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The Landscape Legacy of the Olympics, Part 6: Engineering the Olympic Park
An interview with Tom Armour of Arup. This is the sixth of a series of nine interviews on the role of Landscape Architects in the Olympic Games. To find out more visit: http://www.landscapeinstitute.org Use the links below to skip to a specific question: 0:14 How did you get involved with the Olympic Project? 1:11 What was your role in the project? 3:09 When did your involvement start? 4:58 What form of contract was used? 6:10 What was your role at each stage of the project? 7:27 What was the site like when you first visited? 9:08 How was the soil on site treated? 10:14 Landscape Architects led the project team. How did that work? 11:59 Do you think there is a future for "Landscape Engineers"? 12:29 Is additional training needed to turn a Landscape Architect into a Landscape Engineer? 13:12 How can we encourage more inter-professional working in the future? 14:40 What was your biggest challenge while leading this inter-disciplinary team? 15:49 How did the Engineers react to being led by a Landscape Architect? 17:29 How has this project changed the way you work? 18:26 What was the biggest innovation on site? 20:21 What was the biggest challenge? 22:38 What was the biggest achievement? 23:28 How are you involved with the transformation stage? 23:31 What did you learn from this project? 24:55 What lessons should other Landscape Architects take from this project? 27:13 How would you summarise the role of Landscape Architects on this project? 29:03 How do you see the Park in five ...From:landscapeinstituteukViews:3 0ratingsTime:34:53More inEducation

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Grouper Integration - Training - Architects and Developers
Describes decisions made when integrating Grouper with applications. Groups vs. permissions, LDAP vs. WS vs. SAML entitlements, Cached vs. live calls, and Grouper API vs. local representation. Visit this page to quiz yourself on these topics: http://www.internet2.edu Grouper Training site: spaces.internet2.eduFrom:Internet2NetworkViews:1 0ratingsTime:10:00More inScience Technology

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Safet Street- Voices from the residents of MacPherson
The residents want safer roads. A lot more can be done and many good ideas from the ground. As ESM Goh Chok Tong said: "It may be too late since this estate was not planned for cycling, but it #39;s never too late t do a little more for cycling." All the ideas point to the direction of "calming the traffic", which may seem against the KPIs (travelling time of cars) of LTA. However, experience from other cities, like NY demonstrated that overall travelling time of cars was not affected after calming down the traffic, and the roads becomes much safer and "civilized" for pedestrians and cyclist. lovecycling.net Organized by FIVEFOOTWAY. In Partnership with Macpherson CC, Participate In Design, Love Cycling SG. Supported by Singapore Institute of Architects Special Thanks to Mr John Rehm, Ziqq, Clover Chen and students of SUTD More: bettersg.tumblr.comFrom:francis chuViews:0 0ratingsTime:08:10More inNonprofits Activism

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Stirling Prize - Wiki Article
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal... Stirling Prize - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Unknown Image URL: en.wikipedia.org ( Creative Commons ASA 3.0 )From:WikiPlaysViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:46More inEducation

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121112 TODAY New Gurdwara in Newcastle, Chat with Raj Singh, http://www.spicefm.co.uk, with Doc
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ARCHITECTS HAVE BEENtalking for years about biophilic design, evidence based design, design informed by the work of psychologists. But last May, at the professions annual convention, John Zeisel and fellow panelists were trying to explain neuroscience to a packed ballroom.

The late-afternoon session pushed well past the end of the day; questions just kept coming. It was a scene, Zeisel marveledall this interest in neurosciencethat would not have taken place just a few years earlier.

Zeisel is a sociologist and architect who has researched the design of facilities for Alzheimers patients. Architects, he explains, understand about aesthetics; they know about psychology. The next depth to which they can go is understanding the brain and how it worksandwhydo people feel more comfortable in one space than another?

This is an admittedly abstract concept. To help explain, architects often tell this story: Early in his career, when he was still struggling to find a cure for polio,Jonas Salkretreated to Umbria, Italy, to the monastery at the Basilica of Assisi. The 13th-century Franciscan monastery rises out of the hillside in geometric white stone, with Romanesque arches framing its quiet courtyards. Salk would insist, for the rest of his life, that something about this placethe design and the environment in which he found himselfhelped to clear his obstructed mind, inspiring the solution that led to his famous polio vaccine.

He really thought there was something to this, says thearchitect Alison Whitelaw, that the quality of the built environment could affect the performance of the brain.

Today, the near 10-year-oldAcademy of Neuroscience for Architecturebelieves that neuroscience could make sciences greatest contribution to the field of architecture since physics informed fundamental structural methods, acoustic designs, and lighting calculations in the late 19th century. In September, the academy held its first national conference at, fittingly, the Salk Institute, in La Jolla, California. When the academy solicited proposals from anyone who might have insight or research to contribute, Whitelaw expected a handful of takers. The conference instead received dozens of proposals from all over the worldfrom people, Whitelaw says, we didnt even know were working in this field.

Now, thanks to a $500,000 gift from the estate of solar-energy pioneer Harold Hay, the academy has dedicated resources to fund research at the intersection of these seemingly disparate fields. And its dream to create joint-degree programs in architecture and neuroscience seems not so far off.

If architects understood both fields, they might be able, in designing hospitals, schools, and homes for people with all manner of disabilities, to create places that would support the development of premature babies, the treatment of children with autism, the fostering of learning abilities of students. Imagine hospitals with such intuitive way-finding that no one gets lost (or stressed as a result); imagine an Alzheimers facility that could help its residents remember who they are.

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UNTIL ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, scientists believed that our adult brains lost neurons during normal aging at a low but steady rate, and that we werent able to replace them, as we do skin cells. This suggested that the brain you had in your early 20s was perhaps the best brain you were going to get. But research in the late 1990s byneurobiologist Fred Gageand other scientists confirmed the process of adult neurogenesis. New neurons continue to be born throughout life, particularly in the hippocampus, the part of your brain that processes new information on its way to being stored as long-term memories. This means that your capacity to add new memories and learn new skills can continue to expand. And how fast these cells are added seems directly influenced by the richness of our interactions with our environment. When Gage introduced these findings to architects at theAmerican Institute of Architects 2003 convention, he pronounced an idea that is still sinking in: Changes in the environment change the brain, and therefore they change our behavior.

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