Tasha Addington-Ferris

Actor Network Map 2.0

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Here is our updated actor network map! We are looking at the ways people living in cities seek a sense of community through creating gardens as common spaces. In addition, we are exploring the nostalgia stemming from the disconnect of personal food growth in urban areas. These two factors converge to motivate individuals to create […]

Synthesis of Our Progression

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Today in lab, our group finalized our project topic. We had been grappling with multiple different potentials for our topic, ranging from how non-permeable surfaces impact microclimates to how urban gardens shaped as “wildlife-friendly” habitats benefit biodiversity. On top of the difficulties surrounding trying to create a broad, non-place specific framing question, we were finding […]

New stuff

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Framing: What are the impacts of and who are impacted by urban agriculture? Focus: How do communal urban gardens in middle to upper socio-economic areas create community and impact overall health and wellbeing? We are connecting with another group in ENVS 220 to pool results in order to understand this topic further. This other group is researching […]

Portlandish

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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 […]

How to start a project…

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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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taddington-ferris@lclark.edu