I got a chance to visit Darren O Connell’s weekend sanctuary in Qingshan Village, an hour away by car from Hangzhou. A beautiful village where Darren envisages a unique experience of workout with fitness equipment made out of bamboo. Of course we did the bamboo workout!
Darren documents active interviews with entrepreneurs and inspiring people (and me). Here is a bit of me and my fascination with bamboo Did the interview a few days ago at Qingshan Village. Head to ReLabs Wechat account to have a read at the rest of interviews.
This village is also home to an amazing architecture firm Pinwu. Check out their Rongsheji Design Library, full of catalogs of craftsmanship.
KALA is here this weekend with Boomi eco-platform, come by if you are in the vicinity. We want to hear about our design and your feedback on them. Designed and produced by our team of artisans.
5% goes to Boomi’s scheme to plant trees in Tongliao city in Inner Mongolia, they have planted 2000 trees in February 2020. Still a long way to go!
Truly honoured to be re-connected with familiar faces and reminiscing old times in Petra Christian University, Indonesia. One proud alumna, indeed. Remembering when I was one of the nominee for the same exercise (architectural final theses) many moons ago. These best of the best students will be presenting their design and am excited to learn from them.
KALA is our in house home decor and accessories dual brands. We are in Life Hub, Shanghai until 9 August. If you are around, please pop by! Otherwise you can also follow us in Wechat Official Account: kala_artisanal or IG: @kalaartdecor . Design and made in Indonesia.
These are our favourites: the bamboo coffee filter and bamboo tea strainer.
Sponsored by Aksen (China and Indonesia), in collaboration with Weishun Xu from Zhejiang University.
Our keen designers and makers are:
Jiang Yating
Chen Wu
Sun Xintian
Chuchu Qi
Yang Ruitong
Shen Jingli
Haiqing Yang
Xia Miaojun*
Feng Liyang
Li Ningyuan*
Fan Zeran
Facilitated by 3 lecturers:
Weishun Xu- Zhejiang University, Matt Wallwork- University of Nottingham Ningbo China and Mia A. Tedjosaputro- Ningbo University.
Computationally designed by ZHU team and crafted manually by the keen makers. We are framing the research questions on potentials of mixed reality in architecture to aid design and construction processes. Derived from the observations of two bamboo pods construction (for first pod, click here), the aim is to contribute on the area of computational bamboo architecture.
Photographs courtesy of Sun Xintian, Yang Ruitong and myself.
One of this year’s highlight, managed to get hold of Hololens 2 headset for our mixed reality research. I have mapped up the research agenda in computational bamboo architecture for the last year or so and Rafael and myself have been working on the emulator since the beginning of this year. Excited!
Link to Call for Participants posters, click here.
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Hi all, thank you for your kind help. As you might aware, this session is part of my PGCHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education) assignment. It is a British Teaching qualification course I am taking with Falmouth University, UK.
We will be exploring a rather different teaching and learning concepts, flipped classroom and blended learning. If you are curious, flipped classroom is a concept related to the shifting of the onus (responsibility) from facilitators to the students. Blended learning involves the use of online and offline materials and environment.
Date: 11 July 2020
Location: Virtual and IAMET218 (UNNC)
Time: 11am-12pm and the pre-classroom activities as below
PRE-CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES- SUMMARY:
Watch the three podcasts, please see the links below.
Do the short quiz (3 minutes top to fill in), link can be found below.
Look for group assignment
Prepare a group oral presentation (2 minutes each group of two- so one minute each person)
Will be communicated through Wechat. Depending which group (from 1 to 3) you are assigned, please prepare a group presentation based on the input text you are given.
Please communicate with your group member to arrange the two minutes presentation. It is suggested that each one of you prepare a minute presentation, with agreement with your group member.
Hi all, you might be aware of, I am doing my PGCHE (a British teaching qualification in higher education) and for my third assignment I am piloting a blended and flipped classroom. If you are around on campus, let me know 🙂
Just a quick update on the bamboo sitting pod #1, our trial exercise. Four of us (Zheng, Maxine, Matt and I) completed it in two days despite the heavy downpour. It was completed faster than we planned. The structure stays there as the owner would like to keep it (we planned to take it down straightaway), hence temporary structure support stays for redundancy.
Before we launch the second construction this month (July 18th), here is a gif of the first pod encapsulating the process. And some paps of the final pod.
