Tuesday, February 24, 2009

QUESTIONS: INTRODUCING CYBERSPACE

1. "At present cyberspace does not consist of one homogeneous space; it is myriad of rapidly expanding cyberspaces, each providing a different form of digital interaction with communication". In life today what are cyberspaces expanding too and how are they affecting our means of communication?

2. Based on the two forms of virtual reality which is more important in creating inclusive and interactive spaces.

3. Since we already established space and place as a class, what is modern societies ways of connecting with cyberspace in relation to production and consumption.

4. Is the seperation of places (public and private) evident every day to all people, age groups, and societies?

5. The reality that cyberspace has created for its self is virtually unreal. It is possible that in generations to come it will be hard for them to decifer what is real and what is virtual?

Saturday, February 21, 2009

QUESTIONS: A DIFFERENT CITY FOR A DIFFERENT LIFE

1. What can we do as citizens to eliminate the crisis of urbanism that is constantly worsening?

2. How come we feel the constant need to break the laws that our city has made to help us? Why is there an ongoing need to betray the rules that are made merely to help us?

3. How are we able to produce enough if we are constantly cutting down on the amount of work put out collectively in changing nature.

4. What is the extent of the depths where new enviornments are created and how are they measured- in space or place?

5. Is life becoming richer and more rewarding by staying in our boundaries or creating extensive spaces and places to what we constantly live by?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

CLASS FEBRUARY 18.

Today in class, i came feeling prepared that I had answered the questions and taken pictures of what i thought were heterotopic spaces. When the discussion started I felt a better place for my eyes were to look down and not make eye contact with Hana for I did not have much to say about the heterotopic spaces discussed in the article. It was simple to find examples that had little common interest and capture them in photos to upload on my flickr. It was not easy, however, to explain why they fulfilled the criteria we were looking for. As class carried on, and my classmates gave new examples and reasons they saw certain herotopic regions and in what way, my mind started to wander. I was not exactly interested in the overalll meaning for I felt i had completed the project. Hana then informed us that this "heterotopic spaces" theory would be part of our homework for the next week. Not only was this haunting me, but the pictures of the cemetaries seemed to fit this disfunctional mode i had now created for myself. When we began the experimentation of working with partners and easing each other around the classroom and library, ideas started to form. A heterotopic area may not be as black and white as i would have preffered, but a wiff of the idea of its use started to form. It is one place that can be layered or defined in several different places. For a mirror captures an image for the second it is bestoyed in the reflection. Such heterotopias can change function, they are always opening and closing, which indefinitely isolates it. I know reading the perspective reading on this topic may inform me more about what is being discussed, but i think concentrating on the reading for this week and the long one for the week after are among my higher priorities. :)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

FLICKR

This is my flickr URL. I don't know if we're supposed to add eachother as friends or what, but i guess this is where I'll be posting my pictures from this weeks project.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandowns/

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

QUESTIONS/ANSWERS FROM CLASSMATES

C++ (Mary Finelli) Have networks made it easier to have a false identity and a second life?
YES. I very much believe that because of networks it is easier for us to falsify our identities
and create fictional versions of our lives that we wish to aim for. Knowing that we can create a
facebook, myspace, or even something like this as a blog, is an introduction to other people
into our lives. The substantial view of our lives conducted through networks is an opening to
let others in and judge us based on what they see. So in a sense, networks have made it easier
for people to venture into our lives, false identities, and secondary lives.

SPACE & PLACE (Kathryn Nguyen) "Emotion tints all human experiences." Women are often considered more emotional than men. Does this mean women have more tainted experiences? Or more intense and intimate experiences?
The way women percieve emotion is all in all different then men. I see it as, women take
different approaches to situations. Men appear to be less emotional by hiding their emotions
because in society they feel it is frowned apon if men are emotional. For a woman to show her
emotions to others, it is seen as a sign of strongness, or attention. A woman who is able to
break down is often percieved as not caring or having enough stregnth in themselves to react
that way and bring themselves back to the surface. If a man breaks down, he is seen as weak
and unmanly.

OF OTHER SPACES (Justin Debrosse) Why does space supposedly cause more anxiety in our era than dealing with time?
Although many percieve time as main focus of each day, subconciously i believe space is the reason for many experiencing anxiety. Each day in our life we are concentrated on evaluating, making space for our space, involving all aspects of space into our identities. Although this is not something we focus on, it is surely something we all do. Think of sleeping in your bed. The more space the better. It is easier to accumulate the great amount of space we have available than scrounging for more space. Space is something we all take for granted. Without it, nothing we involve ourselves in would be influential and time would not even be a virtue.

CLASS FEBRUARY 11.

Watching all the groups show their interviews was somehwat of a culture shock. It made me realize that everything I had expected when I thought of a certain group of people feelings into consideration. Not only did my group provide a valid description of our chosen profiling, but i was very impressed with my classmates efforts. I was shocked when the "guido looking" boy did not fit that criteria i had anticipated. I had not taken other peoples feelings into consideration when judging them on their social choices and appearancesas caring and did not seem as self-centered and self-absorbed as the outsider and myself expected. The homeless people were just as shocking for they had no problem letting strangers into their lives and telling their stories. Granted, they may have been falsified, and they may have followed with a begging for money, but still people are more willing than imagined. The Average party girl however, scared me. Although we went into this project with the thought of getting a lot of good laughs, we were a little stunned to see how much her lifestyle has affected her and will affect her in the long run. She said she smokes before class, steals from houses, gets intimate with random men, that can't possibly be the safest way for a young girl to live her college life. Without knowing anything about these people, and basing my judgements on the image I percieved have made me realize that people aren't all their cracked up to be. Meaning people are not what we assume, because when assuming, the answers aren't always the ones we set out looking for.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

FIVE QUESTIONS: OF OTHER SPACES

FIVE QUESTIONS REGARDING OF OTHER SPACES

1. What is the difference between something being placed in space and something found in the ground naturally through stability.

2. What are the human elements that we should understand when relating our own lives to space and interactions.

3. Is space movable? Can we identify the different types from where they are placed? private, public, family, social, between cultural, useful, between the space of leisure and that of work.

4. What is the void we live in and how do the shaded colors in it affect it?

5. Between the different principles what is the cultural form in each society that differentiates them yet relates them?

FIVE QUESTIONS: YI FU TUAN

FIVE QUESTIONS REGARDING YI FU TUAN

1. What is the distinct difference between space and place and how is that important to us as individuals?

2. Each person uses experience to gain knowledge, but do peopole use knowledge to further their experiences?

3. How come we usually analyze our thoughts, actions, and identity but the thought of space is never an issue?

4. What makes space larger than place? Are we not in the same place as space? Why does space seem the greater entity and place is more of a spot on a map?

5. How do we differenciate seeing and reaching beyond ourself in relation to space, place, knowledge, and experience?

FIVE QUESTIONS: C++

FIVE QUESTIONS REGARDING C++

1. In this day, why are we so dependent on networks? It's not like we always lived with them, our ancestors did fine without concentrating on the different networks that are prominent and could be possible.

2. Everything we know is placed in existence for a reason. Within that, how do we act when the organization is gone?

3. How come we are never satisfied? Networks are becoming faster, more pervasive, and more essential - why do we not value the important changes rather than stress over the problems?

4. How is it that virtual machines occupy both space and time if they are so different? What is the distinct purpose to study each?

5.Why is it that we are in a constant need of communication, but insist on setting up boundaries?