Post 12: Compost Mobile Board 3+4
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Post 11: Compost Mobile
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AEC: Post 11 Board 3 + 4
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Sketch Board 4
Board 4 – Sketch In this board we have decided to expose three specific case studies, one for each of the regions being studied (Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia). At the same time we are pointing out specific communities in Miami and South Florida where there is a greater number of residents born in each of these countries, thus establishing a transnational connection [...]
Post 10: Compost Mobile Board 4 @50%
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Post 10: AEC boards 1-3
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Post 10: Micro Lending Board 3 @ 100%
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Student Report: The 2nd Greater Everglades Community Food Summit 2011 – An overview
Attending the second day of the Greater Everglades Community Food Summit Gathering was an exciting experience. Natalie Zend, an independent facilitation consultant who facilitates leadership skills for a sustainable future, led many local enthusiasts came together, hoping to make the area a better sustainable community, to talk about issues that they wanted to bring to [...]
Event: Sketch&Ride#3: Opa Locka
Sketch&Ride is a series of outreach bike rides organized by Up-Lab with the participation of local community groups and Miami residents. The goal of the ride is to bring community awareness to Miami residents through bike rides through a variety of neighborhoods of Miami and through the act of sketching architectural and urban landmarks of [...]
Observations From The Field
Over the past 3 months, I’ve spent about 72 hours at a site “observing” the construction of a multi-million-dollar custom home. I’m not alone at these meetings. Along with me, I have the partner of the architecture firm, the contractor, the contractor’s business partner, the superintendent on the job, the owner’s rep and the owner [...]
Good Shepherd Villas Renovation Project
Camillus House hired Up Lab to assist in the renovation for the Good Shepherd Villas, a site with a series of once dilapidated duplexes in dire need for repairs. Our involvement as Up Lab came in the implementation of the design suggested by Architecture for Humanity Miami volunteers. The architect of record, Oppenheim Architecture + [...]
Up Lab Summer Series: Sketch & Ride
Bring your pencils, sketch pads, bikes and open mind! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Good Shepherd Villas: Call for Volunteers!
We need YOU! We need you in the next upcoming weeks! We are finally coming close to the completion of Phase I of the Good Shepherd Villas Project, and now need to add the final touches before the tenants move in. This includes painting (interior & exterior) and landscaping. Please contact us so we can [...]
Arcahaie, Haiti: Beyond First Impressions
I first visited Haiti in March 2010. I went back March 2011. I didn’t see much of a difference. Sure the NGOs on the ground are doing what they can to improve the circumstances Haitians find themselves in, however, their efforts are held at a standstill due to the lack of basic public services, which [...]
Brazil: Rain, Rain And More Rain!
I should have remembered Tom Jobim’s song “Aguas De Marco” when booking my trip to Brazil. I should have remembered the title of the song and especially the chorus: “sao as aguas de marco fechando o verao”, which in English translates to: “these are the waters of March ceasing the summer”…I should have taken the [...]
Arcahaie, Haiti: Operation Green Leaves
Mission: Operation Green Leaves This past weekend I went to Haiti. My mission was to interview local engineers for the construction of an Environmental Education Center. This center, which consists of a nursery, a food processing facility, classrooms, community spaces, and a volunteer village, will be located in a 30-acre site in Arcahaie – a coastal [...]
Miami: Up Lab Monthly Meeting: 1-Year (and 1 month) Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake
Up Lab Monthly Meeting Recap: One Year & One Month Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake Every year, every news outlet and media source gets preoccupied with covering anniversaries of natural calamities around the world. A few days later, you are bombarded with the next 1-year-anniversary of another disaster. Since we were inundated with the revolting [...]
UP Lab: a Natural Miami Urban (re)Evolution
Cultural evolution, also called sociocultural evolution by the Brittanica Encyclopedia, the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. The subject may be viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that describes the evolution of human behaviour as a whole, or it may be viewed as a multilinear phenomenon, in which case it [...]
