Casa 63.02° situata in Nakana, Tokyo, proiectata de biroul de arhitectura Schemata, a fost finalizata in decembrie 2007. Terenul pe care e construita casa are o suprafata de 48,82 mp. Cladirea are o amprenta la sol de 24.58mp, si o suprafata construita de 71.4mp.

Fatada principala este inclinata la un unghi de 63.02° fata de limita laterala a parcelei. Unghiul obtinut concede orientarea intregii fatade spre strada; fatada functioneaza asemeni unei conexari, asemeni unei "nexuri" intre mediul urban si cel privat.

]]> http://alethakuschan.wordpress.com/?p=369 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:53:11 +0000 alethakuschan http://alethakuschan.cs.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/pool/

Minimal lines to form trees, spirals to be ripples, a grid that is the tiled pool sides, and a few trees' silhouettes formed by spare lines.  Pale blue of water and the sky's reflection.  Pale green of new grass. The white of the paper as the light of day.

Trees that stand straight like sentinels.  A curve that leans inward.  The basin at one's feet, and its depths below. 

[Top of the post:  Drawing of a pool, by Aletha Kuschan, colored pencils]

Color Tool "The Man in Blue"

Farbwähler, Schemata und schlaue Listen sind bereits reichlich verfügbar im Web. Der Mann in Blau fabriziert es noch etwas anregender und liefert ein nützliches Demonstrations-Layout dazu. Passende Farbkollektionen können über Schieberegler ausgewählt werden.

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/

Jean Piaget (1950) menyatakan bahwa setiap anak memiliki cara tersendiri dalam menginterpretasikan dan beradaptasi dengan lingkungannya (teori perkembangan kognitif). Menurutnya, setiap anak memiliki struktur kognitif yang disebut schemata yaitu sistem konsep yang ada dalam pikiran sebagai hasil pemahaman terhadap objek yang ada dalam lingkungannya. Pemahaman tentang objek tersebut berlangsung melalui proses asimilasi (menghubungkan objek dengan konsep yang sudah ada dalam pikiran) dan proses akomodasi (proses memanfaatkan konsep-konsep dalam pikiran untuk menafsirkan objek). Kedua proses tersebut jika berlangsung terus menerus akan membuat pengetahuan lama dan pengetahuan baru menjadi seimbang. Dengan cara seperti itu secara bertahap anak dapat membangun pengetahuan melalui interaksi dengan lingkungannya. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, maka perilaku belajar anak sangat dipengaruhi oleh aspek-aspek dari dalam dirinya dan lingkungannya. Kedua hal tersebut tidak mungkin dipisahkan karena memang proses belajar terjadi dalam konteks interaksi diri anak dengan lingkungannya. 

Anak usia sekolah dasar berada pada tahapan operasi konkret. Pada rentang usia sekolah dasar tersebut anak mulai menunjukkan perilaku belajar sebagai berikut: (1) Mulai memandang dunia secara objektif, bergeser dari satu aspek situasi ke aspek lain secara reflektif dan memandang unsur-unsur secara serentak, (2) Mulai berpikir secara operasional, (3) Mempergunakan cara berpikir operasional untuk mengklasifikasikan benda-benda, (4) Membentuk dan mempergunakan keterhubungan aturan-aturan, prinsip ilmiah sederhana, dan mempergunakan hubungan sebab akibat, dan (5) Memahami konsep substansi, volume zat cair, panjang, lebar, luas, dan berat.

Memperhatikan tahapan perkembangan berpikir tersebut, kecenderungan belajar anak usia sekolah dasar memiliki tiga ciri, yaitu:

(1)   Konkrit. Konkrit mengandung makna proses belajar beranjak dari hal-hal yang konkrit yakni yang dapat dilihat, didengar, dibaui, diraba, dan diotak atik, dengan titik penekanan pada pemanfaatan lingkungan sebagai sumber belajar.  Pemanfaatan lingkungan akan menghasilkan proses dan hasil belajar yang lebih bermakna dan bernilai, sebab siswa dihadapkan dengan peristiwa dan keadaan yang sebenarnya, keadaan yang alami, sehingga lebih nyata, lebih faktual, lebih bermakna, dan kebenarannya lebih dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. (2)             Integratif; Pada tahap usia sekolah dasar anak memandang sesuatu yang dipelajari sebagai suatu keutuhan, mereka belum mampu memilah-milah konsep dari berbagai disiplin ilmu, hal ini melukiskan cara berpikir anak yang deduktif yakni dari hal umum ke bagian demi bagian. (3)                Hierarkis; Pada tahapan usia sekolah dasar, cara anak belajar berkembang secara bertahap mulai dari hal-hal yang sederhana ke hal-hal yang lebih kompleks. Sehubungan dengan hal tersebut, maka perlu diperhatikan mengenai urutan logis, keterkaitan antar materi, dan cakupan keluasan serta kedalaman materi .

