Reimagining Moorfoot by Lucy Skyes
Reimagining Moorfoot
CEE VR
The Project ‘Community Engagement with eye-tracking analytics in Virtual Reality – Shirebrook market redevelopment project’ has received £24,454 worth of funding from the HEIF in February 2019. By bringing the public and private sectors, the project develops strategic partnerships nationally, working thematically towards Inclusive Society, and Digital Society. Places are shaped by the interplay between technological innovation, individual and collective behaviour, institutions and governance. The project seeks with its technology-aided design approach offers a holistic response to identified challenges by working with public and private sector
partners to design and develop research-based solutions.
Immersive Virtual Reality is growing in popularity and whilst it is viewed as being firmly in the domain of gamers, it is seeing a significant rise in industries such aa marketing, retail sales, real estate and engineering for a variety of uses. Educators and built-environment professionals are becoming interested in the application and appropriateness of VR. Use of immersive Virtual Reality in urban design and planning is an idea that will revolutionise how a user engages with the built environment.
Masterplans: envisioning the “ideal” space…
In this project, groups were asked to imagine the “ideal” city under a specific theme: transport hub, CBD, waterfront…and to produce a model using paper, sketching materials and playdoh.
Urban Design in the Global South poster project
In this project, we compared and contrasted two waterfront spaces, from the Global South and Global North. in order to gain a better understanding of spatial differences, as well as how approaches to transforming these areas differed according to land use, public goals, and transport & accessibility.
Introductions to Le Corbusier and Gordon Cullen, founders of modern planning
For week 3, our class for TRP6423 Principles of Urban Design created visual presentations of some of the founders of modern planning. Here is a video, a poster and a mind map made by the students.
Le Corbusier
Video by Baoer Li, Manning Liu, Kuankuan Yan and Zeran Zhang
Gordon Cullen
How Public spaces make cities work
Amanda Burden as New York’s chief city planner led revitalisation of some of the city’s most familiar features – High line to the Brooklyn waterfront. She reinstates that Cities are fundamentally about people and where people go and where people meet are at the core of what makes a city work. So even more important than buildings in a city are the public spaces inbeteeen them. And today, the transformative changes in cities happen in these public spaces. …Public space can change how you live in a city, how you feel about a city.
Public Space Briefs
In this project, we were asked to explore the history and development of well-known public spaces around the world through an urban design perspective (click on the hyperlink to open PDF).
The Potential of Design to heal
This is a very interesting talk by Michael Murphy, on deep relationship between spaces and its users. he argues that buildings are not simply expressive sculptures, they make visible our personal and our collective aspirations as a society. Great architecture can give us hope.
Spaces reflect the intentions with which they were designed, it is important for those intentions to embed in them morals, values and ethics that aim for the collective good.
Public Squares – Analysis
Life Between Buildings
Life Between Buildings: An 18 minute film by Jan Gehl and Tobias Lau
‘Life Between Buildings’ asks the fundamental question “What has happened to life in cities?”. It persistently investigates why life has disappeared from the cities, and it provides solutions on how to invite life back. If we want to create liveable spaces we need to prioritize people, the human senses, and the human scale by planning cities in eye level.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/151880387″>Life Between Buildings</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user3905611″>Social Action</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
The film takes you on a journey through beautiful footage about human senses, behaviour and patterns of movement.
Urban Fabric and Social Cohesion
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Internationally, debates around the value of social cohesion in an urban context have recently intensified as cities and its people experience both the process and consequences of urban development. Urban change through rapid urbanisation or urban redevelopment initiatives had posed challenges and opportunities for social cohesion. This is amplified by the recent move towards advocating social cohesion by the developed western countries. Given the historical evolution and contemporary condition of this Indian city Chennai a scoping workshop made a timely contribution to the understanding and analysis of a complex relationship between social cohesion and physical urban fabric.
The workshop convened academic experts, Architects, Urban designers from UK and India to explore an area of emerging importance with a view to future collaboration and enhanced inter-disciplinary engagement. Over the daylong workshop scholars considered four main themes: 1. Identity of Chennai; 2. Social cohesion in Chennai; 3. Relationship between social cohesion and urban fabric 4. Measuring Social cohesion.
Key areas that emerged from the discussion included: how to engage with the understanding of Social cohesion from a context based perspective; how we can consider the future of social cohesion as well as its history and contemporary context; the extent to which comparative studies analysing one or more neighbourhoods in the city of Chennai may enable a deeper understanding of social cohesion at city level; the relationship between intangible and tangible social cohesion and the need to examine more closely the relationship between physical fabric and social cohesion. The ideas stimulated by the discussions in the workshop would benefit from pilot study projects that would allow scholars from the UK and India to work together to develop outputs and longer-term collaborative projects.
The interconnectedness of urban features and systems demand a deeper understanding in order to positively influence the cascade or ‘domino’ effect from related impacts. Cities are characterised by distinctive: physical/ spatial environmental socio-cultural economic and political/ institutional features. It is necessary to understand these features in order to systematically and comprehensively analyse the reciprocal relationship between urban fabric and social cohesion. A conscious stand point of the research is that it will not operate from a notion that assumes the interconnectedness of these two concepts and hence will inquire individually into the understanding of these concepts. The understanding into the urban fabric will be on a two-fold data collection framework. The concept of social cohesion will be mapped both at data informed level and perceptional level. The summary from the workshop elaborates on the data collection framework and the future directions of this research can be found here : USP/UDC workshop summary.
Urban design & planning @ sheffield 