Sunday, 11 November 2012

11.11.2012 preparations for the ASF seminar

NOV 2012 Marylin Waring: Who is counting

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/whohv.html

NOV 2012 baras new website

www.i-m.co/barasafa/bara/

OCT 2012 job hunting: UGLY VEGETABLES

new Spitalfields vegetable market
+

http://www.tristramstuart.co.uk

16 SEP 2012 - compost bin

so proud to have a compost bin. 



SEP 2012 job hunting: Business in the community

Business in the community 
a great company that takes from the rich, gives the poor and makes the rich look good on top of that. 

cool 

http://www.bitc.org.uk

i didnt get the job

SEP 2012 job hunting: Shell entrepreneurship grant

Slither on Witherington Road

i was going to ask Shell to let me use their land (as part of the Young entrepreneur award) and set up a RARA daughter there for us, the locals, the Witheringtonettas.  I have not yet. 

http://www.shell-livewire.org

SEP 2012 Eastern European trip

UN development
Veronika

30 JUL 2012 - Olympics

scafold stadium. 
so great. 



19 JUL 2012 Charles Eisenstein

Gift Economy talk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jul/30/charles-eisenstein-gift-economy

19 JUN 2012 Do architects Help?

http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Talks/Events/2012/Summer/DoArchitectsHelp.aspx


Do Architects Help? The Profession in International Development

19 June 2012

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Venue:

RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

Description:

This event from Article 25, the architectural aid relief charity, will examine the role that the UK built environment industry plays in overseas development.
Sunand Prasad, Past RIBA President, will chair a panel of distinguished speakers.

14 JUN 2012 RESILIENT CITIES COMPETITION




London, 2012

The task was to pick a city anywhere in the world that is resilient in an inspirational way and analyze it. 

I chose Makoko, a slum in Lagos, Nigeria. 

The fast growing metropolis of Lagos represents entreprenuerial opportunities for anyone who grabs them. 

Makoko is a slum on sticks in the Lagos Lagoon which has been built on a 'land' that did not exist, with material that has been brought from the jungle to serve the booming building industry in downtown Lagos - timber.
It is a flexible and adaptive parasite living off the material coming into and spilling out of the mega city. 

Watch the documentary:Welcome to Lagos on BBC

My entry was shortlisted. 




Sunday, 28 October 2012

JUNE 2012 the tale of three cities

5 MAR 2012 DILUTING THE AMERICAN DREAM


http://www.asd-realtime.org/exhibitions/american-drea/






15th - 22nd March 
The Gallery
Spring House 
40 - 44 Holloway Road
London N7 8JL
An exhibition of recent work by Studio 6, Bara Safarova and Marta Cavatorta



1 FEB 2012 GRE TEST


three hours and three quarters long american 'graduates siv test' 

my brain felt like butter afterwards

1 JAN 2012

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18 DEC 2011 VACLAV HAVEL DIED


I was flipping through an american text book at Waterstone's on Charing Cross Road, when a fiend texted me that Vaclav Havel died. I dont know what are we going to do without him. 


15 DEC 2011 PHD APPLICATION TO TEXAS A&M SUBMITTED

it was very very very very long. 




5 DEC 2011 GRADUATION

I graduated :) 

It was a great day, my parents came from the Czech Republic for the occasion. Robert's speech was fresh and cheerful. 


10 OCT 2011 - 20 OCT 2010 TRIP TO TEXAS WITH STUDIO 6

Marta and I joined Jane McAllister, Denis Balent and their degree studio 6 on their field trip to Texas. 
We spent some time in Austin at the beginning of the trip, then drove to Marfa, where the students explored their sites for projects. After the field trip, Marta and I spent a few days at Texas A&M, where we presented our project, were shown what Mark Clayton's PhD students are working on and finally visited an exhibition of sustainable rapid building methods near Bastrap. 

:E

PhD students looking over our work

Rodney Hill from the animation department knows 
Jan Pinkava, the director of Pixar's Geri's Game


BIM cave in progress 



It has been a year and three days since the last post. 
Colonias project is alive and I shall fill in the gaps retrospectively. 

First of all I have a website.