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- Highland Farms
Ontario-grown Flemish Beauty pears in abundance, later in October than I expected. Local grocery chain is an autumn destination for a Proustian memory of the tree at my grandfather's house in the 1960s, at the southeast corner of Beverley Street and Cecil Street. I picked pears of this variety in the late 1970s when I was an undergraduate student at UToronto, but the City removed the tree in the early 1980s. (Highland Farms, Ellesmere Road, Scarborough, Ontario) 20181031 - CASCON
iCity workshop #cascon with Jesse Coleman @TO_Transport + Judy Farvolden @UofTTRI, with @CodeZebra moderating. Analytics and visualization in progress with the King Street Transit Pilot, towards end of collecting data to enable evidence-based decision-making at City Hall. (CASCON, 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hilton Suites, Markham) 20181031 - CASCON
Qubits #casconquantum by @jessicapointing explained with two-sided donuts that flip. Applications of exponential complexity that are computationally hard in binary von Neumann architecture may be tractably linear with quantum computing. Today's quantum hardware is still at the state where vacuum tubes were in the 1950s, we might expect coevolving knowledge development in coming decades. (CASCON, 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hilton Suites, Markham) 20181030 - YVR
Direct shuttle buses from U.S. arrivals immigration to domestic Canadian gates removes prior anxieties of racing across the YVR terminal, and having to go through x-ray security a second time. A human guide giving directions is welcomed, but an exterior route outside the terminal could be chilly in winter. This expediting suggests the terminal layout might not have been as well done as originally thought. (Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia) 20181029 - Pioneer Courthouse Square
Signpost citing distances includes some destinations en route home via air flights. Rainy Sunday dusk walk from U. Oregon on the north, into the city center at south revealed wide streets with light traffic and few pedestrians. (Pioneer Courtyard Square, SW 6th Avenue, Portland, Oregon) 20181028 - PUARL 2018
Closing fishbowl review of conference, starting with the youngest at the meeting. Generally positive response, some disappointment at small crossover to PUARL from PLoP attendees. Finishing up near 5pm on a Sunday afternoon, those departing for earlier flights were forgiven. (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181028 - PUARL 2018
Presentation by Takashi Iba @takashiiba on "Christopher Alexander’s Thought and Eastern Philosophy". Philosophy included Kitaro Nishida and John Dewey. (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181028 - PUARL 2018
Session on "Climate Change Migration", moderated by Briana Meier. First up was Lacey Aley on "Regenerative Thinking: Addressing the Water Crisis in the Informal Sector". Second was Matthew Loudermilk on "The Colectivo, Taina Soy, and Earthship Villabonuco". Third via video was Robert Walsh on "Back to the Future: Transition Design and the Need for New Urban Patterns". (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181028 - Suwannaphum Thai
Dinner meeting with @takashiiba, Wolfgang Stark and Richard Sickinger to discuss Purplsoc 2019, one year away. We're all attending PUARL, that alternates pattern language meetings in years and continents. None of us getting to see much of the town, with the day packed with plenaries and workshops. (Suwannaphum Thai, SW Pine Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Fishbowl panel on The Future of Pattern Language moderated by Wolfgang Stark, initially with Hajo Neis, Yohan Rode, Susan Ingham and Richard Sickinger. (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Plenary by Wolfgang Stark on "Refugees and the City". (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Plenary by Wayne Cornelius on "Constructing Deterrence in the Age of Trump: Restricting Asylum, Separating Families, and Criminalizing Migration". (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Presentation by Helene Finidori @HeleneFinidori on "Configuring Patterns and Pattern Languages for Systemic Design". (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Presentation by Greg Bryant @greg_bryant on "The Biology and Pedagogy of Judgment. (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027 - PUARL 2018
Presentation by Gary Black and James Maguire (University of North Texas) on "Theory and Structure of Design Patterns and their Applications". (Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab International Conference, NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon) 20181027