Studio Direction

Creating your blog:
The blog platform of choice for this workshop is Google’s “Blogger”. It is a web-based system that allows the blogger to post/update/comment from any internet connection and requires zero experience in HTML programming or web design.

1. Go to: http://www.blogger.com/home and click on the orange-ish arrow “Create Your Blog Now” and follow the instructions.
2. Once you have completed the set-up and now have a blog please email me the url address so that I may include it on the Workshop blog.

Workshop blog:
The url address for the Workshop Blog is: http://negativearchitecture.blogspot.com/
This blog will include general comments from the instructor, links to the weekly reading assignments, links to your classmates’ blogs and links to general resources. You are expected to check this site often (i.e. +/- every other day) as it will be updated regularly and will serve as the main point of contact for the workshop. You are expected to participate in the discussions that are initiated here (as an extension to assigned readings).

Posting to your blog:
Please remember that your blog is your only opportunity to present your work/development – your blog IS your project. It should be treated as a design journal. Please feel free to distribute the address to your blog to those outside the studio. I will. (It is the position of this studio that blogs are not meant to be monologues, but rather a forum for open discussion focused around the posts of the blogger.)

Posting to your classmates’ blogs:
Go to the Studio blog, click on the link to one of your classmates’ blogs, read their post and click on the “COMMENTS” link at the end of each post. Note: You will be required to log into your Blogger account to post a comment.

Course Structure:
Students will be expected to work and blog and minimum of 8 hours per week. 6 hours of “studio” work and 2 hours of “blog work”. As there are no set classes or meetings, these 8 hours can occur at the student’s discretion. If a period of time of 7 days passes with no activity on the blog, it will count as an absence. Two absences will result in a failing grade. Such a ‘loose’ format requires due diligence by the student. The instructor will interact with the class as a whole via the studio blogs and with each student via their personal blogs. Grading for this studio will be based equally on ‘design work’ and ‘blogging’. Successful blogging requires frequent postings, clarity of writing, conciseness, interaction with audience, etc.