tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30296818431520343922024-03-13T05:03:13.372-04:00ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space.the big. the bad. the MEGA. architecture as a global condition.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-71259381886692504402007-01-19T02:50:00.000-05:002007-01-19T02:52:06.958-05:00Website AttemptSo perhaps this is a step in the direction you had in mind?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglm6hyphenhyphenusxlNDOpTKyjTstVVvWUMBjDIGaCKmyY2QkpwCxaZ-g_Lr3LR_1ZDsUI5tShTkUTDIP2MQRIWhqIthuRf34RwPLzgtl4o2HCCZRtB-HdhAMLeVqbCIMjb4M6moMYoUwT8faULe-m/s1600-h/Website3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglm6hyphenhyphenusxlNDOpTKyjTstVVvWUMBjDIGaCKmyY2QkpwCxaZ-g_Lr3LR_1ZDsUI5tShTkUTDIP2MQRIWhqIthuRf34RwPLzgtl4o2HCCZRtB-HdhAMLeVqbCIMjb4M6moMYoUwT8faULe-m/s400/Website3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021646088210120178" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-41274162601702823562007-01-15T16:13:00.000-05:002007-01-17T12:00:59.558-05:00the logo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6J-XMax3XNeMegUWGvEbhj2avqV0tYDAZ07ASUaSIqqvEDPB1ebuY1RCg2l0etVc3eIsyiiLOK5JUIkoh6hVuQkptY50sdTf2wGUlitssKBz-ZrcDdGd0aFIuX3E0GuUexXqRKz6hrOLO/s1600-h/NOLA+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6J-XMax3XNeMegUWGvEbhj2avqV0tYDAZ07ASUaSIqqvEDPB1ebuY1RCg2l0etVc3eIsyiiLOK5JUIkoh6hVuQkptY50sdTf2wGUlitssKBz-ZrcDdGd0aFIuX3E0GuUexXqRKz6hrOLO/s320/NOLA+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020369284627332514" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-77950280912655473942006-12-07T12:57:00.000-05:002006-12-08T15:28:35.970-05:00PANDEMIC/antiPANDEMIC<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">link for presentation: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4886739910727780572&q=white+blood+cell&hl=en">video</a> of AIDS attacking a human white blood cell.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />PANDEMIC</span></span><br /><br />The vastness universe is built upon microscopic particles. Life on Earth is little more than a series of perfect combinations of these particles, and death on Earth is a result of the destruction or incapacitation of the most vital of these particles.<br /><br />Often, death may come from the inside out and grow from microscopic to <span style="font-weight: bold;">MEGA</span>. I'm concentrating on this idea: the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MEGA</span> effect of something that is entirely microscopic. This is a storm that arises from inside of people, from a cellular level, and overtakes their bodies and eventually claims their lives, and on the cellular level it spreads throughout the population, claiming lives in masses.<br /><br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Plan-BlackInfection.flv"></embed><br /><br />This is the AIDS PANDEMIC. This project focuses on the battle against a <span style="font-weight: bold;">MEGA</span> condition that is currently inhabiting an estimated 35 million lives. (To see a more detailed post showing mappings regarding the AIDS-infected population and the availability and prevalence of treatments, <a href="http://megamelissa.blogspot.com/2006/11/pandemic-aids-effect.html">click here</a>).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">[[any images may be clicked for a larger view]]</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYN6sUQH1F6h97uXosrSMyyF1uV2Jthyphenhyphen4q-0buGwKVwSLUQK6PHiib-sDd_uUDddHUpHGPvGKDpIHlBCJxjfHxZrRkdAYiekBNAY-U9m8BjguxePTVoY-U6a3JTlzOCkJ60RS7lDmoQjAy/s1600-h/Prevalence+and+Treatment+Mappings.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYN6sUQH1F6h97uXosrSMyyF1uV2Jthyphenhyphen4q-0buGwKVwSLUQK6PHiib-sDd_uUDddHUpHGPvGKDpIHlBCJxjfHxZrRkdAYiekBNAY-U9m8BjguxePTVoY-U6a3JTlzOCkJ60RS7lDmoQjAy/s400/Prevalence+and+Treatment+Mappings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005873689683049650" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The mapping on the left shows a decrease in the population when AIDS cases<br />are subtracted out (those uninfected are portrayed by the white mesh).<br />The map on the right shows (in blue) the areas where more than 10%<br />of the population is able to receive the treatment medications.<br />The network in the map on the right is the corporate, production and sales<br />network of <a href="http://www.gsk.com/worldwide.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Glax0SmithKline</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">, the company that makes the drugs to treat AIDS.<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /></span></span>When these areas of treatment are pushed together along with their GSK manufacturing plants, you can see from this <span style="font-weight: bold;">MEGA</span>continent that many of the manufacturing plants are located outside of areas that receive the bulk of the treatment. This means that while Jamaica, for instance, might have a plant to produce these drugs, they are being sold to other countries.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytl628jjw7yymEkMyhQHPJ0_FtGea6D_iYvB4Jsf_AFNhGQnUVroKgH6STvw2EjNcqPh48KiVqnSFR1BMDtcqDw381q5mOIzcg7LTXGI1Bp4g0q1hwWX2xU1sYYgRZqTXoqVDomTItxSU/s1600-h/Treatment+and+MegaContinent.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytl628jjw7yymEkMyhQHPJ0_FtGea6D_iYvB4Jsf_AFNhGQnUVroKgH6STvw2EjNcqPh48KiVqnSFR1BMDtcqDw381q5mOIzcg7LTXGI1Bp4g0q1hwWX2xU1sYYgRZqTXoqVDomTItxSU/s400/Treatment+and+MegaContinent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005875265936047314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">antiPANDEMIC</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">If </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >architecture</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> was the cure for AIDS, what would it be?</span></span><br /><br />What is AIDS, formally and conceptually? <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4886739910727780572&q=white+blood+cell&hl=en">This video</a> shows the AIDS virus infecting a lymphocyte (human white blood cell). The virus enters the cell, causes it to empty its contents, and then uses it as a host to do the same to other lymphocytes, and so on. These still images of the video should give an understanding of what is happening.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iIj1znT1rXyQ1ocWSjwfl4RebUciACrV0Z3q_GB_oCMtCGHcT4i26iPOyz41wW7Ev4qaQ5tj-yxe95ddLkmzjs5mJ3GErwkBhDlGposBDMqntlf8Mn7EjrXyMR9sgn7HZvHxJ11noTiY/s1600-h/Video+Still+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iIj1znT1rXyQ1ocWSjwfl4RebUciACrV0Z3q_GB_oCMtCGHcT4i26iPOyz41wW7Ev4qaQ5tj-yxe95ddLkmzjs5mJ3GErwkBhDlGposBDMqntlf8Mn7EjrXyMR9sgn7HZvHxJ11noTiY/s400/Video+Still+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005870747630451842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-VWoyxkIU_xk5PuXy2-E_dnY9pWi_5p0BJMc2wVJn4_RCv2or-hMD3Tf7UZ5v5M5ZbM80xPP-g0Mq3KTSJuy27QJokeEgn01dX9Kfp7enRZhpoP2OcZLXLtsq4DFwcvE91lB-THvaYm6U/s1600-h/Video+Still+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-VWoyxkIU_xk5PuXy2-E_dnY9pWi_5p0BJMc2wVJn4_RCv2or-hMD3Tf7UZ5v5M5ZbM80xPP-g0Mq3KTSJuy27QJokeEgn01dX9Kfp7enRZhpoP2OcZLXLtsq4DFwcvE91lB-THvaYm6U/s400/Video+Still+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005870747630451858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2tRZ3CCeXnl8SSQU7CR86yno_zgdyPPA5yAxsJvsLfRa6jNN1DRI31psX6kp1qm-R6QUVuFF4sW1mxoWwe0cbzNqY6o6e9gFiNAOHO-0r51ynEon47DygMLve9L0VWSzNbaLkX1tcMObq/s1600-h/Video+Still+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2tRZ3CCeXnl8SSQU7CR86yno_zgdyPPA5yAxsJvsLfRa6jNN1DRI31psX6kp1qm-R6QUVuFF4sW1mxoWwe0cbzNqY6o6e9gFiNAOHO-0r51ynEon47DygMLve9L0VWSzNbaLkX1tcMObq/s400/Video+Still+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005870751925419170" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The drugs produced by GSK (primarily lamiduvine and zadovudine) help to weaken the host cell and slow the spread of AIDS.<br /><br />Attack/counterAttack.<br /><br />When AIDS spreads slowly, it prolongs the life of the AIDS patient, increasing chances that the patient will be alive when the cure might be discovered. The smallest chemical bonds in a pill has the power to prolong the lives of 35 million people; the problem is that they can't all get it.<br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Melly/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />While the problem is very heavily political and economic, if there were an efficient and effective way to spread prevention methods and knowledge, care and comfort, and the medications themselves, political and economic support from governments and organizations could be more likely.<br /><br />I could not help but think of Archigram's Plug-In City; towers of units that are transported between each other on a mega network. These are some conceptual collages of Archigram's work combined with my mappings.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqrOk5VEnz_AU-lgREBjDsMNPQvPiHAzbg0geuVOJt252F7XPGRwpKk-Pcni1AgoNgOA4_SNKhFCGq-oCG-B1lHNGb5ED7_VczZUXpLW4fCPH11b0pVV7U6YpXWI9YCsXGgXWLuSSyaJ7/s1600-h/MegaContinent+Elevation.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqrOk5VEnz_AU-lgREBjDsMNPQvPiHAzbg0geuVOJt252F7XPGRwpKk-Pcni1AgoNgOA4_SNKhFCGq-oCG-B1lHNGb5ED7_VczZUXpLW4fCPH11b0pVV7U6YpXWI9YCsXGgXWLuSSyaJ7/s400/MegaContinent+Elevation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005934708283424034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkDFbTxE06WNpsk9z3-kH7NBLekkY7hctRfpta5RbM8J65qGhnK1YTxXkNs8HJjr1dB2BZIgEnJVZ7IKbzNGzR7BhU1Z61zivgjCe9TD5TxlPxL8RN7ufJOnvsoySR5uoxAknHqbdcbzJG/s1600-h/Plan+South+Africa.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkDFbTxE06WNpsk9z3-kH7NBLekkY7hctRfpta5RbM8J65qGhnK1YTxXkNs8HJjr1dB2BZIgEnJVZ7IKbzNGzR7BhU1Z61zivgjCe9TD5TxlPxL8RN7ufJOnvsoySR5uoxAknHqbdcbzJG/s400/Plan+South+Africa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005934716873358642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What if architecture was an infection?