http://cityspinning.org temporary architecture Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_532" align="aligncenter" width="212" caption="a poster"][/caption] SMS a query to a local weather station. Receive a reply with the temperature, humidity and noise levels of the spae. Decide if you want to go there or someone else. Maybe a good place for a quiet evening is Khirkee and a good place for ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/27/mausamchowk-a-set-of-local-weather-stations-that-help-you-decide-where-to-go/ [caption id="attachment_518" align="aligncenter" width="212" caption="an introductory graphic for the project"][/caption] Often it is just a question of putting one up. But after it is stretched a claim is made. And accepted. A claim to shade. A livelihood. Space on the street. Protection from rain. And then in some months, it will get ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/26/canopy-making-water-locally/ Day 6: responsibility of continued care and documentation of the farms, plans for next time, sharing contact details, feedback, plans/ideas We talked about how each child will care about his plants, tried to gather some feedback about the process and discussed ideas for next time. I described the soil workshop to ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/19/%e2%80%9cinvisible-farm-jamghat%e2%80%9d-day-6/ I saw the design for your self-watering container garden on the CitySpinning/CEMA website this past summer, and since I was going to be working with kids and literacy on a native reservation in rural Canada, I decided to "borrow" the model.  We wanted to base literacy activities on eco-literacy and ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/17/container-gardening-in-rural-northern-canada/ Day 5: containers (all kinds… bought from a flea market), sow seeds, audio blog activities, work on the “public fruit map” @ googlemaps From a nearby flea market I managed to get some petis (wooden cartons used for transporting and storing fruits and vegetables. With a few modifications, the petis were ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/17/%e2%80%9cinvisible-farm-jamghat%e2%80%9d-day-5/ Day 4: prepared more soil, invite a gardener to visit, sow seeds in baskets + pots, post the group's experience on the audio blog, talk about the “public fruit map (delhi).” From the nearby Qutub nursery, I requested the head gardener, Ram Shankar, to come over to the shelter and demonstrate ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/17/%e2%80%9cinvisible-farm-jamghat%e2%80%9d-day-4/ Day 2: a simple discussion on nutrition, diet and vegetables. in simple flower-pots we sowed chilli, radish and spinach seeds. Day 3: get baskets, setup baskets, get containers made, talk to neighborhood gardeners, put audio recordings on the Internet Read more about the workshop at http://st.ation.in/wiki/projects:invisible-farm [gallery] http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/14/invisible-farm-jamghat-day-2-and-3/ More about invisible farm at: http://st.ation.in/wiki/projects:invisible-farm Today we talked about growing vegetables and why, „unknown“ friends and sharing, mapped places around their shelter where they can grow vegetables and learnt to record short audio narratives using audacity. [gallery] http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/10/pictures-of-invisible-farm-jamghat-day-1/ Mitti Chakkar (Hindi), Soil circle (English), exploring urban soil ecology An effort to sample/archive soil from public spaces around Delhi, grow mustard plants (sarson) in it. Sarson acts as a phytoremediation agent and cleans the soil of toxins like Lead by storing it in its cells instead. For a detailed description ... http://cityspinning.org/2008/09/05/mitti-chakkar/ The Pioneer (New Delhi Edition) published a feature on the "Voice" project on June 21, 2008. Its been written by Timsy Jaipuria. http://cityspinning.org/2008/08/09/voice-featured-in-the-pioneer-new-delhi/