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hello, there! my name is amira saidova and in this moment i am undertaking Y2S2 for my diploma in interior architecture. this padlet is a personal journal which i will be using to keep track of all i have done this semester for community architecture, this includes weekly updates and overall thought process.

some of my logs (especially the side notes) are going to be written quite informally because it's my thought process so... blah blah blah

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- President & Vice President
- Secretary & Vice Secretary
- Treasurer, Assistant, & Sponsor
- Design Leader & Assistant
- Event Leader & Assistant
- Publication Leader & Assistant
- Media Leader & Assistant
- Logistics Leader & Assistant

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a poll session was conducted during our first class. kah gin was voted the leader of the publications team and i was voted as her assistant. we will have eight other classmates working alongside us in this team.

i'm honoured to have been voted as kah gin's assistant, however i am also nervous but i will try my best to assist kah gin and guide the group members as much as possible. i'm really glad to be working alongside kah gin!

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- kah gin 1002058361
- amira saidova 1002057864
- amelia manakat 1002058641
- cody ng 1002058028
- jia qian 1002058667
- mei wei 1002058183
- wei jin 1002057481
- wei kee (crystal)
- xin yan 1002058714
- shahad ali 1001956616

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at 2-3pm, there was a committee meeting with all the team leaders and assistants to give updates on our projects so far. at 3pm onwards, kah gin and i had a separate meeting with just the two of us to discuss the task distribution in the publication team as well as the progress each individual member would have to show by friday 08/10/2021 for the fortnight report portfolio.

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- mohammad faiyad hossain 1001956499
- asma khaled otaifah 1001957066
- winnie lu 1001957014
- tehjyashri joshi 1002058640
- amelia manakat 1002058641
- wong chui shyan 1002057478
- shahad ali 1001956616
- MD golam A mostafa rafsun 1001956428
- shaimaa serhan 1002057793
- amira saidova 1002057864

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this is an odd subject to be experiencing online and dividing the job scope amongst the team members was quite challenging due to the fact that we will be lacking in article information related to on-campus experience, on-campus discussions, possible on-campus assemblies, as well as overall pictures of the group together.

it's hard to stay motivated especially since my entire university experience so far has been exclusively online but the previous semesters turned out alright and i have high hopes that this one will too! ever since i joined uni i've become quite introverted, so being in a class with so many new people is quite nerve-racking but so far it's been alright since it's just online. when it becomes face-to-face though... rip me lol

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a team meeting was held at 12pm to discuss and finalise task distribution as well font choices and magazine layout. alongside this we talked about how meeting minute sheets will alternately be done by all group members in order to ensure everyone has a chance at this... and to lowkey ensure they're paying attention hahah.

we filled up the portfolio introducing the team members, specifying the task distribution, and showing ongoing tasks. the task i chose was editor of the magazine. i will be overseeing the whole magazine especially the articles, and i will be adjusting them accordingly if needed. the writers position and editors position were the first ones that caught my attention and i'm glad i managed to obtain one of them.

2pm we had a meeting with the lecturers to show our progress so far as well as discuss upcoming tasks such as t-shirt design, and the modular cube project. i'm quite nervous about this modular cube thing but hopefully everything will turn out alright.

at 10pm the committee had another meeting where we held votes to minimise our colour scheme choice as well as t-shirt colour choice for the individual portrait pictures. the options with the most votes were placed into another poll and passed on to our other classmates for finalised voting.

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considering that its only the third day, there are still some blanks to fill. some things are quite unclear but we're going to have a meeting w the lecturers at 2pm so i'm looking forward to that. as of right now i'm just focusing on assisting kah gin and being there if she needs any help or assistance with anything. it's kind of hard to do this online because you can't really ask as many questions as you would compared to if it were face-to-face class. things are kind of all over the place at the moment but i'm sure once we actually fully start with the magazine and are more immersed in the project everything will start to come together.

misunderstood something just now and filled up the meeting minutes timesheet. the one we submitted was by cody though, since kah gin and i are the meeting coordinators who talk, the other members are to take turns at filling the timesheet.

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our colour scheme and project name were finalised today. now things will start to fall into place easier.

i haven't started on my t-shirt design yet because, quite frankly, inspiration-wise i'm absolutely blank. i have, however, purchased tools for the first furniture workshop assignment and will be doing it tomorrow.

