Tasha Addington-Ferris

  • About
  • Courses
    • Environmental Analysis
    • Environmental Theory
    • (Un)natural Disasters
    • Situating Environmental Problems and Solutions
  • Concentration
  • Projects
    • Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness Community Outreach Project
    • #Portland: Branding City Aesthetics Through Social Media
    • Nuclear Power – Resilient or Not?
    • Objects of Oppression: How Different Perspectives of Logging have Affected Douglas County
    • An Introduction to Community Gardens in Portland
  • Thesis
  • Posts

Portlandish

November 15, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

As we start our project, our framing question is: should microclimate equity be addressed in urban design?  Our focus question is, are urban gardens and permeable surface options available and successful in lowering the temperature of cities. These are great starting questions, but should be re-worked for a couple reasons.  First, they are both very […]

Filed Under: BonAddChu, Posts

How to start a project…

November 12, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

What is the first step of creating a situated project?? Starting our project for the rest of this semester starts with two important steps.  The framing and focus questions are important directors of how to design the rest of our project.  Without these questions, our direction is unfocused and unorganized. Framing Question: Should microclimate equity […]

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Framing Questions

November 10, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Framing questions are very important when starting to look at a project.  Every time I start a project that maybe needs to be adjusted in some way or another I always forget to go back and look at my framing question.  By the time I do, it is so clear that having a good framing […]

Filed Under: Concentration, Posts

Interviews with LC Boners – Jay, Maya, Tasha

November 2, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Interviews with LC Boners – Jay, Maya, Tasha

Background: Last Monday, we created a survey to explore how prevalent anxiety is amongst Lewis & Clark College students eating at the Fields Dining Hall on campus (also known as “the Bon”). We presumed that many students, particularly freshmen, on campus experience anxiety eating at the Bon (labeled “Bon anxiety”) when sitting alone for meals. […]

Filed Under: Lab Writeups, Posts

Bon Anxiety

October 27, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Effective surveys require a careful balance of effective questions, survey ethics, interpersonal communication skills, and data analysis.  We used Fulcrum to demonstrate our ability to make appropriate surveys and to code and analyze data that we receive.

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The Social Network – Maya, Jay, Tasha

October 20, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Networks explain the ways in which different components of a system connect.  These connections can be between people, places, computers, even internet sites.  In order to understand how these networks operate, the connections are mapped using a number of tools, and can be presented in a number of different ways.  We analyzed and presented social […]

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taddington-ferris@lclark.edu

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