PDFS: DWELLING ACTS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTS SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTS BUILDING ACTS REPRESENTATIONAL ACTS RESEARCH IN ACTION
Push, Pull, Bend, Bind: Enacting Architecture Through Behaviour and Consequence
LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba
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Informality in Bogotá: Housing, Rapid Urbanization, and Public Space
JORGE COLÓN, University of New Mexico
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Poetic Action for Autism: An Intersubjective Approach
ALLISON DVORAK, MSH Architects
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Black Contemporary: Act of Construction
PETER P. GOCHÉ, Iowa State University
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Experiencing the Three-Legged Stool: Social, Economic and Environmental Education
Through the Mariposa Redevelopment
MARIANNE BELLINO HOLBERT, University of Colorado-Boulder
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Clouds of Action: Rethinking Urban Contexts as Differential and Participatory Fields
HANNAH HOPEWELL, Auckland University of Technology
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Inhabiting Difference: Integrating Rule Based Design and Cultural Ritual
JASON S. JOHNSON, University of Calgary
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Exposing Experiences: Research Based Placemaking
JENNY KEMPSON, Framework Cultural Placemaking (Seattle)
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Turbulence and the Creation of Home
GRAHAM LIVESEY, University of Calgary
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Heaven on Earth: Transient Dwelling and Adaptation in Downtown Houston
GREGORY MARINIC, University of Houston
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Digital Surrogacy in Ephemeral Sites
URSULA EMERY MCCLURE, Louisiana State University
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Returning Anew: Sequential Experience in the Jewett Art Center
KEVIN MOORE, Auburn University
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Patterning Temporary Atmospheres: Installations for the Experience of Sound and Light
CLAY ODOM, University of Texas
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Photography as a Phenomenological Tool in Architectural Representation
ERIKA PETRIC, Technical University of Graz
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Apocalyptic Architecture: Designing Within Resilient Detroit
ZIAD QURESHI, Iowa State University
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Free Zoning: Designing a Framework for Typological Evolution and Continual Building Acts
GEORG RAFAILIDIS, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Blind Spot: The User Usurps the Dwelling Act and the Designer’s Attention
NATALIJA SUBOTINCIC, University of Manitoba
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Toward Anonymity in Architecture: An Augmentation of the Historical Project of Autonomy
JOSHUA M. TARON, University of Calgary
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Call Before You Cut! The Importance of Tree Protection
ANNA THURMAYR, University of Manitoba
Though Winnipeg is a city located in the Canadian Prairies, it is surprisingly home to 8 millions trees. Arriving by plane you clearly can see that Winnipeg is a city under a huge canopy! Winnipeg’s urban forest is famous due to the largest urban population of elm trees in North America and this dates back to the early 1900’s. It has become public knowledge that Winnipeg’s canopy is threatened by Dutch Elm Disease. The City’s Urban Forestry does everything to fight against it, namely surveying, pruning, and removing diseased trees, and with some success replanting them. But there is further need to call for action. A large part of Winnipeg’s trees is privately owned, but there is no regulation to avoid the destruction or injury of significant and healthy trees on private properties. The Urban Forestry Department pushed for the protection of privately owned trees many years ago, but, stopped by council, there is still nothing that controls the legal sound of a chainsaw.
Winnipeg is in need to enact a Private Tree Protection Bylaw otherwise this city will end up like it started: covered by grass. We do not want to imagine Winnipeg without those magnificent trees, but the reality and the condition of trees forces us to deal with this dramatic change and to act. World wide there are cities with cutting-edge models for how to protect trees and it could be so easy to learn from them if the will exists. This presentation will refer to relevant precedents and discuss possible actions as well as their assets and drawbacks. The topic is politically very delicate since votes cannot be won with it, but at the end of the day the general welfare should prevail over private gain. Let’s tackle it before it is too late.
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AARON J. WEINERT, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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The Architectural Lessons of Anselm Kiefer’s La Ribaute: The Material of History and the Space of Dramatic Representation
STEPHEN A. WISCHER, North Dakota State University
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PAOLA ZELLNER, Virginia Tech
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Atmosphere is generously supported by the Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund and the following professional associations: the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA); the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects (MALA); and the Professional Interior Designers Institute of Manitoba (PIDIM).
Aspects of Atmosphere 2014 ACTION are being presented in collaboration with StoreFront Manitoba and aceartinc.