Kata kunci: Jean Piaget, teori perkembangan kognitif, struktur kognitif, schemata, usia sekolah dasar, tahapan operasi konkret

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The story traces Fanboy's attempt to escape his hellish high school existence and become a published graphic novelist. His graphic novel, entitled Schemata, tells the story of a teacher named Courtney who has the ability to manifest the fears of her students. Wikipedia defines schemata as "an elaborate network of abstract mental structures which represent one's understanding of the world." It's apropriate, because although Fanboy doesn't achieve his dreams before the end of the novel, his understanding of the world does evolve.

Overall, a great book for former geeks, goths, wimps and losers. I listened to it on audiobook, and I liked Scott Brick as the voice of Fanboy (though some reviewers on Amazon thought he sounded too old for the role).

DweebMeter: 4/5

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You are considerably more interested in how we actually use language, though. And the routines we follow and the skills we employ when doing so. Pragmatics. Discourse analysis. Psycho and sociolinguistics and all that jazz.

And reading.

Isn't it interesting to discover that we do not read word by word and certainly not letter by letter? Instead we chunk words together in groups of about four or five and hop our eyes along the page from chunk to chunk. In fact, if we were to watch someone read, their eyes wouldn't be moving smoothly across the page, but going along in a series of little jerks. The chunks aren't random either, but grouped for sense. We'd be more likely to group together 'there are four chairs' followed by 'in the kitchen' than 'There are' followed by 'four chairs in the' followed by 'kitchen', for example.

There's also the issue of schemata. This is all the background knowledge about a subject that you have that helps you process new information, written or spoken.

Imagine coming downstairs and seeing a letter on the front door mat. Looking at it, it's generally clear from the style of the envelope whether it's a bill type letter or a personal one. Imagine it's a personal one, although goodness only knows who writes real letters these days. Picking it up and looking at the address - assuming it's handwritten - might give away who it's from. We tend to recognise the handwriting of our nearest and dearest, after all. If that doesn't work, the Preston postmark might help. Only 90 year old Auntie Doris lives in Preston and she hasn't been told about email yet in case it over stimulates her. Which explains the anachronistically handwritten letter.

However, let's just imagine for a minute that it isn't from Auntie Doris, but old friend Tom. Look his computer is clearly being particularly bloody minded at the moment. OK? Hence the letter. No, his mobile doesn't work either. Or the land-line. Oh shut up.

Next time, remember to choose email for this illustration.

Anyway. It's Tom, and we tend to know what's going on in the lives of our friends - to the extent that we have a reasonable idea of which country they are in, whether they are still married, that they have a particular fondness for flinging themselves off bridges tied to a bit of knicker elastic and such. We also know the sorts of things which we gossip about with them. And so, by the time we open that letter, we are going to gave a very good idea of what it contains, which will help us charge through it, hoovering up the information it contains very efficiently. Although we may pause and reread a bit more closely if he reveals he's just seen the light and is moving to a small commune on the outskirts of Las Vegas to await the second coming of The King.

Anyway, the reason you mention this is because you've just had a rather dislocating experience, somewhat akin to finding out Tom's hitherto unsuspected obsession with Elvis, or that the letter you thought was from Tom reveals itself, after a few confusing paragraphs, to be from Auntie Doris after all.

There you are happily whomping though a new detective story and all of a sudden you start noticing that there are a lot of references to Spain and all thing Spanish. This could be because this particular section of the book is set in Spain, of course, but you'd rather assumed that this was just a sort of shorthand for underlining that the subject of the story is High Art and therefore demands the sophistication of a continental location. And the fact that we had already been dragged around Vienna and Holland by the author did nothing to dispel this notion.

So why the obsession with Spanish motifs? It nagged. And so when you came across a particularly incomprehensible skit involving an Argentinian character's pronunciation of 'w', you were actually forced out of the book and onto the blurb in search of enlightenment.

And it turns out that the book is in fact written by a Spanish author. And has been translated from the Spanish. Which explained everything.

It was extremely disconcerting to discover that all the dialogue of the last few chapters had been conducted in Spanish, though.

It's a good book, by the way. The Art of Murder by Jose Carlos Somoza.

Calling it a murder mystery is a bit misleading, actually. You'd say it was an alternative universe construct, but again, you are sure the author isn't much of a sci fi geek.

Nevertheless, everything in this universe is the same except for the word of Art, which is now all about using people as canvases, specially trained to be quiescent and hopped up on mind and body altering drugs. The killing of various of these canvases, who have all been painted by the same artist, is not seen by the Art world as murder, but as the destruction of masterpieces.

What you like about the book is the in depth exploration of the ins and outs of this artistic trend and the way that this is woven into the story neatly rather than, as so often happens, being dumped in unwieldy chunks awkwardly all over the plot.

And this world turns out to be absolutely fascinating and very well thought through by the author. 

Of course, it also doesn't hurt that the whole thing is one big satire on the absurdities of Modern Art, with the author clearly giving a lot of effort to topping the outrageousness of any pieces the real Art world can produce. You vigorously approve of this sort of thing.

Although the expose would be more convincing if you weren't finding the descriptions of the art works he's created so utterly compelling.