<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">What if healthcare was flexible? What if it were made up of parts - cells - that could go virtually anywhere, and contain what is needed to combat AIDS? These cells could "plug" into certain locations, serve their purposes, and then be taken away to be refilled, repaired, or deconstructed. What if architecture took on the form of the AIDS virus for the purposes of fighting the AIDS virus, infecting the cities with <span style="font-weight: bold;">health</span> from the inside out and then passing it onto other cities?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">a first attempt<span style="font-style: italic;"> at a city scale<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IAyoc8AQIb15N0Sns3hq6gtX7w3g2EKvU0gzUJvjfczKcYevkkT_BTBwetlyIgWrJNoLDQRkmTs520CuZTV9we5ztXqDfKTERa6WJntA7mE0ID0Uo8YUXPNPte2HNrBHYMY5MCxbcWuc/s1600-h/Charrette+1+Elevation.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IAyoc8AQIb15N0Sns3hq6gtX7w3g2EKvU0gzUJvjfczKcYevkkT_BTBwetlyIgWrJNoLDQRkmTs520CuZTV9we5ztXqDfKTERa6WJntA7mE0ID0Uo8YUXPNPte2HNrBHYMY5MCxbcWuc/s400/Charrette+1+Elevation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005939110624902482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SFEczt1rT4-8gaqE5aEBDNPY1PIFRj5drL_nb6gEulhBoBmdJHcBnRT2pp7PZYznz6ZhuDV3B8RvRbnY6MZEe_9B5LB4PWdm3YgKW6b6zMkuU6HOv_TYABOiZANA6IjIAnNREp64pGmC/s1600-h/cape+town.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SFEczt1rT4-8gaqE5aEBDNPY1PIFRj5drL_nb6gEulhBoBmdJHcBnRT2pp7PZYznz6ZhuDV3B8RvRbnY6MZEe_9B5LB4PWdm3YgKW6b6zMkuU6HOv_TYABOiZANA6IjIAnNREp64pGmC/s400/cape+town.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005939110624902466" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YfMx4DHUDRTeGiACbvgjp1e26qiJKYKmk8GXmZkFImUm6AQ8-TKk1cv5Zyckr-PqEqESjztwy6cDkdjnGBiERb0pjY9ac-nEhjjaCIRrjdTj4v7xkIkr8KJyChYA1V0T_TzmXEEY17rs/s1600-h/Manufacturing+Plant+2+axon.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YfMx4DHUDRTeGiACbvgjp1e26qiJKYKmk8GXmZkFImUm6AQ8-TKk1cv5Zyckr-PqEqESjztwy6cDkdjnGBiERb0pjY9ac-nEhjjaCIRrjdTj4v7xkIkr8KJyChYA1V0T_TzmXEEY17rs/s400/Manufacturing+Plant+2+axon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005939681855552866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuyxG2Y_058mzMJJv1HFkJ7BJZYmNu5sugNOllMnNDmEI5cw_My-AZp56f4ExzHlL2Wn5VP7JQe8O-drjG8Rin4mj9FE7xmIg-Xld0opRUxx3Zn-KHHuTropd7cL-DbcIUjfxvysTCnlO7/s1600-h/Manufacturing+Plant+2+perspective+ground+level.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuyxG2Y_058mzMJJv1HFkJ7BJZYmNu5sugNOllMnNDmEI5cw_My-AZp56f4ExzHlL2Wn5VP7JQe8O-drjG8Rin4mj9FE7xmIg-Xld0opRUxx3Zn-KHHuTropd7cL-DbcIUjfxvysTCnlO7/s400/Manufacturing+Plant+2+perspective+ground+level.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005939681855552882" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cyESIp9MTyrxmqkk5UHKa5VyegSUuksDlJQSxIvvUo3RCOx92f7aoOQqz2-fjpjME11CITWa3XNKEaXam2MIzUWB0TnRQQUBFwCxV-nevUZWhtHEnV2RCwnh7sOzLUNzSWr69z-uD5dp/s1600-h/I.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cyESIp9MTyrxmqkk5UHKa5VyegSUuksDlJQSxIvvUo3RCOx92f7aoOQqz2-fjpjME11CITWa3XNKEaXam2MIzUWB0TnRQQUBFwCxV-nevUZWhtHEnV2RCwnh7sOzLUNzSWr69z-uD5dp/s400/I.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006163458241609170" border="0" /></a><br /><br />These images depict the AIDS treatment cells being "plugged" into a city.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEGAhealth<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span>I propose a hierarchical network of the GlaxoSmithKline company's AIDS division. From the <span style="font-weight: bold;">headquarters </span>(located in London) comes knowledge, technology, and the patent on the drugs. All of these are intangible and immaterial. These things reach the manufacturing sites, <span style="font-weight: bold;">hubs</span>, where the immaterial network is materialized. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cells</span> are constructed here, as well as the drugs and equipment to go in them. Hospital rooms, information cells, AIDS pharmacies and AIDS testing supplies are all made and contained into the cells.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVHbjneWazq_HLGXzDVjU48Sls2XT_DbS41ksxr_T_YAY83TSeONS8Fa1oCnlFxH1rtxrz54UGY1tBOxdb2QUbZ5YJ8609sWYIFOas0wBBHEqWyo4qeFHARm49ejA4Xi9zYtHLaO8YBnRI/s1600-h/Concept+Collage.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVHbjneWazq_HLGXzDVjU48Sls2XT_DbS41ksxr_T_YAY83TSeONS8Fa1oCnlFxH1rtxrz54UGY1tBOxdb2QUbZ5YJ8609sWYIFOas0wBBHEqWyo4qeFHARm49ejA4Xi9zYtHLaO8YBnRI/s400/Concept+Collage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005958648431132034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />MEGAhealth can be applied in virtually any architectural, geographical, or sociopolitical situation. It is to be versatile and flexible and free. I chose these three sites for the following reasons:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnZ-wouEsCf9dn8yREr4Q3_gWrMPOc9Up5VniICCLhi8lLGeJRv1WKEDYdeNbj86DRWPG7XK_nnXDl5HWyYDkSvHtj2Vzc0FhionOcu91-njvTuyeTJM78qll76x0QT93sR44Co4JRsPn/s1600-h/South+Africa+%2B+Namibia.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnZ-wouEsCf9dn8yREr4Q3_gWrMPOc9Up5VniICCLhi8lLGeJRv1WKEDYdeNbj86DRWPG7XK_nnXDl5HWyYDkSvHtj2Vzc0FhionOcu91-njvTuyeTJM78qll76x0QT93sR44Co4JRsPn/s400/South+Africa+%2B+Namibia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005959150942305682" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Cape Town, South Africa</span></span></span> is already a site for a GSK manufacturing plant, but I believe it is a good hub because it has the best resources in the southern region of Africa. The transportation and healthcare infrastructures are well in tact. There is a large amount of class separation, as in most cities in Africa, but MEGAhealth is made to go anywhere, for anyone. Cape Town will serve as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">hub</span> for these purposes.<br /><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mesaru, Lesotho</span> is the capital of Lesotho. It is small and the poverty level is high, not to mention a very high demand for AIDS treatment. It is very accessible - with a main railroad, a river, and an international airport. The healthcare system is out of date and low on funding.<br /><br />3. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Omusati, Namibia</span> is an area in the wildest part of Namibia. There is a freight road that passes through it, crossing the entire country's width and connecting Omusati to a port. AIDS is prevalent in this area, and there is one missionary-run hospital with very out-dated technology.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>The form I came up for the manufacturing plant with is made to <span style="font-weight: bold;">mimic a cell in its lysing state</span>. The contents are maintained within walls, and the contents spill out to go infect the rest of the city and the other cities.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr28d0KT7gQpNo8b23W9RUL2ek1XJDqQfXKC8uCSs945pnAiiF4PreB1OA5c7RSqk6kvAfnz6ulwniekfP7zCxiJJIjHq9POlmLan2-W0zKJvAfis2LTv3Dv0i1qkrSirqgNhpqFlFRyOF/s1600-h/Video+Still+1+-+Plant+Overlay.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr28d0KT7gQpNo8b23W9RUL2ek1XJDqQfXKC8uCSs945pnAiiF4PreB1OA5c7RSqk6kvAfnz6ulwniekfP7zCxiJJIjHq9POlmLan2-W0zKJvAfis2LTv3Dv0i1qkrSirqgNhpqFlFRyOF/s400/Video+Still+1+-+Plant+Overlay.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006064575209553330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMq4uMctxXT30tbsx8E2E3kjtbfubPwMrrjIUkm7KJZMFSXELlDW4Uvg2KDzshZIR14N-Clw7kyYFwHu8B1zrEDtZleWEEb5gbRd0XolvRHy0UVC4rL88pSpEqCZf1dtlE9JW2B4PKuIbX/s1600-h/Video+Still+3+-+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMq4uMctxXT30tbsx8E2E3kjtbfubPwMrrjIUkm7KJZMFSXELlDW4Uvg2KDzshZIR14N-Clw7kyYFwHu8B1zrEDtZleWEEb5gbRd0XolvRHy0UVC4rL88pSpEqCZf1dtlE9JW2B4PKuIbX/s400/Video+Still+3+-+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006064570914586018" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpIeEsV9vusd8US6fcxfGJJkv85eYP1aYy6lWFAgW-aHghMzG8O2U2aHBFCa8QSeIUX4JmsW8OULQJfJXktSZcaBHXLiWe8AKJb9mYzpmVeKoELGCPX5Q7S15z5X40ryrJ3qQSm3fHfct/s1600-h/Cape+Town+Aerial+Hub+Close+up.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpIeEsV9vusd8US6fcxfGJJkv85eYP1aYy6lWFAgW-aHghMzG8O2U2aHBFCa8QSeIUX4JmsW8OULQJfJXktSZcaBHXLiWe8AKJb9mYzpmVeKoELGCPX5Q7S15z5X40ryrJ3qQSm3fHfct/s400/Cape+Town+Aerial+Hub+Close+up.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006064575209553346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXNlWgEjQui7E0U5kHWsaO1Ve3PbZVNzq-iHgBrS9buNhph_y7NYfh1sr2FibvraH3aH615kWjqdAFWYcdmNYk3ISvJF1Zvg8GGWhtZ3yoDMZpgmDgrB4ljhsnJpQOVlimK8oWMwvRoKe/s1600-h/Elevation+Persp.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXNlWgEjQui7E0U5kHWsaO1Ve3PbZVNzq-iHgBrS9buNhph_y7NYfh1sr2FibvraH3aH615kWjqdAFWYcdmNYk3ISvJF1Zvg8GGWhtZ3yoDMZpgmDgrB4ljhsnJpQOVlimK8oWMwvRoKe/s400/Elevation+Persp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006199643341078034" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There are roads or railroads that come out from the plant. The idea is that these pods can infiltrate the modern transportation processes, and the transportation network is somewhat virtual in that sense.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1i0VcrMWydvY99HMeUIi3DYINvxOaeZgUUcZyxd7Jgkxmj1JpNAgbNIWRx4hyphenhyphenjKoXSnvnvFpsgakolX_wnaQDEk0y0_TCbMu_RlYPQYBOPDxaxZpm54Fzt6KH8BKODP43AhDILo_i6SxC/s1600-h/Plan+-+all+cities.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1i0VcrMWydvY99HMeUIi3DYINvxOaeZgUUcZyxd7Jgkxmj1JpNAgbNIWRx4hyphenhyphenjKoXSnvnvFpsgakolX_wnaQDEk0y0_TCbMu_RlYPQYBOPDxaxZpm54Fzt6KH8BKODP43AhDILo_i6SxC/s400/Plan+-+all+cities.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006199639046110722" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This virtual meganetwork - the bloodstream on which the treatment travels - is made up of the tiny components of modern transportation modes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HMjTmwjUHTBhQwrj_5hpjg6x33kaqykUkgNgna1_fMtYeCA_fGx5k5jM_ov9U5CGKQXJ8MvA4YpE0dOzBrJixtOIJmV-Q4k8sRcyDmadKH_sGEZppyw9lRHmT5VsfmFu0P4v3qQJF0MV/s1600-h/Big+Picture+Capetown+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HMjTmwjUHTBhQwrj_5hpjg6x33kaqykUkgNgna1_fMtYeCA_fGx5k5jM_ov9U5CGKQXJ8MvA4YpE0dOzBrJixtOIJmV-Q4k8sRcyDmadKH_sGEZppyw9lRHmT5VsfmFu0P4v3qQJF0MV/s400/Big+Picture+Capetown+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006198947556376050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />These units are shown here plugged into (first) a hospital in Cape Town, (second) a hospital in Mesaru, and (third) a framework built to contain them in a place (Omasuti) where there is no means to contain them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ-afbzuxf_naUtCO6HZRb7MiVmnUkLsGFEj9T3pHX1oOHnWi-DWy83DZcAnfebOxpGmQtU9w0ycqDclq_lhhG0E0xRWiDGXwEDe9tbtjnwJPPYODogQz5tLPoxCZlHWWU1HlEiWVCS11Q/s1600-h/South+Africa+Hospital.