Week 7

This week i was unable to attend the lecture due to illness

While listening to the podcast, I was able to pick out some interesting topic covered by the guest speakers (albeit most of the recording was pretty hard to hear).

The first speaker brought up the idea of POPS (Privately Owned Public Space). What POPS means is that even if a space is open to the public and accessible by all, it can still be deemed 'private space' because it is owned by a private party (i.e. not the city council for example). These spaces (such as Southbank) are owned by a private company but offer a public accessible place, however since it still is private property, these owners can enforced their own 'laws' within that space (conditions of entry). I thought this concept of 'double spaces' was interesting it that as a future designer, i very well might be given the opportunity to creating one of these POPS, and that i will have to take on the responsibility of creating a space that caters for public use and the users needs.


This lead onto what Mirko was saying about the difference in being a citizen vs. a customer. In that a citizen has every right to be in a public space and no one can tell them to leave, but a customer is usually a visitor to a POPS and can be asked to leave (private security etc). Identifying these spaces will be helpful for the assignment so that we can explore how the city is structure and how its inhabitants live within it (where do they go, what areas are accessible, are there any POPS?)


Assignment Progress

Since I was sick this week and couldn't attend the lecture or tutorial, My group took the model and draft of report to tutorial without me to get some feedback from the tutor.
Feedback we received back about the model was positive althgouht Mirko did want us to repaint the model to a more 'dull' colour. I didn't really like this idea and thought it looked better in it's natural colours (plywood) but unfortunately Mirko is one who is marking so we took on his advice and planned to repaint the model during the week.


The report was heavily criticised but we did get some helpful advice in finding out the parts that needed more work and sections we failed to cover/needed more analysis.