#wk 1

i am late~ but cheers to another year of chilltobember event/prompts!~

Here is a list of all of the FFCS stories posted last week in case anyone missed them. 

If you enjoy the stories feel free to like and reblog!

If you enjoy flailing with the authors, that’s no problem! We will start revealing the authors November 1st, one for each day in the order their stories were posted. Once the author is revealed, feel free to flail with them to your heart’s content.

Week One

Hayrides, Fate, and Fortune Cookie by staygoldponyboy Art by @imagnifika​

Wilderness of Your Heart by aquietcalmoflove Art by @eastwesthomeisbest​

Waiting for the Tide by judiciouscoot Art by @rouhn​

Sugar Rush by sparklinghourglass Art by @nicole-nikla 

Am I Your Girlfriend? by debonairblackbird Art by @liloproductions

Out of the Darkness Comes Love by ticktockcrocodile Art by @onceuponaprincessworld​

You’re Killing Me, Swan Pt 1 by classiczebra Art by @sailingcaptainswan

We want to thank the authors for their extreme patience during the anonymous posting process. All of you are wonderful and talented writers and we’ve enjoyed working with you!

And we also have to thank the artists for working with us to create art for authors who they still do not know the identity of!

Glitch In Country Allows Citizens To Temporarily Walk Through Tables

Marion Weiss and Micheal A. Manfredi

“As the frequency of climate events threatens to overwhelm our urban infrastructures, what new, more resilient forms of public nature might emerge .” 150

“might infrastructures be liberated to respond creatively to the weather extremes?” 150

[infrastrucure] “shapes our environment and urban life in vital, authentic, and often messy ways. Infrastructure, of both movement and culture, must evolve to embrace and expand preexisting conditions”. 150

“We look at the physical elements of infrastructure and the often marginalized sites they produce as possible contributors to a meaningful public realm.” 150 

[Evolutionary infrastructure] “a prototypical ideal that is intrinsically agile, capable of optimizing ecological and social extremes” 150

“This evolution of trade and development has resulted in a patchwork layering of infrastructural systems, creating off juxtapositions and remnant spaces between ports, city grids, train lines, roadways, and highways”. 150

“new reciprocities between preexisting infrastructural systems and more ecologically resilient territories suited to contemporary demands and emerging climatic realities”. 150

“productive relationships between infrastructure, ecology, and public life” 154

“While infrastructure is often incorrectly perceived as hard and inflexible, we see great potential for alternative strategies that structure more lateral, resilient, and pliable systems capable of hosting unpredictable uses and activities, absorbing cycles of flooding and weather extremes and creating cultural value”. 157

This reading struck me as super interesting and on point with what I might want to research this year. I think that it crosses to of the spatial arena’s we are looking into for this first six weeks, The City of Time and Change and The Green City. I am quite interested in the idea of designing for an impending change in climate and weather extremes but using historical narratives and past events to inform the design decisions. I want to investigate how data could be used to predict possible future scenarios. I also quite like the cross over between designing for ecological and social community purposes.   

Exploring classroom models in the New Zealand context. In my professional roles I have seen different classrooms and have Identified two models that I have encountered. 

Standardised Classroom Models

“Classroom Plans.” Built Smart, www.builtsmart.co.nz/transportable-homes-floor-plans-prices/classrooms. 

Model 1

Model 2

I have personally encountered both of these models. 

GOVT.

'Primary Schools', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/architecture-school-buildings (accessed 20 Jul 2019)

'Modern Planning', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/architecture-school-buildings/page-4 (accessed 20 Jul 2019)

Standard Classrooms - The ‘Avalon’ Block

Education in New Zealand. “Reference Designs: Standard Classroom Block Upgrade.” Education in New Zealand, 14 May 2019, www.education.govt.nz/school/property-and-transport/projects-and-design/design/design-standards/reference-designs-for-standard-classroom-block-upgrade/.