From elkamath at yahoo.com Sun Jul 11 10:49:02 2010 From: elkamath at yahoo.com (lalitha kamath) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fwd: mapping SA, Durban, CT, Joburg In-Reply-To: <4C394CA3.3030801@mail.ngo.za> References: <4C394CA3.3030801@mail.ngo.za> Message-ID: <326737.20265.qm@web53601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Maps of interest- cross-posted from Debate http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/article586.html http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/IMG/jpg/Durban_en.jpg http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/IMG/jpg/Joburg_en.jpg http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/article604.html _______________________________________________ Debate-list mailing list Debate-list at fahamu.org http://lists.fahamu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debate-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 26550 bytes Desc: not available URL: From cugambetta at yahoo.com Wed Jul 14 04:58:06 2010 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: A discussion on the Ecology of Fragments Message-ID: <131523.19732.qm@web57409.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Delhi: please note the event on the 15th of this month. Curt ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: The Sarai Programme To: newsletter at sarai.net Sent: Fri, July 9, 2010 3:34:39 AM Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] A discussion on the Ecology of Fragments The Delhi Urban Platform and the Goethe-Institut invite you to an open discussion Ecology of Fragments 6:00 P.M., 15th July 2010 Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Delhi- 1 Ecology of Fragments The ecology of the city is changing rapidly in complex ways. It is impossible to capture this moment completely. In nature, as in human societies, altering any part of the ecology of an interdependent networked relationship impacts every other part in the system. In this process, many precious elements can 'disappear,' and become absent. They are apparent to us only as a 'lack,' or absence and gradually, over time. While nature evolves through a constant struggle and adaptation, with each micro niche being fragile and sustainable, there is no single predicted meta outcome, only a constant change. On the other hand, the change in our cities seems to be driven through imaginations which are fixed and pre-decided by capital and social power. Nothing else which could be termed human seems to matter anymore. 'Absences,' can be fragmented and dispersed, and not always visible. They are also markers of the forces behind the change. For example, has the concretisation of every green patch, lead to the disappearance of the house sparrow, or has the conservation of monuments meant that the city has no street performers any more? Will the river once cleaned, kill itself, or is the cleaner city leading more marginalized lives? Maybe it is time we think of 'ecology' not only in terms of 'functionality' (is a tree more useful than a building) and 'aesthetics,' (is a tree more beautiful than a building), but in terms of dominance and loss. Maybe this is what this moment is all about. Speakers: Ravi Agarwal: An Ecology of Fragments Sohail Hashmi: Traditional water systems of Delhi Anand Vivek Taneja: Monuments as living entities Shashi Pandit: Wastepickers and new marginalisations in privatisation. Manoj Mishra: The river as an eco-system, not merely a water channel. 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See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/about-us/newsletter From cugambetta at yahoo.com Wed Jul 14 23:56:00 2010 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Fw: Invite: Workshop with pad.ma, Bangalore 16-19 July Message-ID: <539339.96534.qm@web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> A little off the beaten track for urban issues, but I thought this would be of interest to the list. Curt ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: 1Shanthiroad Studio <1.shanthiroad at gmail.com> To: Suresh Jayaram <1.shanthiroad at gmail.com>; Subuhi Jiwani Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 9:05:25 AM Subject: Invite: Workshop with pad.ma, Bangalore 16-19 July >From Archive to Application(and Back) A workshop with Pad.ma Open House Friday, 16th July, 6:30 pm @ 1 Shanthiroad studio/gallery, #1,shanthiroad, Shanthinagar, Bangalore-560 027 With Suresh Jayaram, Nishant Shah, Ayisha Abraham and from the pad.ma team- Namita Malhotra, Sanjay Bhangar, Subuhi Jiwani and Zinnia Ambapardiwala. Followed by Weekend workshop in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore 17th and 18th July 2010. @ JAAGA , Bangalore. (To participate, write to pad.ma at pad.ma) For about two years now, Pad.ma has been running as an online archive of digital video with text annotations. During this period, the focus has been on gathering materials, annotating densely, and building an archive. At present, pad.ma has over 400 hours of footage, in over 600 "events". Almost all of this material is fully transcribed and is often mapped to physical locations. Essays have been written over videos, and narratives created across different clips in the archive. The focus has been on pulling material into the archive. What are ways to start thinking about pulling material out of pad.ma? From the onset, pad.mahas had an API (documented at http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/API), a programming interface that allows you to pull out videos, perform searches, seek to exact time-codes in any video, fetch transcript and map data, and display all this however you please. Also Pad.ma's General Public License (PGPL, http://pad.ma/license) is designed specifically for the reuse of the material on pad.ma. Through the experience of running the archive, there have been various imaginations of multiple and layered forms of time-based annotation over video, including for: pedagogical tools for learning and discussion; presentation tools that combine text and video in new ways, essays and other writing formats enabled by rich and context-specific media. At this workshop, we hope to explore some of these ideas for video on the web, and video's new qualities as a result of online practices. We invite video-makers, coders, writers, artists, students, and other enthusiasts to participate. Considering the term "application" in a broad sense, we invite video material, texts or software that, combined with existing materials and tools in pad.ma, can become innovative kinds of "output", or new forms. These would also then feedback into the archive, and how we imagine its future. After a hands-on introduction to pad.ma and its possibilities and tools, the workshop will break up into streams for content and code. On day two, these streams come back together. In the content stream, participants could: - bring in their own footage, clips from popular or unpopular cinema, science or lab videos, ads or news, artworks or documentary films, to assemble into new forms, using pad.ma's tools. - bring together shots, scenes or sounds from fiction or non-fiction films, and make a new 'movie' or create a 'running commentary' alongside. - write over video in pad.ma critically or creatively: theorise or contextualise footage, write collaborativey, or weave fiction and/or poetry with moving images. - create teaching units or illustrated lectures using pad.ma - begin a research project or map a phenomenon through video and text. In the code stream, participants could: - devise new ways in which video and text can speak to each other, and to an online audience. - For developers, this 2-day workshop is an opportunity to experiment with the newest web-video technologies. Concretely, we will cover some background and history of HTML 5