Week12

Context

My role for this week was to prepare the speech.
This is what I have wrote:

Conflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals/themes or concepts). Conflict as a concept can help explain many aspects of social life such as social disagreement, conflicts of interests, and fights between individuals, groups, or organizations.

1.What opportunities are created by the conflicts in your proposal? Should these conflicts be 'resolved' or 'maintained'? Why?

Project’s proposal was to create an unbuilt architecture that matches our theme of conflict which was enclosed, exposed, hard/soft, public/private, affordable and unaffordable. Although it conflicted or was against the word “visually pleasing”, it created opportunities and clarified our intent. These conflicts should be both maintained and resolved accordingly.

3. How could you integrate conflict, positively, in your design process?

Integrating conflict is compulsory in design process. Without conflict there would be no improvement. There are few ways of integrating conflict in a design process.

First is setting a group leader that each individual agrees on and following his/her decision. This will avoid creating rough feelings against each other and help making decisions efficiently.

Second is brainstorming together. If each individual had done their tasks individually, there would be a high chance of miscommunication between each other, leading to conflict between individuals and the ideas they’ve worked on. To avoid this unnecessary process, getting together and brainstorming thoughts and ideas on the spot prevents misunderstanding.

Thirdly is communication. Although it would work best if all work was done together in person, this is unrealistic. Communicating from start to the end, whether it is by blog, msn, phone call or email, is compulsory yet an effective way of preventing misunderstanding, reducing unnecessary work and removing conflict.

Fourthly, experimentation was used to positively integrate texture. One wanted to add x texture to y area, while the other wanted to add z texture to y area. Same applied for background, lighting, sounding, furnishing and the overall context. Each individual having different ideas trying different methods and comparing them next to each other made the process crystal clear on which conflicts should be resolved and maintained.

Record, Hierarchy, Planning, Intent and each theme we have covered in class are positive methods of integrating conflict in the design process.

4. Very concisely describe any historical conflicts that have affected your site and that have, to some degree, been resolved by your building?

Fact: There is a history of conflict within Green point, between the first Dutch settlers and the native Indians. Burning farms and murdering children.

This division in classes was exacerbated in the site as the area is a poor district, whereas the surrounding are high skyscrapers.

Fact: The majority of transport was by boat and most of the settlement was involved with the water. In the 19Th century the area became industries and specialised in shipbuilding.

The architecture itself is to be built above the piers which is directly above water and near industrial specialised buildings specialised in ship building.

Fact: Towards the end of the 20Th century, residential areas were starting to be created from the old industrial buildings.

The surrounding residential area will remain as old buildings

Fact: Creative arts was becoming recognised in the area around the same time
There traces from these creative arts such as graffiti in walls and some damaged artworks will be left behind.

Fact: This increased the rent to make in one of Brooklyn's highest rental areas

This increase in rent resulted in increase homeless people. Avatars of homeless people will be added on site if possible.

Fact: Recent years have brought about a building proposition to introduce ~16,700 new residents with cheaper market rate housing

The fact is that market rate housing or as we say in Australia ‘affordable housing was impossible due to the conflict between rich and poor, and an intervention was needed to fix this disparity. These propositions will hopefully make this possible.

5. What are the areas of your proposal that require immediate attention? i.e. the weakest areas. Our weakest area that required attention for our intended proposal was:

Lack of experience in the unreal editor.
Our weakest area at the moment is creating the atmosphere we were intending. We are working towards using dynamic lighting, worn texturing and adding avatars to add a human, rough and realistic feel to the area.