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GARDENS My project proposal goes along with the thesis hand in hand, so the two of them form each other. Who are my neighbours?

Keywords: neighbours, gardens, private, public space, nature

Gardens are a quick escape to nature and can help you to change an environment rapidly within the greyness of the city. In the country of Slovenia, where I come from, the garden is an important part of living space. Slovenian gardens strive for the fullness of greenery, they usually have space for an outdoor table for warmer days and a part of the garden that is intended for growing home-grown vegetables and fruits.

Me and my family have a big connection and engagement to our garden in Slovenia. Different seasons brings different activities and taking care of. In autumn we cut trees and bushes, in winter it becomes a snow city for the children, spring is a season when the whole family to harvest grown fruit and vegetable and in summer we take every opportunity to spend outside and have garden parties.

I moved to Rotterdam in September 2020. I live in a multi-apartment house in Oud-Charlois, of which the apartments face the central space. The apartments on the ground floor have their own gardens, as it is quite common for residential buildings in Dutch urbanism. We live in an apartment with no garden, but have a great view on some of them. As the garden is a very important part of my life, having no garden is a big cut of. Observing happenings on Dutch gardens and their characters, the comparison to Slovenian customs is quite different.

Gardens are a specific space of living environment and their state depends on weather, skills and engagement of the residents. I will be researching people's relation to gardens and the connection to nature in the Netherlands, for a deeper understanding of the culture, since before moving here I did not think I would feel a culture shock. The research will help me to get to know more people and make me feel more part of a community.

Approach:

I will visit people’s homes and interview them about gardens. The questions will vary whether they have a garden or not. After the interview I will take photographs of the gardens and juxtapose them next to each other, so I will have a good overview of them all. With the analysis of the interviews and the overview and reading of photographs I will be able to make out a better understanding of how the spaces are being used.

For now, the outcome of the project will be a photobook with all the documentation I can get.

I have experience in architectural photography, of which knowledge I will apply into taking the photographs. I am expecting a different result as the situations and circumstances will be altered, due to time restriction and contrasted subject matter to my usual tidied up practice of newly built accommodations of interior and exterior.

Je.jpg

Caption1

There are 84 apartments, of which 42 are ground floors with gardens.

I don’t count on everyone to participate.

If they have a garden:

What does a garden mean to you?

What are you using it for?

How often do you use it?

When you use your garden, do you feel being watched? How does that infect you?

What would your ideal garden look like?

Do you use a shed?

When buying an apartment, did you specifically look for an apartment with a garden?

What do you think about the idea of a common space / garden?

Do you know your neighbors?

How often do you go out of the city with a purpose of visiting nature?

If they do not have a garden:

What does a garden mean to you?

Would you like to have it?

What would you use it for?

Do you use a shed?

What would your ideal garden look like?

What do you think about these gardens?

If you could, would you change anything?

Do you use a balcony and for what?

What do you think about the idea of a common space / garden?

Do you know your neighbors?

How often do you go out of the city with a purpose of visiting nature?

I want to talk to people and remind them the importance of gardens, and how can that specific space affect persons life. In order to make my life feel more like home in a home with no garden, the solution would be to have a view on gardens, filled with plants and green. Not that I am expecting that the talks will make a significant change, but I am interested in other peoples perspective.

Using visual evidence https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=771662d7-81b4-4eba-8ecd-f9b5e164e5d1%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNvb2tpZSx1aWQmbGFuZz1ubCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=466495&db=e000xww

TIMETABLE

At least 30 interviews until the end of november -

Analysis of the interviews and reads of photographs that i will have

Further investigation - communal gardens, Christmas street decorating

More interviews following month

In January i am going to Slovenia for a week, try to get as much interviews and photographs as possible

