Arch 269 Urban Water Seminar, fall 2010, Mark Anderson

We have an official Seminar class. Sign up if interested.
Also, sign our Petition to get IDEA Berkeley space in Wurster Hall.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ideaberkeleymemo1/


Arch 269 Urban Water Seminar, fall 2010, mark anderson

Wednesdays 9am to noon, 3 credits, no prerequisites, all welcome, CAL Design Lab, Wurster Hall, Floor 5

MASTER PLAN

This seminar is part of a series of seminars and studios on design and construction of public projects supported by the Urban Water Studio. This seminar will focus on the design process of “master planning” for large scale, long-term projects. Dependent upon opportunities and student interest, we may construct small elements of the longer-term construction plans. Major focus will be on site research, project programming, and development of strategies integral to future construction opportunities. Issues will include site investigation, programming of uses and opportunities, collaboration with diverse design and research fields contributing to the design process, project management and communications, including multi-media collaboration and publicity, as well as identification and development of project supporters and funding opportunities.

The current work will focus on master planning and development for two large projects: 1. UC Berkeley’s new natural study reserve, the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve (3,000+ acres of land, 60 miles from the UC Berkeley campus), which is beginning the master planning process, and 2. A scientific field station and environmental education center in the Bijagos Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve in Guinea Bissau, Africa. The seminar will begin as a design forum with speakers invited to discuss their work in related issues from various fields. We encourage participants from all fields who may be interested in any aspect of these projects—design, science, engineering, communications, business, politics. The plan is to harness multi-disciplinary interests into a more powerful design and development process, with real world impact in public projects.

IDEA Berkeley, and Cal Design LAB

This seminar is designed in collaboration with a student-led interdisciplinary design group encouraging broad participation from diverse fields of study: IDEA Berkeley is a new graduate student-led coalition that formed in 2010. We believe that education can be fully realized through collaborative projects that take advantage of the expertise and resources our public university has to offer. We aim to research and apply Integrated Design methodologies with a focus on the built environment and real-world design challenges. We envision a network of students and professors who are pushing the frontiers of their fields, bringing their expertise together to create solutions for our increasingly inter-dependent world. We anticipate our work to manifest in design proposals, publications, and built projects.

The CAL Design Lab was initially proposed in Spring 2010; an administrative effort by the College of Environmental Design, the Information School, Haas School of Business, Engineering, Industrial Design, Berkeley Institute of Design (BID), to name a few. The CAL Design Lab aims to jump start a program in "Design Thinking"--the collaborative, interdisciplinary practice that is increasingly vital to crafting new business concepts, innovative products, social ventures, communications strategies, and urban places in a rapidly changing world.