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Dark Blue Travel Photo Daily Calendar (1)

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the bottom design is meant to be nearer to the bottom edge of the shirt rather than awkwardly hanging quarter-way like that

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Dark Blue Travel Photo Daily Calendar (2)

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aaaa i suddenly have so many ideas for the t-shirt design. i like a minimalist look

and on another note, i finished my furniture workshop project one yesterday free of injuries so that's a good sign! progress progress

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i think i like this the best. it's simple but not too simple, not too complicated either.

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hmmm.... national geographic vibes. i posted this on the class padlet, i feel like the third design might be thought as too simple. the rectangle here represents the modular cubes we will work with in this project

update: nvm i changed my mind lollll im putting the simple one

update: changed my mind again

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Dark Blue Travel Photo Daily Calendar (3)

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we had a meeting today with everyone in community architecture, including the lecturers. we presented out fornight portfolio, and then we were informed that the following week(s) portfolios are to be presented by other group members alternately to ensure they are contributing and paying attention to the project. then we discussed our finalised logo and submitted our t shirt designs.

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we had a meeting at 8pm. i couldn’t join on my laptop so i didn’t have a camera 🥲

we talked about different proposals for the modular cube project. we finalised what we plan to show on wednesday (site and ideation)

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we had a small team meeting!! just discussing the timeline and what we plan to have completed by 15/10 and 20/10

link to timeline
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wkytuKI10OT78Lo5i7WcZt_VZjkfIWW1PacwmNSODeI/edit#gid=0

then we had a meeting with the other committee members and discussed our progress and future updates to come

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had my shot at designing a magazine coverrrr. not a massive fan of it but i tried

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had a publication team meeting where we discussed the timeline, magazine cover votings, and other updates

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we had a short committee meeting between the publication leaders, design leaders, and media leaders. we discussed the final fonts, colour palette and simplified logo to be used.

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kah gin updated me on her meeting with irvine about the magazine supplier and how much it will cost.
50 pages is rm40 and the max amount of pages we can have is 65

alongside this, cody and crystal finished their articles about the theme and logo design and since i am the head editor i checked through their work and corrected it accordingly.

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had a meeting with the furniture workshop team at 5pm today and we discussed our distribution in finding a client and creating the models.

i found a client for our second design proposal, which is a model that works as both storage and a place for plants to grow, the proposed client is Taman Hati in Bangsar.

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had a meeting with the publication team. we updated the timeline accordingly since we are changing the logo, fonts, and colour scheme so our articles will need to be rewritten and the magazine will need to be redesigned. then we discussed when we expect each article to be done.

also everyone will need to come up w a new cover design by 7pm (17/10)

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we had a committee meeting to discuss the updates from all the leaders and their groups.

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i had a discussion with faiyad and shayma about the furniture workshop presentation. unfortunately we are cutting it real close. we changed our plan and propose to divide the group members as such:

taman hati group:
- design one sketch (person 1)
- design one intention (person 2)
- design two sketch (person 3)
- design two intention (person 4)
- design three sketch (person 5)
- design three intention (person 6)
- community/client and site research (person 7)

ucsi group:
- design one sketch (person 8)
- design one intention (person 9)
- community/client and site research (person 10)

the reason we will have a larger group working with taman hati is because we have already approached the client and she has agreed to work with us.

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we presented our modular cube designs and sites today. the panel voted 50/50 on our designs so we need to further discuss which to choose

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each publication team member submitted one cover design proposal and we voted for the final 3 options.

my furniture workshop members and i finished our work for the presentation tomorrow. am so grateful everyone worked so hard and did so well. whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we are proud of each other

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this is my argyraeus scindapsus pictus (yeah i copy pasted that) which i have decided to name greenbriar. it already has a tiny baby leaf shooting up because i was propagating it in a small glass earlier.

here’s to surviving twenty eight days !

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i did my phone stand thing for furniture workshop today. it looks quite devastating because the recycled wood i used wasn't in the best shape but it's okay it's still functional :)

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we had a furniture workshop team meeting today and we discussed the pros and cons of both sites to narrow down our options. we still need the lecturers advice though because the chances of the university rejecting our smoking pit option is quite likely.

