Intermediate Technical Report
(2 October 2002 – 2 October 2003)
Contract reference N. ASI/B7-301/98/679-10 (Asia-Link Programme)
Project Title: Euro-China Exchange: Technology and Culture of Generative
Design Approach
Name of
Beneficiary: Politecnico di Milano, Coordinator Prof. Celestino Soddu
Period covered by this Interim Report: 2 October 2002 – 2 October 2003.
Due date of this Interim Report:
2 October 2003
Executive Summary
The Asia-link program “Euro-China exchange, Technology and Culture of
Generative Design Approach was started the 2nd of October 2002 and
was implemented, following the accepted schedule, until the spring of 2003
when, because of Sars emergence, all the meetings between European and Chinese
people was interrupted, also for the strong will of involved European
Universities that has forbid to held meeting with Chinese together with
European Students inside the Universities.
This caused the stop of the most of program activities until the summer
2003. The establishment of the remote activities, with videoconferences and
internet forums, was not enough to realize the requested results. In particular
we need to postpone the meetings in China planned for May related to establish
applied projects and case studies for workshops and the summer courses in
Europe planned for July.
Starting with September 2003, with the end of this sanitary emergence,
all the activities were strongly implemented. The September workshops planned
in China was realized, also if only the first part because of the lack of
previous meetings in China and the summer course was rescheduled for the next
November/December. The second part of workshops in China was rescheduled for
March 2003.
In this way the entire program will be implemented following the original
schedule only with the rescheduling of postponed activities in the first part
of the 2nd year.
All the postponed activities will take place until next March 2003.
In advance, an interesting grow of this program was established involving Macau and its University of Macau in a PhD level Master course, coordinated by the coordinator of this program, that will enhance the success of this program following the same aims. This jointed activity is self sustainable, as requested by the program.
According to the original
project proposal, the activities were implemented:
Activity 1: Generative Design Labs.
GDLabs were established and are fully working with
different projects and identified participants.
Activity 2: Thesis supervision. The exchange supervision among all the partners
was established and is working with meetings and remote interchanges.
Activity 3: Summer courses. The 1st seminars (July 2002) was postponed
cause Sars to 29 November 2003
Activity 4: Workshops. The 1st workshop was held the 15 September in Shanghai and 22 September
in Tianjin. Together with meetings activity with Tsingua University in
Beijing too. Because of previous sanitary problems involving the preparation,
the workshop was extended to a second part, in March 2004, for better pursue
the aims.
Activity 5: Joint Research programs for PhD and Master. The implementation phase
is going ahead with videoconferencing exchange and direct meetings in China,
done in September 2003. A Master (PhD
level) course is planned by Milan GDLab in Macau, for all Chinese
postgraduates, concerning the generative approach to Town Identity management.
Activity 6: Applied projects in China. Proposals by Shanghai and Tianjin for
applied projects of Architecture and Town planning. The meetings in Shanghai
and Tianjin in September identified some projects. The first one, a project for
a new town in the north of China, was discussed together with government
officers and it is the final step of agreement.
Activity 7: The next International Conference Generative Art GA2003 made by the
Milan Generative Design Lab is prepared and it will be held in Milan next 10-13
December, with a full participation of each Generative Design Labs, European
and Chinese. There is also a strong participation of other people from Asian Universities.
Activity 8: the Website of Asia-link program was established and upgraded. http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm. New exhibitions on Generative Design are
planned. The proceedings of Generative Art Conference, with the contribution of
the partners, was published. Some articles in important Chinese newspapers and
magazines are prepared and will be published in the next weeks.
The participation, November 2002, of the
coordinator of the program, Prof.
Celestino Soddu, to the Asian City Summit in Singapore as invited speaker, was
important to communicate the aims and the interest of this Asia-link program.
I. Introduction and description of activities
The program started up the
October 2nd 2002 with the preparation of the meeting of December and the
participation of all the partners to the international conference
"Generative Art 2002" organized by the coordinator of the project
Prof. Celestino Soddu.
First activity has been the
presentation of our Asia-Link program to the meeting among the persons
responsible of the Italy-China exchange activities, among which the coordinator
of the program Celestino Soddu, with the rector of the Polytechnic in Milan,
with Jun Han, Scientific Adviser of the embassy of the Chinese Popular Republic
in Italy, with Mario Zanone Poma, President of the Chamber of Commerce
Italian-Chinese and with Mr. Rosso, delegated of the foreign office of Italy,
where the opportunities of implementation of the program are been
identified.
Subsequently
(October-November 2002) the region Lombardia has proposed its participation to
the program, through its formative activities office, supporting the
amplification of the laboratory of generative design. This proposal is in
discussion.
All the partners have
participated in the meeting of December 10th 2002. The treated items have
been:
1. Finality and structure of
the program and definition of the schedule of the activities and of their times
of activation and implementation.
2. Activation of the
Laboratories of Generative Design in the centres of Kassel, Eindhoven, Shanghai
and Tianjin. Laboratories have been activated in the following months,
according to the program.
3. Times and ways of realization
of the first session of seminars in Europe that has been programmed for July
2002 to Eindhoven, Kassel and Milan following the program of the activity 3 and
the results of the previous meetings. (seminars were postponed to
November/December 2003 because of Sars emergence, following the request of
involved European universities)
4. Times and modes of
realization of the workshops in China, programmed for September 2002 following
the program of the activity 4 (the workshop was implemented the 15-28 September
2003)
5. Times and modes of the
creation of the website of the program that will be active within April 2002.
(the website was realized and it is actually working http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm
)
6. Convocation of the next
operational meeting, to activate the operational projects foreseen by the
activity 6.
