Cutre Film - Episode 1: La instalación

Cutre Film is:
- proposing a new way to communicate!
- introducing new, cutre aesthetics
- converting boring information into amusing one
- a way of thinking:D

Cutre Film isn't:
- exclusive

Create your own Labein - specific cutre film and upload it on the blog.
If the sound is crap (like in case of Episode 1) Ania can help you with putting subtitles!

ECO tour UK Road movie

esta es la version cutrefilm del viaje, en videos recogidos allá por donde pasamos: escaleras electricas del aeropuerto, London underground, british trains y el coche de Colin.

ECO tour UK -BI's version

On wed (16.04.08) morning, FE, IR, AB and me visited the exhibition at the Sommerset House. It shows activities carried in a London area to raise awareness about environmental planning initiatives. It has an appealing presentation designed to bring the visitors nearer from the experience of developing the city under such principles. I don’t see contents that I have not seen before, but they touch my emotions. Discussing about the relative importance of integrating all aspects of sustainability, FE stresses the risk of remaining at the surface of technological possibilities while I think we have not reached real integration yet.

In the afternoon we visited the BedZED, which I had been promoting the last three years. It’s clean and well marketed. Visiting the house makes me feel I could happily live there, but the absence of community life and the sincere limitations in environmental and water as well as public space matters make me think it can be done much better. On the other hand, the value of the built experience is worth the visit, makes the effort of realization closer to my possibilities.

On thu morning AB, IR and me visited the Ecohouse, where a very detailed explanation brought a big contrast to the rather poor one we got at the BedZED. Local, low profiled, self-made permacultural and landscaping experiences were beautifully brought together at a small scale, with refurbishment solutions and a clear educational commitment. As a result, the place makes sense and shows a humble but very positive output.

On the afternoon we went to the Brocks hill centre, made for demonstration purposes. It includes an outstanding bioclimatic design and many appliances to gain energy from all renewable resources. Very children friendly, nice café and several meeting facilities with a wide and general programme. A huge park around with exploring games and forestry and gardening recovery activities. Places for bird and landscape watching. Actually, beautiful, but makes you wonder if such investment is worth.

On the show room of the center we did several dynamics to fix priorities among vectors of sustainability and get their inner connections. Using the brain, but also the body and the senses, we gave colours, forms, emotions and weight to the vectors. One was left as we run sort of time: governance. On the following night I had a dream: the walls of a church were decorated with frescoes explaining the vectors and its content. It was displayed a bit as a via crucis, esthetically appealing, balanced, integrated in the built space. Then time started running and age came to the walls and frescoes. Coatings and support materials cracked and got stained and dirty. Repairs were done more or less gently. Type fonts were substituted and some of the vectors were changed in place or words. Rust and dust and decay came upon them until you couldn’t read last two, community and sustainability. And temporary posters were hanged over the originals, printed in ordinary paper, tasteless but recovering the message.

We had travelled to Shrewsbury, where we enjoyed dinner at an Indian restaurant. We packed early to Ludlow, were Colin Richards was expecting us at the conservation office of South Shropshire county.

Fri morning was spent chatting with him about their experiences involving community in heritage management. This was coupled with environmental care and local economic promotion. We had a walk to see these effects on the place and the people and impressions showed a healthy life up there. Urban set up was fantastic and nature around even better. Social life seemed vibrant and both traditions and innovation alive. We also talked about our jobs and how to exchange knowledge and vision and empower people through best practices. After meeting several chairmen of the most varied associations we came back to the office and pick the planning officer for a visit outside. In the pic, how to put a modern toilet inside a VXI century church.

The afternoon took us to three sustainable developments: Craven arms, Bishops Castle and the Living village. Each one surpassed the former visits in terms of its effects on quality of life and resulting life style. Scale and approach was closer and closer to the persons living there and care of the built and natural environment more and more effective.

Craven arms is a 20 social ecohousing project, very blue and simple, affordable and immediate, without great ambitions, next to the train station, for the workers of the area. Is not specially nice looking nor extremely energy efficient, but it gains warmth, light and electricity from the sun and allows a very low carbon life style. It works.

