Week Eleven – Big Data & The Internet of Things

At the beginning of the week we learnt about different types of data (Open, Closed and Shared.) They are all quite self explanatory: Open data- Data that anyone can see, use and share. Shared data- Date shared between a specific group of people for a specific purpose. Closed data- Data that only people inside that certain …

Neo-Futurist Architecture Week Eight

This session kicked off with a recap of everything we had done this term. We then discussed a new group called Man Town Human which was made up of six members, the groups view is similar to what Marinetti and Sant'Elia said. Man Town Human don't understand "why we have to meet certain requirements, the …

Week Ten -Ethnography

This week we were asked to come up with a revised brief for a problem. Unfortunately Gareth was ill during the week so we haven't received any feed back yet, once I have received this information I will come back to this post and write about the week. Power Point: Week 10-Microwave

Neo-Futurist Architecture Week Seven

This session was quite an odd one as some of the ideas on planning the city shown were quite difficult to understand. The main idea was from Sir Ebenezer Howard, it involved a central city with six surrounding 'garden' cities. His vision for this idea was that he wanted to merge the town and city together. …

Week Nine – Defuturing

This weeks project was called Defuturing at the beginning of the week I was confused to what it meant, but after Theo and Dr Stephen spoke to the class I had a better understanding of what it was. The main point from the discussion was that almost everything that has been designed has negative affects on the …