Project (UTAP) of the (GSAPP)Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS)Urban Planning Program (UP) of the (GSAPP)

Info for Friday's Field Trip

Meet on Friday at 2:45 at the
Department of City Planning Brooklyn Office
16 Court Street, 7th Floor

From Manhattan2/3 or 4/5 trains to Court Street/Borough Hall stop
16 Court St. is on the corner of Court and Montague Streets

Our meeting is with:Justin G. Moore
Urban Designer, Brooklyn Office
NYC Department of City Planning
16 Court Street, 7th FloorBrooklyn, NY 11241
t: 718.643.7550
f: 718.596.2609

Museum of Modern Art

go to MOMA! apparently it's free for Columbia students. check out the High Line exhibit, it's pretty interesting. The museum building itself is worth checking out as well.
-DANA

Schedule for this week updated

Hi Everyone,

For those of you who weren't in TA hours this evening, here is the schedule for this week.

Tuesday, 8:00pm: I'll be presenting my project from last semester and discussing the development of the project from the initial assignment put forth by the professor to the final proposal. Location: Avery 408

Wednesday, 1-2:30: TA Hours

Thursday, 1:30-3: TA Hours
Thursday, 8:00pm: Portfolio workshop with Billy Feuerman, Location: Avery 408

Sunday, 1-4: TA Hours
Sunday, 4-7: Software workshops in Avery, check GSAPP website under 'Events' for location

There are also atleast two urban issues focused lectures this week check the school website or in Avery for postings.

Please note that I've split up my weekday TA hours between Wednesday and Thursday because I know some of you have fieldtrips on either day this week. Please, all of you, email me to save a twenty minute timeslot for either day (it'll help me figure out when you're all available). And please please remember to bring your work with you so that we can talk about what you've done. Thanks everyone!

See you this week,
Amy

Website links updated

Hi everyone,

I went ahead and updated some of the website links on the blog. I've started by adding some of the topics that came up in the review yesterday...please feel free to post anything else you find interesting, helpful, etc. See you all tomorrow, Sunday, at 4!

Amy

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