Interview: The Landscape Architects Network

http://landarchs.com/x-section-interview/

Here is one of the interesting images that was submitted for this years x-section journal and it looks awesome. Things here are x-section is picking up after the recent load of submissions that just came in. Looking forward to laying out the work and getting the finished copy out to everyone.

xsection profile

Philosophy:
We are driven by the prospects of what design has to offer in the way of forming solutions to problems that face the world today. We are excited about the role that landscape architects can and do have in the constantly changing world and as students want to be involved in this paradigm shift.

Our aim:

Our aim is to enlighten people about the reality of landscape architecture and to expose

it in a new light. By encouraging rigorous discussion between students + professionals + academics about landscape architectural issues, we hope to provide a new voice for the profession. Xsection journal is an outlet for the integration and progression of all areas of landscape architecture.

2012_call for submissions

x-section 2012 is happening!

To kick it off, here's the brief for this years publication.

Have a good read and start thinking about what you would like to submit!

x-section is seeking submissions for the 2012 edition, which promote rigorous discussion about landscape architectural issues from both an academic and professional viewpoint. 

This year Unitec Institute of Technology landscape architecture students were actively involved in the international event – The Understory - (Landscape Architecture Awareness Day). In keeping with this years Understory theme, the editorial team is prompted to ask the question:

‘What is Landscape Architecture’? 

The team welcomes contemporary definitions + specific niches + new directions + revelations in the form of:

experimental and innovative design projects

written research 

photographic works

collages

digital animations or film.

This year x-section offers a peer reviewed section to the publication. Articles for this section are welcome from landscape practitioners + academics + students. These submissions should aim to discuss relationships between practice and academia in keeping with the publication theme.

Your submission should be emailed to the x-section editorial team at:

x.section.magazine@gmail.com

Article based submissions should range in length from 500max (non-reviewed) to 1500 (reviewed) words. All submissions must be fully referenced. All authors and designers must have rights for all images submitted for publication. Visual based submissions should include accompanying text no longer than 500 words. All submissions should be fully referenced. All accompanying imagery should be referred to as ‘Fig. 01, Fig. 02′ etc. Images must be CMYK 300 dpi, no smaller than A5.Please include a short bio with your submission.

All submissions must be received by 10 September 2012. 

We are looking forward to seeing some of your work,

The x-section team

posting post

self promotional self promotion.

http://unitecbla.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/featured/

Ken Smith Conversation

full ken smith interview transcript is up... here

NZILA Xmas Party / Official xsection Launch Party

Big thanks to the Auckland Branch of the NZILA for letting us taking over their Christmas celebrations....

Grad show, xsection pre-release

ISSUU'd

For all those that can't make tonights launch party, you don't have to miss out.

Have a browse through our issuu version - packed full of links to contributor references + mentions.

We highly recommend the TED talk mentioned in the Daniel Irving article 'nothing revolutionary       (...yet)'

and its here....

excitement!
1500 copies of the inaugural xsection magazine were delivered to our office today....

come and see us at grad show for your copy

At the printers.....

Thanks to GEON for the tour of their massive facility out in Highbrook.

Heather doing the final 'press pass'

Proofs of the cover fold

Stacked up and ready for gloss and emboss finishing.....

wannacopy?

GOOD NEWS....

the inaugural edition of xsection magazine will be exclusively available from 5.30pm on the 1st of December at Unitec's annual gradshow

come down and meet the xsection editorial team, have a browse through the magazine.... and take one home.... FOR FREE!
we will be stationed in the library foyer straight through from the main entrance to building1.

in the meantime: here are some excerpts from a few of the outstanding contributors to issue one

"we move very quickly to computers, we don’t draw very much anymore but then we do a lot of visualisation..." Ken Smith



"the ability to communicate is core to ensuring an ongoing ability to influence positive change within our environment..."         Renee Davies


"the representational techniques we utilise yield new insights into the potential of a place..."   Sam Bourne


"...if anyone thinks that this can be done with pen and paper... give it a try" Nikolay Popov

"...it should not be assumed that the future of digital technology will be mostly recognisable" Gary Marshall + Claire O'Shaughnessy

ISSUE 1 - A Sneak Peak

Image by 2011 BLA graduate Meg Kane

Here it is... A sneak peak at the cover for Issue 1. We go to print this Tuesday, and can relax for a few days before the grand double launch. Once at Unitec Grad Show, then we put it straight into the hands of the professionals at the NZILA Christmas Party. Bring on the celebrations!

on submissions 2

excitement!
all our staff submissions are in, 1 or 2 other experts articles due very soon.
Issue One is building into something unexpected!
hope to have some sneak preview stuff for blog followers in the coming month....

stay tuned

Slowness

Slowness:

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.



Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)