Webgasse Diary 13/03.07

Second meeting Tuesday 13th March

Manifesto

To build architecture between people. Creating sustainable connections within a community and the connection that the community has to its space. Getting people to question the nature of their environment and their influence on and within it. By creating a platform within which people can communicate and initiating small physical interventions with in the area. Enabling people to participate with their environment and take increased responsibility for it.


We wrote the manifesto as seen above

Things to do:

Research

- What is going to happen to the site and when?
- Come up with a comprehensive list of what we wish to find out and structure it.

Set up a space on the server where everything we find out can be put to help inform other fourth year projects

Set up a website, email address

Create a framework / template in which research can be placed

Design logo

See whether we would be able to apply for an UH grant to fund what we want to achieve.

When we have a list of all the things we want to do and how we want to go about doing them work out when we are going to do them.

I have started two lists one for what we wish to research and one for the interventions we wish to make of course as the project progresses one will inform the other but the lists will begin when me and Ernst meet tomorrow as I feel this is the next step.

Webgasse Diary 11/03/07

Here's what we spoke about in the turkish café

1.) about what:
- question people's residents' environment(s)
- to come up with ideas on how to make their life better

2.) by:
- talking
- actions*
:painting the floor - LOGO!!!
:planting things around [attention, care, appropriation]
:making use of the fence as means of communication [plastic bottles - message in a plastic bottle - chalkboards]
*) actions taken should already contain different ways of thinking and using the environment

3.) where:
- use the site as a communication platform for the people of the area to find out and communicate what they would like to have

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RESEARCH:
- ways of mapping [may become obvious through investigation in the area]
- research how participatory processes have been dealt with in precedence projects
- tracing the everyday story of people living here
- investigation of targeted area [find out what's happening, about infrastructure, shops]

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talk to Ed's father (the architect)

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timetable for:
- questioning people
- research about precedence projects
- research and mapping about the area
- setting up the communication [including organizing exhibition, presentation of proposals, party, barbecue]
- collecting and evaluating responses
- decide what to do then [i.e. get horribly drunk and run naked around the city in an attempt to get arrested to have an excuse not to have to show up for the final presentation]

Webgasse Diary 08/03/07

First brainstorm 08/03/07

Setting up method of communication
How designs are reached
– who is involved
– How is it managed and organised
How transparent are existing systems
How could we set up a very transparent system?
How do we find out what people need?
How do we stimulate people to think about how to solve their own problems?
Objectives?
How to research
Global factors
Historical
Political
Factors in a design making process
Need to experience who the client is and what they need
Ways of communication
- Internet
- Posters
- Meetings
- Events
- Information Stand
- Talking
- Media
- Theatre
- Screenings
- Walk
- Music

Research / process leading to design
Involving art and culture
Stimulate people to question their environment
Inspire change