Comparisson of both
-further investigation

May – choosing the ending series, making a photobook design

July – finished photobook

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-'''SPACE'''
+'''GARDENS
+'''
+My project proposal goes along with the thesis hand in hand, so the two of them form each other.
+'''
+Who are my neighbours?'''
-The architect designs a space intended for users. The building is structured in order for a person to enter it, percieve its size, its shape, texture, temperature and smell. It offers the possibility of living (apartments, houses, etc.), short-term use (school, office, library, gallery, etc.), or just a space to pass through (railway stations, subways). No matter what it is, it is intended and structured for users. So without them, it is a useless, space-consuming space. However, the space can change its role several times in a shorter or longer period of time, and each time it offers the user new experiences.
+<br>
-For the final project, I would like to create a space for quick use, with a strong visual effect. The whole concept, however, is that the space only comes to life when a visitor enters it. So I point out that space and user are interdependent.
-I have always been interested in architecture, the logic of spaces and their design.
+'''Keywords''': neighbours, gardens, private, public space, nature
-For the thesis, I research the usefulness of private gardens within the building in which I live. The large space in the middle of the building has, in my opinion, much greater potential than is currently used or unused.
-For the project, I will portray this idea with a more abstract approach.
-The conceived idea is a continuation of a project from the previous year, where I also wanted to create a space that would physically represent my own performance of the workings of memory and nostalgia. For that, I assembled two objects with mirrors on which the video would be projected, and the effect of the mirrors would scatter the projection around the space all around the viewer, making it impossible to see the whole picture at once.
+<br><br>
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_u9CJ9WSY&t=22s&ab_channel=NiceGuys
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M9Gq_o5Bk&t=31s&ab_channel=marusavehovar
+Gardens are a quick escape to nature and can help you to change an environment rapidly within the greyness of the city. In the country of Slovenia, where I come from, the garden is an important part of living space. Slovenian gardens strive for the fullness of greenery, they usually have space for an outdoor table for warmer days and a part of the garden that is intended for growing home-grown vegetables and fruits.
+ <br>
-'''What do you want to make?'''
+Me and my family have a big connection and engagement to our garden in Slovenia. Different seasons brings different activities and taking care of. In autumn we cut trees and bushes, in winter it becomes a snow city for the children, spring is a season when the whole family to harvest grown fruit and vegetable and in summer we take every opportunity to spend outside and have garden parties.
-<br>
-Each room offers a specific usability, kitchen for cooking, office for work, hallway for connecting different rooms. Each of these spaces contain different furniture and facilities for the realisation of the spatial purpose, and at the same time they specify the users stay in the space. I want to set up a space whose purpose is to use the space itself, so there will be no facilities in it for the visitor to focus on.
+<br>
-Part of the exhibition space will be dedicated to exhibit space - some kind of utopia.
-'''How would it work?'''
+<br>
-<br>
-I'm going to need two walls. One will act as a green screen and the other as a basis for projection. The green screen will be projected on the opposite wall showing only white background. Upon the visitors entering, the camera will detect the loss of green screen data, visitors silhouette will be projected on the wall with a projection, and a document / video / image covered with whiteness will be revealed in the silhouette. In order to view the entire document / video / image, the visitor will have to use the entire space with his body.
-[[File:Hinko Smrekar - Indija Koromandija II.jpg|frameless]].  <gallery> silhuette.jpg|</gallery>
+I moved to Rotterdam in September 2020. I live in a multi-apartment house in Oud-Charlois, of which the apartments face the central space. The apartments on the ground floor have their own gardens, as it is quite common for residential buildings in Dutch urbanism. We live in an apartment with no garden, but have a great view on some of them. As the garden is a very important part of my life, having no garden is a big cut of. Observing happenings on Dutch gardens and their characters, the comparison to Slovenian customs is quite different.
+<br>
+<br>
+Gardens are a specific space of living environment and their state depends on weather, skills and engagement of the residents. I will be researching people's relation to gardens and the connection to nature in the Netherlands, for a deeper understanding of the culture, since before moving here I did not think I would feel a culture shock. The research will help me to get to know more people and make me feel more part of a community.
+'''Approach:'''
+<br>
-Document / video / image
+I will visit people’s homes and interview them about gardens. The questions will vary whether they have a garden or not. After the interview I will take photographs of the gardens and juxtapose them next to each other, so I will have a good overview of them all. With the analysis of the interviews and the overview and reading of photographs I will be able to make out a better understanding of how the spaces are being used.
