2012 in review
January 2, 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
2010 in review
January 5, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 34 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 63 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 68mb. That’s about a picture per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 23rd with 63 views. The most popular post that day was semi-structured interviews.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were bergenarkitektskole.no, basdiplom2010.blogspot.com, slashingtongue.com, criceland.blogspot.com, and aalesundifremtiden.blogspot.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for small town urbanism, diploma sketch, diploma, “norwegian architecture policy”, and curiosities.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
semi-structured interviews March 2010
5 comments
Small town urbanism June 2010
4 comments
Confrontation II: core issues April 2010
6 comments
Diploma Sketch February 2010
Gossip Town May 2010
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DRAFT #2: collecting curiosities
October 6, 2010
MAY 25TH 2010
From my list for this to do this week, this mapping is the least obvious/most silly – and therefor I will share it with you.
The items pictured below are things that appeared in the `discontinuity´ post in one my the transect walks.
Here is a picture from the diploma exhibiton. The curiosities speak for themselves, but does the project speak for the curiosities? I´m not so sure…
Draftmania
October 6, 2010
…and the snowball keeps rolling
October 6, 2010
Hello again.
For some time I thought this blog was getting irrelevant to my actual diploma project, so I left it silent for a long time. I was wrong! This blog may be a meta-project parallel to the actual built project, but it is still a cumulative collection of thoughts in it´s own right. And that collection of thoughts is inseparable from my finally distilled material (at least, it should be).
When my diploma tutor Ron at some point advised me to not be so pretensious and use the blog as a trashcan/toilet, I stopped blogging. I intended the opposite – to be a collection of good stuff. Well, I´m flushing that attitude down the drain now. Since the beginning I´ve seen my diploma project as a processual investigation, a search for the right questions rather than the obvious answers. It was an intense roller-coaster ride that culminated into the project “Walk in the woods”. It did not go well. What went wrong?
Well, I got lost in my project and forgot about this basic principle. Although the “Walk in the woods” exhibition is history, my project is not limited to a physical representation. My project is a process of learning, and does not stop with failure…My gut feeling tells me there´s been some good things going on in the project that think I failed to communicate in the end. Maybe looking through the trashcan´ again will sort things out differently?
Small town urbanism
June 1, 2010
According to Laagendalsposten & NRK, the local mall “Stortorvet” – wich I referred to in a recent blogpost – is now officially voted as the 6th ugliest building in Norway.
FOTO: ANNE AASE HARALDSEN
This sure fires off a local debate on urban development of K, but I suspect it limits itself to a new coat of paint to tone the embarrisment down.
So, is this the new face of Norwegian small towns?
CONFRONTATION III
May 31, 2010
…was an immense relief! Plenty has happened since C.II and I´m finally having fun again.
Our “Placemaking” group had great discussions on thursday followed by valuable input from tutors Arild & Camilla on friday. The principal idea is in place,
and I´m currently playing with 8+ sites & programs which are to defined within this week.
getting lost / on track
May 24, 2010
When my scheduled appointment were cancelled the other day, I went for a trip along the river trails – and got lost! In the town I thought I knew so well – how embarrassing…
Anyway, I discovered some really nice river trails and decided to fully investigate the banks along the river. They trails are lovely for walking, but little suitable for biking.
In just a few minutes I had moved from town centre to the countryside, passing several left-over spaces/plots with potential.
I realized that what I´ve been focusing on – meeting place – is the end product of a larger complexity. No wonder it was hard to pinpoint!
Suddently, a five layered scenario for urban development in K. found it´s way into my sketchbook. Key words are residence, transport, densification, competance, and sociability (integration/identity). The scenario show urban development in different stages in time, to communicate the complexity of urban development to the local residents.
Work is waiting…
Gossip Town
May 23, 2010
“We gossip about what things we don´t know”
Linn Helen Haug, 18 yrs
The satisfaciton of living in K. place is generally low amongst youth, and many many of the youngsters will move out in due time. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily for the people in question, but the small town municipality of K. is left with a problem if they don´t…
A talk to the local youth revealed a that there´s actually plenty of stuff going on in the small town of K, But the majority of activities are unknown to most youngsters, as they are usually cut off from the public scene. For example, different communities like e.g music/dance/performance/theatre groups operate seperated from one & each other, even though they share the same basic commitment of culture.
According to my informants, the fact that a lot of local groups never seem to interact makes room for uncertainty. Room for uncertainty creates room for gossip, which is the no. 1 characteristica of the Norwegian village (troll)?
Following from this is a need to create open urban spaces for social interaction, so people can learn to stop gossiping & relate to one & eachother.
And I am off to map boredom, haha…
A meeting field
May 21, 2010
Illustration: roadsworth
is a public space for social interaction and/or personal experiences.
Not a meeting place/point, like the typical bench or town square. Something slightly more diffuse, a background for friction & informal encounters.
Lefebvre talks about `the social production of space´. I want to make meeting fields – room for people in the city to grow.
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