All the delegations, with the
exception of Eindhoven’s partner (cause arrived unexpectedly problems), have
participated to the international Generative Art conference the days 11, 12 and
December 13th 2002, contributing with papers, published in the conference
proceedings (the electronic version is in the website www.generativeart.com and the paper
version was published by the GDLab of Milan Polytechnic University) and
speeches in the round tables.
On December 12 the program
Asia-Link was introduced to the participants to the Generative Art Conference
and the themes and their operational potentialities have been discussed.
II. Description of implementation of Activities
The activity of each partner
was developed, subsequently to the 1st meeting in Milan and the Generative Art International Conference,
following the established program.
The generative design Labs
were established in Kassel, Eindhoven, Shanghai (Tongji Univ) and Tianjin and
the activities started up.
In April, following the need
to re-schedule in fall/winter the meetings in China with the leader of the
program and the summer courses in Italy, Germany and Holland, planned for July
2003, we fixed the planned September workshops in China and rescheduled the
seminars from July to November, before the scheduled participation to the Generative
Art International Conference, GA2003, fixed to 10-13 December 2004. In the
meantime the coordinator asked to the EC to enlarge the duration of the project
from 24 to 30 months with the same cost.
In the meantime, using
videoconferences and remote meetings:
A.
Following the suggestions of
the meeting with the monitoring team, we worked to implement the activity 6,
that was not enough implemented. In particular the Chinese partners have found
out some interesting applied projects in the field of architecture and town
design. These projects will be implemented jointing the Generative Design Labs
teams, European and Chinese together.
B.
The Generative Design Lab of
Politecnico di Milano planned to implement, in the next 5 months, the
development of a structured study for the promotion and management of operative
projects based on generative design approach. The study programme cover from a
business plan related to generative design opportunities in China until the
implementation ad a workshop-meeting to discuss and use the study results. This
study is implemented by GFG (see attached document) and it is useful to pursue
the aims of the program.
C.
We planned the workshops and
the meetings in China of September 2003.
D.
We designed a PhD level
Master in Macau, opened to Asian graduated students, in particular Chinese. The
coordinator is Prof. Celestino Soddu, Generative Design Lab of Politecnico di
Milano (the coordinator of this Asia-link program), it is supported by the city
of Macau and it has European teachers. The topic is the Generative Approach in
the management of Town Identity.
E.
The next 6th
generative Art Conference GA2003. We made and sent the call for papers and all
GDLabs worked to prepare and present their papers in Milan in December 2003.
F.
In the meantime, because of Sars, we implemented the
videoconferencing activity and internet forums to enhance suggestions and
discussion among partners.
G.
The website http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm
was implemented and upgraded.
H.
A meeting with all partners
was planned in China to be held in September 2003.
In September the problems
linked to the Sars emergence was completely ended and the program has been full
implemented realizing the activities that was impossible to implement last
months.
In particular, we used
September for
1.
a sequence of meetings (7-14 September) in Macau with
local Government, Universtity of Macau, Arcasia architects association and IEEM
that established the starting up of a PHD level Master (Master IDEAS) on the
topics of Generative Approach, opened to post graduated people of China and
other Asian countries. This activity will be self sustainable because it will
be supported by Macau administration.
2.
Meetings, lectures and the
first part of the planned workshops in Shanghai, Tongji University, and in
Tianjin University (14 September – 2 October)
3.
A sequence of meetings with
Government and University people in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing for
establishing applied projects regarding the restoring of old buildings using
generative advanced approaches, new architectures, the rebuilding of historical
quarters and, before all, the project of new towns. We have identified some
applied projects and we are working for defining the contracts.
4.
Meetings with other Chinese
Universities (Tsinghua University) to enlarge and establish new research
activities jointing European and Chinese partners.
5.
Following the aim of
workshops activities, we have identified and approved some study cases in Town
design, architecture and Industrial design to be used in the 2nd part of
Workshop that we planned for March/April 2004.
6.
We had some workshops with
post graduate students to discuss their master and doctorate thesis and the
shared supervision with Chinese and European supervisors.
7.
We identified some fields of
research to develop together with the European and Chinese GDLabs.
8.
We identified and discussed
the presentation of the researches running in the involved GDLabs to the
incoming GA2003 international conference. The participation of all the Labs
involved in the Asia-link projects will be really good and will represent the
work done together with European and Chinese involved universities.
9.
We planned the next November
Seminar that will take the place of the Summer Seminar that was postponed
because of Sars.
Identifying,
Activity by activity, the state of the program implementation according to the
original schedule:
Activity 1: Generative Design Center/Lab, Planning/Preparing.
GDLabs are fully working with different projects and
identified participants.
Activity 2: Thesis supervision. The exchange supervision among all the partners
was established and are fully working.
The exchanges are supported with direct discussion and with internet means.
Thesis with shared supervisors:
- Li Yan, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative Design and Grids” (Tianjin, Milan, Kassel)
- Rong Lin, Master candidate, “Generative design and
Codes of Roofs and Doors”, (Tianjin, Milan, Kassel)
- XinXin Chen, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative
Approach in architecture restoring”, (Tianjin, Milan)
- Zhang Yijie, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative
design of Chinese Pagodas”, (Tongji, Milan)
- Sun Chengui, Master candidate, “Higher or
Denser?”, (Tongji, Milan)
- Dai
Ming, Ph.D. candidate, “Urban Generative design”, (Tongji, Milan)
- Liu Zhao Xi, Xu Xi, “Forniture generative design”, (Tongji, Milan,
Kassel)
Activity 3: Summer courses implementation. The 1st seminar (postponed
from last summer cause Sars) is planned and it will start up the 29 November
2003 and will continue for 2 weeks, until 13 December. It will organized with lectures by Milan, Kassel and Eindhoven
professors, with Chinese professors presentation of their research in progress
and with session in which postgraduate students from China and from Europe will
present their works and will discuss about advanced design approaches.
