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This is a workshop that was facilitated by ILRI as a follow up on a communication training offered to Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB) staff in Nairobi Kenya in 2014.
TDB is one of the partners in implementing the MoreMilkiT project in Tanzania, which is led by ILRI
The objective of this second workshop is to review the TDB action plan, what worked/didn't work, identify capacity gaps, and chart the way forward on how TDB can use available opportunities to achieve it's mission. (Photo Credit:ILRI/Mercy Becon)
medical analysis concept, a syringe, and some tablets with a computer keyboard on wooden desk - image from our photo collection of medical images at www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries/medical/index.htm
Caught some interesting prismatic colors off the side of an aquarium at sunset. No digital processing.
So as it turns out Architecture is yet another one of our systems that serves us badly while attending to another agenda having to do with personal accolades. It's just not getting the attention that our food system, transport system and land use system has. It should since the built environment is second after our agricultural system in resource use.
Stewart Brand embarks on a fascinating study posing questions that no one seems to ask, mainly, do our buildings really serve our needs. Mostly no, since architects win awards given by judges who don't visit the actual buildings. They just look at pictures. And no one seems to nail them if the roof leaks which apparently they mostly do since so many public buildings have flat roofs. Yep I can attest to that, but I thought it was an exception not the rule. Surely someone's figures out how to make flat roofs not leak. They are so common. He also mentions that Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings always leak. That makes him a fitting icon for Ayn Rand's world view—beautiful theory, but comepletely inflexible and impractical, a museum for the individual artist with no thought to the people who have to live with it.
Having been in a few award winning buildings at Stanford I knew the consequences of having fancy architects do a building. I've heard the complaints. So it was gratifying to have Stewart get on his soap box about it and he's also local so talks a lot about Bay Area buildings. He also comments on how our financing system makes it difficult to build houses or commercial structures slowly enough or incrementally so as to adapt to what's needed. You can only do that if you start with an old warehouse from back when buildings were utilitarian and adaptable.
I've heard Stewart Brand when he introduced Orlov at the Long Now Society wearing his gumboots because he lives aboard an old tug boat. It was Catherine who pointed out that this was his book. He's more well known as the creater of the Whole Earth catalog which was quite influential for me as well. So it was interesting to see him take back his enthusiasm for Buckminster Fuller's dome. (Too difficult for ordinary people to build and fix and it leaked every which way, though to be fair Bucky envisioned the dome as a pre-fab factory built appliance.)
He was also gratifying because he gave me language for what I myself have come to prefer. What he calls the low road building is one that no one cares about so you can do anything to it. I love those situations. He also talks about historical preservation as an overlooked environmental building practice. And he's the first person I've read to speak kindly of the mobile home and travel trailer as permanent shelter.
Published in 1994, I've seen this book around, but never picked it up because I thought it was going to be a stuffy academic deconstructive treatise. Then it was referred to in another book I was reading so I checked it out and was so glad I did, since it gave me so much insight plus it was very readable and anecdotal and now that I'm a rehabber it couldn't be more timely.
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HACKATHON
Friday, March 20–Sunday, March 22, 2015
The City of Seattle and Commute Seattle invited data analysts, developers, designers, and other innovators to help design user-centric tools that improve the commute. These can take the form of:
-- improvements to existing applications
-- new tools to help commuters in any mode or modes of transportation
-- data analysis and visualizations that clarify the big picture
Teams will had the opportunity to present their work to a panel of judges, with the top three project ideas moving on to a championship round. Work was judged based on its potential to make commuting in Seattle easier and more pleasant for everyone.
- See more at: hackthecommute.seattle.gov/#sthash.OOMUsIxI.dpuf
For info on the finalists: hackthecommute.seattle.gov/2015/03/25/hack-the-commute-re...
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Five Rayons North-West of Moscow (Russia)
Pedestrian connection analysis
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For his Branding 2 project, Scott Strathern chose to brand the identity of a waterfront boutique hotel on the shores of False Creek in Vancouver. The result is a refreshing take on a modern hotel that meets the needs of his audience — smart, design savvy, cool, and hip people in the know. The brand package consists of competitive analysis, moodboard, environment design, logo design and miscellaneous branded applications.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
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DID YOU KNOW? Many of the imaging systems used by Macroscopic Solutions are available for individuals, researchers and labs to purchase?
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Root cause analysis (RCA) is a class of problem solving methods aimed at identifying the root causes of problems or events. This template may be used for up to 6 possible causes, which may be weighted and displayed on a small fishbone diagram. SpreadsheetWEB version of the template provides all features of the template, also can be used, saved and edited online.
