Policy Education Facility | Summarized

In summary, this facility creates a symbol with a presence of government and education through its location, intervention, and form. It is identified through its impacting nature and the influences from an environment of interaction, development, and guidance.

Policy Education Facility | Sections

Policy Education Facility | Floor Plans

Location | Analysis

Strategy Inputs | Form Resolution

In the previous section there has been a link suggested between the educational structure and the parliamentary structure. This crossover is then developed into a merged “trans-programme” through the utilisation of the strategies which were developed in accordance with the philosophy of “echoes.”


With this programme set in place, there can now be further resolution drawn into a form which is relevant to the theoretical and the physical infrastructures and the echoes which resonate from them.

Theoretical Echoes>Merged

Theoretical Echoes>Education

Theoretical Echoes>Parliament

Strategy>Echoes of Awareness

Functionality and the resultant space are well defined in their contributions to an environment. This acknowledgement is due to the specific roles each part plays in the act of their development and creation. Though when the primary event shifts through displacement a new event occurs – this is the echo of awareness.

This shift in characteristic or function aligns with the recognition of a change in space. This is the secondary experience that a user will define and as such they will become aware of the displacement.

The experience of awareness that is captured is in actuality the illusion of the creation of a new space with alternate functions from the original, though the space itself has not altered in any way, the characteristics within have been manipulated through the change in the function of the environment.

Strategy>Echoes of Engagement

The acknowledgement of location is captured through the recognition of the surrounding environment, the familiarity of the said environment, and the comfort one can find through these acts. The ideal of place is then one of enjoying the urban fabric, its typologies, and its characteristics.

Echoes of engagement are an illusionary obligation to commit to the place and its characteristics. This is not to conform, but rather to experience the surroundings as an individual and to contribute to the environment through personal interaction.

The experience of engagement in this environment is the temporal resonating of one’s personality within the place, contributing to a greater user experience among a collective.

Strategy>Echoes of Potential

The connection between leadership and those who are led allows for a developing future for those generations. The result of continuity is the perpetual motion of these events throughout and beyond such a future.

The echoes of potential are the event of showing the capacity to develop into something in the future by utilizing these latent qualities or abilities and to lead them towards the possibility of success or usefulness.

The experience resultant from the echo is the recognition of the possibility of that future and the belief that through guidance it can be accepted as feasible in its eventuality.

Strategy>Echoes of Influence

Influences resonate around us from many sources, though none more prominent than those of leadership and morals. These influences are guiding principles of growth and have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or on the effect itself.

The echoes of influence are attributed to the act of sharing, where a collective of entities contribute to a cause and aim to return to a state of equality through such connectivity. The temporal event which occurs due to the primary act is the influence that this collective and their sharing of knowledge has on the surrounding environment.

The temporal experience is one which provides a notion of direction for a user group, either broad or specific, towards a goal or intention.

The Illusion of Echoes - Understanding Time and Space

Echoes are sounds that encounter and rebound from reflecting surfaces, and the experiences which follow are those caused by such reflections. For these experiences to be counted as Echo Experiences they require an initial primary sound. An echo is then to re-experience the primary sound, and be related to perhaps looking at an image in a mirror.

Sounds may be theoretically divided into two variants, vibration events, and disturbance events. These are defined by the interpretation on the effect of impact of the surroundings, either reacting upon the vibration of an object or interacting with or disrupting a surrounding medium.

Either philosophical interpretation suggests that the sound is not a property, but rather that it is an event. The pressure waves in the medium transmit information about the event, but the sound is not the waves. In this way, the primary sound and the echo are then interpreted as separate events, though in reality we are simply re-experiencing the primary sound with distortion of time, place, and qualities. The question of how these events are to be interpreted as distinctive in their own way depends on the degree of distortion of both qualities of the sound and the reflecting surface. The elements of time and place relate also, determining the gap which makes the second sound singular from its original, and the position of both the receiver and the reflecting surface. The greater the arrival delay and the qualities of the reflecting surface will allow for the receiver to experience a higher degree of determining that each sound is unrelated.

