Wednesday, March 28, 2012

great thinking comes out of discussion

Charles Waldheim_
NUANCED APPROACH

John Davids_
…the 270 million bombs both "trampled" the land and then indeed prevented the land from further colonial exploitation afterward…
(*back to my ‘the art of touching the ground’/the bombs are protecting the land in an irony way)
…How much cleaning/mining you allow will be your critique of both the past abuses and the abuse inherent in raw, unmitigated colonial/capitalist exploitation

Brian Goldstein_
…making the gold companies into your "landscape architects"
(*the digging and reconstructing idea)
Don't necessarily take the Australians' presence as a given--work with it… (maybe) there is no one else who can do it and you must work around them, but your goal is to make their presence positive

Kelly Doran and Pierre Belanger_
Ground and aerial
Social culture value
More than REMEDY
Gold Buddha
Layers (Soil condition, water)
Grading the land
Gridding the land
other forces shaping the landscape (Weathering)
critic of the Infinite search of pattern
improve current logic / thinking
rethinking about waste
Diversifying the interrelation
Gold mining as Incubator
The lease outline
Taking advantage of the waste/ By product
Rethinking about the ‘bigness’
How you use the area that you can’t touch / Excluded land

post-midterm/post-war/post-mining


MID-TERM REVIEW
Monday, March 26th, 11:00am-6:30pm, Room 123

DISCUSSION
today, Wednesday, March 28th,  10:30am-12:30pm, Room 510
with Kelly Nelson Doran and Pierre Belanger
2pm - 3pm
with Pro. Kongjian Yu


-need a few hours’ break now—

-then-

PENNY WHITE PRESENTATION
The Art of Touching the Ground
Friday, March 30th, 1:30pm-2:30pm, , Room 124

PRESENTATION
Mining as Demining
to BLA2551 class, Chulalongkorn University,Thailand
Saturday 10:00am -11:00am, March 24th

THESIS MEETING
With Pierre Belanger
Tuesday, April 3rd,  3:00pm






Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Update Jan.19th - Feb.7th

 On my way there.