Archive for the 'AFH Cleveland' Category
“Cameron Sinclair Lecture. Blog On the City provided a review of the Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity) lecture that was spot on. Frankly every damn architect and designer in the city should have been there, but we only saw the usual suspects. For those who did attend and heard Mr. Sinclair’s speech, please visit the AFH [...]
“Next AFH-Cleveland get together is scheduled for…
Tuesday, June 10th
Blind Pig Cleveland (out on the “patio” if weather permits)
6pm to whenever
Remember the next Homeless Congress meeting is…
Thursday, June 5th
Bishop Cosgrove Center
1pm…” (go to article)
“While many of us play within the esotericism of current architectural and urban thought, Sinclair and his organization Architecture for Humanity acts, facilitates, and builds hundreds of buildings around the world, influencing thousands of people on many continents. Sinclair truly builds for the masses, all by utilizing decentralized and open networks of emerging global architectural [...]
“In case you missed the heads up over a month ago…
The New Face of Architecture
Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity
Talalay Lecture Series
Westfield Insurance Studio Theater
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
6pm (seating closes at 5.45pm, they say…)
Limited Seating
Please contact Andrea Kormos at 216.421.8671 xt. 21 to reserve your space.
Brought to you by MOCA Cleveland…” (go to article)
“Architecture for Humanity is raising funds to support reconstruction efforts after this weekend’s devastating cyclone in Myanmar. Please help us rebuild!
Often media attention focuses on relief efforts. Months later, after the cameras have left, communities face the difficult task of rebuilding with little support. Architecture for Humanity offers support and technical
expertise when it is needed [...]
“Lets meet this Tuesday (May 6th) if we can. Bring your questions to
ask during the video interviews if you have any to put together.
Also, keep thinking of a URL name if’n you want something special for
the website.
6.00pm
Blind Pig…” (go to article)
“AFH Cleveland Meeting
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
6pm
Blind Pig, Cleveland
Video project updates and particular possibility of direction; David has some very interesting possibilities regarding working with NEOCH; Cameron Sinclair will be speaking at Ideastream on May 21, 2008
http://mocacleveland.org/talalaylectures.php…” (go to article)
“I think we will meet this Saturday morning, 9am at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) for a ‘working session.’ We will have recording devices here, so for all those that have not completed their bio statements, please plan to attend so we can get this show on the road!Again, you can refer to one of [...]
“Our meeting consisted mostly of conversing about moving the video project forward (based off of the aforementioned outline), creating a succinct and proper mission statement with which to properly explain our purpose and brainstorming how to best express ourselves via the video project…” (go to article)
“Here are a list of things you might want to consider answering in your
bio/intent new media piece:
Here are the questions/themes:
1.Tell us a bit about yourself and what talents, ideas, desires,
skills you bring to this project
2.What are your philosophies and expectations?
3.Be as honest as you can about your intent and how it fits in to all
the [...]
“here’s a link to a short piece i did on the “care on the square”
folks–homeless and not homeless alike:
http://www.stephenpiscura.com/soundslides/grapsinghomelessness/
this is typically where i’d tell everyone how much i don’t like it.
i’ll refrain from doing that now, though, for all of our sakes…” (go to article)
“Let us schedule the next meeting for Tuesday, February 12th
From 6pm - 8pm
Blind Pig …” (go to article)
“Well, Teresa Hernandez, Stephen Piscura and I met on Friday evening to
move forward on the video project. I know more people wanted to
attend, but couldn’t due to previous engagements or computer
difficulties. So here’s a little recap!
We watched a few short documentaries for some ideas; Invisible
Children and Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City. If
anyone else [...]
“For all those that are interested in working on the video/homeless/introspective/photo/youtube (vhipy!) project, we will be meeting tomorrow, Friday January 25th at 7:00pm in Brecksville, OH. The location is closer to Kent for those that are driving in from the campus…” (go to article)
“I just wanted to recap a little bit from the last January 8th meeting
in regards to the video project. I’m starting to collect everyone’s
statements of intent. Please write out your reasons for wanting to be
involved in the homeless project and post it on the architecture for
Humanity - Cleveland google groups site.
I talked with Stephen Piscura [...]
“Alright, howzabout January 8th for the next meeting? I would like to
get this back on a regular monthly schedule so that the reminders are
sort of unnecessary. I am sure David has some stuff to update us on
and I hopefully will have some news.
Anyway, let us go back to instituting the second Tuesday sort of thing
we [...]
“December 2007 meeting has been tentatively scheduled for December 10th at the Blind Pig on West 6th. David has put together meeting notes of the November meeting with a request of a letter of personal intent from those that would like to participate on the video project…” (go to article)
“I would like to tip the hat to the Open Architecture Network(OAN) for attempting to prove out that designers care quite a bit about designing with a purpose as opposed to hi-jacking altruistic trends for personal gain. Spend some time at OAN site and check out the hundreds of project submissions and proposals that are [...]
“Dru McKeown, co-founder of TOIstudio and head of the fledgling Cleveland chapter of AFH, plans to enter all three challenges. Arguing that ‘information can lead to self-sustenance,’ McKeown likens providing Internet access to teaching a person to fish. Explaining that he finds ‘no reason to introduce a structure that cannot be constructed or maintained by [...]