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ-afbzuxf_naUtCO6HZRb7MiVmnUkLsGFEj9T3pHX1oOHnWi-DWy83DZcAnfebOxpGmQtU9w0ycqDclq_lhhG0E0xRWiDGXwEDe9tbtjnwJPPYODogQz5tLPoxCZlHWWU1HlEiWVCS11Q/s400/South+Africa+Hospital.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006200734262771234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3c6i19KIcDv9-qzxmNoyaoLAWsILTd9mZhJrX9UXwUb9CGeP-252qXgx3JGsNdUO2xKI-NhI7GjBe_ctwnY9xBw0zY-FsqVu3MZfpEt7KpHZr4xPYZSoDsU6tnZQq3cqj5FOClaBAeQG/s1600-h/Hospital+Lesotho.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3c6i19KIcDv9-qzxmNoyaoLAWsILTd9mZhJrX9UXwUb9CGeP-252qXgx3JGsNdUO2xKI-NhI7GjBe_ctwnY9xBw0zY-FsqVu3MZfpEt7KpHZr4xPYZSoDsU6tnZQq3cqj5FOClaBAeQG/s400/Hospital+Lesotho.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006200734262771250" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1r6qIZqPmjnGPAW0ch6T47kfvX34bzbppeBRFAwjR4L7YWF06sNUHfL9KVFoFv6o0bJdoOW_cSjDhRaPAXcncqbcoFclWa4XuAjfxPwgwZnXdNm8GEX2En-qk9krKeXJVuQk0BY-N7zgb/s1600-h/Village+Vignette.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1r6qIZqPmjnGPAW0ch6T47kfvX34bzbppeBRFAwjR4L7YWF06sNUHfL9KVFoFv6o0bJdoOW_cSjDhRaPAXcncqbcoFclWa4XuAjfxPwgwZnXdNm8GEX2En-qk9krKeXJVuQk0BY-N7zgb/s400/Village+Vignette.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006204238956084802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />These images are the small parts of the whole: particles causing a MEGA effect. In the same way that AIDS conquers the body and spreads across the globe, the GSK network might conquer a city and spread as well - spreading preventional knowledge, treatment, and care and comfort to those who cannot currently benefit from these things.<br /><br />This is fighting the PANDEMIC with an antiPANDEMIC.<br /></div></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-9705363966453256502006-12-06T17:21:00.000-05:002006-12-06T17:25:58.278-05:00if we keep this up, the universe might implode<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhboP9tJayWbo85D7blryYk-d5wxSnTbusDKQ2r0pJUvY7tT8rslLZsBQmU0U0veRR1DQ7ntK5lCTGFVWkoZta3EzJD3U0Wm7OvMg2ah5wPY0t6M7Cm8rwfLLRrMZso_AO96Z706P6SH2Pb/s1600-h/screenshot.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhboP9tJayWbo85D7blryYk-d5wxSnTbusDKQ2r0pJUvY7tT8rslLZsBQmU0U0veRR1DQ7ntK5lCTGFVWkoZta3EzJD3U0Wm7OvMg2ah5wPY0t6M7Cm8rwfLLRrMZso_AO96Z706P6SH2Pb/s400/screenshot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005543350863412306" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Still attempting the CamFrog thing - I'm not sure if it's their website or my internet but it's not downloading.<br /><br />I like the title of the window (Vinnie's nickname on my Skype) and the headphones attached to the webcam/mic on Trevor's computer. We didn't realize that's why they couldn't hear us.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-73899994470530555472006-12-04T12:19:00.000-05:002006-12-04T15:09:47.131-05:00i can't WAIT for my nobel peace prizeI am trucking along slowly. I have spent a lot of the weekend getting together aerial maps, pinpointing locations of hospitals, and eventually (finally) trying to model the transportation networks.<br /><br />I feel a little stuck. I can probably attribute this to the fact that it's been a little frustrating because I have pretty much learned everything formZ will NOT let me do, and everything I have done has been tedious, repetitive, and has shown minimal finished product.<br /><br />Because I was stuck on design, I moved back to the network to get my mind reeling. I am thinking my end piece will be a large, artistic collage which can hopefully effectively show the conversion of the GSK network from <span style="font-weight: bold;">virtual</span> (knowledge and technology) to <span style="font-weight: bold;">physical</span> (the hubs and various pods). My other option is to show an animation to examine the conceptual movement of this network, and a collage to show it virtually vs. physically at a series of scales - that one can see how this network occupies the globe, and the tiny details (which I feel are quite important) on the human scale as to how the network occupies and alters the AIDS condition existing within the population.<br /><br />This system will thrive off of the ability to move, and so I have started by showing the transportation networks (regarding my sites) as they relate to the virtual network coming from London HQ.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdRiej5nsPQ3E0b8S_YgD5wYJyWR6xzCN47Z0JopgEFsxE0YodthLF2f8a1_66jNComwTLPS9mvx1mi7XvGLWucuvoYGw0YVr40vY2yvj7P10rdxWOorUlP7chEiF79JV7oYUz9dJEJjW/s1600-h/Big+Picture.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdRiej5nsPQ3E0b8S_YgD5wYJyWR6xzCN47Z0JopgEFsxE0YodthLF2f8a1_66jNComwTLPS9mvx1mi7XvGLWucuvoYGw0YVr40vY2yvj7P10rdxWOorUlP7chEiF79JV7oYUz9dJEJjW/s400/Big+Picture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004727344626106194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yECXBlhkrIOOwm8dAxh__Z5MaHvjdcSjCYBWhu9QDy2PCl6q6tA8YMeS8WT0YIwSmRC-dxZ7cINalDEHYTGd4OaV8GOKj2rro_vl6UPuaIXVRjwF49OrdBLRCipXpWJeoKNFw0PozEQG/s1600-h/Big+Picture+Capetown.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yECXBlhkrIOOwm8dAxh__Z5MaHvjdcSjCYBWhu9QDy2PCl6q6tA8YMeS8WT0YIwSmRC-dxZ7cINalDEHYTGd4OaV8GOKj2rro_vl6UPuaIXVRjwF49OrdBLRCipXpWJeoKNFw0PozEQG/s400/Big+Picture+Capetown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004726459862843170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5h-rxNAs7VKqLkZROwlJ6XVLad600ZYiPzS77vDrHfFo6WlN_EMUbpVJ6k7j3kyExpT_YTFqNOjKiStaJt7OiSrAxcNJ3OzVZGsJiPnI7svSnt_yNuHPTrIFVOF-K3SF1kKkoSy7k5fY/s1600-h/Big+Picture+%28Maseru%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5h-rxNAs7VKqLkZROwlJ6XVLad600ZYiPzS77vDrHfFo6WlN_EMUbpVJ6k7j3kyExpT_YTFqNOjKiStaJt7OiSrAxcNJ3OzVZGsJiPnI7svSnt_yNuHPTrIFVOF-K3SF1kKkoSy7k5fY/s400/Big+Picture+%28Maseru%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004726464157810498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraGzK_vIlGsWXcM2_S9ZoBmwba62Lamy1cxvnwhLqpVegEokShe98o70w4kXXA6hQ1n_baRltMHpocL6d6KWkdfAuuzDxG3ARMY8YrGVY7dZT150u8awjk4bMQqfMjjl9JkLZBMheq8NF/s1600-h/Big+Picture+%28Omusati%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraGzK_vIlGsWXcM2_S9ZoBmwba62Lamy1cxvnwhLqpVegEokShe98o70w4kXXA6hQ1n_baRltMHpocL6d6KWkdfAuuzDxG3ARMY8YrGVY7dZT150u8awjk4bMQqfMjjl9JkLZBMheq8NF/s400/Big+Picture+%28Omusati%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004726464157810482" border="0" /></a><br />Looking at that second image labelled "Cape Town" I have provided a vignette to show how my system will latch onto the current transportation network.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bhrlw6mQMpQwdm46dIHzoP1rudPrrgxZicM2PcVXh0VYt7TOWD5XBucz8mP151fbZo4AJeetoJtXaTXDPMcqCaPka2EMVFUnSdYtRkqAyu0qwSoKSaE1KnXj5bGlhKl6cNNlOq8MgR-Z/s1600-h/Big+Picture+Capetown+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bhrlw6mQMpQwdm46dIHzoP1rudPrrgxZicM2PcVXh0VYt7TOWD5XBucz8mP151fbZo4AJeetoJtXaTXDPMcqCaPka2EMVFUnSdYtRkqAyu0qwSoKSaE1KnXj5bGlhKl6cNNlOq8MgR-Z/s400/Big+Picture+Capetown+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5004766325749284722" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-75461494385483819172006-11-29T13:45:00.000-05:002006-11-29T14:34:46.614-05:00research maps finallyHere is the complete city-specific research on my sites, including the major transportation networks and healthcare facilities in each place. Now I am ready to model, woopee! I'm thinking, probably just for time's sake, I'm going to just concentrate on Cape Town and the network its GSK plant would distribute to - Mesaru and Omusati - to show the network IN ACTION.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/388386/Aerial%20Hyderabad%201.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/666998/Aerial%20Hyderabad%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/806995/Aerial%20Hyderabad%202.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/798504/Aerial%20Hyderabad%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/199501/Aerial%20Varanasi%201.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/617226/Aerial%20Varanasi%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/490661/Aerial%20Varanasi.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/310516/Aerial%20Varanasi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/889900/CapeTown%20Aerial.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/729156/CapeTown%20Aerial.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/719559/CapeTown%20Aerial%202.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/690471/CapeTown%20Aerial%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/394100/Maseru%20Aerial%201.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 225px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/750445/Maseru%20Aerial%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/163467/Maseru%20Aerial%202.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 224px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/450831/Maseru%20Aerial%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/874002/Omusati.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 243px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/84153/Omusati.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-77580844973687724412006-11-28T08:46:00.000-05:002006-11-29T13:11:59.744-05:00bizarrchitectureThis post is really a <span style="font-weight: bold;">display</span> of the research I've been doing to find sites, and a beginning to each site's analysis. My post for Wednesday will return to the design and architecturing of the condition based on the information here and the decisions I made in this post. I KNOW I need to show you a lot of the things I describe in this text, and I WILL, but this is sort of brainstorming, analysis of what I've figured out, and the game plan.<br /><br />I want to advance the idea of a healthcare system that infects civilization in the same way that AIDS has infected its populations.