The living village is a private initiative slowly growing to 50 units in a lovely hilly set up, with shared allotments and public spaces. Building standards are very high but well balanced, not technology driven, but rather common sense and focused on the comfort of the residents. Still, their complain is complicated maintenance. It felt cousy and homely, familiar, free, healthy, effective. We even had the luck to meet Bob the foreman who talked about values and ethos.

IG and me said farewell to AB on her train to Southhampton as we headed back to London. On the train we still finished the homework we had started at the cafe on the M&S: what we have done and how did it feel.

Beautiful trip. Intense. Enriching.

for another kind of version of the tour, check the upcoming cutrevideos.

dibujo/ ideas/ garabato AND THE WINNERS ARE...

During last month from 62 drawings you have chosen the best 3. The winners are:

The overall winner with 48 votes is:

























The second place thanks to 43 votes:




















The third place with 40 votes:

SUE M: February dynamics - feedback

Feedback from February dynamics

:)

Very good dynamic. Made me think differently about the process and helped me clarify my own ideas.

Amusing + short time

It’s very good because made us think in our own thoughts about the future of SUEM in a different and funny way.

Playing is helpful to work with ideas

It moved/shaked my mind!

Me ha rescatado de la rutina de hoy!

Buena Idea

40 min for dynamic is goo!

Know now new people and new ways in Labein

Clever and quick

Really good to stand up! This helps with thinking!

Good to see path instead of agenda!

Una forma divertida y exigente - si quieres puedes aportar - una via valida de trabajo en grupo


















:/

Would be good to work on a physical model

How to continue?

A more complex tree would be useful

Too little time!

Me ha hecho pensar


:(

We should have shared the outcomes together as one big group before finishing!

There was no place for future vision!

I do not like writing

El otro grupo me daba empujones

8 and 1/2 days in Bilbao = 1+4+1+50+4+1,5+14+18+3+9+4+10+3+6+2+4

1 imagination experts visit (19 children/experts; 4 TV stations, 1 big article in press and around 50 people across Labein involved)
only 4 days for voting for the best dibujo (the winner will be announced shortly!)
1 and 1/2 day of SUE M FORM TESTS (14 people tested the proposed form; 18 tests in total as some did more then one! Juan - thanks for testing all 3 forms!)
9 hours spent with other artists and companies at Labein during mid-evaluation meeting (and extra 4 hours in the evening)
10 hours spent on exploring Bilbao, for the first time in the daylight!
my phone number in Labein: 3624
= 153,5

picture by Iñigo Ibáñez

SUE M: forms, users, functions

Outcomes of the February DYNAMICS:

What FORM should SUE M have? (SUE M = Sustainable Urban Environment Model)

REAL !!!
A system of indicators, a scoreboard
A suggestive form that inspires you to explain… a simple way to explain complex ideas, maybe like a child’s game, able to move, to play with
Physical, portable, not only digital, but with a digital part to show the process of creation attached to it- I’m tired of everything digital
A toolbox
Hybrid, transparent, suggestive, open and flexible in time and adaptation
A giant model
A film showing what to do, and what happens if we don’t
A sculpture
A big interactive panel
A form? Could it be ethereal? Does “new” culture have a form?
Something to be touched and played with
Colourful, simple outwards (to get the message), sophisticated inwards (complex structure), diverse in meaning (multiple faces)
A gift, a souvenir
The form of a living organism
A virtual world
Many forms and many scales, depending on the needs
A golden egg
A competitive game: the winner, the most sustainable














Who is SUE M for?

4 stakeholders, policy makers and development agents,
4 young people,
4 eeuus tecnalia,
4 anyone who signs a contract with us on this subject,
4 entrepreneurs and creatives (through action!!!),
4 people with influence to spread the word: teacher, mayor, vicar, and politician…
4 us, 4 our partners & customers, 4 the society,
4 me,
4 labein’s team(s) city &territory,
4 everybody: labein personnel, clients, public bodies, companies, citizens…
4 us primarily; clients as an example of what we do and how we do it,
4 different people from different environments to work together,
4 the society, 4 us, 4 the administration, 4 me, 4 my future son, 4 Bilbao,
4 policy makers, 4 society in general, citizens and social networks, 4 the private sector.

















