Week 6 Studio Class

Tom Denson's was this weeks guest speaker and he was from UNSW School of Psychology.
He's presentation explored the psychology of teams and groups and how they function. Tom gave us comparisions to past psychologists social psychology experiments to the its relation of the everyday environment, in particular in reference to the workplace.
He illustrated that group collaboration has their advantages as well as their disadvantages.
Group decision making and the process for efficient team work is fundamental to the outcomes we wish to achieve in this course and Tom Denson gave us a glimpse of what part of that is influenced by human psychology.

Team Urban were quiet intrigued by our guest lecture today who spoke about the psychology of working in groups. It was great how he made sense of simple activities that we as a group can be aware of. After his presentation Jeremy explained that our wiki's need more work and collaboration.

As a group we conjured much need information about the stages each individual up to in order for our environment to come together. As a team we discussed the pros and cons of our environment and what the real reason was behind our choosing. The development of Hyde Park in London had been sorted out and experimented with. Reason being that our project was originally designed as a memorial for Newton. Newton is buried not far down the road from Hyde Park making this site significant. We then also goggled earth Regents Park also located in London and found quiet noteworthy similarities in where our model could be located. Our final decision is to use region’s Park.

Discussion took place at how and why and the way in which we could enhance our environment, with much need sketch up and 3ds help to create the surrounding cities. Sorting out the easiest most effective way to create the city was proposed and tutorials have been found to help support this. Textures are another important principle for our environment and can be supported through images sourced. Conversation regarding what we wanted to fill our environment with was thrown around we have agreed to look for native London trees and shrubs suggesting a more significant and spiritual aspect of the environment creating more realistic appropriate location. We are also going to search for natural plant life to mirror that seen in current day London parklands.