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James A. Wise, cognitive psychologist, Washington State University; noted work in biophilia and its implications for ecological design. http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/envst/wise_profile.htm | James A. Wise, cognitive psychologist, Washington State University; noted work in biophilia and its implications for ecological design. http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/envst/wise_profile.htm | ||
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Ward Cunningham has very kindly offered to set up this wiki site, hosted by AboutUs. Any member may correct or comment on any element of the site. Adding a note with your name would be the most transparent way to communicate with other members and start a topical dialogue. Try it! | Ward Cunningham has very kindly offered to set up this wiki site, hosted by AboutUs. Any member may correct or comment on any element of the site. Adding a note with your name would be the most transparent way to communicate with other members and start a topical dialogue. Try it! | ||
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Ward has also opened for collaboration a new tool he developed at Eclipse, called Wikitect. The tool may have great applicability to the project to update pattern languages, and/or deal with other morphogenetic issues. Could be a hot one! See http://www.aboutus.org/wikitect | Ward has also opened for collaboration a new tool he developed at Eclipse, called Wikitect. The tool may have great applicability to the project to update pattern languages, and/or deal with other morphogenetic issues. Could be a hot one! See http://www.aboutus.org/wikitect | ||
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501(c)3 foundation now being set up to host the ESRG and allied efforts (for non-US residents, that's the legal entity that can take tax-free donations). This will make it possible to seek research grants and other funding for trips to events, etc. Draft name: Sustasis Foundation. (Sustasis - var. sp. systasis - means "stand together", or "join together in an integrating process" – not unlike the meaning of Chris Alexander's "Structure-Preserving Transformations.") | 501(c)3 foundation now being set up to host the ESRG and allied efforts (for non-US residents, that's the legal entity that can take tax-free donations). This will make it possible to seek research grants and other funding for trips to events, etc. Draft name: Sustasis Foundation. (Sustasis - var. sp. systasis - means "stand together", or "join together in an integrating process" – not unlike the meaning of Chris Alexander's "Structure-Preserving Transformations.") | ||
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Had a very good research seminar July 5 at UCL with Stephen Marshall, Linda Mitchell, Mike Batty, Ramon Abonce, Michael Mehaffy, UCL colleagues and ITESM grad students, on current research work. Topics included the SOLUTIONS consortium on sustainable suburban morphologies (with Cambridge, UCL and other UK partners); shape grammars; innovative new mapping approaches; new visualization systems; and research on travel patterns relative to urban morphology. | Had a very good research seminar July 5 at UCL with Stephen Marshall, Linda Mitchell, Mike Batty, Ramon Abonce, Michael Mehaffy, UCL colleagues and ITESM grad students, on current research work. Topics included the SOLUTIONS consortium on sustainable suburban morphologies (with Cambridge, UCL and other UK partners); shape grammars; innovative new mapping approaches; new visualization systems; and research on travel patterns relative to urban morphology. | ||
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Paul Murrain has taken a position with colleague Richard Hayward's University of Greenwich, as INTBAU Visiting Professor. This is a good tie to INTBAU (and the new INTBAU USA, we hope) and opportunity to explore topics of "collective intelligence in traditional patterns" and their extrapolation and re-use. (As INTBAU has done previously with the International Seminar on Urban Form conference and others.) See http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/articles/latest/a1402-paul-murrain-intbau-professor | Paul Murrain has taken a position with colleague Richard Hayward's University of Greenwich, as INTBAU Visiting Professor. This is a good tie to INTBAU (and the new INTBAU USA, we hope) and opportunity to explore topics of "collective intelligence in traditional patterns" and their extrapolation and re-use. (As INTBAU has done previously with the International Seminar on Urban Form conference and others.) See http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/articles/latest/a1402-paul-murrain-intbau-professor | ||
| − | UPCOMING: IASTE Meeting | + | ==UPCOMING: IASTE Meeting== |
Marcel Vellinga and the International Vernacular Architecture Unit at Oxford Brookes (UK) will host the IASTE (Int'l Assoc. for the Study of Traditional Environments) meeting at Oxford, UK next year. He writes "I hope you will be able to come -- it should be a good opportunity to showcase the ESRG work." | Marcel Vellinga and the International Vernacular Architecture Unit at Oxford Brookes (UK) will host the IASTE (Int'l Assoc. for the Study of Traditional Environments) meeting at Oxford, UK next year. He writes "I hope you will be able to come -- it should be a good opportunity to showcase the ESRG work." | ||
Revision as of 23:41, 29 August 2007
ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE RESEARCH GROUP Structure-Generating Processes and Analytical Techniques for the Human Environment
Contents
NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Symposium in New Orleans, October 18-19, 2007 Venue: Morial Convention Center (Downtown, near the French Quarter)
Draft Topic: "Self-Organization in Cities: Case Study of Successes and Failures in New Orleans"
We will look at New Orleans lessons in general and the pilot neighrbohood resource centers in particular. We hope to be joined by local and other national researchers active in New Orleans research.