SCHEDULE
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The
seminar will be held at Department of Architecture and Planning, Milan
Polytechnic
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The
workshops in the computer rooms of Milan Polytecnic University
29 Nov. arrival in Milan of Chinese people.
30 Dec. Sunday. Free day to visit Milan
1 Dec. Meeting with European postgraduate
students. Exhibition and discussion.
2 Dec. Milan, Kassel and Eindhoven GDLabs
presentation
3 Dec. Workshop, Master and Doctorate Thesis
Discussion
4 Dec. Workshop together with European and
Chinese post-graduated students.
5 Dec. Seminar and round table about
Generative Approach
6 Dec. Workshop
7 Dec. Sunday. Free day.
8 Dec. Workshop
9 Dec. Meeting at the GA exhibition in Milan
Polytechnic University
10-13 Dec. Participation to GA2003
conference.
14 Dec. Chinese people go back to China
Participants:
From Milan Polytechnic University:
2 professors:
Celestino Soddu
Enrica Colabella
1 tutor:
Marco Longatti
1 intern professor at GDLab:
Daniele Gugelmo
1 intern researcher of GDLab:
Andrea Zipoli
26 Master PostGraduated Students of VI Faculty of
Engineering/Architecture of Milan:
Mirko Massimiliano Paglia
Chiara Gimagalli
Michael Zamblera
Anna Ragni
Cesare Balossi
Sabrina Pesendorfer
Arianna Scalise
Davide Ghisleni
Paolo Carrara
Monica Tengattini
Alessandro Salvagni
Luca Viola
Mimosa Zoppetti
Pierina Martinelli
Gabriele Paglia
Elena Proserpio
Gianluca Pesenti
Melissa Motta
Anna Salvi
Massimo Bordoli
Federica Guerra
Francesco Rigamonti
Marco Tosarini
Marco Gallii
Barbara Cassan
Paolo Albo
From Kassel:
1
professor:
Hans
Dehlinger
4
tutors:
Oliver
Endemann
Markus
Schein (PhD cand.)
Ole Werner
Guenther Doerner
From Eindhoven Tech. University
2 professors:
Bouke de Vries
Aant van der Zee
1 doctorate:
Daan Willems
From Tongji University, Shanghai
3
professors:
Wang
Bowei
Tang
Zhong
Zhang Kun
6 postgraduated students:
Liu Zhaoxi
Sun Chengyu
ZHAO
Qi
Wang
Xiang
Wang
Yisui
Zhang
Leyan
From Tianjin University
3 professors:
Changming
Yang
ZHANG
Wei
Yukun Zhang
3-6 postgraduated students:
Xi-Xin Chen
Li Yan
Rong Lin
Activity 4: Workshops. The planned workshop in Shanghai, Tongji University the 15
of September 2003 and in Tianjin University the 22 of September was done. Owing to the difficulties of preparation due
to the impossibility to meet together before, the workshop was realized only
with some meetings, some lectures and workshops regarding open discussions on
the research implementation and on the master and doctorate thesis. The
second part of the 1st year workshops is planned in the last weeks
of March 2004. The study cases for these workshops are real applied occasion of
Town design, architecture and industrial design:
- The design, with generative approach, of
the Austro-Ungarian consulate and related quarter in Tianjin.
- The generative design of furniture using
Ming Codes
- The Reconstruction of Haihe
Lou (a traditional Chinese style multi-storied building near the Haihe
River in Tianjin which was a famous scene and a temporary palace of the
emperors in the Qing Dynasty);
- The design of restoration of
Italian Quarter in Tianjin with the identification of Chinese / Italian
identity codes of this environment.
Activity 5: Joint Research programs for PhD and Master.
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A Master (high level) course
is planned by Milan GDLab in Macau, for all Chinese postgraduates, concerning
the generative approach to Town Identity management. This Master is named
Master I.D.E.A.S. Identity and Dynamic
Evolutions of Artificial Systems. This
activity is self sustainable because is supported by the Macau Government
through the IEEM. (see related document)
Ø
Identification of research
activity to joint:
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Generative Design of Roofs
(Tongji, Tianjin, Kassel, Milan)
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Generative Design: Ming
Paradigm of Design as a design starting point for the generation of
contemporary furniture and other contemporary design objects (Kassel, Tongji, Milan)
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Generative new Town Design
(Tianjin, Milan)
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Generative approach to
Historical Chines places representation (Tianjin, Beijing and Milan)
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The Ph.D. and Master level
graduate research program in generative design “The
Generative Mechanism of Chinese Nomads Architecture and Its Interpretation in
Cultural Anthropology” (Tianjin, Eindhoven, Milan).
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research and analyze typical patterns in Chinese
and European tradition. Based on the extraction and isolation of archetypes,
generative programs will be implemented as “pattern – generators”. The patterns
derived from Chinese sources will be restructured to fit the European market
and vice versa, the patterns of European origin will be restructured to fit the
Chinese market. (Kassel, Milan, Tianjin)
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Analysis of typical elements of Chinese and
European “formal languages” as displayed by specific ranges of products (e.g.:
kitchen, bathroom). Identification of basic formal building blocks and
characteristics. Development of Generators (programs), which allow a mix of
elements. (Kassel, Milan, Tongji)
Activity 6: Applied projects in China. The meetings in Shanghai and in Tianjin
were able to identify problems and opportunities. In particular a first applied
project was established: a new town of 400.000 inhabitants near Tianjin, to be
designed using the identity codes of Chinese tradition together with Italian
tradition. The delegation of Tianjin University, Milan Polytecnic University
and Kassel University visited the identified site with the Government
delegation and the first approach to designing the town was established. This
activity is self-sustainable because is supported by the Chinese Government.
