Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Todays IST Flinders Class

Today we started off by going around the class and briefly describing each others story.
Some great plots and themes, all should be posted on student blogs by tonight.

We then looked at the importance of creating PLATFORMS, and being creators not consumers.

We continued our research into Future Melbourne, with each student looking into one particular area of the assignment.

Peter - flying vehicles
James F - Graffiti
Joel - Graffiti
Huggy - Nukes and weapon systems
Jay - Vegan Oasis
David - Vegan Oasis
Adam - Scripting
Johnny - Armour
Lil - Gameplay
Kenan - Ninjas and Cops
Chonny - Gas masks
Jason, Ray - Train stations
Jeffrey - Trains
Leah - Stations, toxic stuff

My own area of research was into the Ages Future Melbourne project, with the possibility we could submit something to their competition.

http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/
http://www.evillagemelbourne.com.au/

The talking points used by this project could perhaps be used in our own as they seem to generate the right kind of information;

• talk Business
• talk Culture
• talk Destination
• talk Environment
• talk Global
• talk Knowledge
• talk Living
• talk Moving
• talk Public
• talk Service
• talk Sport


It is also interesting reading through the evillage site and seeing what other peoples ideas for the future of the city are, including a wide variety of experts.
Perhaps the future Melbourne could be used as an example in our town of just how wrong it all went.

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