Yet the echo is just the primary sound, albeit with distortions of time, place, and qualities. The echo then is more suited to being referred to as an illusion, caused by the behavior of sound and the way in which it is perceptually localized. The distinction between the primary sound and the echo depends upon the delays of arrival-time upon the receiver.

What the receiver is experiencing is in actuality an event from the past. This experience then includes the concept of temporal illusion. So then why would the receiver determine that each sound is separate?

To justify this occurrence, let us explore briefly the concept of a star at supernova many light-years away. When the star goes supernova, and flitters away in a spectacular display, we will see it here through our telescopes, or perhaps as a bright spark in the night sky. What we are experiencing is in fact a past event, yet we determine that we are experiencing it in the present. As with echoes and primary sounds, what is occurring is the perception that past events are in fact present events. In reality we are only experiencing a singular event with special tricks to create the illusion of separate occurrences.

Experiencing an echo is like bending time and space – an experience of temporal illusion.

Infrastructure Distribution - Strategy

By applying the strategy upon the urban fabric of Brisbane, we can partially allocate the same values, processes and concepts that were apparent with the capital environment.

By understanding the influence of cultural, social, and governance infrastrucutres, and integrating these separately from educational facilities, we are able to better explore the amount of influence these elements have on a specific axis or location.

Soft Infrastructure - Distribution

Cultural and Social Infrastructure feeds Governance Infrastructure and allows for an identity and presence to be influenced within a resulting symbol. This symbol can then influence other infrastructures such as educational facilities.

We are then also able to establish an infrastructural strategy that will enable the application of this symbolization in another location.

Brief | Re-Interpretation

From the original "procept" brief there is now the opportunity to re-interpret and evolve it to make it relocatable to a set location. This will require acknowledgement of the original, but also a new concept that will be involved in the local area of choice - In this case Brisbane.

Future Echoes

How can we redefine our public institution to create a symbol of distributed awareness?

In the 21st century, we should be encouraged to be more aware of parliamentary decisions and the process that formulates these acts. Our democratic representation should be challenged to make the right decisions for our future generations, and not to simply justify their actions without understanding the impact of them. The option is then to create an environment where they are engaging and influencing these future generations within the public eye.

Education is our future!

Our future is developed through the education of our younger generations and as such, the influence that we have on them in the present times will impact on the decisions they will make for those generations in their future. This linear formula needs to be rearranged to introduce an environment where we create a symbol of influence of policy-making and education of such policies. The development of a cyclic methodology where a symbol of governance feeds a symbol of education and vice versa will in turn create a product of distributed awareness.

Future Echoes | Echoes Future

Parliament acts as our decisive component that maintains our nation’s sustainability. The impact that these decisions have on our quality of life are long term and affect our future generations more than they will ever affect our own lives. We should investigate and acknowledge the echoes that resonate between the act of those decisions and the outcome they may produce. This can be achieved by educating our younger generations on the issues, not just in policy, but also in policy-making.

The Final/Beginning Word

The Complete Picture

The Story

This tale begins and ends with a solution - unity amongst the nation. That element is the nucleus that remains inherent and requires preservation and symbolism to remain sustainable for the continuity of the nation's identity. At this point an introduction is made for the main contributor's of this story - the nation's public and its governing body. These two entities provide the background of a journey through progressive tactical molding and provisions.

The setting is the vast array of issues in accordance with social sustainability. Without the resolution of these issues the nation cannot hope to eliminate the subsidiary components of environmental and economical sustainable issues. Thus the primary concern is the resolve of social issues on federal, state and local levels. The current resolve of the public is to voice these concerns to the governing body in order to develop and implement policies which will eventually quell the hunger of the beast that is the social issues of the nation. However, these heroic acts are met with a progressively growing gap between the leaders of the governing body and the distributed social issues of the nation's public. A void is displayed in the sense that there is a disconnection of communication. The answer to this problem is to find a way to create an environment which houses the issues and communicates them with the capital - thus partially replacing and distributing capital throughout the nation.

In order to accomplish this task, the character's look for a guide that show them the correct path through the labyrinth options available. The guide first sets a task - understand the values of the strategy and the outcomes they produce, as these outcomes will be required in order to find the way. With this noted the protagonists find that the acts of sharing, connection, locality and functionality represent the values of equality, continuity, place and space respectively.

