Sketching: Communication, Concepts, and the Line
Jason Hart
Thu Jan 13, Fri Jan 14, 05-07:30pm, AVT-7-431, Last Class Jan.15, Sat.12-5p
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: No artistic ability is required
The Sketch is a way of communicating, thinking, and understanding. This workshop is grounded in hands-on activities and instruction. It is intended to enhance skill sets for effective graphic communication and sketching ability. Emphasis is placed on the three-dimensional sketch. Topics include: perspective,axonometric, diagramming, graphic organization, proportion, and the anatomy of the sketch. Exercises challenge students to think about and draw space, objects, and concepts in multiple ways. Students are requested to finance their own materials and local travel.
Web: http://www.hartstudios.com/sketch.html
Contact: Jason Hart, 7-337, x3-7387, jhart@alum.mit.edu
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The Art of Traditional Boat Design
Kurt Hasselbalch, Reuben Smith, Antonio Dias
Wed Jan 19, Thu Jan 20, Fri Jan 21, 10am-05:00pm, Meets in N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 19-Jan-2005
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Fee: 15.00 for Materials cost
MIT Museum’s new nautical skills course! This class in traditional hands-on design practice will help you better understand the coding of CAD applications. Skilled instructors will teach you how 3-D models are used in the design process. The instructors will guide the class in the drafting procedures traditional builders use when working from a model to develop lines plans and/or a full-scale lofting in preparation to building a boat. Small teams will produce their own lines plans from a model and learn ways to develop other useful design data.
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52-223A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Cosponsor: MIT Museum
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Three Decades of Squatter Dreams - Lima, Peru
Reinhard Goethert
Wed Jan 5 thru Wed Jan 19, 09am-05:00pm, Lima, Peru
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Interactive interdisciplinary workshops which focus on projects and practices on urban settlement issues in developing countries throughout the world. Participation by guest practitioners.
In 1969 four squatter communities were surveyed in Lima, Peru: Cueva, El Ermitano, El Agustino, and Mendocita. It is now 25+years after: What happened? How did they manage? SIGUS will go to Lima in January to revisit these four settlements and explore these questions.
Note: Student participants wishing to receive credit for their IAP work must register for 4.230J/11.468J in Spring 2005.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/sigus/www
Contact: Susana Williams, 7-337, x3-7387, susanamw@mit.edu
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Using Architectural and Urban Design to Structure Human Memory and Experience
Konstantinos Tsakonas
Thu Jan 27, 11am-01:00pm, 7-338 Small Stella
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 10 participants.
With the advent of computation and the introduction of new creative processes and techniques, the practice of architectural and urban design is changing and with it both the artifacts themselves and the new cultural conditions they help create. In a single two hour session, we will introduce the topic and:(i) review examples of how architectural and urban design impact human activities and behavior; (ii) review literature in the field of psychology that posits cognitive development to be socio-cultural in nature; (iii) reconsider architecture and urban design processes, evaluation methodologies and the architect-client-user relationship in light of the above.
Contact: Konstantinos Tsakonas, 7-337, x3-7387, tsakonas@MIT.EDU
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