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committee meetinggggg about updates and finalising stuff, specifically the t-shirt orders, magazine layout (committee member page), 28 day plant challenge, and the prize money

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i keep forgetting to update this now lol :') my laptop is so laggy these days its seriously testing me hahahha. oh and i forgot to update, i checked the articles this week for grammar/spelling mistakes and also rephrased some of the texts

had a publication team meeting today, we reminded the members to keep up with the progress timeline we have made. it was quite last minute so not everyone could make it to the meeting.

will be having a meeting with the furniture workshop group later to discuss our designs, group project poster requirements, and everyone has to propose a name for our modular cubes !! :)

(i feel like im forgetting something... what a terrible feeling)

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had a furniture workshop meeting where we discussed our designs and what we need to update by the next class. i uploaded everything in our canva link so everyone can see.

we decided to change our modular cubes from storage purposes to a wall mounted vegetable farm for the owner of the shop, this better fits our urban farming theme

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i think ive lost the brain power to write essays on what we covered but basically this was our weekly committee meeting where we talk about all the updates from each department

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joined the call for plastics thing !!

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greenbriar jr. comin in nice

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today we had our first talk series about green farming technology! it was just one hour but it was very interesting and covered a lot of topics. before this, if im honest, i was still a bit blur on hydroponics and aquaponics but this talk cleared things up.

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task distribution, magazine layout, & references drive link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18VGl_gFJNmXbd38HcEo2__OuNf-jBsL_

publication msteam canva link
https://www.canva.com/teams

community architecture drive link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11ndW_Z226LD5Xkc4Of-A7yfBPTSYyt0i

magazine cover padlet link
https://padlet.com/kahgin/publicationteampadlet

magazine cover canva link
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEsnAQCa_A/yFyJ1VukAGalWxu3zXbmMA/edit

magazine 2021 canva link
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEsnJqNx0w/gNUW0FSmXherK2bZRLmDwA/edit

miro link
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lprbQyg=/

furniture workshop canva link
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEsQQtCUZg/ifGKKNofiMpV22APnJEiag/edit

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ms fatehah suggested i try design the magazine covers so i did. i decided to go for vegetables, and a mother and daughter planting, in the shape of a house to represent urban farming as well as the possibility of everyone trying it out for themselves at home

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i had a few shots at the group project poster, i think i'll go with the last one

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we had a committee meeting today, unfortunately i couldn't make it in person :(( but my magazine cover design was selected to be used :D tbh i actually really didn't expect that hahah everyone else's designs were sooo nice

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discussed with faiyad and shayma and we have decided to use mortise and tenon joineries to attach our furniture modular cubes together. i need to go to the hardware store to see whether pine wood or oak wood is more available then we can finalise that.

after that is all done, we need to finalise whether we are going with the regular vertical wall garden or the hydroponic one (gotta ask the lecturers if we have to use hydroponic systems in our designs)

after that we will work on the final positioning of our cubes, followed by mr amar's comments, and then we can start our digital and physical models.

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this is the design idea proposed by shaima (i roughly sketched it) to be placed on the indoor space, however, after discussing with the client, she would rather have it on her back balcony where there is piping.

client prefers hydroponic design (over regular vertical wall garden we proposed) which can be built on back balcony. need to decide use of modular cubes in this design instance other than for decorative sliding purposes.

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we're going to go with the vertical wall garden inside the shop as it has more votes and mr amar said it was a good idea too.

but we are planning to add a manual watering system, some led lit modular cubes for germinating seedlings (suggested by mr francis), and a sliding mechanism for the cubes.

i was supposed to check out what kind of wood we can use today but i got allergies in the morning and im still quite sick now (its 9:38pm). hopefully tomorrow. we need to start moving faster.

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i went to a hardware store today to check out wood we can use for our cubes. we've settled on kayu kocai/pine wood. this wood is easily available and it is affordable.

our design is basically finalised but i need to request for a face to face tutorial because what i need to discuss to finalise the design is a lot and thats hard to do over miro/whatsapp/padlet

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i asked ms echa for a face to face tutorial and she agreed!! this is the first time this sem im going to campus for class. kinda nervous.

also, i visited Taman Hati today to talk to the client and i got measurements and other info from her which is what i need to discuss with the community architecture lecturers. OH and i went to campus today to send my collected plastic for the Call For Plastics event. i went there with my aunt, she collects plastic for recycling and repurposing as well.

we had our talk series 02 today and although brief it was really informative, it shows that gardening is not as easy as one thinks, a lot of thought is put into it. the kahoot was fun too

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everyone seems clear on what we are doing which is great. we had a quick meeting to talk about the progress as well as the face to face tutorial tomorrow :)

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look at the little baby !!!

