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'What We Saw'

27 January 2011

What We Saw

I certainly enjoyed the international critics speaking about DIA from their point of view and I know the other students did too.

Let's keep the debate alive.. read what I remember from the talk and leave your comments below.

*please keep the critics anonymous in your comments

About the projects

It was mentioned that the better projects were those with conviction (belief in one's own design which leads to passion which leads to hard work) rather than those with rigor (sweat).

  The DIA mould

There is no DIA mould! At the DIA, each student is encouraged into the direction that interests them most. The closest idea to that of a mould is probably choosing a studio, since each studio has specific goals and a specific method which has to do with the lecturer(s) in charge. So the moulding is determined by students and then by a specific lecturer, their is no common DIA mould.

Studio spaces

Although it was mentioned that having a dedicated studio space is a privilege that some schools don't have, everyone agreed that our studio spaces are limiting and that larger, more communal studio spaces would be preferable to the rooms that we have now.

Prof. Jacoby mentioned the 'we're all in deep shit' building around the corner. What do the students think about using this building for studio spaces? Do we want to move out of building 8? What if we could convince HS Anhalt to remove the gypsum walls between studios to create larger rooms? Any other ideas?

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

The three French ideals, liberty, equality and fraternity, were discussed and it was noted that the hardest of these to achieve is fraternity, or brotherhood, and that this is one of the advantages of the DIA - the strong sense of community amongst the students.

...which brings us to the question of studying in Dessau

When asked what the students think about studying in Dessau, most of us agreed that it's great! We have created our own city, since Dessau doesn't offer much. It was mentioned that the German students are apparently quite jealous of our strong community and all our social events - the international food nights, english movie nights and after-anything celebrations. Let's make an effort to include them into our close-knit community.

Living in other cities

is also a possibility. Berlin is a great city, although it's only for the brave. The train trip is around 2 hours and getting to and from the station makes the round trip even longer, so this is perhaps best done in the thesis semester.  Another alternative is Leipzig. Leipzig is only 50 minutes by train from Dessau, which makes the trip cheaper, and it's a buzzing student city. Of course, the more DIA students there are in Dessau, the more fun it is for everyone. And also, you do lose out a bit on friendships with people from all over the world and hopefully next semester, also from Germany.

The Bauhaus is in Dessau…

and if they could do it here, we can do it here!

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Processing Sketch to get data from twitter with geolocation, Final Submission

This is the final processing sketch to extract data from Twitter using Twitter 4J api.

It collects the username, time, day & date of the tweet, the content of tweet, and the geolocation of the user, for any specific search query word for the latest 100 tweets. In order to run the sketch successfully, first import the Twitter 4J .jar file to the empty sketch and then run the sketch in processing.

The sketch is:

Twitter myTwitter;

void setup() {

  myTwitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();

  try {

    Query query = new Query("search term");

    //query.setGeoCode(new GeoLocation(52.30, 13.25), 1000.0, Query.KILOMETERS); // if we want to only get tweets from the region berlin

    query.setRpp(100);

    //query.setSince(2010-01-01);

    QueryResult result = myTwitter.search(query);

    ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();

    for (int i = 0; i < tweets.size(); i++) {

      Tweet t = (Tweet) tweets.get(i);

      String user = t.getFromUser();

      String msg = t.getText();

      Date d = t.getCreatedAt();

      GeoLocation geoloc = t.getGeoLocation();

    try {

        double lat = geoloc.getLatitude();

        println("latitude: " + lat);

      } catch (Exception e) {

        println(e.getMessage());

        println("no latitude");

      }

       try {

        double lon = geoloc.getLongitude();

        println("longitude: " + lon);

      } catch (Exception e) {

        println(e.getMessage());

        println("no longitude");

      }

      println("Tweet by " + user + " at " + d + ": " + msg);

    };

  }

  catch (TwitterException te) {

    println("Couldn't connect: " + te);

  };

};

void draw() {

};