<br /><br />A challenge I am working to address is defining the hierarchy, both architecturally and programmatically. What are the functions of the network at a series of scales?<br /><br />The final and, I think, the most important challenge is picking a site or series of sites to focus on for the purposes of this project. The purpose would be to observe the system as it could exist in a variety of situations - its ability to adapt to the diverse socioeconomic, transportational, and need-based dilemmas that exist in the world is key in the proposal being successful.<br /><br /><br />_________________<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I. THE HIERARCHY</span><br /><br />Previously, I had posted <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/684952/Concept%20Diagram.jpg">this image</a> to describe the corporate hierarchy of GSK as a network. I'm going to stick to that general concept, except instead of "distribution cities" they will be "hubs," meaning that they will contain a manufacturing and distribution plant but it does not necessarily mean a city. I'll examine in further detail.<br /><br />What <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">HQ</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>in London contains is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">knowledge</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">process </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold;">and patents</span>), and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">technology</span> to produce lamiduvine and zidovudine. London distributes these things to the separate hubs in the chosen locations. This network is virtual; it purely exists within communicative means.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">hubs </span>contain these items which apply the virtual materials acquired from London, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">production of drugs</span>, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">production of the pods </span>and the equipment they involve. The hubs are the plants that not only produce the treatments themselves, but they produce their methods and means, the architecture that allows the drugs to serve their purpose. It is these hubs that convert the virtual materials into physical, functional materials. The hubs will also help knowledge to build, because they will also contain <span style="font-weight: bold;">research </span>which will gain knowledge that will travel both back to the HQ and will filter down to the pods.<br /><br />The wellness <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">pods</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>are containers that can be installed in a certain simple framework - a framework that can be expanded upon as needed and a framework that is minimally invasive. The programs of these pods include: 1. a portable <span style="font-weight: bold;">pharmacy</span> (supplying an area with the needed drugs to treat its AIDS victims, see this previously posted <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/573108/Village%20Vignette.jpg">image</a>). 2. A portable <span style="font-weight: bold;">doctor's office</span> (or testing lab) which will be a room that can be either set in a remote village in order to test the population for AIDS, or it can be transferred to and installed within hospitals to function as an AIDS wing or AIDS section of the hospital. 3. A portable <span style="font-weight: bold;">hospital room</span> for those extremely ill or dying or an AIDS-related infection, willing to pay extra to have the treatment and room in the comfort of their own homes (see <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/124442/I.jpg">this image</a> from the previous post). 4. A portable <span style="font-weight: bold;">information center</span> to educate the uneducated populations on what AIDS is, how it gets contracted, and providing birth control education and STI education.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br /><br />_________________<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">II. THE SITES<br /></span><span><br />I defined the criteria for selecting manufacturing sites to this: central locations of transportation networks in their regions, areas with ample population to support and contribute to the functioning of these hubs, and regions where there is a need for AIDS treatment.<br /><br />I've chosen the following sites to use as examples of a hub infecting a city.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hyderabad, India</span> is a logical site for a hub because it is located in a region where there is a high demand for AIDS medication, and it is a center for rail transportation in India, which is one of the main modes of transportation and shipment in India. There is also an airport in Hyderabad, which could provide an extra mode of access.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Hyderabad.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Hyderabad.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">major railways in India<br />in relation to Hyderabad<br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Capetown, South Africa</span><span> is a center for transportation in South Africa, and also has a port which opens up new routes of transportation and distribution for AIDS treatment. It is located in close proximity to poor areas, and the port access opens up the opportunity to ship the supplies up the coast to some of the other areas in dire need of treatment. In addition to rail and port, Capetown is one of the few cities in southern Africa with an airport.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Cape%20Town.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Cape%20Town.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">major highways and railways of South Africa<br />in relation to Cape Town<br /></span></div><span><br /></span>The beauty of the pod is that it can be transported and applied virtually anywhere. The following are some recipients of pods that I will use as diverse examples of how they can be applied and implemented.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Varanasi, <span style="font-weight: bold;">India</span></span> is one of the larger cities in India, but the crime and poverty rate are higher than the other developed cities of India. The AIDS pandemic has struck Varanasi and its surrounding towns and villages harder than the rest of India. Class separation is evident, and while health technology is up-to-date, it reaches only the fortunate few. The economy is based around ancient crafts with a few cutting-edge institutions such as Texas Instruments plants and international universities placed within its boundaries. It is connected to Hyderabad by rail.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Hyderabad%20%20%20Varanasi.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Hyderabad%20%20%20Varanasi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">the route the treatment would take<br />from Hyderabad to Varanasi<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maseru, Lesotho</span> is the capital of Lesotho. It is a small city of about 180,000, and is primarily comprised of low to middle class dwellings and a high unemployment rate. There is ample transportational access; it is located on the Caledon River (see map) which incidentally also runs through Capetown. There is a small international airport here, and two major highways run through it.<br /><b>Omusati</b><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Namibia</span> is a region of Namibia with ample access to the Namibian port city of Skeletkuste. Transportation is extremely underdeveloped here, except for a massive freight road stretching across this northern wilderness. The healthcare system in this region is adequate at best; basic healthcare can be found but hospitals are few and underfunded. Like Maseru, it can be served by Cape Town as a hub.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/896868/South%20Africa%20%2B%20Namibia.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/894559/South%20Africa%20%2B%20Namibia.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">the path treatment would take from Cape Town<br />to Maseru and Omusati<br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />_________________<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">III. OTHER AFFECTING NETWORKS</span><br /><br />The GSK network is going to exist as a supplement to already present conditions in each location. At every site containing the location of a hub, the transportation methods and networks would be mapped and the GSK network would latch on - using the existing transportation conditions as a means transport these pods.<br /><br />Hospitals that are already present - whether in cities, towns, or missionary hospitals in distant villages - will be mapped, and an AIDS wing will be made up of the aforementioned framework and placed alongside hospitals. In hub locations, the hub structures may exist as part of the hospital or an addition onto the hospital.Here I am zooming in a bit, and I've mapped the big transportation (mostly rails, that leave the city) and marked the significant hospitals.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Aerial%20Hyderabad%201.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Aerial%20Hyderabad%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br />Here I show the healthcare in Hyderabad as a network - making the hospital closest to the railroad leading to Varanasi the center of this mini-network. Perhaps this is how the GSK system can first invade the city at this point and attach onto the other hospitals via transportation, as an intra-city network.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Aerial%20Hyderabad%202.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Aerial%20Hyderabad%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br />I plan to do this level of analysis with all sites, whether they are hubs or not.