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everything is moving by so quickly um. so today we showed our model to ms fatehah and she gave us a few suggestions. i have scheduled a meeting with the group tonight so we can all brainstorm and give our ideas.

i forgot to update this yesterday but i went to campus to propose the model to ms echa with shaima and she gave us some ideas. then i went over to shaima's and we discussed further and told the rest of the group our updates

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our meeting was actually really great. everyone talked and gave their ideas and we changed our design a bit. we also figured out a piping system to use and need to discuss with mr amar.

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greenbriar jr !!!

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today's a holiday but i had a meeting with mr amar to finalise our design and get his thoughts on what is possible.

we decided to get rid of the rotating cubes because, although interesting, they served no purpose and connections to make the cube rotate would eliminate the possibility of them being easily removed to gift the cubes to communities. so we will have two prototypes. one with two rows; top being sliding drawers and/or led cubes, bottom being regular sliding cubes for putting growing vegetable plants and other, and led cubes for germinating seedlings.

practicality is key, and this horizontal configuration mirrors the long horizontal shelves already existent in taman hati itself.

i divided the task distribution to 3d modelling group, presentation group, and poster designing group. majority of the members will be in 3d and presentation as those need the most people :)

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i have an appointment after professional office practice class so i guess today is automatically an off-day for me. i need to proof-read some articles and finish the publication team reflection in the magazine before i go offline though

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i have decided to name little greenbriar jr. morpheus. spur of the moment inspiration from greek mythology and matrix

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look at little morpheus !!

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i finished abouttt 80% of the presentation slides with asma, shaima and shahad. we are now waiting for the model team to finish the model so we can get the pictures and finish up our slides. tomorrow asma and i will record the presentation then pass it to tehjya to combine with the video of our model and site.

tehjya and chui shyan are in the poster team, we have decided to settle for amelia's poster. they are now also awaiting the pictures from the model team so they can update and finalise the poster.

we are seriously working to the absolute last minute hahah

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hopefully model team will finish the model soon so presentation team and poster team can finish their pdfs then shaima and i can record the presentation and pass it to tehjya.

anyway, on a side note, i think im getting sick lol. good thing the semester is almost over but i still have the furniture workshop cube to make

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forgot to update this again ahaaaaa haaaa... ms fatehah i see you lurking, time to lie on my padlet now i guess (kidding, kidding).

today we showed our final presentation and the lecturers gave good feedback. we'll try to change our new presentation for wednesday accordingly, hopefully enough since theres only tuesday to work on it. after the presentation the group and i discussed what we should amend. hopefully someone can take videos at the site again in landscape orientation. if not, it's still okay.

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bought wood today for the modular cube!! it's hardwood though this is going to be so hard to cut. rest in peace my hand.

our 3d model video was re-recorded today, thank you to faiyad, winnie, and amelia, (we sped it up a bit) and then shayma and i re-recorded our presentation and included a slide briefly explaining drip irrigation. i just passed the recording to tehjya to put into our site and model video as well :)

i'm very thankful for all of my groupmates, for their dedication and hardwork this semester. we couldn't have done it without each other. i did not mention much about individual people on this padlet to avoid conflict, and also because i used this padlet to refresh my own memory on all the projects, but that doesn't mean i'm not grateful for all of them.

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i actually did quite a bit this week but forgot to update and everything blended into one.

we finalised the magazine cover as well as the back cover. i finished cutting all my wood and sanding it down for the mocular cube. i made a mistake though so i'll need to continue it in week seven :')

the gathertown event was actually really fun i really enjoyed it! v grateful to the event team.

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asking mr foo if shaima and i can use the makelab tomorrow to finish off the cubes. we just need the sanding machine and hand drill so we wont be in his hair for too long... hopefully.

hanging out at the makelab, and uni in general, last week with friends was really funn :') so sad we didn't get to do it sooner and longer

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during this project, the strength of the team was its individual members and the strength of each individual member was the team.

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managed to get a group pic w shayma, asma, shahad, amelia, and chui shyan :)) this was like our second? third? shot

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this semester was something different. it was one continuous stretch of group effort rather than one or two group projects tossed here and there. it taught us how to work together but most importantly it showed us the kind of situations we can get put into when working in a group and how we must always have backup plans for when this happens, how time cannot be wasted wallowing in what went wrong. we learned time management, and most importantly how to work under pressure.

independence is important, surely, especially when it comes to coming up with your own creative designs. but when it comes to executing said ideas, successfully communicating with other people is important.

i want to thank the lecturers for providing us with such a memorable semester full of new and fun experiences, and i want to thank all of my coursemates for being a part of this experience and giving this semester so much to remember it by.

RE-Gen 2021, i will never forget you.