PROJECT 1 : re-thinking a promenade

The semester will begin with an analysis of the city of St. Augustine and the construction of two urban interventions. We will engage with the city of St. Augustine at a many scales and times to produce an analytical interpretation [from analysis to synthesis] that will serve as the armature for interventions. The first two weeks are reserved for the analysis part of the exercise which will be the mapping, re-thinking and re-construction of a promenade connecting two sites that you will choose for your interventions.

The programmatic charge of the interventions will be developed by you as a narrative constructed upon the specific place characters of the two sites. The re-constructed promenade between the two sites will be an imaginary / speculative / synthetic armature based on the memory of the two sites merging into the experiential qualities of the walk space between them.

Thus, your own experience of both the sites and the itinerary between them is the necessary starting point for the exercise. Understanding the notion of ‘analysis’ in terms of ‘probing’ questions specifically asked to ‘do’ something, to ‘intervene’ with the original object rather than ‘representing’ it will be a main pedagogical concern throughout the term.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Assignment 01-15-2010

Assignment Part 1 -
POST! Sketches, Photos and descriptive text to the blog.
TITLES of posting should be location based (i.e. "St. George Street at Palm Street looking West")
TEXT of postings should be as we discussed...descriptive words strung together to form a fragment of narrative based in the moment...focus the description using the "Intertwining" heading.
LABEL your posting according to the "Intertwining" heading.
I will be pleased to see these postings start to appear. I can view them on my phone, please surprise and entertain me.

Assignment Part 2 -
MAPS! Obtain:
Pre-Victorian Map (Map Library?)
Sanborn Map circa 1910? or so...
Current Map
OVERLAY these maps on layers in Photoshop (or GIMP) force them to correspond with each other and set them up to fill a 24x36 sheet when printed.
PRINT each of these maps on a 24x36 sheet.
CREATE, in Photoshop (GIMP), a single map which contains all three. This is a collage project. You can dissolve layers together you can cut and paste into new layers so that you get hard edges between maps, etc. You should concentrate these efforts at edges in the city, and spaces in the city.
Finally, DRAW a map on vellum using the analysis techniques you applied to your sketches.

ENJOY the books I left you.

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
---Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964
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