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If you look below you'll see the Cans Festival post, at this festival the public were allowed to bring along their own work and apply to selected areas. This is what we advertised!

The Cans Festival

These 2 pictures below are in a separate area where anyone is allowed to paint and put their own art work up.

The Cans Festival

The Cans Festival is worth having a look, its just around the corner from Waterloo Station. The Art works are being taken down at the end of the festival, but the graffitti will remain!! As it was a bank holiday it was very busy as you can see from the pictures and videos!

Churfing!!

This is going to be the next big sport!! Its chalk surfing!!

The second video was done by Tom Ginnett, to see his blog click here.

Mile End Park

Mile End Park was designed by Tibbalds TM2. The Green Bridge was designed by Piers Gough of CZWG Architects. This park is an ideal example of demonstrating the importance of maintenance. The design of this park is great and has tons of potential but due to poor maintenance by the council the park looks dissapointing. The description of the park sounds really nice

"Mile End Park was gorgeously landscaped during the millennium year by Tibbalds TM2, and now incorporates a go-kart track, a children's centre for under-10s, areas for public art and an ecology area."

Text from here.

The reality of the park is far from attractive and welcoming for anyone let alone under 10s and families. Its hard to judge whether the public art includes the graffitti and un-kept look the park has. I tried to open minded about the park but that was hard after having read and heard negatives reviews about the park, and then being there every word that i'd heard or read was accurate.

Below shows some photos to give an insight to the park.

Mudchute Farm

This was a bit of fun in the day!! There's something about seeing a pig just makes you laugh. The llama's were amusing as well, they didn't look very happy and when I was told they spit quite far I stepped back!
This is a nice example of a community run project, it would be interesting to find out more about the farm. Where they get their funds from? Do the chicken eggs get sold or are they given to the community? Who pays for the food and upkeep of the fences/gates etc?
Ignoring all these questions this is a great opportunity for inner-city children to get an insight to farm animals and what they need to survive.

Jubilee Gardens, Canary Wharf

Jubliee Gardens, i'm not to sure about these gardens, they have the potential to be nice but just aren't. The detailing isn't very nice but the knowing that there's a shopping centre underneath gives you a little more appreciation for it. The fountains work well at drowning out the nearby traffic, other then that I wasn't a big fan of these gardens.

Greenwich Peninsula

Having never visited the dome or the surrounding area, it was decided that was something to do! Below is a public open space near a school, the paving was really nice but the layout was a bit strange. The paving didn't cover the whole area. The games here entertained us for about five minutes and then it was decided that they were too difficult so we moved on. This is a short video of the turning disks, you might have to tilt your head a bit i can't rotate it, sorry!

Usman Haque of Haque :: design + research: PROJECTS, ETC.

This talk at the London Met was very inspiring! The underlying theme to the work of Haque Design is based around the following 3 factors;

1. Architecture
2. Inter-action
3. Design + Research

To see the website click here. The projects that have been completed are based around reactions. Some of the technology that is used has shown a type of intelligence by adapting to the actions taking place.

Some of the projects that Usman Haque talked about;

• Evolving Sonic Environment III This is the technology that according to the research seemed to learn and react quicker the longer it was running for.
  
• Burble This was done in London's Holland Park. The concept behind this is the motion causing the colour change. But each balloon reacts to the colour of its neighbour, the balloons were "communicating" with each other and changing accordingly.
  
• Sky Ear This is similar to the Burble, except instead of reacting to motion, its reacts to mobile phone signals caused by people calling phones that are floating in the Sky Ear and causing the colour changes.

These are some of the projects that Usman Haque has carried out, the website it worth looking at for more projects and information.

The only aspect that didn't come up with the talk is sustainability, the big topic at the moment. The projects and exhbits are great, but the question relating to sustainbility seems un-answered and would be interesting to know what plans Haque :: design + research have got in place to cater for sustainability.