 <br>
-The revealed image is not the main concept of the project, but it will definitely give a comment in its entirety.
+[[File:Vrt.jpg|frameless|none]]
 <br>
-- Still video spaces with users (market, square, metro station, library, living room, studio, ..)
+[[File:Vrt2.jpg|frameless|none]]
 <br>
-- Color graphics with interesting visual effects
+[[File:Vrt3.jpg|frameless|none]]
 <br>
-- A painted picture, perhaps a depiction of a utopia, story
+[[File:Vrt4.jpg|frameless|none]]
 <br>
-- Animation that the visitor would follow
+[[File:Vrt5.jpg|frameless|none]]
 <br>
-So far, I don’t have a final decision.
-'''How do you plan to make it?'''
+For now, the outcome of the project will be a photobook with all the documentation I can get.
 <br>
-Depends on the exhibition space that will be dedicated to us.
-I'm also counting on having to assemble the walls myself.
-I will create, draw and record the hidden content myself.
-'''What is your timetable?'''
+I have experience in architectural photography, of which knowledge I will apply into taking the photographs. I am expecting a different result as the situations and circumstances will be altered, due to time restriction and contrasted subject matter to my usual tidied up practice of newly built accommodations of interior and exterior.
 <br>
-January, February - Gain knowledge and technology to use green screen and video masking, first attempts, making sure it works
+<gallery>
+je.jpg|Caption1
+</gallery>
+<br>
+<br>
+[[File:Screen Shot 2021-11-15 at 20.54.19.jpg|frameless]]
+<br>
+There are 84 apartments, of which 42 are ground floors with gardens.
+<br>
+I don’t count on everyone to participate.
+<br>
+<br>
+If they have a garden:
+<br>
+What does a garden mean to you?
+<br>
+What are you using it for?
+<br>
+How often do you use it?
 <br>
-March, April - make the necessary walls and a covered document
-<br>
-May - Adaptation to the exhibition space
-'''Who can help you and how?'''
+When you use your garden, do you feel being watched? How does that infect you?
-<br>
-Barent can help me in the field of technical knowledge
+<br>
-My roommate Tanit, a programmer, will help me set up image masking software
+What would your ideal garden look like?
+<br>
+Do you use a shed?
+<br>
+When buying an apartment, did you specifically look for an apartment with a garden?
+<br>
+What do you think about the idea of a common space / garden?
+<br>
+Do you know your neighbors?
+<br>
+How often do you go out of the city with a purpose of visiting nature?
+<br>
+<br>
-==Steve suggests:==
+If they do not have a garden:
-[The proposal needs to lead with your PRACTICE . What are you actually making so... ]
+<br>
-'''[TITLE OF PROPOSED PROJECT]'''
+What does a garden mean to you?
+<br>
-Open with screen shots of these pieces:
+Would you like to have it?
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_u9CJ9WSY&t=22s&ab_channel=NiceGuys
+<br>
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M9Gq_o5Bk&t=31s&ab_channel=marusavehovar
+What would you use it for?
+<br>
+Do you use a shed?
+<br>
-I want to continue a project I began last year. In [title(2020)] I wanted to create a space that would physically represent my own performance of the workings of memory and nostalgia. [<< please unpack this and explain more what you mean] For this piece, I assembled two objects with mirrors on which the video would be projected, and the effect of the mirrors would scatter the projection around the space all around the viewer, making it impossible to see the whole picture at once.
+What would your ideal garden look like?
-For my proposed project [title?] I'm going to need two walls. One will act as a green screen and the other as a surface for projection. The green screen will be projected on the opposite wall showing only white background. When the visitor enters, the camera will detect the loss of green screen data, the visitor's silhouette will be projected on the wall with a projection, and an image covered with whiteness will be revealed in the silhouette. In order to view the entire image, the visitor will have to use the entire space with their body.[OR the visitor will have to '''scan''' the entire space with their body in order to reveal the image.]
+<br>
+What do you think about these gardens?
-''[<<OK this is shows a clear intention to make something. I would advise that you prototype this NOW and bring the results of your experiment to the proposal seminar (when you show your proposal to the other tutors) and to the GRS. Such occasions usually go well if you have something to show and you demonstrate that you are engaged in a process and that this process has a relation to the things you have made before. The more visual information of how this proposed piece could work the better]
+<br>
+If you could, would you change anything?
-[Note on what you have written : in the piece with the mirrors and the proposed piece, you make "it impossible to see the whole picture at once". What benefit is in that , for you? What affect do you expect it to have on the viewer? I suspect it has something to do with allowing the viewer - the person who inhabits the space- to explore the space or the image; to put the pieces back together, to orientate the space. If that is the case,  what is the advantage of that, for you?.]''
+<br>
-VERY IMPORTANT: what image will you project and why? Actually you could apply different images. What are the possibilities of experimenting with different image? Images of the space we are in?; images of other spaces? &c.]