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First Lieutenant Scott Tinney of the 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade briefs Brig. Gen. Randall Simmons, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard on the updated mission results for operations in Seminole County. As of Oct. 14, 2018, the Augusta-based 878th Engineer Battalion of the Columbus-based 648th MEB had opened a second point of distribution to provide relief supplies to the citizens of Seminole County. Georgia Army National Guard Photo by Maj. William Carraway / released
Orchard Road - Singapour -
HDA : Facades designer -
Client : Swire Properties LTD
Architect : Raymond Woo & Associates Architects
2009-2015
Researchers use sophisticated instruments and data-analysis techniques to help building owners and operators understand how energy s used and how designs, occupancy and operations affect use levels.
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edensmachine: medievalpoc: aseantoo submitted to medievalpoc: Sir Joshua Reynolds George Clive and his Family with an Indian Maid England, 1765 Oil on canvas Height: 140 cm (55.1 in). Width: 171 cm (67.3 in). Gemäldegalerie, Berlin [x] From Simple English Wikipedia: Lord George Clive was cousin of Robert Clive, founder of the empire of British India. He made his fortune there. Clearly the painter found the Indian nurse’s depiction his greatest pleasure. Is it just me or do the white family look unreal and vacant despite contrasting the dark shades of the back drop. Yet the nurse pops and looks tangible and alive. A lot of people have responded similarly about the contrast between the white colonial family and the indigenous woman in this painting. Even the child is nearly as white and stiff as a corpse…and yet, these images were intentionally idealized in this manner; their very whiteness can be seen as a rebuke to the Indian woman’s vivid, tangible presence here. This has everything to do with Color, Chromophobia, and Colonialism. Chromophobia is marked, not just by the desire to eradicate color, but also to control and to master its forces. When we do use color, there’s some sense that it needs to be controlled; that there are rules to its use, either in terms of its quantity or its symbolic applications (e.g., don’t paint your dining room blue because it suppresses appetite). Please note that I’m not arguing against color psychology; it’s undeniable that certain colors carry certain cultural assumptions and associations, a fact that has led anthropologist Michael Taussig to argue that color should be considered a manifestation of the sacred. But what I am arguing is that there is a pervasive idea that color gets us in the gut: it’s seductive, emotional, compelling. Color, in the words of nineteenth-century art theorist Charles Blanc, often “turns the mind from its course, changes the sentiment, swallows the thought.” According to some art critics, sensory anthropologists, and historians, this mutual attraction and repulsion to color has centuries-old roots, bound up in a colonial past and fears of the unknown. Michael Taussig has recounted that from the seventeenth century, the British East India Company centered much of its trade on brightly colored, cheap, and dye-fast cotton textiles imported from India. Because of the Calico Acts of 1700 and 1720, which supported the interests of the wool and silk weaving guilds, these textiles could only be imported into England with the proviso that they were destined for export again, generally to the English colonies in the Caribbean or Africa. These vibrant textiles played a key part in the African trade, and especially in the African slave trade, where British traders would use the textiles to purchase slaves. According to Michael Taussig, these trades are significant not only because they linked chromophilic areas like India and Africa, but also because “color achieved greater conquests than European-instigated violence during the preceding four centuries of the slave trade. The first European slavers, the Portuguese in the fifteenth century, quickly learned that to get slaves they had to trade for slaves with African chiefs and kings, not kidnap them, and they conducted this trade with colored fabrics in lieu of violence.” Where I differ with Taussig is that there is very little doubt in my mind that using the concept of aesthetics in the manner can absolutely be a form of violence, and that art can be used to subjugate. Say what you will about this being an exaggeration, but I wasn’t the one cleaning the Elgin marbles in acid in the 1800s to better fit a misconception of whiteness…after all, Greek marbles originally looked something like this, much to the chagrin of western aestheticism everywhere: So when you consider the historical context of the painting in the original post, it becomes entirely likely that the stiffness and whiteness of the colonial family is meant as a desirable contrast to the vibrantly alive Indian woman. And you should also consider what kind of ideas you have about her from the painting, and think on how your view of her is affected by the context. Is she somehow more “natural” or “wild” than the family? Is she “earthy”? How is her existence affected by the fact that she is situated below even the child in the composition…do her arms ache from holding her up? I had never seen this painting before it was submitted, and I wonder why that is. There are a lot of things about it that are unpleasant, but the ideas in it influence us anyways.