We will also discuss the book project and other current topics. Draft agenda will be posted here shortly; suggestions invited.
NEWS - Additional colleagues
Nominated by existing colleagues, or with evident parallels to current work of others; delighted to have them:
Bruce F. Donnelly, independent scholar on new urban codes, and member of New Orleans recovery planning team, Cleveland Ohio. Interested in complexity, urbanism and new coding approaches.
Stephen R. Kellert, social ecologist, biophilia pioneer and co-author with Wilson of The Biophilia Hypothesis. Professor of Social Ecology at Yale University. http://environment.yale.edu/profile/271/stephen_r_kellert/
Hiroshi Nakano, architect, collaborator with Christopher Alexander on the Eishin campus (an early example of a generative design process with community participation); representative of Center for Environmental Structure Tokyo. Interested in new applications of generative processes to architecture.
D. Wayne Parsons, Professor of Public Policy, Queen Mary College, University of London; former correspondent with Herbert Simon; interested in complexity and implications for public policy and process. http:///www.politics.qmul.ac.uk/staff/parsons/index.html
James A. Wise, cognitive psychologist, Washington State University; noted work in biophilia and its implications for ecological design. http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/envst/wise_profile.htm
NEWS - ESRG Wiki
Ward Cunningham has very kindly offered to set up this wiki site, hosted by AboutUs. Any member may correct or comment on any element of the site. Adding a note with your name would be the most transparent way to communicate with other members and start a topical dialogue. Try it!
NEWS - Wikitect
Ward has also opened for collaboration a new tool he developed at Eclipse, called Wikitect. The tool may have great applicability to the project to update pattern languages, and/or deal with other morphogenetic issues. Could be a hot one! See http://www.aboutus.org/wikitect
NEWS - Organization
501(c)3 foundation now being set up to host the ESRG and allied efforts (for non-US residents, that's the legal entity that can take tax-free donations). This will make it possible to seek research grants and other funding for trips to events, etc. Draft name: Sustasis Foundation. (Sustasis - var. sp. systasis - means "stand together", or "join together in an integrating process" – not unlike the meaning of Chris Alexander's "Structure-Preserving Transformations.")
NEWS - London Mini-Symposium
Had a very good research seminar July 5 at UCL with Stephen Marshall, Linda Mitchell, Mike Batty, Ramon Abonce, Michael Mehaffy, UCL colleagues and ITESM grad students, on current research work. Topics included the SOLUTIONS consortium on sustainable suburban morphologies (with Cambridge, UCL and other UK partners); shape grammars; innovative new mapping approaches; new visualization systems; and research on travel patterns relative to urban morphology.
NEWS - INTBAU Chair
Paul Murrain has taken a position with colleague Richard Hayward's University of Greenwich, as INTBAU Visiting Professor. This is a good tie to INTBAU (and the new INTBAU USA, we hope) and opportunity to explore topics of "collective intelligence in traditional patterns" and their extrapolation and re-use. (As INTBAU has done previously with the International Seminar on Urban Form conference and others.) See http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/articles/latest/a1402-paul-murrain-intbau-professor
UPCOMING: IASTE Meeting
Marcel Vellinga and the International Vernacular Architecture Unit at Oxford Brookes (UK) will host the IASTE (Int'l Assoc. for the Study of Traditional Environments) meeting at Oxford, UK next year. He writes "I hope you will be able to come -- it should be a good opportunity to showcase the ESRG work."