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Ian Perlman & Saul Deane Saul Deane and Ian Perlman have extensive experience in Kansai; Ian for a decade with an MA (Research) from Kyoto University and experience in Japan‐based media, publishing and tourism, in 2015‐6 he was the convenor of the MArch course Architecture and Urbanism in Asia at UNSW. Saul is a PhD candidate at UNSW and convenor of Design Communications in Landscape Architecture at UNSW. Both are graduates in architecture and allied disciplines, conversant in Japanese language and have maintained connections in Japan. Kansai Re‐Movement: “.gif” as tool for investigating architectural space

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Ian Perlman & Saul Deane Saul Deane and Ian Perlman have extensive experience in Kansai;  Ian for a decade with an MA (Research) from Kyoto University and experience in Japan‐based media, publishing and tourism, in 2015‐6 he was the convenor of the MArch course Architecture and Urbanism in Asia at UNSW.  Saul is a PhD candidate at UNSW and convenor of Design Communications in Landscape Architecture atUNSW. Both are graduates in architecture and allied disciplines, conversant in Japanese language and have maintained connections in Japan.

Kansai Re‐Movement: “.gif” as tool for investigating architectural space

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Course : Architecture and Urbanism in Asia

The Course is designed to give students an understanding of the principles, formalities and cultural continuities of architecture and urban design in Asia.

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A. Trial of immersive space examples within the lecture environment. B. Creation of a virtual lecture tour experience C. Possible inter‐university tour and geo‐located social media space for studentsD. Specialised actual tour of Kansai

Goals

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GIFs already populate social media as memes, yet to be widely assessed for pedagogical purposes as another way of representing architectural space. 

Gif an innovation ? The immersive image

GiFs should be dead its an obsolete format , came out in 1987 and died, it was / is low quality – it only supportis 256 colours, compared to 16.7 million colours in JPEG, has no audio, and can’t be stopped, why has it been revived ?

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Message Reaction

Mindless repetition has also been linked to laughter and to madness, disruption of the norm  ‐ Koestler .

GIF can acts fixation reflex, the flickering movement of an image draws the eye.

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Acts like an image (jpg,png,etc) can cut and paste, crop and scale, uploads quickly, uses little memoryThe abbreviated cultivates conversation emergence of twitter and instagram.

GIF as digital image

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Gif as Visual Representation

Binocular Photography : Stereoscopic Serial Photgraphy: Film

Sits somewhere between photography and cinema; minimally kinetic.

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Stereoscopic : Depth fo field Film: Movement

Gif as Representation of Space

Gif is still in the exploratory stage, that early photography went through in relation to analysing capturing and entering space.

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Gif as study in the minor ‐ chord of Kansai : KinesisThe traditional woodblock print technique (mokuhanga 木版画 )  where imperfections in chromatic register evokes a slight and appealing sense of kinesis. The gif with its reduced stuttered images often slightly off register doesn’t mimic movement as  evoke it. 

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minor ‐ chord: movement to texture 

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minor ‐ chord:  Aurific

The reflection of the quasi‐Palladian symmetry of the pavilion structure in the pond frames –‘aurifies – the architecture.

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minor ‐ chord: Silence 

Grave of Oda Nobunaga (16th century warlord) at Mount Koya. While there is no movement being a still day. Subtle movement highlights depth draws the eye within the frame and heightens the silence. 

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PurposeGIF as purpose. 

A stupa on Koyasan.

The revolving arms of a giant scale prayer wheel are only legible when the direction and use is illustrated with movement.

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Cyclical ‐ seasonal  The seasonal distinction so studiously contemplated in traditional literary culture of Kyoto - photography hints at but a gif makes explicit.

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Investigation : peer to peer inter‐cultural learning 

Possible inter‐university tour and geo‐located social media space for students

Specialised actual tour of Kansai

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the subdominant tonic to the “symphonic” quality of architecture. Indeed, well-known terms in Japanese fine arts

are reserved for humble attributes: wabi (rustic simplicity 侘 ), sabi (patina 寂), shibumi (subdued or astringent

beauty 渋み), ma (negative space 間), mugen (boundlessness 無限). Rusticated forms such as tea ceremony

rooms are virtually grounded in such ephemeral qualities, and they serve to instill tonal energy into even imposing

built works.

Why Kansai ? Historical - Crucible of Japanese UrbanismMapped - Deep orthographical and cartographical resourcesReiterative - spatial renewal processExperiential Knowledge - Ian and Saul

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Essenttialized in Kansai are those well-known terms in Japanese fine arts reserved for humble attributes are : wabi (rustic

simplicity 侘 ), sabi (patina 寂), shibumi (subdued or astringent beauty 渋み), ma (negative space 間), mugen (boundlessness

無限).

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Kyoto Institute of Technology – Partnership 

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Kyotographie Curator – Tour  

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Kyoto Journal

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Ephemerality ‐ permanence. 

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Investigation : Gif to Visual Representation & Pedagogy

A: Trial of immersive space examples within the lecture environment. 

B: Creation of a virtual lecture tour experience 

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GIF ‐ mixed media

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GIF ‐ mixed text & image

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GIF – 3D assemblage

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GIF – 2D layering

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Gif to minor‐chord:  Tokyo,  add density  

pulse re‐purpose urban aurific

silence

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Student Presentations : The Gif Pedagogical Experiment –Observing Asia 

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Animated section

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Temporal Map

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Change of Use

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Comparative scale 

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Student Presentations :  The Gif Pedagogical Experiment –Observing Sydney 

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Sydney ‐ Rhodes

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Sydney ‐ Ultimo

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Sydney ‐ CBD

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Kansai Re‐Movement: “.gif” as tool for investigating architectural space

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Saul [email protected]