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CREATIVE DESIGN PROCESS (STRAINED (Allowing Alcohol/drugs While Designing,…
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First Thoughts
Susannah
we don't remember our physical self, we remember our embodied memories... imagination as the linking process between concept and idea?
Gregory
the manner in which things become ingrained in the mind with the passing of time; the layering of this; how this affects what we imagine
Judy
memory - how much can you remember/process experiences and how much of that do you use to generate fantasies
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Thomas
reconfiguration and cross pollination of elements from experiences to generate new permutations of them
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IDEAS vs CONCEPTS
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Suzie
where's the line between design concepts for the entertainment of architects themselves and for benefit of the people/user
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Judy
how to know when to stop revising the concept - (how to know your concept is finalised - can it ever be finalised?)
Bernardo
how would you know that you've arrived to the final concept, if a final concept exists?
there is ideal horse, only degree of relevance .
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how to improve the process of putting forward your idea/concept - to translate your thoughts into outcomes that are well understood by others - kim bonello
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Maria - more on how to make sense of the pattern of all the data/experiences etc. everytime to lead to a concept? or does it mean that if it the pattern is not there yet then you don t have all the inputs for the pattern to make sense?
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Amber
how can one make sure to be able to generate concept and ideas when they are limited to see new/different surroundings (like we are having now with this pandemic)
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Gaby
How to relate one idea to another when you have too many ideas which you believe are important and thus focus on a few which compliment each other and narrow it down to a strong concept
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A: SWIEQI
Yellow
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Accessible fro multiple sides, well connected
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Black
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Consumer culture, Greens is the parish church
Film Set Village, no substance
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Segregated Communities, Physically
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White
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Demographics: Varied, Rich Areas, Average Areas
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Developed as an offshoot of St.Julians, now a sidecar to Paceville
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Red
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Does not know where it wants to go, where it came from, what it wants to be
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Blue
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Using tourism in PV to reinforce the newly created identity, feeding into itself
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St Venera
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YELLOW HAT
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eventhough it is not walkable, there is close proximity
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LATERAL THINKING
Mosta
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Random
Elephant
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the dome is the elephant in the room, rethink it
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elephant spouts water: use water sprinklers around the city to cool down temperature in summer or in case of fire
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elephants used as tourist attraction, treat mosta as an endangered animal ex tourists must pay to enter town or dont let tourists in
St. Venera
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Spaceship
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speed
fast moving platforms
multiple platforms entries, like multiplying existing crossing road
Giving streets different horizontal speeds for different hierarchies (example: Primary would be very fast, secondary would be slower and tertiary would be really slow)
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Msida
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RANDOM: Chopsticks
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chopsticks float (wood)
use of multiple chopstick laid down, formation of raft or walkway
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Swieqi
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RANDOM WORD: Letter
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Giving cars a letter: A is on Monday, B on Tuesday etc.... less cars on streets
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AFFORDANCE
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First Thoughts
Judy
What the environment offers/provides for the users and they interpret/perceive it (could be environmental or contextual)
Susannah
cues/hints as to how users can interact with their environment... fork used as a comb in the little mermaid, hence dependent on context & may produce unforeseen affordances
Greg
a quality of an object that suggests what it can be used for - e.g. the shape of a chair and the posture of a person seated down
Amber
How something can be interpreted (influenced by sociocultural and environment etc) and the reaction/ behaviour it provokes
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Maria
how well an object/space is designed implies how well a user can identify the affordances/interact with it
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Kim
what the environment/object offers us/ allows us to do ... or rather how we perceive its function (interpreted differently according the person)
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Kimberley
the possibilities of how aspects of the environment can be understood or molded in order to offer different uses to its users
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Daphne
the design speaks for itself what is intended to do - yet this is effected by the context and socio-cultural
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Steve
The specific affordances of objects change depending on their properties and what their effect is within a context, and how a user interacts with it within the specific context
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Challanges Mosta
MOSTA
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Black
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pockets of poor urbanity due to stretched out locality, people who feel left out
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civic centre not catered for, lacks infrastructure
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Yellow
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heritage, already a lot to work with
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Blue
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urban farming in valley, can be linked to education and business opportunity
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pedestrian and vehicles on same plane but more dustinct, ex more pedestrian only areas
Green
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people as a resource, more community based activities and events
mental health and awareness, provide help to people who need it, improve the area and make it less secluded
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water and valleys as a resource, renewable energy
making use of the alleys, activities within the alleys
education: workshops, making it more legible as an educational hub
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use the dome, more than a tourist attraction
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Group B: Msida
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Flooding
venetian city
re-connection with sea: but what about the rest of msida?
Somehow the energy has to be transmitted to the rest of the city
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METAPHOR
My Understanding
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Thomas
Useful but the interpretative element of deciphering metaphors is something which needs to be given equal importance
agreed, depending on projects
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Susannah
In terms of architecture, I'm not sure about the direct application of metaphor to generate architectural form... seems shallow and questionable
what about art?
Why are architects so offended by the fact that other people can interpret their 'intended' meaning differently? Isn't that what makes architecture?
I guess it makes sense if architecture and art are treated similarly, but architecture is a social art
Bernard
an idea which is interpreted as something tangible (eg: building) in order to emphasize a literal idea
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Maria
when applying metaphor to architecture i feel it is sometimes too literal - possibly not effective to user's spatial experience
depends how it is applied. If its just literal, then it has failed.
Sunny
Mirroring something indirectly. Replica of physical representation or nonphysical sensory expression.
Process: A city growing like a tree. Like a tree affected by the wind, sun, landscape conditions, type of soil. Builders are the seed and investors are water (food) of this city.
Judy
making use of an analogy as the principle inspiration to better represent the direction of your thoughts
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Kimberley
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The processing of data into meaningful information can take different forms and thus result in different metaphors. If this result is not the same to what the architect had in mind would it mean that the processing of data by the architect is wrong?
Mireille
say something more strongly, evoke a more powerful reaction
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Luca
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If an architect wants a concept to be understood in the way he/she intended it to be, can this be provided with simple details in order to show this?
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Amber
Explaining a phenomenon or occurrence through the use of other things that are somehow related to what you want to explain. Only works if the recipient understands the connection between what is said and what is meant to be said
You give them a finger and they take your hand. Meaning (emotional) what you want to explain that you were kind to help them but instead of appreciating your help they are asking for more (negative)
in a capital city where people live from so many different cultures therefore have so many different interpretations; how can one apply metaphors and architectural decisions in a good way then?
Joanna
expressing something in a way that people can relate to more easily, or imagine more vividly
Sean
an interpretation of something tangible or intangible that can be represented in the notion of architecture, therefore having a subjective / objective effect (dependant on the choice of metaphor)
Steve
regardless of the original metaphor, the viewer will still make their own subjective interpretation of the metaphor or concept
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Kim B
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ex: the strength of water lily to explain the structure of the crystal palace. water lily is used as something people can easily relate to
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Greg
how should architects react when their work is understood in a different way than was intended?
what about the fact that people tend to perceive things differently?
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Group D
Mosta
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Random
Elephant
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the dome is the elephant in the room, rethink it
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elephant spouts water: use water sprinklers around the city to cool down temperature in summer or in case of fire
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elephants used as tourist attraction, treat mosta as an endangered animal ex tourists must pay to enter town or dont let tourists in
Onion
layers... dome is just the skin, there is more to mosta
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Alternatives Mosta
Problem: BRIDGE
Idea: use slides
CONCEPT: animate the valley,
more activity = less suicide
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