Saturday, May 15, 2010

Ott Alver's, Alvin Järving's and Martin Tago's presentations

Dear scenario planners,

http://arh.planet.ee/Scenario%20planning/
I have added here a link, from where you can download the presentations of:

Alvin Järving - presentation about real estate advertisements.
Ott Alver - presentation about Viimsi and why some people have started to move away from it.
Martin Tago - presentation about a possible solution for connecting Tallinn into a more homogenous city

I hope these presentations help in any way possible.

Cheers!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010

TASK FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 21, 2010

A proposal, developing from the scenario matrix draft no. 3. Each group has same task: to discuss and improve / rethink the scenario matrix, invent names of four scenarios and their logic + discuss the main question.
Presentation 21.4. at 17.30: Written / drawn on one or more A3 sheets. Illustrations or ideas pictures possible.

5 groups :

1. katharina shiva nathan peter
2. kaija-luisa martin anna juliet rutger
3. evelin jessica evelyne liselotte
4. annika maris joris chrysoula
5. damiano lydia hanna nicole andrea

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Ciao,

Reminder!

On Friday at 14:00

Aleksi Neuvonen : Future studies and methodology

and

EKA grups : presentation of findings to POLIS students
- prepare the list of presenters in advance
- people / grups, who can't manage to present on Friday due to time schedule, will carry on on Saturday

On Saturday we start at 10:00

Friday, March 19, 2010

Next week there will be workshop lead by Johan Paju (landscape architect from Stockholm).
Time: Thursday 14-18(19), Friday 10-18. Anu will send a new weekly schedule.

Karin Bachmann put together the preliminary task that we ask to prepare for the workshop - print out on A3-s. It is a whole team work. You can use already made research materials. You can share the parts between groups so that all together will be one document. Be brief and precise.

PRACTICAL TASK:
CONDITIONS FOR (IMAGINARY) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION: PEETRI VILLAGE'S FUTURE PUBLIC SPACE

• Schemes: public, half-private and private space – defining, contact spots, uniting possibilities and/or uncertainties; logic of traffic (cars, pedestrians, bicycles etc), destinations, focal points, village structure (old/new/joining spot/gray areas), etc.
• Important: main and clear advantages and disadvantages; natural conditions (water, landforms, trees), protected-unprotected elements, open/closed/views etc.
• Identity: is there smth that could be starting point for local identity; things people describe their home location, negative/positive, increasing/decreasing; how this possible newborn identity-seed could help to create village’s self-image and home-feeling.
• Participation principles for locals: cooperation form, information channels, possibilities for face-to-face communication, information to be expected; user groups: children, youngsters, grown-ups, dog-people, car-people, sport-people etc.
• Design principles (generally)

HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR FILES

To upload your file on Google Docs accept the invitation that I sent you by mail. If you have problems, leave a comment on this post.

WOULD BE REALLY THE BEST IF EVERYONE OF YOU COULD MAKE A "GMAIL" SO THAT WE CAN SHARE THE INFORMATIONS REALLY EASILY. WE COULD EVEN USE THE URBAN STUDIES ACCOUNT THAT I'VE JUST CREATED TO SHARE CONTENTS, INFO AND CALENDARS ALSO FOR OTHER EXAMS, BUT GMAIL IS NEEDED. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT YET, YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW USEULL IS IT TO WORK.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dear students,
tomorrow 19.3. we will continue the background study presentations. After the break, Katrin will give an introductory lecture on Landscape thinking in urban planning.

As said couple of times, we are still in the analytical phase of scenario process. The steps of the whole process are:

1. Defining the main question / problem
2. Studying broad societal trends that influence the question (socio-cultural, political, economic, environmental, technological + values)
3. Finding key actors that have direct agency for our question
4. Finding uncertainties about 2. and 3. and ranking them
5. Bundling the biggest uncertainties to two axis --> scenario matrix (big task of 9.-10.4.)
6. Fleshing out the scenarios (new groups with POLIS students)
7. Crossing the scenarios (discussion)

We have much material for 2. and 3., even though a little unstructured.
Main question is still a little open, but to us it seems that it revolves around

- looking the topic from suburbs, not from Tallinn, accepting the current reality as a starting point
- "healing" the social and morphological situation, created by rapid suburban process in 2000s
- creating new centralities
- innovating on social form and service provision models, to enhance quality of life
- propose a landscape strategy


See you tomorrow
Panu & Katrin

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Keypoints from 19.2 tutoring

Discussion:
Going back to the main questions.

(Everyone talked of the problems/questions/issues that seemed most important or interesting or necessary for them)

Karina from Pekka group: new centres in suburbs- schools, kindergartens etc. How to find/ create new centres?

Kaija- Luisa: find out different typologies, focus on things that exist, small communities out of Tallinn. Future orientation?