A second project was identified with
Government Officier in Shanghai for an applied research on the Shanghai
identity, working with generative approach in a particular block of Shanghai
city. The letter of interest is not yet
received from Shanghai Government.
In the field of Industrial Intelligent production, an operative research
“Approach for the realization of a business plan related to Generative Design
opportunities in China” was established to verify the real opportunities of
implementing this activity. This research is implemented for the GDLab of Milan
by GFG consulting.
Activity 7: The next International Conference Generative Art GA2003 will be
organized by the Milan Generative Design Lab. All the GDLabs are going to
present papers / posters / installations in the conference in December 2003.
The participation of Asian people is very
important, together with European people.
List of Participants:
From Europe 69 people:
Celestino Soddu, Politecnico di
Milano University
Letizia Bollini, Giuseppe Palma,
"Computer Science Dep. , Università di Bologna, Politecnico di
Milano"
Ava Fatah gen.Schieck, Chiron Mottram, Alan Penn, "VR Centre for
the Built Environment
The Bartlett, University College London"
Mahnaz Shah, Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London
Alberto Frigo, Smart Studio, Interactive Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Thomas Modeen, Royal College of Art (London)
Stefano Milani, Arek Seredyn, Rotterdam The Netherlands
Ilze Volonte, Maris Cacka, JolantaSavvina, Aleksandra Slahova,
Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
Tatjana Mihailova, Michail Kopeikin, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils,
Latvia
Benoit Pereira Da Silva, TOULOUSE
FRANCE
Bogdan Soban,Slovenia
Caterina Davinio, Italia
Chun Lee, School of arts, Middlesex University, London
Daniel Bisig, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich,
Switzerland
James Coupe & Hedley Roberts, Thames Valley University, Ealing,
London
Hans E. Dehlinger, University of
Kassel, Germany
Domenico Olivero, Ornella
Calvetti, Italy
Anna Furse, UK
Liviu Alexandru Sofonea,
UNIVERSITATEA “TRANSILVANIA” DIN BRASOV
Martin Dupras, Paul Verity Smith, Jeremy Hattosh-Nemeth, University of
the West of England, Bristol (UK)
Ole Werner, University of Kassel
Markus Schein, University of
Kassel
Elisa Simonetti, UK
Enrica Colabella, Politecnico di
Milano University
Fabian
Scheurer, ETH Zurich
Geert-Jan Hobijn, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Berlin, Germany
Gilles Aubry, Amsterdam, NL
Graham Holden, 20three, Brighton, UK
Malgorzata Dancewicz, Modjeska Theater
in Legnica, Poland
Jacqueline Otten, University of applied Sciences - Hamburg
Ken Byers, UK
Massimo Fontana, Firenze Italy
Michael Szpakowski, UK
K. Moraes Zarzar, Delft University of Technology
Luigi Centola, Italy
Nicoletta Sala, Gabriele
Cappellato,Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (Mendrisio, Switzerland)
Maria Goga and Nicolae Goga, School of Music Nr. 5, Bucharest, Romania;
Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Oliver
Endemann, Guenther Doerner, Genestics, Kassel, Augsburg. Members of Generative Design Lab of Kassel University
Paul Coates, Christian Derix, Robert Thum, University of East London
Peter
Beyls, Gent Belgium
Penousal
Machado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra,
Juan
Romero, Penousal Machado "University
of La Coruña, Spain
Instituto
Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal"
Philip Van Loocke, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Rachel Collinson, University of Westminster, UK
Laura Morelli, Riccardo Cassinis,
Universita' di Brescia
Skaidrite Erliha, Daugavpils
University, Latvia
Bauke de Vries, A. van der Zee, technical Eindhoven
University
Vladan Zdravkovic, University of Kalmar, Sweeden
From Asia 23 people:
Mohd Izani,Multimedia University,
Selangor, Malaysia
Akemi Ishijima, Yoshiyuki Abe,
Tokyo, Japan"
Wang Bowei, Zhang Leyan, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Dai Ming, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Weidong Fang, Ming Xi Tang, Xiyu Liu, Hong Kong Polytecnic University
Hanafizan Hussain, Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia
University,
Cyberjaya,
Malaysia
Gu
Zhenyu, HongKong Polytechnic University
Hong-Sheng CHEN, National Taiwan University
Jong Sze Joon, Soon Eu Hui, LimKokWing, Multimedia University, Malaysia
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University College of Creative Technology, Malaysia
Liu Zhaxi, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Wang Bowei, Zhang Kun , Tongji Univ. Shanghai
Somruedee Kandee, Bangkok University,Thailand
SUN Chengyu, Tongji University, Shanghai
Zhang Yijie, Tang Zhong, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Thomas Fischer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Christiane M. Herr, Hong Kong University
Other countries 30 people:
Anat David-Artman, Hebrew University, Kfar saba
Andrea J. Stein, Brooklyn, NY; USA
Andrea Wollensak, Associate Director, Ammerman Center for Art and
Technology Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
Antony Viscardi, Department of Art and Architecture, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,USA
Artemis Moroni, Computer Vision and Robotics Group, CenPRA, Campinas,
Brazil
Daniela Sirbu "Department
of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada"
David Birchfield, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State
University
Eileen Matis-Wong, Henry Cogswell College, Everett, Washington
Jason Freeman , Columbia University
Jeffrey Krause, Oakland,CA
Jody Zellen, Santa Monica, CA
Joesér Alvarez, Carlos Mettal,
Universidade Federal de Rondônia/Centro de Hermenêutica do Presente - Porto
Velho/Brasil
Philip Galanter, New York University
Robert J. Krawczyk, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Michael Eugene Brown, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Bsat, Dept. of Architecture & Design,
Beirut, Lebanon
Semi Ryu, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alison Walker, Silvia Rigon, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
Shirin Kouladjie, Canada
Shirley Shor, San Francisco, CA
Scott Draves, USA
Steven Noll, USA
Tim Barrass Melbourne
University
Tomás García-Salgado, Autonomous National University of México
Umberto Roncoroni, Lima, Peru'
Vera Sylvia Bighetti, são paulo-
brasil
Yehuda Safran, Columbia University, New York City
Activity 8: the Website of Asia-link program is working well: http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm.