What are the functions of SUE M?

Stimulates change
Convinces
Play
Spend contributor’s money intelligently
Allow sustainable development management
Visualise factors and scenarios of a SUE; generates alternatives in concrete places and social groups; dreams with possible utopias!
Dream
Ease communication
Fix new targets of human growth
Favour development, improve quality of life, and assure a future
Teach best practices
Create a common background to give support to different approaches to urban contemporary understanding
Stimulate, make think and inspireseverybody
Organise ideas, help to represent all of these abstract ideas, explain, and understand
Create consciousness, build & communicatesa new urban culture, make ideas arise, stimulate/encourage us
Provide new ways to work together, to think, to create, to empower others, to use your brain…
Change the way urban systems work
Change the questions we ask
Gain trust from customers & partners, & sell more
Evaluate, simulate scenarios, and raise awareness, support decision-making

What is SUE M?

Outcomes of the February 'DYNAMICS":

What is a SUE M? (SUE M = Sustainable Urban Environment Model)
It is: ...
A social culture; a way to see life,
A mess where FE and BI have put us into (& I wanted to get in),
A chance to design an ideal, a dream,
A material tool for building,
A model (not just physical) of a city, with 1000 agents and 1M relations among them,
Something we’ll talk about in the future,
A challenge to jump over,
Something that helps you see all components of a healthy city, and how they interrelate; a Dynamic mechanism that reproduces these interrelations,
A proof of the failure of this civilization,
Something tangible, … real,
A representation of reality showing main restrictions which give form to the whole*









A chance to help us understand what we talk about; a laboratory to mix & test different ingredients or vectors of sustainability;
A challenge to make us think differently and creatively about our work,
… i don’t know…
A proposal of how urban spaces could be, taking into account a living style better integrated with nature,
A physical representation of goals related to urban sustainability,
Guidelines for environmental and social respect and a sensible economic growth, a tool, a Support, a way to clarify & organise many ideas; and also a chance to think about these ideas,
Marketing for Tecnalia, something touchable, an example to be followed by others, a poli-application field, for multi-use and multi-users,
Maybe just a new environment, a new game, a new…?
Probably a way of thinking, imagining, a place to think, to imagine about/in the city in many senses, ways, directions, starting from the environment,
Responsibility of resources, social cohesion, environmental management & economic stability
A representation of our wishes and expectations of the urban life container.

Do we need SUE M? (YES!)

Outcomes of February "Dynamics":

All the reason why we DO WANT SUE M (Sustainable Urban Environment Model)

A model is useful as a reference for us to know where should we move forward; it doesn’t mean that we must copy it.
We can change ourselves as we build up the model.
We can provide the world with added value and not just benefit for the companies.
The world is strained and worn out.
It is necessary to know, measure and quantify the economic, social end environmental reality in order to be able to manage and guide global development efficiently.
With a SUEM we can touch sustainability.
We need to grant the feasibility of the project.
It is possible today to plan and understand the complexity inherent to the city before building it up; think more, build less!
Because of health reasons.
It’s a tool for understanding, explaining and representing the idea of sustainable urban… It’s something difficult to represent, but a representation (maybe mental) is necessary to understand and create.
With a SUEM we can include participatory means.
There’s business opportunity.
We are not happy with our current environment.
It can bring more equality within the “rich” society & toward the “poor” countries; & future generations can see nature/earth as we do.
We can understand urban system dynamics.
It will provide us with a model to work together in a powerful & sustainable way & it doesn’t exist yet, so let’s innovate and create it.
We can help new generations to have a better environment & give something back to society.
It can gather all necessary info & data in order & systematically arrange everything to get results.
It’s a good beginning, a good framework and maybe also a good conclusion.
It can make visible and concrete our goals.
We talk a lot about innovation and creativity & this is a chance to do as we preach; therefore we need it to be coherent.
We are trying to be part on that “change of mind” of the urban concept where sustainable & environment take part of it.

Do we need SUE M? (NO!!!)

