Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

Shareabouts is flexible mapping platform that could be used to orient and connect new students to their college town?! Another tool for campus planning departments to bridge the divide.

Learn through comparative analysis as well as develop a qualitative understanding of the urban jungle. Vancouver, where are you? To learn more about this project, check out the short video and download the white paper.

“I think we’re moving away from the image of the architect as a master builder, towards someone who is much more of a specialist in the built environment” ~ Alison Killing. Read more on designcurial.

On my breakfast table this morning, A Daily Dose of Architecture on Washburn:

“Urban design influences everything but controls nothing” ~ Alexandros Washburn, former Chief Urban Designer of the NYC Department of City Planning and Author of The Nature of Urban Design

“We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another.” ~ Douglas Rushkoff, Media Theorist and Author of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”

First Nicosia and now Cumbria. Is your university next?
Cumbria becomes first public university in the world to accept Bitcoin in tuition fees
The Independent
By Tom Mendelsohn

Moving forward while committed to the past:
Building a University, Part 1: How 5 California Schools Approach Campus Design
Metropolis Magazine
by Sherin Wing, Ph.D.

Rethinking the design of portable classrooms? Here’s a great piece to add to the mix:
Architectural Record
Modular Classroom Makeover
By Joann Gonchar, AIA

Envisioning a new Moscow. ArchDaily’s interview with Yuri Grigoryan and Alexei Komissarov at the Moscow Urban Forum.

Cite: Basulto, David. “AD Interviews: Yuri Grigoryan and Alexei Komissarov / Moscow Urban Forum” 15 Jan 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed 18 Jan 2014. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=467453&gt;

UBC Early Years Conference 2014
Presenting at the UBC Early Years Conference: Shaping Childhood: Factors that Matter
The Reading Corner: Designing Learning Spaces for the Home
Saturday, February 1, 2014
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.