Dear Team Tuareg!
Unfortunately I must leave the Review01-VC today
earlier. Tomorrow I will perform a presentation at a conference in Bremen – in
the North of Germany and the last train goes at 7:30 pm. S I excuse myself for
my absence during your presentation. We had already the opportunity to talk
about your concept in the Team-VC on Monday Nov. 5th. I was stoked
by your progress since the Kick-off in Stanford.
Because of my absence I will give you a short
feedback to your slides that you will present tonight by this email. I
appreciate that you apply the metaphor of the tree in your process consequently
and differentiate it in a convincing way. Now you have reached a high level.
But from my point of view it is time to look, if there are limits in applying
the metaphor to the site. I think you should generalize it more. In the next
steps you should remove from the involvement in this metaphor. From a distant
point outside of your metaphor you can assess: What does fit for solving the
planning task and what does not fit? Maybe you need other metaphors to bridge
the detected gaps and to connect the missing links.
For me it is important to develop a concept of
research in the next phase. Please define: What is your notion of research?
What does this mean for the spatial organization, for the ground-plan, for the
design of the landscape and the buildings? Also important: What kinds of
research will you prefer? And what kinds of research will you combine in the
Research Park (natural sciences, arts, humanities, engineering sciences)? What
do you expect from the selected combination?
And I have a special personal wish: What do you
think about the actual discussion with the focus on “Big Data”? Silicon Valley
is the inventor of the internet and of the possibilities to observe all of our
communication and data. What kind of research do we need in Silicon Valley to
bring together the digital options and the individual interest in protection
against data observation?
Kind regards
Herbert
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