Some articles about the activity of this Asia-link program are planned in some large diffusion
newspaper and magazine in China like Guangming Ribao, newspaper of Beijing.
III.
Partnership
The individual progress of
each Generative Design Labs in the first months, until the common work in
September, is summarized in the following sub-sections, respectively.
Politecnico di Milano University, Generative Design Lab
Activity October-December 2002
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Realization of the Generative
Art Conference 2002 (11-12-13 December 2002)
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Realization of the Generative
Art Exhibition at Milan Polytechnic University (9-14 December)
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Realization of Generative
Performance Festival at Aula Magna of Milan Polytechnic the 12th and 13th
December 2002.
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Realization and publishing of
the book of proceedings of Generative Art Conference 2002. The book was printed
in time for the conference.
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Participation to
institutional meetings concerning Italy-China exchanges.
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Preparing and managing the
meeting of Asia-Link partners in Milan Polytechnic University the 10th December
2002.
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Presenting papers (C.Soddu
and E.Colabella) at Generative Art Conference 2002
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3 Thesis on generative design
presented for discussion at School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.
These thesis, with other around 120 thesis on generative design was published
in the website of the GDLab, www.generativedesign.com
for enhancing discussion between Asia-link program partners.
Activity January-March
2003:
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Expansion of Generative
Design Lab operational structure with new PC and new people.
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Presentation of the advanced
searches of the laboratory to the Conference "International Nonlinear
Sciences Conference" to Vienna, with the contribution of C. Soddu and
E.Colabella, of the Generative Design Lab.
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Presentation of the advanced
researches of the Generative Design Lab in other universities in Europe and in
the world, for example at Cities Asia Summit in Singapore, at ISEA, Nagoya
Japan, at Macau Cultural Center, at
UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, at Alexandria Architecture Center,
at IBD Center, Washington DC, at Ball State University, at PacificDesignCenter
in California.
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Realization of three
exhibitions of generative design at:
A. IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC
B. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
C. University Catholic of Peru, Lima
These exhibitions, with also studies on Chinese and Japanese cities and
their advanced possibilities to manage increasing complexity and identity, was
active until the end of April, and they will subsequently be moved to other
sites, like Macao, Shanghai, Tianjin and in Europe
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Implementation of the website
of the program, showing all the activities of every partner.
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Search of possible
operational developments of the program:
B. Meeting with possible Italian partners for activity
and projects of mutual interest in China
C. Possibility to spread in China some scientific
magazine of the involved fields.
D. Search of European interlocutors for the realization
of experimental generative architectures in China
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Planning and preparation of a
series of lecture and workshop of Celestino Soddu and Enrica Colabella in
Shanghai and Tianjin for May-June 2002 (this activity was postponed to
September 2003 for the sanitary problems in the area)
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Preparation of the seminar in
Milan for the end of July 2002, as defined in the program. (the seminar was
postponed to 29 November 2003 for Sars sanitary emergence)
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Preparation of a seminar in
Macau for September 2002 on Generative Design approach and urban identity
management with the proposal to establish a PhD Master for Asian postgraduates
Architects and Engineers. (The Master, named Master IDEAS, Identity and Dynamic Evolutions of Artificial Systems, was established and it will start up in September
2004 with the support of Macau government entities, University of macau and
Politecnico di Milano University, with the direction of the coordinator of this
program, Prof. Celestino Soddu)
Activity April-August 2003
- Call for paper of the Generative Art Conference 2003 (10-12 December 2003)
- Planning and organizing the incoming GA2003
and its site www.generativeart.com
- Implementation of the website of The
Asia-link programme
- preparation of the business plan of the
generative opportunities in China with mutual interest Europe-China
- Planning a 2nd level master in
Macau for postgraduated Chinese architects and engineers, concerning
generative approach in town identity.
- Preparing and managing the incoming
meetings of Asia-Link partners in Shanghai/Tianjin in September 2003
- Managing the incoming Workshops in Shanghai
and Tianjin in September 2003.
- planning the new date (Nov. 2003) for the
Chinese postgraduate seminars in Europe.
Activity September-2 October
2003
Seminars, meetings and
workshops in China, as described before.
Members of generative design
Lab, Politecnico di Milano University:
Prof. Celestino Soddu,
coordinator of the program
Prof. Quinsan Ciao,
co-coordinator of Chinese partners
Prof. Enrica Colabella, manager
Ing Giovanni Luca Soddu, manager
Arch. Marco Longatti, collaborator
Daliele Gugelmo, intern
Viviana Basilico, intern
The group of 26 post graduate students.
Generative
Design Lab Kassel University
Activities October/December
2002
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Participation, with
papers and round tables, to the GA2002, 5th International conference
on Generative Art
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Participation to the 1st
meeting of all Asia-link partners in Milan.
Activities January/March
2003
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Establishment of the
Generative Design Lab Kassel. The Generative Design Lab has been
implemented as a part of the “Institut für Rechnergestütztes Darstellen und
Entwerfen” at the School of Art, Kassel. Room Nr 77 in the atrium complex of
the School of Art has been allocated for the project. The acquisition of lab computer equipment as specified in the
project contract has been completed. In addition to the founds of the project
for equipment resources the School of Art Kassel has supported the Asia Link
Project with an additional Workstation including some software. The equipment
is installed and operable. The internet connection will be established until
the end of april 2003.
