Studio 30/04/09

1:00pm- Today we had a guest presenter come in called Jack Barton to give us a talk about what he does and his UrbanIT project.
3:00pm- After the presentation we got back into our groups and I briefed my team members on what tasks we still needed to do and set before the deadline for next Thursday. After sorting that out we got a marks back for our first experiment. My group got a distinction and I was pleased with the work that we had done. Our final fabrication is getting closer to being finished with just final detailing needed which would be lighting, entourage such as A.I - people walking around the Hydropolis and general texturing and furnishing. My team will start working on the presentation By next Tuesday and Wednesday in which we are hoping the final will also be completed by then. Below are some more progress shots for the Hydropolis.

Studio 23/04/09

1:00pm- Today in studio we had a guest speaker come in an talk to us about social phsycology. It was quite an interesting topic and related quite well to our team collaboration. It was a shame that the presentation was quite short as he only had 1 hour of his time to spend. After studio our class tutors had a discussion with us about our class wiki and our team work.

3:00pm- We went back into our groups and discussed what we could do to help improve our goals that were set for the final task. After discussing with our group tutors in our team progression we sorted out what each of our group memebers would be doing till our next group meeting on the following wednesday

Team Meeting 21/04/09

We had a team meeting today after the easter break. We discussed what tasks we had completed and sorted out areas that we would continue working on for the group fabrication. After looking at our draft I decided to re-create the underwater structure and try fix the portals and visarea and add new areas as well as an access point so that people could get to the rooms from the surface. The portals work much better now but after creating underwater hallways to link the rooms there are still problems that I cant fix. When walking inside the hallways there are still graphical glitches where things disappear for a second then reappear, but I think it works well enough. Also Changed the underwater environment to go with the new underwater structures. Created an underwater area for scuba diving or snorkling where users can access the outside underwater environment.

Studio 09/04/09

1:00pm - Today in studio we had a guest Niel Brown come in and talk to us about world domination and global linux development. It was quite an interesting talk about about how he collaborates with collegues from all across the world using a source code called GIT and email. He also talked about the community that he is invloved with and the qork that they are doing.

3:00pm- After the presentation we went back into our groups and discussed what our team plan would be for the next following weeks leading up to our final collaborated fabrication. My team set some goals and benchmarks that we would try and acheive. We also worked on our team wiki on wetpaint. The class tutors gave our teams our new topics for collaboration.

Week 4 Studio Task 09/04/09

I Added my sources for Culture and Management to the class wiki on wetpaint. Michael Bao and I worked out a referencing system for the class wiki on wetpaint and added the pages. We think this system will work well as long as everyone follows the format that we have set. I have also added the strength and weaknesses task for our unbuilt architectures and will be updated by my fellow team members.

Studio Class - 02/04/09

1:00pm: Today in studio we had a guest speaker called Michael Brand come in and talk to us about conflict resolution. It was quite an interesting presentation which gave me a different insight into the construction industry.

2:00pm: After Michael's talk we then had our team draft presentations. My team Atlar was first and I felt we did quite well and gathered some great feedback from Jeremy, Graham and the class. It was quite interesting to see the other team's collaborated work and how they developed there architectures.