TiQ / Think_Imagine_Question (Ideas + Research & Profound_Contributions) - Dmitrij O.Burakevic

In education (particularly within legal/contractual remits) and practice, often you are faced with the question - what is the Architects Role?  (Note; scope of works will define that responsibility but we are addressing the question before that stage). Often you will observe a 'romantic' or a 'poetic' notion of the architects role; creating a 'canvas' for the client to craft and self express upon their journey through time. Allowing exploration be defined through the medium that is life. Beyond the impartial and the objective, involvement of an architect does not just simply yield ideas translated into physical intervention (a building etc). In fact resolve may not require or indeed involve a 'building' at all. Of course it may result in a structural or a landscape solution, perhaps a masterplan where necessary but these are not the limits of what the professional can offer. You are tapping into the experience, imagination and intellig...

"AskNature — the world’s only free online resource that catalogs and presents the full breadth of our species’ biological knowledge — gives anyone, anywhere the power to access nature’s proven ideas, tested and refined over billions of years." https://asknature.org/ Explore the new AskNature Any question... just ask and you will see what we know about Nature and how it answers the same questions. What we learn can be applied to anything and everything we do.  Enjoy and share!

It is a multifunctional yet simple object - impartial, with no hidden agendas and more than the sum of its atoms. Perhaps a recycled card tube is to hold rolls of paper. Or, an acoustic mirror; focusing sound frequencies that travel through the air (medium). Maybe it is a megaphone or a telescope – an object that illustrates the physical attributes of the world we occupy. You see, if you leave a tube with a child and their imagination, you discover; simplicity has many functions. Remember the cardboard box you played with as a child? Such should be intent of your self expression, your contribution, your work; elegant and simple because it makes clear, observable sense. It is fun!!! Adults make reinforced structural components out of paper tubes; shigeru ban architects

T3 TRA Lunar_Station Many argue that in aid of long term survival and preservation of biodiversity (Homo sapiens et al. species) it is fundamental that we spread to other planets. However, what is clear is that space exploration is conducive to research which will apply to conditions of the planet Earth. As we head into local unstable climate, the investigations will inform the resolve to extreme weather conditions such as floods, cold, heat waves, hurricanes, earthquakes and desertification phenomena, as well as help us understand how to manage the finite resources such as water. In addition to the pragmatic, the discovered data and celestial samples (fossils & fragments) will contribute to our comprehension of the tangible – physical and the observable – quantifiable theoretical truths. There is potential for the information we discover to help reveal the formation of the Solar System and indeed planet Earth. Human intervention is necessary but it has to be in equ...

Note: whilst this applies to other factors and scenarios, the context of this article is Communication.   When you present, debate or have a conversation you should utilise clear and articulate vocabulary to describe the complexity of the subject matter. Reserve the sophisticated and measured "geek" lexicon for the technical paper as the proven and objective evidence you base your statements on. Attach the observed data to an appendix. Remember; ' simple ' not ‘ simplistic ’... If requested for gross simplification, do not submit, be mindful that ‘riddles’ and ‘poetry’ have their place and rather find a method of delivery that captures the essence of the information in a word, a sentence, an equation, a graph, a diagram, an image, a film, a sculptural object, an instrument or a device and so forth. 

Memory recall is important but more so is the ability to use your imagination to solve posed questions. For example; if you want to check a scale of something, then identify a known measurement which you can check against. Perhaps you wish to identify a scale of a technical drawing, is there something on that drawing that you know; size of component, setting out of a designated area etc? Or, you may need to know how tall/high ‘x’ is. Then you can question does that ‘x’ cast a shadow? If so, you may approximate how tall you are and identify the length of shadow you cast, extrapolate that measurement and apply to the unknown ‘x’. This will yield approximation and the direction to precision. Perhaps ‘x’ is built from a known material of standard size, such as a brick building. Then you can count the brick courses and multiply by the know size to reveal the height. Of course you may have researched into the actual answer and memorised it. However what is more useful is...

Observe how Nature resolves. " Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies." biomimicry.net  +  biomimicry.org "You only have to know one thing:  You can learn anything!  For free. For everyone. Forever." khanacademy.org Introductory lectures.  "Ideas worth spreading" ted.com/talks   "Lessons worth sharing"  ed.ted.com "TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world." Quick access to ideas and specialist thinking. ...