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Research topics of the members in context of the
Asia Link Project:
1. Development
of Generative Software Prototypes for Different Fields of Application in
Architecture and Industrial Design
2. Theories and
Methods of Evolutionary Design
3. Teaching
Methods for Generative Design
4. Generative
Art Projects
5. Information
Systems / Programming
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Research Activities. Current
Research Regarding the Activities of Team Members in Kassel
“Logo”. A
program generating variations out of a finite set of combinations.
“Loftgenerator”.
A generative program for applied industrial design.
“Uhrmacher”. A generative program using
combinatorial techniques.
“Liegengenerator.”
A generative program for mass customization of foldable furniture.
Search for
manufactures of the furniture generated by the program has started.
(Applied
Generative Procedures in Furniture Design. Proceedings of the 5th International
Conference GA 2002.)
“Next
Generation(s) Computer Aided Design - Next Generation Computer Aided Design
Education?" Paper submitted to ICSID 2nd Educational Conference 2003
Hanover, pending.
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Research in Combination with teaching
activities.
Seminar “Generative Prozesse und
Verfahren” (Generative Processes and Procedures). This seminar
was the third one related to different subjects of Generative Design at the
Department of Product Design of the School of Art Kassel.
“Construction
of Design Spaces”. Graduate Research Project. To be completed in early October.
Preparation
of the first Asia Link Joint Workshop in Kassel. Up coming in July.
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Exhibition Activities
Preparation
of a contribution to Sigraph 2003.
Will be
published in the conference proceedings of Sigraph 2003, art catalogue, p. 41,
42.
“Digital
Clouds”. Exhibition of Generative Art Work. Inauguration: Early summer
(schedule not fixed yet) at “Galerie Sommerfeld”, Erlangen, Germany.
“Rundgang
2003”. Presentation of selected student work from the Generative Design
seminar. Up coming July.
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Proposals for
Operative Projects
Collecting
and preparing material for a common web portfolio presenting in an overview
different works of Generative Design and Generative Art. An example of a web
portfolio, concerning some of the above mentioned research projects of the
Generative Design Lab Kassel will come up in the end of may for the publication
in the common platform of the Asia Link Project.
Establishing
connections to firms with Computer Numeric Controlled Manufacturing facilities
(First contacts have already been established in Kassel). Developing designs in
the field of Interior Architecture using generative approaches and testing
prototypical production with firms.
Activity April/August 2003
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Proposal to use the Ming Paradigm of Design as a
design starting point for the generation of contemporary furniture and other
contemporary design objects.
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research and analyze typical patterns in Chinese
and European tradition. Based on the extraction and isolation of archetypes,
generative programs will be implemented as “pattern – generators”. The patterns
derived from Chinese sources will be restructured to fit the European market
and vice versa, the patterns of European origin will be restructured to fit the
Chinese market.
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Analysis of typical elements of Chinese and
European “formal languages” as displayed by specific ranges of products (e.g.:
kitchen, bathroom). Identification of basic formal building blocks and
characteristics. Development of Generators (programs), which allow a mix of
elements
Members of the Generative
Design Lab Kassel
Univ. Prof Hans Dehlinger (PhD)
Dipl.Des. Markus Schein (PhD cand.)
Dipl.Des. Oliver Endemann
Dipl.Des cand. Ole Werner
Guenther Doerner
Generative Design Lab of Eindhoven University of
Technology
Activities
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Participation to the 1st
meeting in Milan
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Establishment of Generatrive
Design Lab
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> GD system acquiring a
Pentium IV desktop computer
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Identification of master and
doctorate candidate to involve in the program.
Members of the Generative
Design Lab Eindhoven:
Prof.Dr.ir. Bauke de Vries, Chair of the Design Systems group of the Faculty of Building and
Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Research
expertise: Computer Aided Architectural Design, Product and Process Modeling,
Design information storage and retrieval, VR technology and Interfaces, CAD
tools and Sketch tools, Geometric modeling in Architectural Design, Knowledge
Based Systems
Educational
activities: CAAD and Design Methodology course for first years students, Capita
Selecta course for graduate students, ICT module in the Post Doctoral programme
on Architectural Design Management Systems
Management
activities: Chair of the Design Systems group, Management of the research on the Design and Decision Support
Systems.
Author of more than 30
publications that have been presented on international conferences. Member of
13 PhD committees. Project task leader in Brite Euram project. Vice chair of
CAAD Futures foundation.
Ing. Ir. Aant van der Zee
Assistant Professor in the Design Systems group of the Faculty of Building and Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Generative Design Lab of
Tongji University
Activities October/December
2002
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Participation of 3
professors, with papers and round tables, to the GA2002, 5th
International conference on Generative Art
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Participation to the 1st
meeting of all Asia-link partners in Milan.
Activities January/March
2003
- Activity 1: Establishing
Generative Design Lab
In Tongji University, the
Generative Design Research Lab is established with the basis of existing
Chinese National Laboratory of Modern Technology in Urban Panning and Design
affiliated to and administrated by the College of Architecture and Urban
Planning of Tongji University, under the leadership of Dean Bo-Wei Wang
(Liaison/coordinator of this partner).
The main research objective
of the National lab is the application of modern information technology (IT) in
urban planning and architectural design. The lab is well equipped with modern
IT technologies and devices, including computer networks, SGI workstations,
Virtual Reality experiment platform, and high precision digital image and video
stream encoding system, etc.
In order to
better support the Generative Design research, additional equipment has been
purchased for the Lab, including the latest Pentium IV desktop computer.
- Activity 5: Ph.D. and
Master Research Programs
The generative design
research programs in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji
University will consist of a multidisciplinary team. The participating
disciplines include: campus planning, urban design, historical architecture
preservation, urban housing, interior design, Chinese traditional furniture
design, and computer system simulation.