<br />_________________<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">VI. FORMAL IDEAS<br /><br /></span>I found <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4886739910727780572&q=white+blood+cell&hl=en">this video</a> of the AIDS virus infecting a human lymphocyte (white blood cell). What is happening in this video, is that the clump of cells starting out at the bottom have already been infected by the AIDS virus and are attacking the lymphocyte in the middle, violating the cell wall and causing the lymphocyte's insides to come out, a process called lysing (it pays to have biologically smart friends).<br /><br />Architecturally, I would like the GSK network to act as a counter-infection on the population. In the same way that the virus enters a lymphocyte, takes control of it, and causes it to attack other lymphocytes, I want the architecture to infiltrate the population, take over, and spread. My idea for this is a collapsable, expandable, and multipliable structural system.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stay tuned for more!</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-63687167949348498472006-11-19T11:18:00.000-05:002006-11-26T13:54:15.548-05:00megaHEALTHWhat would it mean to a remote village to have the opportunity for drugs with healing powers they never knew existed, or the opportunity to have the treatment with the equipment they need, and an accurate diagnosis of AIDS.<br /><br />While this concept could be applied to a world of diseases, not just AIDS, for the purposes of this project I am focusing on AIDS because only GSK produces AIDS treatment drugs, and this concept is based through that company, which is headquartered in London, England.<br /><br />I'll start from the largest scale, and work my way down. The HQ of GSK will be an entire city of parts to drug manufacturing plants (located outside of London), to be detached and transported to the manufacturing plants and locations in the map below (from the previous post).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/491557/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/491557/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The rings around the plants represent their production capacities based on the demand for AIDS treatment in that region, not the geographic region they serve. Because of the ever-changing world populations, and the spread of AIDS (reaching and affecting new and different populations as time passes, see this <a href="http://megamelissa.blogspot.com/2006/10/2-dimensional-animation.html">animation </a>which maps the history of the virus's spread), these manufacturing plants' capacities will be easily altered by the detachability of and stackability of these resources that come from London.<br /><br />These plants will subtly infiltrate the cities in which they are located, as shown below (see <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/636566/Charrette%201%20Elevation.jpg">conceptual collage</a> from previous post). They are subdivided into "wellness pods" which are small pods containing necessities for treating AIDS that can be transported to other cities as well as the most remote of areas. The animation shows one of these pods travelling to a remote area outside of the manufacturing city.<br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/ManufacturingPlant2ANIMATEDHUTS.flv"></embed><br /><br />Here are a couple renderings of the system:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/880791/Manufacturing%20Plant%202%20axon.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/622788/Manufacturing%20Plant%202%20axon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/801054/Manufacturing%20Plant%202%20perspective%20ground%20level.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/860956/Manufacturing%20Plant%202%20perspective%20ground%20level.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For the purposes of this project, I will be zooming in and focusing on Cape Town, South Africa and its surrounding region. One reason I am focusing here is that it is a good example of a town that produces AIDS treatment but sells it elsewhere, so that its own citizens do not receive the treatment (notice that it is not part of the <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20plan%202.jpg">megaContinent</a>). Another reason is that the area that it is not serving has some of the highest prevalence of AIDS in the world, and therefore the highest demand for the drugs.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/405752/Both%20Cape%20Town%20Images%20Together.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/822352/Both%20Cape%20Town%20Images%20Together.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here are a couple collages that put the model in the context of Cape Town.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/795528/Cape%20Town2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/276735/Cape%20Town2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/980563/cape%20town.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/226950/cape%20town.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />These wellness pods will serve a few functions - one of which will be the transport of drugs, treatment and equipment, particularly to remote areas (shown below).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/573108/Village%20Vignette.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/635827/Village%20Vignette.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There is also the possibility of a new way of looking at hospiss care - GSK's wellness pods extending to those who can afford a more comfortable treatment system in their home.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/124442/I.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/580851/I.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-68829550108400784982006-11-17T18:20:00.000-05:002006-11-19T21:58:02.756-05:00megaHEALTH: the wellness explosionThis post is a preliminary look at my process to lead into Monday's post.<br /><br />The problem is this: the drugs needed to treat AIDS are produced by GSK all over the planet but are not reaching all the areas they need them. The idea is this: that the GSK megaHEALTH empire must self-divide and disperse itself to the distant areas of the planet where it is most lacked. So the question is this: how can these supplies be efficiently transported to these areas?<br /><br />In the most rural areas, part of the problem is that if the drugs reach these villages, by way of charity or another form of goodwill, the people don't know who is to get the drugs and how they are to take them. Not only is the spread of medication needed, assistance with drugs and equipment - such as testing equipment - is needed.<br /><br />I've chosen to pursue megaHEALTH at three different scales: the global scale, the regional scale, and the human scale, and the following images and explanations should show the direction I want to go.<br /><br />My investigation of the global scale involves unifying the GSK empire and reworking the network. Each country (and some groups of countries) has a branch of GSK that exists at its own entity and privately sells to whatever government and/or private healthcare system can afford the drugs. As you can tell from the following mapping from the previous assignment, the network is inefficient.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/415014/TOTAL%20plan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/545582/TOTAL%20plan.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">current GSK distribution network<br /></span></div><br />To help improve this problem, I wish to regionalize these 82 manufacturing plants, which are all located in or just outside of major cities. This is a clearer map very simply mapping the current locations of GSK.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/509924/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20Plants.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/881371/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20Plants.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">GSK's manufacturing plants<br /></span></div><br />The next map indicates what it would mean to regionalize the current plants. The rings indicate the particular plant's production capacity.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/642425/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28current%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/120814/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28current%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">regionalizing the current GSK plants</span></span><br /></div><br />As you can see from this previous map, regionalizing the plants as they are located does little good to many areas, even in the United States. Here is a map strategically relocating these plants based on population density and AIDS prevalence, and their production capacities are reestablished according to the prevalence of AIDS in the region.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/285475/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/616843/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">relocated GSK plants<br /><br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/491557/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/354171/Pharmaceutical%20Production%20-%20Regional%20%28adjusted%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">relocated GSK plants and reestablished production capacities</span></span><br /></div><br />Reworking the network was a simple redirection of paths; to become more detailed, we have to examine this on a regional scale. What is the relationship between the manufacturing plant and its own city, the manufacturing plant and its neighboring cities, and most importantly for this project, the plant and the surrounding "remote locations."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/636566/Charrette%201%20Elevation.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/619579/Charrette%201%20Elevation.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >conceptual collage of the "wellness pods" being distributed in a region</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>The first two scales are network and transit related. These are important to consider because it is a global company which addresses a global crisis, but it is also important to consider what exactly is being transported. Mechanically, what is the process by which the drugs will reach another city or a remote location? Once they are there, how will they be administered - how will the materials and the information be spread? AIDS is a human condition, and so it is quite crucial to address the human scale at an intense level of detail.