At the Future University

[imomus]

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[xchimx.livejournal.com]

that's a wonderful hat.

what's the temperature at this future university? it looks chilly.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

In Hakodate town it's ranging between +3C and -3C. The Future University is up in the mountains and it's a bit colder, but inside the glass walls it's so warm you could grow tropical fruit. Actually, the way it's laid out, it looks like Thai rice paddies, with one terrace above another. But with students tapping at laptops instead of rice.

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

i feel dizzy.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Beautiful architecture. And it appears you've gained the power of flight, judging from the composition of those last two photos.

is there any reason not to like when through glass I see much awesomely dressed guys?

[(Anonymous)]

the completely transparent Univeristy Ichtus here in Rotterdam designed by Erick van Eggeraat

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I wish I studied here....


Erik
Rotterdam

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Working at one of the most ugly Universities I've ever seen (http://www.sussex.ac.uk), can I just say you just lucked out in that sense.

[nickink.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ! I cut my head open when falling into one of those big dry moat things at that place. Ah, the memories.

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Yes, the big dry moat things. Why no water in them? It's like we had the prototype for the Diana fountain or something?

[nickink.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it was instant karma coming to get me because I was only at the University to see a Dr & The Medics concert.

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Where in this godforsaken place would they have gigs?

[restingpedant.livejournal.com]

Until the end of the 90s they used to put on quite a few gigs (Mandela Hall, East Slope Bar (amazingly), and regularly fill the moats up with water.

Someone told me they drained them for Health & Safety reasons ... as if falling into a concrete pit is healthier and safer than falling into cold water.

[nickink.livejournal.com]

Indeed - Shop Assistants was one of my favourites.

[restingpedant.livejournal.com]

... Felt, Soup Dragons, My Life Story, Baby Bird ...

It must have been rather a pain to set up, and there's far more student accommodation in central Brighton these days, so not as much point I suppose.

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

I see you Sussex and raise you Bristol Student Union.



No picture does justice to six floors of brutalist concrete dumped (the wrong way round) in beautiful leafy Clifton Avenues.

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

I give you the Roger Stevens Lecture Theatres at Leeds Uni, a concrete warren of close to thirty lecture theatres, with tiny stairwells. Apparently it once took 25 minurtes to clear the builfing during a fire-drill. Ugly and death-trap-tastic!

[nickink.livejournal.com]

Would you start to get suspicious if I told you I'd fallen into that moat too ? Well, I haven't quite, but nearly. I was at Leeds 90-93 and made many a drunken moonlit stumble past good old Roger.

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Not suspicious, but I would say you had bad choice in footwear.

Rumour has it that the moat outside Roger Stevens is one of the biggest cause of illness during Fresher's Week at Leeds.

[nickink.livejournal.com]

This is all fabulous stuff.

Although it's not an educational facility, I feel compelled to share this typical exmple of des res Korean-style with you. Multiply this image by about 750 and you have my bus journey to work.



It grows on you somehow though.

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Like architectural athlete's foot?

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

Whoa! I'm living the wrong dystopian future!

[w-e-quimby.livejournal.com]

Yick. I know how that is. And the air pollution is terrible.

[w-e-quimby.livejournal.com]

Damned industrialization, I say.

re:aberdeen.

[(Anonymous)]

that looks comfortable. frthr to ystrday & abrdn: I like these buildings, they remind me of playtime (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cozen/3453330/) and playstation2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cozen/3453326/). czn.

A Silly Question?

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

This might sound like a silly question, but do you intend to write much about Japan in your blog while you're staying there?

I'm teaching a course (starting Thursday) for trainee Japanese teachers, one of the modules being in how to teach about Japanese culture in English. I'm think of putting your blog on the reference reading list as a foreigner's experience of Japan.

Addendum

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

If anyone can reccomend anything else I can put on the reading list, with a brief description of what it is, that would be great. I've only got a handful of texts so far.

Re: A Silly Question?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'll be writing about Japan, but I can't guarantee any thematic consistency. It depends what happens to me.

Re: A Silly Question?

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind.

[emjayne.livejournal.com]

So many spaces to fall into.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Being shown round the building by Lehan, across vertiginous Piranesi-like walkways, the first thing I asked was 'Has anyone committed suicide jumping off here?' She said 'Not yet, touch wood.' There wasn't any wood for miles, of course.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I love - amidst all the monochrome - that sudden shock of red, red hair!

[pure-killjoy.livejournal.com]

The snow that surrounds the glass building set against the blue sky looks breathtaking.

[viktorsjoberg.livejournal.com]

dear momus,
i must say that you look very gangsta in that top picture.

amazing

[jozefpronek.livejournal.com]

the mixture of cold lines, metal and glass made me think a bit of certain buildings of Finland! I wish I could be now in Japan - perhaps in that amazing future university