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.

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