For the project programming class I wrote about earlier, we have small groups called our peer review groups we meet with once a week and chat about the assignment we have turned in/where our project is/our thoughts/bitch about stuff. After our last peer review process I collected these notes and now need to apply them to the areas of interest I wrote about before. I know the peer review process is going to be integral in me finding my way through all this, AND I really love helping other people sort through all their mind lint to find an exciting and thought provoking process (seriously, its so fun working with and watching someones eyes light up as their idea comes together).
My notes:
barriers + hopelessness = attempt to fix these problems through landscape architecture
a lot of physical spaces in cities are easy to forget. There is no memory created by being on/in/around the space. Other places have natural deep meaning associated with them. How can landscape architecture find a physical spaces memory and enhance it or make it visible to the everyday user?
Recognize that it is not just underprivileged areas/communities that have barriers between memory/use of space and the space itself. Expensive, award winning new parks exist in some places that do not get any use. Are those not fulfilling a community need? Study the culture of the place where the site is and their feelings about nature/outdoor space/community gathering/sharing.
Goals:
- Create new spaces
- Create new experiences
- Bring people in (eyes on the “street”
- Change actions in a space and reactions to a space
- Attempt to change sense of community
- Recognize community barriers that may exist
- Physical
- Emotional
- Cultural
- Design to break though social, political, economic barriers
- What “patch” of the mosaic is the keystone patch, where to bring [people] in
- Recognize any kind of disconnect in urban spaces
- Sight lines
- Sidewalks ending
- Railroads
- Safety barriers
- Residential districts vs industrial
- Regional corridor disconnects
- Map the disconnects
- Understand the experiences of a space to find these disconnects
- Study the urban fabric, mosaic, of a region
- Look at this at a site scale
- Look at this at an ecosystem scale
- Species scale
- Future growth [scale??]
Something else I do a lot of while "discovering" in my design process is ask questions. Question marks actually begin to mark the next direction I usually should take my research, I use them naturally when wondering about something, but they turn out to be a great way to go back and find interesting directions to possibly take my ideas.