April 25th, 2007
I went to Culver City High School to pin up students' work in the multi-purpose room. Melanie, Unique, and Zoe came to help me out. After pinning up one set, things were easier and got carried on really fast, ended up with only a couple of groups' work to be pinned up later on.
April 26th, 2007
Today was the day of the culmination! Two people from HOK, Andrew Huang and Sarah, one person from CCUSD, Patty Krause, and Amy came in as the jurors. Kristine prepared a cake for all of us. Students were all there. We started out with explaining what the class was about, little thank you speech from Brianna, Paul, and one more student(can't remember). All the drawings - the cognitive map of the existing condition, cognitive map of the future condition with the enhancer in the area, and sketches of the enhancer - were all up on the walls and models were put in front of the drawings. Each group came to the front to present their project to the jury and received feedback from the jury. I was very pleasantly surprised with how well my students were prepared with their presentation and with some details of the projects in the process that I wasn't told. Andrea, Jesse, Allie, and Charles' group had went out to several other play areas to study what play areas were like in general and what they could do architecturally to provide a better/different one in their area. I wish students were more involved in the discussion, but it was great to hear that they learned a lot from this class.