The initial program team
consists of the following six groups:
Group1, led by Professor
Bo-Wei Wang, and joint by Master candidates Xiang Wang, Hong Wu, Le-Yan Zhang,
will emphasis on the inherited generation mechanisms of university campuses and
similar type of architectural complexes;
Group 2, Master candidate
Meng Wang, guided by the advisor Professor Ji-wei Lu, will emphasis on the
inherited generation mechanisms of urban public spaces;
Group 3, Ph.D. candidates
Yi-Jie Zhang and Ming Dai joint by Master candidate Cheng-yu Sun, under the
guidance of Professor Yong-yi Lu, will emphasis on the inherited generation
mechanisms in Chinese historical architecture preservation;
Group 4, Master candidate
Xing-Yu Yang, guided by the advisor Associate Professor Zhen-yu Li, will
emphasis on the inherited generation mechanisms of various urban housing;
Group 5, Master candidate Xi
Xu and Zhao-Xi Liu, guided by their advisors Associate Professor Yi Chen and
Lecturer Kai-fend Wang, will emphasis on the inherited generation mechanisms of
Chinese traditional and ancient furniture design;
Group 6, Ph.D. candidate
Xiao-Sheng Huang and Master candidate Yao-dong Zhang, guided by their advisors
Professor Jing-Wen Gu and Lecturer Jie Wu, will pursue research of computer
implementation of shape and body representation governed by various generation
mechanisms.
Among the six groups, Senior
Engineer Mr. Zhong Tang, Associate Director of the Lab, will be responsible for
the coordination of the groups in the project. Besides research in the
generation mechanisms of Chinese ancient towers, he will also be experimenting
with the 3-D digital representation of generated objects using virtual reality
techniques.
Mr. Xiang Wang, a member of
the Group 1, is also responsible for information assembling and distributing of
the whole project at Tongji University.
- Activity 4: Workshop
The College of
Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University has planned to host a
generative design workshop session in Shanghai September 2003.
The proposed design topic of the workshop is the Architectural Design for The International Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai.
- Activity 8: International Networking
The Tongji University
team plan to send a delegation to Europe for research information and notes
exchange with European participating partners and larger communities in the
time frame of July to August. The delegation will consists of a part of the
research participants of Tongji University who has achieved certain preliminary
results in their corresponding area of work.
Activities April/August 2003
- Activity 1: Generative
Design Lab. The Lab is working with 6 different research groups in the field of
urban design, historical architecture preservation, urban housing, interior
design, Chinese traditional furniture design. The experimentation in generative
approach are presented in the website of the program http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/BoweiCV.htm
and in the website of the Shanghai Generative Design Lab . http://ga2003.archi.cn/main.htm.
(not yet fully translated in English)
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Activity 4: Workshop
GDLab is working to prepare
the planned workshop in September 2003.
The proposed design topic of
the workshop is the Architectural Design for The International Expo 2010 to be
held in Shanghai.
- Activity 5: Ph.D. and Master
Research Programs
The generative design
research programs activated are implemented and are supported by European
co-supervisors that will start up their activity soon after the summer.
Zhong Tang, Associate
Director of the Lab, is going on with the generation mechanisms of Chinese
ancient towers and 3-D digital representation of generated objects using
virtual reality techniques. In the incoming meeting with Celestino Soddu, the
15th of September, the research activity will be verified and
planned for the incoming aims.
- Activity 8: International
Networking
The website of Asia-link
programme is working and it is upgraded.
The team of this lab is:
Prof. Bowei Wang, responsible
of the team.
Senior Engineer Mr. Zhong
Tang, Associate Director of the Lab
Master candidates Xiang Wang,
Hong Wu, Le-Yan Zhang
Master candidate Meng Wang,
guided by the advisor Professor Ji-wei Lu
Ph.D. candidates Yi-Jie Zhang
and Ming Dai joint by Master candidate Cheng-yu Sun, under the guidance of
Professor Yong-yi Lu
Master candidate Xing-Yu
Yang, guided by the advisor Associate Professor Zhen-yu Li
Master candidate Xi Xu and
Zhao-Xi Liu, guided by their advisors Associate Professor Yi Chen and Lecturer
Kai-fend Wang
Ph.D. candidate Xiao-Sheng
Huang and Master candidate Yao-dong Zhang, guided by their advisors Professor
Jing-Wen Gu and Lecturer Jie Wu
Master candidate Wu Hong,
Wang Yi Sui and Zhang Le Yan guided by Prof. Wang Bo Wei
Doctorate Candidate Dai Ming.
Generative Design Lab of
Tianjin University
Activities October/December
2002
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Participation, with
papers and round tables, to the GA2002, 5th International conference
on Generative Art
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Participation to the 1st
meeting of all Asia-link partners in Milan.
Activities January/March
2003
Activity 1: Establishing Generative Design Lab
The Generative Design Lab in
Tianjin University will be established based in the existing Architectural
Design and Planning Research Institute of Tianjin University headed by the
director Professor Chang-Ming Yang .
Leveraging the existing institute ad
researchers’ previous research interests and strength, the Generative Design
Lab of Tianjin University, as one of the Chinese partner universities, will
have one of its unique research direction set to the application of generative
design concept and theory into the investigation and comparative study of
archetypes and architectures of Chinese minority ethnic groups.
In order to sustain the
Generative Design Lab and relevant research activities, the Architectural
Design and Planning Research Institute of Tianjin University is actively
applying for addition funding from Chinese government through programs of
Ministry of Education.
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Activity 5: Ph.D. and Master Research
Programs
The first Ph.D. and Master
level graduate research program in generative design at Tianjin University will
be primarily be largely directed towards the general topic of “The
Generative Mechanism of Chinese Nomads Architecture and Its Interpretation in
Cultural Anthropology”.
The research program has identified a combined participating
team of five members of faculty and research staff, and, initially, six
graduate students.