Outcomes of the February "Dynamics":

All the good reasons why we DO NOT NEED SUE M (Sustainable Urban Environment Model)

Because:
We are hypocrites: we cannot talk about sustainability if we don’t put it into practice afterwards.
There is an alternative.
One generic model cannot be used in all possible situations; many SUEMs are needed!
We need to think in other alternatives (open mind to…)
We don’t want to create “SuDonalds” (like Sustainability McDonalds)
I’m not sure if a model is a beginning or an end.
There already exist real SUEs that can act as a model; we need to build up more real SUEs.
It needs a high expenditure and investment.

Is there an alternative? YES:

REALITY.
Stopping all kinds of development, assuming its consequences, and returning to a live style based on the immediate available resources without technology.
SUE –guidelines, ideas, brainstorming.
Forget about models; build real prototypes.
Promote social consciousness.
Take the components of the urban system and work them separately

Call for Ideas - deadline 15th April, 12 (noon)

2 IDEAS are going to be submitted to BRAIN STORE!

As part of Disonancias project we are going to submit 2 ideas linked to improvement of Labein people life within the company to the Brain Store experts to receive best solutions.

WHY? As part of Disonancias we are constantly looking for ideas and methods to improve working environment, see what might change people attitude towards work and 'working life', how can we bring creativity and change to the office environment,
how to break routine, how to bring unexpected in.

This is AN OPEN CALL FOR PRIVATE IDEAS you would like to get solutions for!

Please read the explanation below, visit the website and e-mail Ania before Tuesday 15th April (12 noon) your idea.

Best 2 private ideas are going to be testes by Brain Store experts.

Looking forward to receiving your ideas !!!

PRIVATE IDEA

BrainStore also has a product available for private individuals. Test us with a question from your normal everyday life. You will receive three or four ideas by eMail within a few days. Of course, the most varied and experienced people of BrainStore work on finding the best solution to your question

Examples

• How can I talk my father into buying me a computer? (Boy, 13)
• How can I fall in love again? (Lady, 65)
• How can I reduce my daughter’s telephone bill? (Father, 45)
• What would an advent calendar for my dog look like? (Woman, 48)
• What should we give our unpopular teacher as a present? (3 girls, all 14)

evaluación proyecto a mitad de camino

Antes de que Ania nos envíe un resumen tipo (24+12+98+4433+7=8976) ;-) me adelanto para hacer constar oficialmente que el proyecto está dando respuesta a los plazos tal y como estaba previsto.

el viernes de 12:00 a 15:00 hicimos la evaluación de las actividades de la semana, las acciones que se desarrollaron desde la anterior visita y las interacciones y sinergias con los otros equipos que toman parte en esta edición.

AB, IR, FE y BI observamos el calendario (equivalente a un PDP) que hicimos al comienzo del proyecto y, efectivamente, estamos en el momento previsto: los que participasteis en el test de los primeros prototipos de SUEM pudisteis observar que ya tenemos todos los datos para decidir el aspecto y alcance que tendrá el Modelo de entorno urbano sostenible que era el objetivo a desarrollar formando parte de disonancias. Ania está procesando estos tests; la semana que viene tenemos una reunión y visita de personas y entornos relevantes y, con todos los datos sobre la mesa, decidiremos cómo empieza a tomar forma el SUEM.

También acogimos a los otros equipos de esta edición de Disonancias y evaluamos con todos ellos y los evaluadores externos, la evolución de los procesos colaborativos en cada tandem y entre ellos. Las personas que subisteis a las salas Olabeaga pudisteis ver cómo algunos proyectos tienen relaciones muy claras, bien en la temática, bien en los tipos de procesos, bien en los retos y opciones que se están planteando. Pues nuestro proyecto también avanza satisfactoriamente de acuerdo a la promotora del programa y a los otros partners empresa-artista.

Comentamos con especial interés el impacto que tuvo la jornada con los expertos en imaginación. Nuestro principal interés no consiste en la respuesta mediática que suscitó ni en cuantificar su impacto en términos de beneficios o ingresos colaterales. Más bien los criterios de valoración han sido:

• la capacidad de demostrar la creatividad, pasión y habilidades divulgativas de los campos de aplicación que interaccionaron con los niños;
• la flexibilidad y apertura de toda la plantilla, que disfrutó dando la bienvenida a un evento que podría haberse considerado molesto y extaño, y
• las reflexiones que ha provocado esta acción en los procesos, objetivos y visión de los campos de aplicación involucrados.