<br /><br />My next post will include a detail of what the headquarters (England) will do as a city, a city which is the root of the manufacturing plants mapped all over the planet. This city will distribute these, which are composed of the pods, which will be distributed outward to the cities and villages. This is shown in the diagram below. The next post will include details of each of these levels.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/684952/Concept%20Diagram.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/954614/Concept%20Diagram.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-60885820817574262122006-11-10T16:19:00.000-05:002006-11-10T17:07:17.729-05:00megaHEALTHArchigram, in the Plug-In City (see <a href="http://cu-megablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/plug-in-city.html">this post</a> for some more analysis), proposes a series of units - rooms, energy, supplies, etc. - that are stored in silos and transported and "plugged" into other silos by way of trains, moving along tracks. I propose, now, that we view healthcare in this way - by making the transportation of these drugs from GSK manufacturing plants more efficient to the populations that need them, and the ability to transport hospital rooms to areas that can treat AIDS patients perhaps could help to break up the AIDS megaContinent and spread treatment into remote areas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Plan%20South%20Africa.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Plan%20South%20Africa.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20Elevation.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/MegaContinent%20Elevation.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Animation1.flv"></embed><br /><br />In this animation, these units are shown as floating to different areas of sub-Saharan Africa, but perhaps they are carried by cranes, or along paths.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-8141514688931777622006-11-08T16:29:00.001-05:002006-11-10T16:45:20.529-05:00pandemic: the AIDS effectOnce thought to be the new Black Plague, AIDS has exploded across the globe in less than half of a century, claiming the lives of millions. It is estimated that there are well over 33 million people infected as of 2004.<br /><br />In my <a href="http://megamelissa.blogspot.com/2006/10/mondays-presentation.html">first presentation</a>, I examine the statistical effects of AIDS on the general population. Now, I am setting this opposed to the availability of treatments for the infection.<br /><br />GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is the only drug company in the world to produce the chemical compounds that make up the composition of every brand of medicine used to treat AIDS. The most significant of these compounds are lamiduvine and zidovudine.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20Section.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20Section.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This series of mappings (generated by statistics as of 2005) aims to examine the AIDS pandemic as it infects world populations, and to compare it to the amount, availability, and location of these drugs produced by GSK. The following four mappings follow the key provided to the right. Any images can be clicked for a larger view.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">reduction of the population</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">according to AIDS infections<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%204.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%204.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">GSK's manufacturing plants and the<br />percentages of treatment received by areas,<br />as an addition to the population.<br />The blue areas designate where more than 10% of the infected population<br />is able to receive treatment.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">examining the GSK network only.<br />Make note of the locations of manufacturing plants<br />versus the areas of significantly treated populations.<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Treatment%20%20%20Manufacturers%20ONLY.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Treatment%20%20%20Manufacturers%20ONLY.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />When you examine each of these mappings under a real-world road map, you can see (something probably already obvious) that the more developed areas have more manufacturing plants. However, it is interesting to point out that while they may have more manufacturing plants, they don't necessarily have a higher treatment availability. In some cases, such as in Jamaica, treatment is manufactured but sold to other places, and the AIDS patients indigenous to Jamaica aren't receiving the treatment they need.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">a satellite photo of the Earth superimposed<br />upon the treated population</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20plan%20aerial.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20plan%20aerial.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >the "world at night" imposed on the populations that<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">receive treatment</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20%28for%20overlay%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20%28for%20overlay%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">solar heat absorption map<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> superimposed upon the treated population</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20plan%20warmth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Population%20%20%20Prevalence%20Reduction%20%20%20Treatment%20Increase%20plan%20warmth.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The following maps represent a rearrangement of population - the population that is treated for AIDS. It is referred to as the "GSK empire" and its manufacturing plants which are in the same scenario as the one in Jamaica are excluded from this megaContinent. It is placed opposed to the total untreated AIDS victims of the world, represented as negative land masses. The continent is composed of the treatment areas, arranged on top of each other according to the cities from which they receive the treatments. Take special notice of the manufacturing plants located outside of the continent but which fully contribute to supporting the megaContinent.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20plan%202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/MegaContinent%20plan%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20section.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/MegaContinent%20section.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Here, the real-world map has been super-imposed on the megaContinent, showing the joining and connection of the most populated areas in the world.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">the "world at night" as a treated megaContinent</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20plan.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/MegaContinent%20plan.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">solar heat absorption as a treated megaContinent</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/MegaContinent%20plan%202%20warm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/MegaContinent%20plan%202%20warm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The next step, is to break apart this mass of healthcare and develop a means to transport these important drugs to the most remote corners of the Earth - the crisis areas that need them the most. Perhaps it can be a network with a series of travelling units containing these drugs, much like Archigram's <a href="http://www.archigram.net/projects_pages/plug_in_city.html">Plug-In City</a> proposes. The goal must be to break the megaContinent into small, functional, moveable pieces - components of a megaHealthcare facility that spreads the research and innovation of the developed world to the isolated ends of the globe.<br /></div></div></div></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-79531991286724713052006-11-01T14:17:00.000-05:002006-11-01T14:41:12.624-05:00So we know where AIDS is...now what about the treatment?I have spent my time researching the coverage of treatments in terms of the percentage of infected people in each country who are treated, as of 2005.<br /><br />These two maps show (first) the prevalence of AIDS in 2005 and (second) the percentage of AIDS populations reached by treatment. The lighter areas in the first map indicate a higher percentage of AIDS prevalence, and the lighter areas in the second map indicate a higher percentage of treatment coverage.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Prevalence%202005.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/320/Prevalence%202005.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Treatment%20Map.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/320/Treatment%20Map.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">the following map overlays the treatment coverage with the prevalence of 2005.<br /></div></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Treatment%20vs.%20Prevalence.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Treatment%20vs.%20Prevalence.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /></span></span></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-73753128738355023272006-10-25T14:11:00.000-04:002006-10-25T14:14:36.200-04:00Monday's PresentationThese are some highlights of Monday's presentation. I've posted some of the ideas that the jurors' comments sparked after these images and videos.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Slide7.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Slide7.