In class blind observations
In class exercise
At home exercise
Jasper Chen | Assignment 05
In class exercise
blind
At home exercise
Jasper Chen | Assignment 04
At home exercise
Jasper Chen | Assignment 03
In class exercise
mapped the occupancy of benches along english bay
At home exercise
A11 – Seeing>Visual Thinking>Idea – Caleb Spyksma
Course summary – José Torres
As I mentioned during the final presentation, I see this class as more than just career training; it serves as a guide to a more meaningful and richer interaction with the world and the experiences around us. Throughout the entire course, by defamiliarizing the everyday, I felt like a child discovering joy and beauty in the smallest of things. My senses took the lead, and I allowed myself to rediscover the environment through different lenses.
For this reason, my collage reflects the sensation of playfulness that I carried with me into each activity. This playful mindset, thanks to Daniel, has proven invaluable in refreshing my perspective on design and architecture.
I would like to close by sharing a quote by Carl Jung that touches upon this idea:
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”
Assignment 11: Seeing > Visual Thinking > Idea – José Torres
At-home exercise:
For this activity, I have chosen gutters as the focus of my analysis and re-imagining. Frequently, people tend to overlook the calming and pleasant properties of water features. In a city like Vancouver, there are ideal conditions to bring small projects to life that can uplift the community’s mood.
For the open gutter format, I have chosen to incorporate rotating pieces that emulate flowers or windmills. This not only adds an aesthetic touch but also serves the practical purpose of minimizing the impact of water on the soil, preventing any adverse effects on biodiversity caused by the force of the free fall.
As for the closed gutter format, I’ve opted to increase the amount of material used and make it transparent. This allows people sitting around to appreciate the movement of water through the pipe around the columns.
Jasper Chen | Assignment 07
In class exercise
Jasper Chen | Assignment 10
Smell Notes – Andrew Hood
In class
During the walk into the woods at Stanley Park, I got up close with one of the old growth nurse logs. It had salal springing from its top, while parts of the wood were rotting closer to the ground. Overall the scent of the ground, and the decay taking place in and on it, was much more pungent than the smell of new life growing from the top.
At home
A series of photos documenting the tidal movements in coastal BC. The smell experience during a 12 hours stint at this lagoon had such a spectrum of smell. Albeit I noticed most that the rising water seemed to mute smells of low tide, and that as the temperature dropped the smells of the landscape grew faint while my own smells were much more apparent.
