After the first contact with the ’state of the art’ about the city, we will start
developing the research of this seminar.
1. The first thing we want from you is a short description (A4) with the key questions in relation with the urban habitat. This means that, your ideas, concepts and important parameters that you want to deal with should be inside this manifesto.
The structure for this description in open and you can take concepts from all the issues that we have been looking these days or import it from other fields. The only requirement is to attach a measurement unit to all the concepts. For example, high density, can be measured in nº people/m2 or in green areas/build area. Or minimum flux, can be measured in people/seconds or energy/people.
TASK: A4 description with key questions, concepts of your ideal city with its units.
2. The hyperhabitat research will be focused from now in the networks stratum. After that you have study the nodes of activity that you can find in the city, now is the time to start understanding the relations between them. To make it rigorous and ordered, we will make it by layers and only focused on the networks of infrastructure (transport, energy, water…). It is crucial to understand that in each network there are hundreds of possible combinations and the city changes radically in relation with their variations.
As you have seen in the documentation that we gave to you, this means that we have seven layers. Each layer will be developed by a group of four people. Each group will produce a catalogue of diagrams of relations based on different configurations that you can find in cities around the world. For example, how the water is provided in the cities with big dams or in the cities with desalinization plants, etc…
These diagrams should incorporate as much relations as possible including all the nodes detected in the activities taxonomy of last year research.
‘Diagrams are the language for the notation of scenarios. Diagrams prescribes the organizational form of the dynamic structure of a scenario’ R.B. Fisuras, nº 12.5. > 2002.
GROUPS:
1. water network > Hemant Purohit, Rafael Gutierrez, Arnhildur Palmadottir, Vagia Pantou
2. energy network > Uday Goswami, Ben Howard, Nazli Ilgit Yucel, Vasco Portugal, Evita Vlachopoulou, Ramon Velazquez
3. information network > Alexander Harris, Andrea Katsavra, Vladimir Samoukovic,
4. human transport network > Mariana Paz, Erik Thorson, Gabriele Pileri, Ifigenia Arvaniti.
5. logistic transport network > Ki Hoon Nam, Bianny Poueriet, Krystian Kwiecinski, Maria Papaloizou
6. garbage network > Eduardo Mayo, Renu Gupta, Vikrant Sharma
7. waste network > Enrique Mora, Sarkawt Noori, Marcelo de la Riva, Anastasia Fragkoudi,
TASK: Start studying the network assigned by the group proposed.
Deep review of the infrastructure nodes of each layer.