Not look only Tallin centre but a wider area or Body with diverse set of areas and centres. Some are more connected, some more potential to separate and have individuality.

Alvin: How do the suburbs work in post- boom times. Image of the suburbs. Find tendencies. 2 page article, overview about real estate advertisements, how they have changed over times and after the boom. Myth creation or branding. Focusing on real-estate images.

New topic: Media reflection. Looking for old newspapers, advertisements, Maja magazine, household magazines. Gardening and interior topic separately.

Martin: empty space and new developments in the city. How to integrate the new to the old city. Part of the city and independent but also influenced. Space between city and new developments- what happens there? Feeling of distance between city and developments. Built areas are quite small compared to the empty space around. Forest and field development- the visibility and invisibility. How to create high quality urban landscape, how to evaluate what you look at?

The landscape quality declaring the developments quality.

Mari: Lack of resources don’t allow final development of infrastructures. How local people react to that? Incompleteness. What are the reasons for post boom price changes or stability in different areas?

Ott: when Viimsi does not feel like a pleasant place to live…The background- the incomers from Mustamäe and Lasnamäe enjoy the environment, locals are starting to doubt in it. Young people are moving away to the city.


From here on, NEW GROUPS ARE FORMED ACCORDING TO THEMES!

New Groups:
New sociality - Evelin, Katharina, Martin
Morphology, type - Kaija Luisa, Annika, Ele, Damiano
Landscape - Martin, Mari
Values&Identity - Ott
Governance - Karina, Maris
Money, economic aspect - Lidia

Others should join or create a new theme group.

Monday, February 22, 2010

some links:

http://www.tedxatlanta.com/videos/01262010-repurpose/ellen-dunham-jones/
from Kalle


http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/394415
about housing stock (macro talk) in estonian

Toomas

Monday, February 8, 2010

Estonia to get a billion-kroon golf club and housing estate

04.02.2010, 16:11

Spanish businessman Javier Ortiz de Artiñanol who is CEO of FTr Consultants and founder of Risti Klubi plans to invest about a billion kroons on developing a golf club and a housing estate in Risti in Läänemaa county. The construction works are scheduled to start this summer.

Artiñano who has been active in the Estonian real estate business since 2004 said he started to developed the golf club project in 2006.

"Golf is not yet very popular in Estonia, but its popularity is growing similarly with Scandinavia. For instance, Finland has 20 golf clubs per a million residents, Sweden has 50 clubs. I think Estonia has five clubs at present so there is definitely room," he said.
According to Artiñano, Risti Golf Club will be more than just a golf club. "We will offer also other activities like billiards, squash, tennis, rowing, horseback riding and swimming. There will be restaurants in the club. Estonians love sports and I am very optimistic about this project," he added.
The 162-hectare area will include residential buildings. "We will develop one-family houses, row houses and apartments for about 750 people. Sales price will be relatively cheap, about 2 million kroons. We will not be able to sell them for 7 million, but Estonians will buy if the price is good."
Speaking of problems in Otepää and Saaremaa golf clubs, Artiñano said that they focus too much on golf. "They don't have enough club members, this is a problem. But we will not depend only on golf and this will be our advantage."
"Our target group is not business elite, but young families, medical doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.," said the businessman, adding that the objective is to sign up 1,500 club members. 50% of them would be living in the housing estate since anyone who buys housing in the estate would automatically become golf club member.
The Spaniard said that he hoped to start construction works this summer. The whole project would take about five years to complete. He adds that the project has backing from investors and there are no plans to take a loan for the development.

By Toomas Hõbemägi

Friday, February 5, 2010

data links

here are some links for the start:

- planning
www.harju.ee
www.hendrikson.ee

- real estate data
http://www.adaur.ee/index.php/graafikud/
http://www.maaamet.ee/kinnisvara/htraru/Start.aspx

- articles (in estonian)
http://www.solness.ee/maja/?mid=111&id=27
http://www.solness.ee/maja/?mid=111&id=413

katrin

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Film

American film: "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug

task 5.2. - scenario steps

dear all,
tomorrow 5.2. we start with the project tutoring at 10.15 - Kalle Komissarov's lecture is at 12.15

The groups were asked to develop last week's discussions one step further and provive about 2 pages / group:

Group 1. Interests and actors, agendas, competition btw municipalities, organising capacity...
Group 2. Identity, local qualities, differences btw suburban locations, cultural resources...
Group 3. Structural developments, demography, change of work and leisure, local food...

(The group who missed last week is expected to present as well. )


These three themes will help us proceed towards next step in scenario process, after main question:

driving trends
key actors

Tomorrow we should make a clear study plan for each group and student, so that we can start to act more independently.

See you tomorrow
Panu & Katrin

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