Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

As I considered about Carolyne Steel's argument of current food system in my previous posting, Jamie Oliver also could be introduced as one of the important food urbanists. He also argues about current food problem in this video.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. While I visit 'incredible edible's conference in Peckham, I have realised the huge importance of education for food. It is essential to children as well as adults. There for Jamie Oliver's activities of educating people for food is really powerful, meaningful and enjoyable.

TED Talk
February 2010

This video sourced from (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/765)

Reading List: The Exposed City - Mapping the Urban Invisibles

If you love maps, no as just as visual artifacts but as part of design and planning methodology, Nadia Amoroso's recently published 'The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban invisibles; (Routledge, 2010) will validate, comfort, and quite possibly amaze you.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge - Tate Britain
Tate Britain 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011


The first exhibition that I met Eadweard Muybridge was at Kingston Museum and at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University. He is one of the most influential photographers of all time because he pushed the limits of the camera's possibilities, creating world-famous images of animals and humans in motion.

His inspirational captured film work attracted me, and I visited Tate Britain to see his work more.

Tate Britain brings together the full range of his art for the first time, and explores the ways in which Muybridge created and honed his remarkable images, which continue to resonate with artists today.

Rachel Whiteread Drawings at Tate Britain

Tate Britain 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011

When I draw my initial idea paper or concept sketches, it is rare that I keep them well until the final development. They are easy to disappear and be forgotten.

However Rachel Whiteread shows that concept drawings or idea sketch paper also can be a great masterpiece. She is well-known for her large-scale beautiful sculptures but tate britain's current exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore her works on paper, most of which have never been shown before in a public gallery.

I was impressed by the materials what she used on her drawings. She used varnish on graph paper to express surface texture of her translucent sculpture. Her high quality drawings are not only for just the initial concept but also for the final visualisaiton.

The Turner Prize 2010 exhibition

Tate Britain 5 October 2010 – 3 January 2011

Tate Britain announced the four artists who have been nomiated for the Turner 2010. They are: Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz, The Otolith Group. The winner will be announced at Tate Britain on 6 December 2010.

First Focus Week: Learning Rhino 3D

During the first focus week, I had learned Rhino 3D software to improve my digital media skills. I chose some online tutorials for learning basic tools because it is my first time to use Rhino.
Here is my daily Personal Development Plan: Before starting learning Rhino, I was thinking 3D software demand high-level technique. However, after 6 days study, I have become more familiar with Rhino and it was easier than I expected before.

From Day 1 to Day 3, I concentrated to draw line in Rhino with Line & Curve editing tools. Although Rhino is 3D modeling software, drawing line is really important. Because Rhino is based on NURBS system(Non-uniform rational basis spline is a mathematical model commonly used in computer graphics for generating and representing curves and surface which offers great flexibility and precision for handling both analytic and freeform shapes. (sourced from :wiki))

And after Day 3, I started to make solid objects with following some examples. To make solid obejects I learned using Surface and Extrude tools.

I am planning to keep using Rhino consistently until being proficient to avoid forgetting tools. And next second focus week, I would make new Rhino PDP plan for intermediate level.

Lighting on Sothbank BFI buildings

Lighting design of BFI building’s on Southbank is always fabulous and attractive to me. I want to say this building has the most beautiful night sight view with sophisticated colour lighting in London. BFI is just simple grey concrete building in day time, but after dark it is changed as unique place with simple but effective lighting.
Three years ago the first time when I visited here the lighting colour was simpler than now. It was just pink and blue but recently some pictures are projected on the concrete wall. I enjoyed the gainliness in texture of concrete and lighting.I just wanted to record this beautiful nightscape that I found out by chance.

Carolyn Steel : Hungry City

Carolyne Steel is an architect but she is often introduced as a food urbanist because she looks food networks. She is talking about the question of how to feed cities may be one of the biggest contemporary issues. She argues that our current food networks have lots of serious problem and it alienate us from food what we eat. I have found that I need to considere this issue as an architect and landscape architect because landscape architecture has many positive potentials for future urban food system.

This video sourced from (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/650)

Arts by Offenders: Crime and Creativity.

Exhibition 'Art by offenders' at Southbank Centre.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 - Sunday 14 November 2010

Koestler Trust is the UK's best-known prison arts charity. They have been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and secure patients for 49 years. Their annual exhibition 'Art by offenders' offers a opportunity to think whether the art can lead to a better future both for offenders and for their victims.

The most remarkable thing is that this year's exhibition is the first to be curated by a group of victims whose lives have been changed by serious offences against them. They created contextual texts and shared their experience of working on this project.


I believe these are really brilliant and powerful idea to help both offenders and victims to lead them to more positive lives through participating arts. In addition, this event would be a great opportunity to increase public awareness and understanding of crime and how arts can work for them.

From this exhibition, I have come to think further:
-how can city landscape design work to prevent problems of crime
-how can landscape architecture and art work together to produce good results

Who Runs London?

Who does run London?

Interesting question and diagram from NLA exhibition.

This diagram guide to public bodies in the UK capital and explain the relationships between those who currently run London. Although there are remarkable amount of organisations, however this diagram clearly illustrates the complicated web of ministries, assemblies, agencies and councils in a great visualisation. The most interesting part for me was the Olympic Delivery Authority and the boroughs of North and East London. It is show how different bodies are working together to prepare 2012 Olympics. I am currently interested in that topic and doing research.

From this event, I have become more consider:

-What is current issue for running London

-Importance of organising and designing visual mapping, diagrams to give clear information.

Anish Kapoor Turning the World Upside Down

Sky Mirror 2009, Stainless steel 270 cm diameter
Non Object (Spire) 2008, Stainles steel 302 * 300 * 300 cm

Sky Mirror 2006, Stainless steel 10m diametre

C-Curve 2007, Stainless Steel 220 * 770* 300 cm

I was glad to hear that I could meet Anish Kpoors large scale outdoor sculpture in Kensington Garden. The giant curved mirror surface reflect and contrast of the changing surrounding views. I was hugely impressed by the shape, materials, scale and setting of his sculptures. Especially, the placing of the sculptures in the park was really critical. His four different types of artworks are sited on four different condition of the park.

Sky Mirror, which measures 10 metres in diameter, has been placed on the side of a lake where a Henry Moore sculpture once sat.

Sky Mirror (Red) can be seen above The Round Pond with Kensington Palace as its backdrop and is the first time Kapoor has put one of his works in water.

Non-Object (Spire) is almost hidden under the trees while the viewer sees a distorted reflection of themselves in C-Curve.

I found the fact that Kapoor came to the park a lot and spent many weekends thinking about where to place them. I suppose he took proper decisions for his arts, and made Kensington Garden be more beautiful and active.

[Rhino 3D] Day 1: Introduction, Starting Rhino

1. Introduction for Basic Rhino work space :2. Tool Bar:3. Solid Tool :

4.Using Scale, Copy, Rotate tools to make solid boxes.