Gallery Show Images

These are the three images I have been working on for the gallery show. I sent them off to Pat Chan, but I am sure there is room for feedback and improvement if necessary :)

Images for Gallery Show - Communication of the home's systems

Right, so this is one of the images in the works to communicate the home's systems, the user, etc etc.

At this point the file is still being modified in Ai so very draftish, so any feedback would be great.

the Process/Communication Book(let)

As deadlines have come close-close, it has urged me to think about my goals for the Ecological Perspectives deliverables. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be focusing on organizing and designing our project's process/communication book(let) as I feel this will end up being my deliverable.

I am sorry if this post seems slightly irrelevant to the actual research and exploration going on with Myhomeyourhome, but I feel it requires everyone's input nonetheless, and I would appreciate any feedback/ideas in terms of what information needs communicating.

The way that I see it, the book(let) will be short and concise as possible, displaying as much visual content where possible.

My hopes for this booklet are:

1. To summarize the goals of the project, foremost. (So, basically to start, a nutshell 'big picture' type thing that basically tells the reader/audience what we are about)

2. Highlight the components (and the complexity) of the project, in terms of how open source and communicational it is. (displaying community) so, the blog, the wiki, etc

3. A section that synthesizes the research we are doing with the concepts we are applying into the house (so, showing the types of things we considered? and possibly a page that highlights all the design technologies that are being incorporated into the house)

4. Illustration and Visualization of the project 'in concept', and 'in application'. So, showing the reader how we imagine our homes to work in the real world. Things that could support this are drawings and/or renderings or people living in the home, etc etc.

Smaller additions to the book will include:

- short and sweet profiles of people in the project, our personal goals, etc

- possibly in the version we give to duane, we could have some sort of foreword outlining how exactly we have met the criteria of his project in particular (thoughts?)

- floor plans, architectural perspective drawings (I would love to delve, can I delve?),

and as I mentioned early renderings that include humans and humans interacting with the space we are designing

I understand that this is hardly the time to make a 'finished' item as I know this project is so ongoing, but I would really like to think of this book as a piece that communicates our intention and allows the viewer to visualize our project beyond just description.

I would appreciate thoughts and feedback that anyone has.

Hopefully I will have a draft of the structure of the book(let) as soon as this weekend or this coming monday :)

Getting emails when people comment

Rachel and I were talking about the problem with the lack of notification when comments show up.
It's a pain because people comment thinking that their thoughts will be heard, but everyone else has no idea when there are new comments or where to find them.

If you go to Settings -> Comments, and then go to the bottom of the page, there's a box in which you can put your email address to get emails whenever someone comments. Though it might clutter up your inbox...

Edit:
Scratch that. I just found the rss feed for comments:
http://dropbox-myhomeyourhome.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss