[Advanced] Proposal Instructions
Term Proposal Instructions
Develop a substantive and challenging plan of study for the semester. Your work must explore the capacity of digital representation to serve a generative role in the design process — that is, to participate in the development of a landscape design, and not serve merely as a tool for the illustration of a completed concept. You are encouraged to explore hybrid workflows, moving between various digital tools to exploit varying capacities and even working between analog and digital media.
Proposals are due via email Wednesday, January 29 by 8 pm.
1. Description
Briefly (<250 words) describe the topics that you will tackle in this study.
Recommended for consideration: analog-digital hybridity, including remote sensing, balloon aerial mapping, hybrid digital-physical modeling, 3d scanning, 3d printing, laser cutting, and drone image capture; modeling; simulation; animation; data visualization and spatialization; landscape change, including spatial and temporal; parametricism
Resources:
Abrams and Hall, Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
Amoroso, Representing Landscape
Bourquin, Ehmann, Klanten and van Heerden, Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Bourquin, Ehmann, Klanten and Tissot, Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Cantrell, Cropp, et al., Fort Proctor http://vimeo.com/channels/392545
Cantrell and Yates, Modeling the Environment
Davis, “Landscapes and Instruments”, Landscape Journal
GSD Course Bulletins (look for “VIS” courses) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/courses/index.cgi?term=201340&dept=L
Landscape Morphologies Lab http://lmlab.org/
Public Lab http://publiclab.org/
Radical Cartography http://radicalcartography.net
Reactscape http://reactscape.visual-logic.com/
Siteations http://the-distopians.com/siteations/
Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Logic http://www.visual-logic.com/
2. Phases of Work
Describe between 3 and 5 distinct phases of work, building in complexity as your skills grow throughout the semester.
a. Study Objectives
What new skills do you intend to develop through this phase of work?
What representational methods and techniques will you explore? Be specific.
b. Workflow
Describe your proposed workflow, recognizing that it may evolve as your understanding of tools and techniques evolves.
What programs will you use?
Recommended for consideration: 3ds Max, Rhino (including scripting programs such as Grasshopper and RhinoScript), Processing, ArcGIS, or more specialized modeling software (Matlab, TAS 2d Ambiens, IESVE). Workflows can and should incorporate more basic programs such as AutoCAD and Adobe CS, but should not be limited to those programs. You will have to be very convincing if you want to use Sketchup.
Will you work purely in digital media, or will you hybridize digital and physical methodologies?
c. Products
What will you produce in this phase of work? Describe the representation(s).
d. Readings & Resources
What will you read to advance your understanding, both theoretical and technical, of your study topics?
What software and/or hardware will you need to acquire to complete your plan of study?
What resources, such as tutorials, will you rely upon to build your understanding of the technical skills required for your study?
3. Schedule
Indicate when you will begin each phase of work, when you will finish each phase of work, and what specific tasks you intend to accomplish during each week.
You must present at least one completed product at each course critique date (3.20 and 5.1).