LA402L Winter 2012 Sublime Infrastructures Mid-Review Videos
SUBLIME (adj): Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
INFRASTRUCTURE (n): 1. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
ECO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS (n): ‘…an unprecedented amalgam of biology and technology… Urban eco-technical systems differ profoundly from nature’s ecosystems in that they are essentially linear systems. They transcend local ecological boundaries by importing ecological services from elsewhere, using nature as a source of materials as well as a sink for their wastes.” – Herbert Girardet
MAPPING (v): The act defining the spatial/temporal relationships between different places and systems.
INDEXING (v): The graphic spatial depiction of a system’s (or phenomena’s) influence on a place.
Project 1: Eco-technical Systems Analysis
Each team is to create at least 3 distinct maps or indexes drawn to scale that exploring the political, cultural, spatial, ecological, temporal, or technical fabric of the Valley and their connections to larger systems. At least one of the maps must explore the temporal development of a system or place, and another must look at ecological systems.
- Research 5 points
- Process 5 points
- Graphics 5 points
- Innovation 5 points
Video 1: Eco-technical Systems
Documents the site and systems around the site, edited together with animation of the maps produced in Project 1 and historic documents. Video 1 will provide a narrative about place that hints at the sublime. The readings are expected to inform the content of the video.
- Storyboards/pre-production 2 points
- Script/Narrative 3 points
- Cinematography/Animation 3 points
- Editing/post-production 2 points
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