As one of the first
individual Ph.D. research topic, Mr. Li Yan has identified the subject of “The Research of Contemporary
Architectural Generative Rule” and will be conducting his investigation under
the guidance of his advisor Prof. Chang-Ming Yang. His dissertation is planned
to complete in 2004.
All
these thesis will be completed with shared supervisions of European Professors.
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Activity 4: Workshop
The Tianjin University
partner is preparing to host the workshop in Tianjin. The specific details of
the design topic for the workshop is being discussed and to be announced soon.
- Activity 8: International
Networking
The Tianjin University
partner is expecting to expand its international networking in the area of
Generative Design through this project and its European partners. The Tianjin
University’s project participating team is planning have its representative
delegation to visit European partner universities while attending the Summer
Courses on their campus according to the project schedule.
Activity April/August 2003
- Activity 1: Generative Design Lab
The Generative Design Lab in
Tianjin University is working particularly in the field of generative architecture
design. The experimentation in generative design approach are presented in the
website of the programme http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/GA-TJU.htm .
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Activity 4: Workshop
GDLab is working to prepare
the planned workshop in September 2003 with a study case in Tianjin.
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Activity 5: Ph.D. and Master Research
Programs
The Ph.D. and Master level
graduate research program in generative design at Tianjin University “The Generative Mechanism of
Chinese Nomads Architecture and Its Interpretation in Cultural Anthropology”.
Has implemented and we are planning a meeting in Tianjin for the end of
September.
Mr. Li Yan is implementing his programme “The Research of Contemporary Architectural Generative
Rule” and we will joint supervisions in the next meeting.
- Activity 6. Applied
projects. Defined two real projects to be developed by European and Chine
GDLabs together:
- Reconstruction of Haihe
Lou (a traditional Chinese style multi-storied building near the Haihe
River in Tianjin which was a famous scene and a temporary palace of the
emperors in the Qing Dynasty)
- Reversion of Austro-Hungary
Consulate in Tianjin, which is confirmed recently.The Lab worked to define
rules and organization to effort these opportunities.
- A proposal of a New Town was
received by the Government and discussed with the Coordinator of the
program, Prof. Celestino Soddu. A first visit to the involved environment
was made together with government officiers, prof. Soddu and prof.
Dehlinger and a first schedule of the town design project was defined.
The team of this lab is:
Prof. Changming Yang,
responsible of the team
prof. Yukun Zhang,
Architecture
Prof. Wei Zhang, Architecture
prof. Wei Wang, Architecture
Prof. Hua Zhang, Staff
Researcher, Architecture
Prof. Fan-Wei Zhang, Staff
Researcher, Architecture
Prof. Jie Cai, Associate
Professor, Architecture
Jun Ren, Lecturer,
Architecture
Xi-Xin Chen, Ph.D. candidate,
Arcitecture
Lin Tian, Ph.D. candidate,
Ancient Architecture Preservation
Jing Bai, Ph.D. candidate,
Architecture
Li-Jun Zheng, Ph.D.
candidate, Architecture
Jin-Song Zhao, Ph.D.
candidate, Architecture
Li Yan, Ph.D. candidate,
Architecture
Xiao-Bing Wang, Master
candidate, Architecture
Rong Lin, master candidate,
Architecture
IV.
Links with other projects/programmes
As described in the
activities, a parallel program was established: the Master I.D.E.A.S. with the
collaboration of Politecnico di Milano University and the University of Macau.
This Master, a course of PhD level directed by Prof. Celestino Soddu, the
coordinator of this program, is supported by Macau government funds and will
start up next September 2004.
It has a strong synergy with
Asia-link program because it has :
The same aims:
Generative design and
advanced design approach
Cultural and professional
exchange between Europe and China
Upgrade of post graduated
people
V. Assessment of the project
The only difficulty
encountered was the sanitary emergence in China from March to July 2002. The
travel of the coordinator to Shanghai and Tianjin, and the subsequent meetings
and lectures planned for the beginning of May, was postponed and re-scheduled.
After the end of this sanitary emergence the program is going well and all the
planned activities was implemented. All the activities postponed because of
Sars will be implemented until the end of March 2004 (six months delay) but we
intend to do it without changing the planned activities of the second year (2
October 2003 – 2 October 2004). In any case the planned summer courses in 2004
and the workshops in September 2004 will be held in the planned period.
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the initial impact was the
difficulty but also the interest about the involvement of all partners in this
advanced design approach
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The expected results was
easily achieved in some activities, like the establishment of the Generative
Design Labs, research exchange and teaching. It was more difficult in applied
projects. The reason was the difficulty, for 6 months, of direct communication.
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The assumption made in the
logical framework was revealed true. Details are explained in the upgraded
logical framework, attached to this report.
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The areas involved, town
design, architecture and industrial production, especially regarding applied
projects (the 6th activity) had differences: the most potential area
is town design, then industrial design and, last, architecture. But we are
working with a business research, to identify reasons and opportunities to
enhance our program.
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It is soon for identifying
positive and negative lessons, because some potentialities of the program are
emerging only now, at one year from the starting up. But this time of
maturation had been anticipated in the program that foresees a progressive
increase of the activities. So we cannot give, at today, judgments on the real
potentiality of the various activities. It emerges however, from the last
meetings and workshops, the possibility, anticipated in the program, to reach
within the second year the future sustainability of the program through common
design activities involving Europeans and Chinese people in the field of the
generative design.
VI.
Annexes to Intermediate Technical Report
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Logical Framework
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2nd Action Plan
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Upgraded Schedule of
Activities
VII.
Annexes
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Intermediate Financial Report
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Notes to Intermediate
Financial report
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Audit
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Intermediate Payment Request
The coordinator of the
Asia-Link program
Prof. Celestino Soddu