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Reinventing materiality

Complex Geometries

Attached you can find the powerpoint presentation in two parts.

las-ramblas_sg02_portaferrissa-feranpart1.ppt

las-ramblas_sg02_portaferrissa-feranpart2.ppt

part

There cannot be part, without the whole, yet part is something less than the whole.

participatory

participatory :Providing the opportunity for individual participation.To participate, is to take a part or share in something,
In terms of Architecture , participatory design implies the participation of users on the design process.
The procces is sometimes called, the collective design procces. In a way ,the built environment is always
designed both by expert designer and by ourselves.
 
In the English-speaking world, the term has a particular currency in the world of software development, especially
 in circles connected to Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility .

http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ParticipatoryUrbanism/index.html

http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm

http://www.iaacblog.com/mariapapaloizou/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/g1lasramblas.pdf

Brain is what it is because of structural and functional properties of interconnected neurons. Neuron partly consists of an electrically excitable output fibre, the axon of which rises to many smaller branches before ending to nerve terminals. Synapses, the Greek word (σύναψις)  ”to clasp together”, are the contact points where one neuron communicates with another. These conections, make us feel, understand and create emotions depending on the stimulus we get.

We can say that human brain works like a computer, or even like the web, creating links (synapses) to define  data. One can wonder what is the nature of this human made brain,  managing digital info?

Golgi-stained neurons in human hippocampal tissue.

SSome graphs from my personal notebook, concerning the area of Raval, for  the Listening team, showing constantly changing sounds in relation with time.

From now on I am in Las Ramblas group.

I am from now member of Las Ramblas group.

Below are some notes from from my book concerning the spatial occupations on Las Ramblas.

Scheme 1, sketch of the plant selling and the artesany permanent stands.

Sketches of the changing occupations along Las Ramblas. Cafeterias, kiosks, performers are attracting passing people that gather around, creating variable spaces and passages changing constantly as time passes.