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Slide8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Slide8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Slide10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Slide10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Slide11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Slide11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><ul><li> focus on the populations and their characteristics</li><li> say something NEW - what are the demographics that are affected by AIDS?</li><ul><li>income</li></ul><ul><li> gender</li></ul><ul><li> age</li></ul><ul><li> race</li></ul><ul><li> religion</li></ul></ul><ul><li>what can this map show about AIDS that is not already known or mapped out? maybe it can be mapped over some other mappings</li></ul><ul><ul><li>overlaying it with wars (see Katy's map)</li></ul><ul><li>overlaying it with political unrest/developing countries</li></ul><ul><li> overlaying it with types of governments - making AIDS political</li></ul><ul><li> overlaid with weather conditions</li></ul><ul><li> overlaid with internet usage - Jason's language study</li></ul><ul><li> overlaid with airports - the travelling of the disease (Steven)</li></ul><ul><li> overlaying it with McDonalds locations (ha!)</li></ul><ul><ul><li> could also relate to something like Walmart</li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li> relation of AIDS to global retail and language</li></ul></ul></ul>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-3409388027768669752006-10-23T14:54:00.000-04:002006-10-23T14:55:04.889-04:003-dimensional population study<embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/MeshTrial1.flv"></embed>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-54536987353556790192006-10-23T14:52:00.000-04:002006-10-23T14:53:09.830-04:002-dimensional animation<embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Plan-BlackInfection.flv"></embed>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-2480860013314855122006-10-16T13:57:00.000-04:002006-10-16T14:37:40.849-04:00formZ has AIDSI enjoyed working this weekend (well, as much as one enjoys working on the weekend) because we congregated at different people's apartments. Sometimes, it's a nice break to get out of the studio building and those uncomfortable stools, and it can be really motivational to just sit in someone's living room and all work really hard. I love how our work/studio is portable. I find it also helps me creatively to be able to change environments. Plus, I am less cranky and more interested in having brainstorming discussions with other members of the group than when I am stuck in Lee Hall.<br /><br />I also REALLY enjoy this project - I think mapping is an extremely interesting subject - but technological problems are really taking their toll on my patience. So I spent the weekend struggling with formZ's error dialogues, and I have a lot of questions regarding simply forming the shapes I want. I must be a little rusty on all of this. The latest animation is also a little jumpy and I haven't quite figured out why. It gets the point across for now, though.<br /><br />I am reposting the animation from last Friday, so you can compare it to today's animation right below it. I attempted to take Friday's idea and make it 3-dimensional. The height of the African land mass in this animation represents a population - the most populated areas being the highest, and AIDS cutting into the population.<br /><br />Friday's 2-D animation:<br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Plan-BlackInfection.flv"></embed><br /><br />Today's animation:<br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/MeshTrial1.flv"></embed><br /><br />This animation was produced from a series of displaced surfaces using the following images. The lighest portions are the highest (and therefore most populated) areas of the land mass, and as you can see, this is a 2-dimensional representation of the infestation of AIDS.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa2.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa1.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> </a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa.1.jpg"> </a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa4.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Africa3.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/200/Africa3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-68012646183610613802006-10-13T15:48:00.000-04:002006-10-13T17:21:56.890-04:00the new Black PlagueA brief return to 2-dimensional explores what it actually MEANS when a land is infected by AIDS. Does the clean, uninfected world remain as is, and the infected world become cast over by a shadow? Does the uninfected world turn a blind eye on the populations with AIDS?<br /><br />The world turns its back on AIDS, as if people with AIDS disappear.<br />AIDS "eating" the world up until about 1993 (except for South America data).<br /><br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Plan-BlackInfection.flv"></embed><br /><br /><br />AIDS nations shown without regard to actual land masses.<br /><br /><embed width="430" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s84.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid84.photobucket.com/albums/k8/megamelissa/Plan-BlackInfection1.flv"></embed><br /><br /><br />Another idea I am going to explore before Monday involves viewing the world as a series of populations, because AIDS affects populations, not land. I believe it will also make a more visually accurate mapping, because in places where AIDS has spread slower, there is also a lower population density, so showing the spread of the infection as shown above is somewhat misleading.<br /><br />More on this to come Monday, which is why I requested to wait to have a desk crit, so I can get all my ideas constructed...since it took me constructing the above animations to come up with a better way. I need to move forward on my own a little, and still reflect on which type of map would best represent my data. I am struggling to understand what the types of maps even mean.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">research...<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>I found this <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2559066763089752919&q=AIDS+infecting">video </a>of an AIDS cell attacking a cell in the brain. I thought it would be interesting, visually, to animate the spheres in these study animations as cells attacking the populations.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span></span></span>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-2222041193349358552006-10-11T14:35:00.000-04:002006-10-11T15:24:27.536-04:00AWKWARD!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I'm getting there - trying to work on not tracing. The <a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Moving_Spheres2.mov">latest animation</a> shows factoring in the growth and numbers of AIDS-infected population. It does not take into account the ways in which AIDS was contracted, but the information is available, and I thought about mapping that through color differences, maybe.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Int.%20Shaded%20Paths.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Int.%20Shaded%20Paths.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Another idea I had was to have, after the spread of the disease is shown, the places where treatment is available (and how much of it is available in relation to the population). Therefore, maybe the difference between infected population and treatment availability could be mapped - showing the areas where treatment is in high demand.<br /><br />If you compare the previous animation with the most recent animation, my idea is that these spheres leap from land to land, "infecting" it and spreading, as AIDS does to the human body. The land masses are supposed to be transparent (though it is hard to tell in these studies), so you can see AIDS "infecting" the land. I am having A LOT of trouble making the tools do things smoothly. The morph tool tends to make objects that seem like they should be simple, turn some of them into surface objects, etc (which is what happened in my animation for today).Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-29035475223809630532006-10-09T14:26:00.000-04:002006-10-09T14:29:24.475-04:00Animation CreationHave started to try to plug my legitimate data into some sort of animation scheme, because I thought it was counter-productive to fool around with animations anymore, because I think I have a good basic understanding of how to do them.<br /><br />Here is my <a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Africa-US_Practice1.mov">animation from Wednesday</a>.<br /><br />Here are the <a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Moving_Spheres.mov">beginnings </a>of an animation with accurate data.<br /><br /><br /><br />Thoughts on Breeze...<br />-The only thing I like about it is the file sharing and desktop sharing. I'm really not a fan of how the vocal communication works. Maybe it would be beneficial to speak through Skype while doing things through Breeze, too?Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-73498574299464962922006-10-06T17:58:00.000-04:002006-10-06T18:00:31.103-04:00Next animation attemptNext attempt...sort of successful. Still can't get lighting to work, and just a matter of figuring out how to edit views. I want to be able to control the amount of time there is between view keyframes but I can't seem to do it.<br /><br />Also, the shapes aren't at all looking nice how I want them to...but I guess you get the gist of it.<br /><br /><a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Africa-US_Practice1.mov">AIDS "jumping" to the US from Africa (1959)</a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-12893913260744805232006-10-04T15:45:00.000-04:002006-10-04T17:01:14.859-04:00PANDEMIC II: the global spread of frustration with formZ animationI've been messing around with formZ animations for the past couple days, and here's what I've done as far as experimenting with animations.<br /><br /><a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Africa1-small.mov">First attempt</a> - showing a form growing across a map - used the morph tool.