+Do you use a balcony and for what?
-'''Why do you want to make it?'''
+<br>
-<br>
-Each room offers a specific usability, kitchen for cooking, office for work, hallway for connecting different rooms. Each of these spaces contain different furniture and facilities for the realisation of the spatial purpose, and at the same time they specify the users stay in the space. I want to set up a space whose purpose is to use the space itself, so there will be no facilities in it for the visitor to focus on.
-[ <<Again, why do you want this? I accept it is a valid position to take, but I'm curious as to why you want this mode of perception in your viewer. Try to outline this in a couple of sentences. Related question: why make a space with no utility? Can an architecture without 'use value' exist. See the architecture collective ANTFARM who proposed architectural spaces not as shelters or places of utility but as ''interfaces for shared experiences'' - their experiments might be a useful reference for you.]
+What do you think about the idea of a common space / garden?
-Part of the exhibition space will be dedicated to exhibit space - some kind of utopia.[ <<please unpack this (in a few sentences)]
+<br>
-'''How would it work?'''
+Do you know your neighbors?
+<br>
-[[File:Hinko Smrekar - Indija Koromandija II.jpg|frameless]].  <gallery> silhuette.jpg|</gallery>
+How often do you go out of the city with a purpose of visiting nature?
+<br>
+I want to talk to people and remind them the importance of gardens, and how can that specific space affect persons life. In order to make my life feel more like home in a home with no garden, the solution would be to have a view on gardens, filled with plants and green. Not that I am expecting that the talks will make a significant change, but I am interested in other peoples perspective.
-The architect designs a space intended for users. The building is structured in order for a person to enter it, percieve its size, its shape, texture, temperature and smell. It offers the possibility of living (apartments, houses, etc.), short-term use (school, office, library, gallery, etc.), or just a space to pass through (railway stations, subways). No matter what it is, it is intended and structured for users. So without them, it is a useless, space-consuming space. However, the space can change its role several times in a shorter or longer period of time, and each time it offers the user new experiences.
+<br>
-For the final project, I would like to create a space for quick use, with a strong visual effect. The whole concept, however, is that the space only comes to life when a visitor enters it. So I point out that space and user are interdependent.
+''Using visual evidence''
+https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=771662d7-81b4-4eba-8ecd-f9b5e164e5d1%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNvb2tpZSx1aWQmbGFuZz1ubCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=466495&db=e000xww
-I have always been interested in architecture, the logic of spaces and their design.
-For the thesis, I research the usefulness of private gardens within the building in which I live. The large space in the middle of the building has, in my opinion, much greater potential than is currently used or unused.
-For the project, I will portray this idea with a more abstract approach.
+TIMETABLE
-Document / video / image
 <br>
-The revealed image is not the main concept of the project, but it will definitely give a comment in its entirety.
+At least 30 interviews  until the end of november -
 <br>
-- Still video spaces with users (market, square, metro station, library, living room, studio, ..)
+Analysis of the interviews and reads of photographs that i will have
 <br>
-- Color graphics with interesting visual effects
+Further investigation - communal gardens, Christmas street decorating
-<br>
-- A painted picture, perhaps a depiction of a utopia, story [This is not clear
-<br>
-- Animation that the visitor would follow [How so?]
 <br>
-So far, I don’t have a final decision. [a final decision is not expected; you do need to show possible outcomes and show the work you have made to address your proposal]
+More interviews following month
-'''How do you plan to make it?'''
 <br>
-Depends on the exhibition space that will be dedicated to us. [You have to be more proactive than this. propose a space. (see Martin's proposal where he outlines the type of space he wants to produce: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Martin_(XPUB)-project_proposal)
+In January i am going to Slovenia for a week, try to get as much interviews and photographs as possible
-I'm also counting on having to assemble the walls myself.
-I will create, draw and record the hidden content myself.[if so how so]
-'''What is your timetable?'''
 <br>
-January, February - Gain knowledge and technology to use green screen and video masking, first attempts, making sure it works. [<<You need to be prototyping this NOW. and you need to talk about your try-outs, sketches and other material you generate with the tutors and fellow students]
+Comparisson of both
 <br>
-March, April - make the necessary walls and a covered document
+-further investigation
 <br>
-May - Adaptation to the exhibition space
+May – choosing the ending series, making a photobook design
-'''Who can help you and how?'''
 <br>
-Barent can help me in the field of technical knowledge
+July – finished photobook
-My roommate Tanit, a programmer, will help me set up image masking software
-[Context: Frank Gillette; Radical Software; Dan Graham experiments with video and space... ANTFARM (works like 'enviroman' (1969)]