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Post date: Oct 31, 2017 8:33:49 PM
Buongiorno!
The second week has come in Venice and our team has started testing and revising our methodology in the field.
On Monday, we went to explore some of the green areas we picked from the google satellite image in Venezia, namely near the Santa Marta University (one of them was a prison!!). While in the field, we looked at several park areas and a few patches of green. We went through the reutilization flowchart separately and all ended up with the same result when we combined our condition ratings. There were some minor fixes to our flowchart; the general reutilization flowchart leads to one of the four categories of land, which lead to detailed flowcharts expanding the details on potential usage.
Main:
Parks:
Urban Farms:
Urban Wilds:
We also tested our drone by collecting video footage for land classification since many green spaces were segregated by walls. The video quality turned out great but there were issues with the camera angle since it only points horizontally on the drone. We tried to adjusting the tilt angle with duct tape and it served as a sufficient temporary fix, but we also designed a CAD model for a fixture gadget with 20 degree tilt angle for a permanent solution. Once the team gets access to a 3D printer, it can be assembled for testing.
On Tuesday, we visited Michele again and had him go over our flowcharts as he was showing us green spaces on Giudecca. We came to the realization that the reutilization flowchart will only be used when evaluating an abandoned space or a space with no past or current use. The reasoning is that once the government decides a usage for a piece of land in the city plan, it will be impossible to change the land usage. The good news is that Michele's classification and our team's classification using our methodology matched for all the green spaces we visited, thus confirming our flowcharts. We understand that these flowcharts will be continuously improved as the term progresses and as we survey more lands, and this will give us more accurate classifications.
We also met Michele's friends Jane and Gabriella who work at a NGO called 'We Are Here Venice', an organizations that focuses on the revitalization of green spaces in Venice. They were also interested in our project, specifically to see how the mapping information we produce will help them choose green spaces for further development. It was a great time meeting them and really insightful to hear about differently ideas about potential usage of green spaces from multiple perspectives.
All in all, the last two days have been fun and productive. We hope to continue the progress and aim to finish revising the methodology by friday.
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