Reflection

SOCIO-TECHNICAL PRACTICE: METHODOLOGIES,

 

HERE IS A POST RESEACH ANALYSIS FROM JULIAN ALMOND EXPLAINING THE  METHEDOLOGIES ,TOOLS AND THE TOOL KIT WE USED OR CREATED THROUGHOUT THE  AFORMAL STUDIO.  

WEEK 7_ The last presentations

The last week of presentations (24-29 August) was a very stressful week for the group because we had many submissions and presentations. On Tuesday (25 August) we had PechaKusha where we invited our volunteers and NGOs to the FADA auditorium to see our work. The PechaKusha proved to be the most interesting yet because the volunteers felt comfortable speaking out about their fears and their wishes for the continuation of the project. This made us realize the impact our work had on the community of Denver.

On Friday (29 August) we got to present again in Denver but this time we had to speak zulu to make sure that the volunteers and community members could understand our intentions. After the presentation the community members and volunteers walked through the hall at the Men's Hostel looking through our work and asking about our intervention.

The presentations were pinned up on the walls of the Men's Hostel. on the left we had to present construction with Jason Frenkel; on the left we presented our PechaKusha on a stage; on the two remaining walls we presented our group work and intentions for our site. 

The site models from Group A-F were laid on the floor to make up an overall 1:200 site model of Denver

Part 1- Presentation for PechaKusha

Part 2- Presentation for PechaKusha

Link: http://prezi.com/uvwcxpcyoj5k/untitled-prezi/

C.A.P_ Community Action Plan

One of our brief outputs was to come up with a community action plan that would help the community members from sector F , as a collective we came up with the idea of creating a tool in the form of a booklet with a step of steps by which community members can follow to help themselves fix real problems that they face. we also allow space in these booklets so that people can write or draw or take notes.

Here is the final booklet broken down into the steps:

The pamphlet folds out into a set of guidelines. Steps 1 through 7 speak of the various lessons we learned through the time we spent on site. In this slide

 

 

STEP 1:

Depicts the importance of engaging with a code of ethics before engaging the site . 

STEP 2:

This shows the importance of unpacking, or learning from the site and representing those lesson in a physical form. These may be models, recorded discussions or drawings. These recording may be used in order to convey ideas to various stakeholders.  

 

STEP 3:

 After these recording or mappings have taken place, these new found understandings of the site can be used to reinforce engagement and communication with the community. This data may be used in order to spark conversations and scenario planning. This information may also be a mechanism to reinforce and create relationships with the community.

STEP 4:

Step 4 is a combination of all that has been learned from steps 1 to 3. These lessons will help in identifying common principles through mappings and community collaboration. These principles learned can focus scenario planning.

 

 

 

STEP 5:

Identifying areas of microsites that access or do not access the principles learned from step 4. 

STEP 6:

In this step, the combination of the principles learned and microsite identified can give rise to precise direction to scenario planning. For example 

The principle, Need and Resource with the identification of various microsites gave us a scenario where the Resource water, and the need of "storm water drainage" became a possible pathways in identifying problems and solutions.

 

 

WEEK 6_ DESIGN IN PROCESS

This week Tuesday (19 august 2014) we had a presentation and feedback session in which we discussed our ideas around possible site interventions.

We spoke about the existing advantages and disadvantages of site and how we could use existing strategies to better SECTION F .

 

EXISTING FIGURE GROUND OF SECTOR F

 

THE EXISTING COUTYARDS

 

COURTYARDS THAT ARE CURRENTLY EXIST BUT DONT FUNCTION AS COURTYARDS

 

EXISTING COURTYARDS THAT ARE CURRENTLY WORKING,AS A RESULT THE SPACES AROUND ARE CLEANER,MORE SOCIAL INTER-ACTIONS AND IS SAFER.

 

 

IN THIS IMAGE WE IDENTIFIED THE RESOURCES AND NEEDS OF EACH OF THE MICRO SITES BOTH THOSE THAT ARE WORKING (SO WE CAN BETTER THEM ) AND THOSE THAT DONT WORK(FINDING SOLLUTIONS ON HOW IT CAN WORK).

Our main focus on site moving forward is creating social spaces with a catalyst which will encourage those around the courtyard to begin taking ownership of the space and keeping it clean which will start creating communities within communities. It also  allowed us to eliminate the narrow and dark path ways which touched on security within sector F.

 

THE PROCESS IN CREATING COURTYARD SPACES AND ELIMINATING DARK PATHWAYS AND CREATING MORE ACCESS POINTS TO THE SITE.

PROPOSED SITE PLAN FOR SECTOR F WITH A MORE FORMALISED ROAD,INCREASE IN COURTYARDS WITH A SITE SPECIFIC CATALYST THAT CREATES POSSITIVE SOCIAL SPACES ,INCREASE IN SITE ACCESS AND A DECREASE OF SMALL AND DARK PATHWAYS.

After the feedback we were advised to visit site and just ask the community members how they feel about us placing these courtyards with a catalyst on site and any other advice to guide us.

 

A COLLAGE WITH SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE COMMUNITY,BASED ON OUR COURTYARD PROPOSAL.

The community members we spoke to were very pleased with our ideas and helped us bettering it by adding they input which lead to a few changes.

 

 

IMAGES OF SOME OF THE INTERACTION PROCESS ON SITE.