With the tools to move forward packed away, the protagonists follow the guide into the realm of infrastructure, where it is explained that there is no direct path to the end. The guide shows them two paths that must be taken symmetrically - theoretical and physical. These two paths explain the placement and location of the solution that they seek, but it must be resolved in unison.

So the characters set on their way according to the guide's information and along this journey they both discovered the final elements required - a physical representation of the social issue, a symbol; and a theoretical unity of solutions - the core value.

Just like Arthur and Excalibur, the character's found that the combination of the two entities created a powerful weapon to symbolize the issues that they faced. In the end the solution was the unity that they had created throughout the journey together. This symbol would be able to be placed around the nation, providing an environment to communicate appropriate social issues to the governing body from the nation's public.

Symbol Creation

Theoretical and Physical Infrastructures

Strategy > The Act of Functionality

Strategy > The Act of Locality

Strategy > The Act of Connection

Strategy > The Act of Sharing

Social Issues and Values

The Story of Procept

"We define a procept to be a combined mental object consisting of a process, a concept produced by that process, and a symbol which may be used to denote either or both." - Eddie Gray and David Hall.

This portion will show the group project based on the development of the ideas that we have all announced whilst exploring the challenges over the previous weeks associated with the re-imagining of the Australian Capital.

References:

Gray, E., & Hall, D. (1992). Success and Failure in Mathematics:The Flexible Meaning of Symbols as Process and Concept. Mathematics Teaching, 142, 6-10. Retrieved from http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/pdfs/dot1993b-success-failure-mt.pdf

Moving Towards the Future

The result of these understandings is the intialisation of a future product. The idea of being able to produce a unique symbol that represents a particular issue, whilst still retaining the presence and identity of the capital is one which is enticing and exciting. The result, or product, of the aforementioned approach is essentially a brief that could be presented to any level of constitution and allow for the creation of a new environment which could support or alleviate the issues surrounding it.

Resolving the Approach

The approach that has been offered begins with a number of questions:

"What is the value gained by implementing this approach?"

"What are the programmes which would not normally interact?"

"When and how will these programmes interact?"

"Is the resolution going to be seen in such a way that it will be recognisable?"

The answers to these questions can be found in the earlier investigations. The idea of the symbol is that it is recognisable. It also maintains a certain presence and identity about it. Achieving such a result can be found through the intervention of separate programmes, in this case the derivation of physical and theoretical infrastructure.

The result of these implementations and the usage of the aforementioned strategy are the beginnings of the creation of a symbol.

So this symbol is the collaboration of two programmes which would not normally be associated with each other.

A Holistic Approach: "Breaking Away from the Linear"

The idea to break away from a linear plane of thought is brought forward to us by Bernard Tschumi who developed the patterns of "Transprogramming." Through this he discusses the idea of the layering of one function on top of another which provides multiple programmes which interact and destabilize each other (Rendell, 2006, p.116). Transprogramming in particular suggests the placement of two programs being brought together which would not normally have any association with each other.

References:

Rendell, J. (2006). Art and Architecture: A Place Between. New York: NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Formulating the Strategy

Now that the establishment has been made to polarise the strategy around a core nucleus, the task is to explore the notion of developing a more continual pattern that allows the user of the strategy to return at any point to the core value. This is needed to understand and acknowledge that the user is preserving that core value and not losing sight of it during the process or concept stages.

Previously, it was noted that the distributed strategy involved a few key elements, these being shared, communicative, connected, and programmed. If we are to assume that these are the qualities which are inherent in the strategy, then they are able to be allocated a various amount of influence into the formula.

It is here that we begin to see a strategic form appear.

Rearranging the Connections

The connections that were present before were listed in a linear order that presented the assumption that the core value was the beginning, and then the strategy would develop from that eventually targeting the issues.

Another approach would be to look at the possibly of having the core as a central value with no beginning or end solution; more so the core value IS the beginning and end value.

In this way the strategy is not developed to solve the a core ISSUE, rather it builds from and returns to a core VALUE.

Thus there is now a point to begin formulating a strategy - in this case DISTRIBUTION has been chosen.