Book Process Photos

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Notes from last meeting with Razia

misson statement: emphasize the environment more, what is specifically useful about longhouse to our curriculum?

-Central park as a stepping stone to Longhouse, as one lesson

-One lesson could just be becoming aware of the space around their school, then using the design thinking toolkit to actually start to document

-Slowly our radius expands

-Environment aspect needs to be emphasized, that is what is unique about our idea

-How can we incorporate the concept of actually constructing?

-Maybe 2 visits to longhouse, one at beginning and one at the end,

-URBAN environment, and the whole idea of space and environment--how students interact with

-Shelter and dwellings, how students relate to these structures

-Expanding visiting artists to artists and ARCHITECTS who work

-Elizabeth Ellsworth, professor at the New School--Filmmaker who went into education who wrote great books--called Teaching Spaces

-She also talks about the mode of address, who does the film think you are? She says that a teacher has to think about that when she talks to her students?

-Maybe this could be for an afterschool program, alternative setting maybe in the summer that could be

-Psychogeography, parapenetic box

RELATED SOURCES and INSPIRATIONS

• Whitney Pop-up Classroom: http://blip.tv/whitneyorg/whitney-studio-by-lot-ek-6027953.
• RethinkEd/DTE TOOLKIT: Design Thinking for Educators
• From Thinking to Doing: The Foxfire Core Practices : Constructing a Framework to Teach Mandates Through Experience-based Learning
• http://www.modspace.com/modular-solutions/mobile-offices/portable-classrooms/

• http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schooldesign/portables.html “From a district's perspective, the two advantages of portable classrooms are low initial cost and short time between specification and occupancy”
• Colorado College Mobile LAB (on wheels)
• Compass Green: A Mobile Greenhouse Project
• SIMONETTA MORO: http://www.simonettamoro.com/works/psychogeographies/pmaps/index.html
• ELIZABETH ELLSWORTH: http://elizabethellsworth.com/

Yurt Course Syllabus

Here is the syllabus from the course I taught with prof. Scott Johnson out at Colorado College on yurt design. Please do not copy any information from this or pass it on to anyone else.

We might be able to use the course grid as a framework or use some similar language, though, and the concepts are described in the overview & description are very much in overlap with our own. Check it out!

Colorado College: Vernacular Architecture-The Yurt, Summer 2011 Syllabus

More Thoughts on a Mobile Studio/Classroom - Built at Longhouse or in Central Park?

In 2011 New York City's CUNY Architecture & Engineering students built a Solar Roofpod.The Solar Roofpod was designed and built for the Solar Decathlon, a university solar house competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Roofpod competed against 20 other student-built solar homes on the Washington Mall in September 2011.

This competition came to mind when we discussed getting a class or group together to build a mobile classroom/studio. I like the idea of involving a university or even an established company to help build or even work with the students on the thought and design process.

City College of New York Students Unveil Sun-Powered Roof Pod for Solar Decathlon Competition | Inhabitat New York City

Photos from Longhouse