I manage the following blogs:
1. Alex Rozko Portfolio [RD+A]
- This is my architectural design portfolio created to illustrate my proficiencies and contribution to society.
2. We Kill Design
- We Kill Design is a blog dedicated to elements of (or related to) architecture, design, social and environmental issues.
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Just couldn't help noticing. The last five years or so, each polling place is becoming less and less a place, and more and more an afterthought of where to park a cardboard booth with tenty curtains and folding card tables. As touching as this humility is, and this extends to the various call party locations that sprouted like erstwhile Tupperware parties around the 'hood this summer and fall, what does it say about the public priorities of the polis at large?
This is my first blog ever, and I hope to hear more about individual voters' experiences of the architecture of polling places, or what they felt casting their ballots in what at times felt like little more than a janitor's closet with good signage. There is an awesome website http://pollingplaces.nytimes.com where voters are pooling images of where they voted. In doing some preliminary web-search, I did discover that the Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) adopted Design for Democracy's guidelines for ballot design (as usual, the graphic designers are way ahead of us architects).
So, here's a thought: we all know The Story of Online Retailing, in which the fly-by-night purveyors crumbled into dot-com oblivion through a failure to create bricks and mortar distribution systems to support their retailing activities. We've (mostly) seen the photos of Amazon's Orwellian automated warehouse systems and monster distribution centers, and they seem to be doing okay. What if the same thing happens to this internet voting revolution? Why is there no such thing as a permanent polling place? A building designed primarily to accommodate the neighborhood vote? Sure, it's only used for that purpose 1-2 times a year, but isn't it important enough to prioritize this as a building program? Surely, such centers could be programmed year round to encourage civic education and engagement--call party rentals, research centers, etc. It just seems like the time has come to concretize the polling place and take our right to vote as seriously as we take our right to check books out of a library.
I'm just sayin'...can we study this? Like how many precincts exist in the U.S.? Can we map it? Can we imagine it? The de-centralization of publicly funded architecture into a fine spray of polling places across the country seems like a great counterpoint to the City Hall, an anachronistic symbol of centralized power and cronyism. Student competition anyone?
An interesting article in the CSmonitor that I am SURE to forward to my Architecture buddies.
"If the world’s 100 biggest cities were to whiten the roofs of all of their buildings and use more reflective pavement, the global cooling effect would be huge, a new study has concluded..."
I wanted to share a note from a fellow Obama supporter working with the group Architecture 2030 to combat Global Warming. It's something we all can do.
Hello David,
I want to thank you for bringing attention to the 2030 Challenge at Senator Obama's site last December. Architecture 2030 continues to address Global Warming not only on the demand side (with the 2030 Challenge) but also on the supply side by calling for a moratorium on coal. Towards the latter, we have just unveiled a new initiative that I want to bring to your attention: BYOBlue.
Architecture 2030 is rallying the nation to participate in the BYOBlue campaign by calling on everyone to wear BLUE during Earth Day 2008 to signify a vote for NO COAL.
BYOBlue is a nationwide collaborative between Architecture 2030, Earth Day Network and numerous other groups calling for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any new coal plants. In 2007, Fifty-nine coal plants were canceled - over a third of the 151 planned. That was before millions of people joined together to say No Coal by participating in BYOBlue.
Please, help us to get the word out about this historic event. Earth Day 2008 takes place April 19-22. A complete description of BYOBlue with additional ideas and information is below. More details can be found at www.byoblue.org and in Ed Mazria's article posted at Grist (http://gristmill.grist.org/...).
Thank you very much for your consideration - and for your continued attention to Architecture 2030 projects and initiatives. If you have any questions at all, or would like additional information, please do not hesitate to be in touch.
Best regards, Peter
Peter Chapman, Marketing Coordinator, 2030, Inc. / Architecture 2030, 505-988-5309 x17
chapman@architecture2030.org
BYOBlue / Earth Day 2008, April 19-22
Want to stop global warming? Wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008!
Join millions of people around the world who will be wearing BLUE to signify their vote for NO COAL.
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Earth Day 2008 is going to be historic! Architecture 2030, along with numerous other groups around the nation, is calling on everyone to wear BLUE during Earth Day 2008 to signify their vote for No Coal. Events will be happening around the world from April 19th through April 22nd, so…
If you're attending the Earth Day event on the National Mall in Washington, DC on April 20th, wear BLUE.
If you're attending another Earth Day event, wear BLUE. No matter what you're doing for Earth Day 2008, wear BLUE. A BLUE shirt, top, sweater or jacket…whatever. Just wear BLUE.
Then, on April 22, as a culminating action, pick up the phone, call Congress at 202-224-3121 and ask for an immediate 'Moratorium on Coal' - a halt to the construction of any new coal-fired power plants. Through this Call for Climate event, Earth Day hopes to generate over a million phone calls to Congress. Visit Earth Day's website to learn more about this critical event.
Your BLUE vote will count. Fifty-nine coal plants were canceled in 2007. That's over a third of the 151 planned. That happened before millions of people joined together to say No Coal.
BYOBlue for Earth Day 2008. Be the vote that tips the balance.