También tomamos nota de las debilidades, críticas y cuestiones que continúan abiertas. ¿Qué es disonancias? sigue sin estar claro para muchas personas y la conexión entre el programa y algunas de las actividades tampoco. En el mes de mayo habrá acciones encaminadas a resolver definitivamente esta cuestión y a plantear como seguir después de la entrega del proyecto.

pero no adelantemos acontecimientos...

nueve binomios disonantes en Labein Tecnalia (videos)

una imagen sonora en movimiento vale más que un millón de palabras:

nueve binomios disonantes en Labein Tecnalia

El pasado 2 de abril tuvo lugar el encuentro de todos los participantes en esta edición de Disonancias. 40 personas de 9 empresas y 9 equipos de artistas, además de los organizadores y los evaluadores del proyecto, nos reunimos en las salas Olabeaga para compartir cómo van cada una de las colaboraciones a mitad de camino. En todos los casos han aparecido diferencias entre los modos introducidos por los artistas y los hábitos empresariales, pero también en todos los casos los beneficios de la innovación superan a los conflictos.

Durante toda la mañana se presentaron los proyectos. La metodología de trabajo tenía el título “las buenas ideas de mi vecino”, y permitió la transferencia de experiencias y valores entre todos los participantes. Estos son los siguientes:

1. Dorlet / Álvaro Castro & Fran Gallardo. Multimedia aplicada a la domótica. Están programando espacios tridimensionales para controlar dispositivos urbanos por medio de acelerómetros o visual tracking. Izkara, Mediavilla, TAE… a lo mejor os interesa.

2. EiTB / Victor Iriarte. Documentación. Blog. CD, Mirenlur… a lo mejor os interesa.

3. Fundación Ikertia / Cuantics Creatives. Emergencia sanitaria en espacios públicos. Diego Soroa está aumentando el papel social de los individuos contribuyendo con el bienestar y la sostenibilidad de las ciudades. Isabel, Feliú, Usobiaga… a lo mejor os interesa.

4. Grupo Sarkis Lagunketa / Daniela Bershan. Integra organismos que responden activamente a situaciones de humedad y radiación solar en fachadas. Campos, Chica, Erkizia, Mendizabal… a lo mejor os interesa.

5. Imar / ReD, Research + Design, Lda. Aplicaciones para chapa perforada y metal expandido. Bea, LeireV, Jimbert… a lo mejor os interesa.

6. Lanik / Recetas Urbanas (Santiago Cirugeda +). Estructuras metálicas espaciales ocupadas por espacios habitables. Espada, Fran, Sergio… a lo mejor os interesa.

7. Lantegi Batuak / AMASTÉ. Espacios de relación con el entramado social para personas discapacitadas. Accesibilidad, RRHH y ergonomía a lo bestia. Egusquiza, Zior, LuisD… a lo mejor os interesa.

8. Polo Garaia / Mariano Maturana & Consol Rodríguez. Servicios que apoyen la conexión y la colaboración entre los usuarios del Polo de innovación. Blog. Territorios inteligentes en Mondragón. Ugalde, Egus, JuanP… a lo mejor os interesa.

9. Tecnalia / Ania Bas. Modelo de entorno urbano sostenible. Blog. No comment.

Por la tarde se reflexionó sobre las culturas empresariales, la libertad y la responsabilidad personal y profesional, la innovación y los escenarios laborales previsibles a medio plazo. Os invito a leer cómo el sociólogo francés Marc Perrenoud compara los valores del trabajador del futuro [autonomía, flexibilidad, inventividad, desarrollo por proyecto] con las formas actuales de trabajar de los artistas.

Nos quedan 3 meses de desarrollo de proyecto. Seguís invitados a participar.

dibujo/ ideas/ garabato - 3rd week winners

The winners of the third week are:

1st Place: Man on the couch

61 votes!

2nd Place: Pictureholic



26 votes!

3rd Place: "NO BASTAN"



20 votes!

All the winners of the three weeks are already posted for a final
voting round.