As you move ahead in your thematic research for Friday and Monday, I ask that you consider the various unspoken
rules and
steering regimes that give the landscape form. These rules may or may not conform the actual regulations that are written down somewhere, but every landscape has its deep set of unspoken rules that guide its development. In thinking about this, be loose. Don't try to come up with absolute rules that apply absolutely everywhere. After all, as the fatigued saying goes, rules were meant to be broken. So what are the unwritten rules that underlay some aspects of your research? Be playful and be persuasive. This is about building an argument, not about finding universal truths. For a quick conversation on Friday after our site visit, please come with a minimum of one rule, typed out in 24pt font, with a single, line diagram that explains the underlying idea. Use notation, lineweight, etc. to build your argument. Remember, as a start this is about rhetoric, about story telling, not accuracy to some notion of truth.
For Monday, in addition to continuing your thematic research on 11x17 pages, I would like you all to work together to produce a single, 6+ foot long drawing of the American Bottom incorporating pieces from each group's research. My only request is that all information be in vector form--no raster files or aerial imagery.
