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Welcome to Week 5
Welcome to Week 5
Today’s session
• Feedback• Design presentations for BE• Discussion on reading• Features of an oral presentation• Variations in spoken and academic English
1. One of the most important aspect of the housing for the indigenous people is design.
2. Commonwealth government is suggested to take new directions in relation to indigenous housing
3. One of the problem occurred when people were relocated to other settlement. (Moran 2008 P8) This problem...
4. By not understanding the real needs of the indigenous people, the western architects are not providing the suitable solution to the root of the problem.
Spot the problem
Write an advertising ‘blurb’ promoting this issue of Architecture Australia
We need learn about the culture of the Indigenous. Communication and consultation is needed to satisfy their housing problems. Detect existing problems on the housing and put some analysis on them. Provide a higher standard of Housing by considering the culture and requirements of a proper house.
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Architects and planners need to learn about the culture of the Indigenous people. Good communication and extensive consultation is needed to address their housing problems. Consultation will detect existing housing problems and collaboration with local indigenous communities will ensure a higher standard of housing since cultural requirements will be taken into consideration.
Write an advertising ‘blurb’ promoting this issue of Architecture Australia
The Sept- Oct 2008 issue of AA offers the reader a comprehensive, and stimulating discussion on indigenous housing. All authors are culturally sensitive approach to Significant community participation and long term commitment of non aboriginal collaborators. Some participants have been ‘pushing for’ locally designed and built indigenous housing for over 30 years.Regional and remote city projects...
What is valued in the indigenous community? In this issue of AA, we explore how Architecture can meet the housing needs of Aboriginal people. Contributors to this issue propose that solutions to indigenous housing problems will be found, if designers consider local community needs and then design with these needs in mind.
Write an advertising ‘blurb’ promoting this issue of Architecture Australia
Discussion: The Eyes of the Skin (Juhani Pallasmaa)
1. What are some of the insights you have regarding the title?
2. What historical reasons are there to support the view that ‘sight is the noblest of the senses’?
3. Are there counter arguments to this statement?Write 3-5 sentences summarising this topic. From
your cultural perspective how valid are these ideas?
What makes a great oral presentation?
based on materials developed by G.Jones & P.Polly
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Speaker performance
• Volume• Clarity of speech• Speed/pace• Engaging• Mannerisms• Professionalism
based on materials developed by G.Jones & P.Polly
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Visual Aids
• Quality/ appropriacy of aids
• Appropriate number of aids
• Over reliance on aids?
based on materials developed by G.Jones & P.Polly
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Structure of content• Introduction
– Overview– Thesis statement– definition?
• Logical flow of ideas
• Discussion of ideas in relation to video clip
• Conclusion
Variations in spoken and academic English
• http://www.elssa.uts.edu.au/resources/pronunciation/index.html
The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/anupam_mishra_the_ancient_ingenuity_of_water_harvesting.html
How might we express this in writing?
The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
Every roof you see in this picture collects water and it goes into a central tank
Daniel Libeskind’s 17 words of architectural inspiration
‘If you think of the great buildings of the world cathedrals, pagodas, castles, you think how incredible it is. It is not built by some abstract idea but by people’.