<br /><a href="http://people.clemson.edu/%7Emvandiv/Sphere_studies.mov">Second attempt</a> - experimenting with methods of animation, including:<br /><ul><li>changing colors</li><li>animating entities</li><li>animating along a path</li><li>morphing</li><li>having one object do many things at once<br /></li><li>controlling more than one object at once</li></ul>I attempted to control lights, but I had a problem where the light I was animating (and I tried it by both animating entities and simply moving the light) simply would not remain "on" while the animation was going.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-35736438550004400062006-10-02T01:18:00.000-04:002006-10-02T01:47:08.604-04:00Sea and Sky and everything in between<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Bird%27s%20Eye%201.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 278px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Bird%27s%20Eye%201.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>At the moment, it is the largest standing hotel in the world. Dubai's Burj al-Arab Tower Hotel was built to be an icon; the oil-rich government of the United Arab Emirates hired South African architect Tom Wills-Wright to create a "Sydney Opera House for Dubai," something that would immediately say "Dubai" in the mind of someone who saw the magnificent skyscraper.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Modelled after a sail, it is highly structured in defense against the intense sea winds with a three-part exoskeleton. It is a lightly massive structure that appears to be floating on water - dangling off the coast by a mere miniscule land bridge. It is like a boat tied up, a boat that reaches to the sky and remains anchored.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Section.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Section.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />To me, the most unique aspect of it is the fact that it has a helipad on its roof (alongside a tennis court and other "necessary" things) and a restaurant under it, which is accessible only by submarine. The entire hotel is also separated from the land. It is an island, essentially - a skyscraper island built high with dwellings. It reaches high to the airborn population with its helipad, and sinks below the water with its restaurant. It stands as a tall structure that touches all modes of transportation and levels of Earthly existence. These three "layers" of society are reached entirely by this one structure, but as it rests on the water.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Bird%27s%20Eye%202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 297px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Bird%27s%20Eye%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I move on to ask this question: what happens when we have entire cities suspended off of a coast? Is this element of seclusion that the hotel already offers, which appeals to the wealthy vacationers, something that is desirable for people, whether vacationing or not?<br /><br />Conceptually, in section the important part of this hotel is that it reaches these earthly elements of water, land, and air, enabling three different methods of transportation to reach the building. Otherwise, it is the fact that it is located so far off the shore and floating on the water - isolated from the city yet still connected through a spectacular view of the city, from the tennis courts atop or the rooms within.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">sources</span>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Influential-Inspiring-Astonishing-Structures/dp/1932273239/ref=sr_11_1/104-4778010-3447967?ie=UTF8">Great Buildings of the World, <span style="font-style: italic;">Time</span></a>. p. 128<br /><a href="http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=107803">Emporis </a>Buildings (images and information)<br /><br />both illustrations are original.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-54991497551701159412006-10-01T20:14:00.000-04:002006-10-01T21:19:25.923-04:00PANDEMIC: the spread of AIDS<span style="font-size:100%;"><b>pan·dem·ic</b> (păn-dĕm'ĭk)<span style="font-style: italic;"> n</span><i>. </i>Epidemic over a wide geographic area.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br />BACKGROUND<br />AIDS</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), caused by the HIV virus, is theorized to have originated in the species of chimpanzee known as the sooty mangabey, which mainly inhabit the region of Guinea-Bissau. In 1959, the two earliest known cases were recorded - the first one in the Belgian Congo, and the second in Manhattan. Cases were very sporadically diagnosed, steadily increasing in number and location over the next 25 years, adn then had a spike in the 1980s. Originally thought to have been related to homosexual sex, it was called <span style="font-weight: bold;">GRID</span> (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) until 1982, when it was decided that the number of cases found in heterosexual women disproved that theory. Today, there are anywhere from 33.4 million - 46.0 million people living with the HIV virus.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">The data available contains some level of error. Before the late 1980s, doctors were not educated on the symptoms of AIDS and it was still thought to be new to the United States. For these reasons, diagnoses were rare <span style="font-style: italic;">and</span> the disease was still not widespread. Later on, scientists examined remains of people who had died of similar symptoms in the 1960s and 1970s, and found that as a general rule, AIDS was not widespread and these people had not been misdiagnosed in their lifetimes. Therefore, scientists and doctors believe that the sudden growth of AIDS in the 1980s was not due to a raised awareness in the medical field, but does serve as a fairly accurate judge of the spread of the actual disease.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >(click for larger view)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Compilation%200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Compilation%200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">APPROACH</span><br />As you can see from the images displayed, I am working on compiling the data of the simple area spread of the disease, and I will show that in one or a series of flash animations. What will occur three-dimensionally will be done in FormZ, and that will include the data of population infected numbers in regions. The reason is that I want to show simply the spread of infection across the continents without regards to population statistics. The<br />three-dimensional map will show the problem areas, areas where the disease has most successfully infiltrated the population.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(click images for a larger view)</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Compiled%201.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Compiled%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Compiled%202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Compiled%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/Compiled%203.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/Compiled%203.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PURPOSE<br /></span>I believe that this data can be useful conceptually as a visual display of the disease's spread across the globe. AIDS, like global warming and radiation, spreads rapidly and widely, being passed from person to person. I will express the areas of the Earth in which the disease is present during given periods of its development and spread, and I will also express the differences in population infection. The mappings will display the fact that the area where AIDS is the most prevalent is sub-Saharan Africa and least prevalent is Southeast Asia, for example. I hope that these mappings could give a good visual of exactly what it means for the world to be at the mercy of a pandemic, and a graphic understanding of the parts of the world that need help the most.<br /><br /></span>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-40464979798213011292006-09-22T15:30:00.000-04:002006-09-22T15:52:04.276-04:00so close...yet so far.stealing the router...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1512.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1512.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />sanding...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1509.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1509.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1507.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1507.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />most of the chair...HOTT.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1521.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1521.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1523.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1523.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1531.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1531.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Weee!!Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3029681843152034392.post-57991981855353865612006-09-20T14:50:00.000-04:002006-09-20T14:55:21.369-04:00SUMOliciousNate and Jason's recent test run:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1484.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1484.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1489.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1489.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1488.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1488.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1496.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1496.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Katy's SUMO man:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1491.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1491.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1492.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1492.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/1600/IMG_1494.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6744/369834209369144/400/IMG_1494.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718877619688299116noreply@blogger.com0