Tallinn new tramlines

4 different plans of tram road development in Tallinn

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there is hot discussion going on about new tram roads in Tallinn. If you have an opinion about it feel free to comment.

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The 3rd Christina Conference on Women's Studies

GENDER, IMAGES, AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS
March 8-10, 2007, University of Helsinki, Finland

Programme and registration:
http://www.helsinki.fi/kristiina-instituutti/conference/index.htm

Early bird registration closes Monday 15 January!

Registration (by January 15th, 2007)
120 euros
Late registration (after January 15th, 2007)
150 euros

Student fee (by 15th January, 2007)
50 euros
Student fee (after January 15th, 2007)
70 euros

Modelling Paldiski

work by Helen Rebane

Landscape architecture course for 2nd year architecture students- 22-24 september 2006

The aim of the introductional course was to open minds towards the environment and the surface that we are walking on – the landscape – and interpret it in models according to given themes.

Modelling helps to analyse the characters of the landscape’s different aspects. The idea of the modelling is similar to creative mapping – the process of searching for original materials and testing different ways of compatibility are already part of active imagination, not just rigid analyse. Students were encouraged to invent their own techniques for modelling. Materials have their own character and „message” that is not universal but unique.

The chosen place was Paldiski and especially the bastions from czar Peter I era. After the workshop at the site (tutored by Kalle Komissarov, Katrin Koov and Lilia del Rio) students were asked to make models for three themes – borders, voids, rhythms – of the site. After approval they had to make a final model/drawing with conclusions and give a landscaping idea for enhancing the site.

About results. The course was rich of original materials and self-expressions. Without going here into details we can find joyful, clever, elegant, fragile, thoughtful, systematic models. These models are speaking about students who were excitedly working.

Katrin Koov

work by Mari Hunt

work by Mari Hunt

MODELLING URBAN SPACE WORKSHOP

Estonian Academy of Arts
Tallinn, Estonia
january 8-18 2007

Week 1: Social Positioning / Tagging Tallinn

Tue January 9: Preparatory Day

18.00 - 20.30 Screenings of interesting, urban videos by Estonian architects and students

EKA hall 412

Wed January 10: Lecture day at EKA Auditorium

10.00 Opening of the Intensive Course, prof. Panu Lehtovuori, EKA Urban Studies

10.15 prof. Mauri Kaipainen, Tallinn University: Soft Ontologies

12.00 Lunch

13.30 prof. Rein Ahas, Human Geography, University of Tartu:
Mobile positioning data in urban studies. Social Positioning Method and Live Maps
15.00 Discussion

15.15 Coffee
15.45 Architect Ülar Mark, Urban Mark Architects: Mobile positioning in urban planning

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17.30 – 18.30 Tagging Tallinn
workshop start-up, organising groups and tasks

Thu January 11: Tagging Tallinn workshop

TAGGIN' TALLINN links:

• Workshop instructions
• Mauri Kaipainen slide presentation
• Taggin Tallinn wiki discussion
  

Work in groups

15.00 – 17.00 common tutoring session, Lilia del Rio, Panu Lehtovuori, Kalle Komissarov

EKA hall 412

Fri January 12: Tagging Tallinn workshop

12.00 – 14.00 Interim critique.

Mauri Kaipainen, Ülar Mark, Kalle Komissarov, Lilia del Rio, Panu Lehtovuori

EKA hall 412

Sat January 13: Tagging Tallinn workshop

Work in groups

Week 2: Space Syntax and Sims

Mon January 15: Lecture day

12.00 - 13.30 Tagging Tallinn workshop wrap-up and discussion

14.15 - 15.30 prof. Anssi Joutsiniemi, Tampere University of Technology: Modelling urban space 1. Configurations and simulations. EKA Room 412

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 – 17.15 Anssi Joutsiniemi. Modelling urban space 2. Using movement sequences to model metropolitan scale configurations. EKA Room 119b

17.15 – 18.30 Space Syntax workshop start-up
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Mauri Kaipainen, Lilia del Rio, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori

SpaceSyntax website

Tue January 16: Space Syntax workshop

Work in groups

Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia and Anssi Joutsiniemi

Wed January 17: Lecture day at EKA Auditorium

In the morning work in groups (Room 412)

Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia and Anssi Joutsiniemi

14.00 prof. Alain Chiaradia, London: Theory of Space Syntax, links between social and spatial configurations (double lecture)

17.00 Discussion, led by prof. Anssi Joutsiniemi

18.00 Coffee

18.30 – 19.30 Space Syntax workshop interim critique
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori

Thu January 18: Space Syntax workshop

Work in groups. Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia

Fri January 19: Space Syntax workshop and closure

10.00 – 12.00 Space Syntax wrap-up and discussion EKA hall 412
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori, Lilia del Rio
14.00 + Cleaning the room, burning cds
16.00 - 18.00Taggin' Tallinn Design group meeting
18.00 + Winding down evening.