Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Presentation Day

Today our studio class presented our Cape May County Inventory research. Among our audience was Dean Cardasis, Rutgers Graduate Program Director, Marcus Knowlton, SEBS Systems Administrator and Webmaster, Nick Tufaro, NJ Chapter ASLA President, and our professor David Tulloch.


Our layout consisted of a printed board sequence for each subtopic and an interactive screen in the center for our PDF's. Each group selected a representative to present the research on a whole.

Our presentation started with Jenna Gatto delivering a brief description of our project which included questions, history and the evolution of the county.
This was followed with Ibrahim Bouzine proceeding further into presenting information on the people and culture.
Stephen Somers gave his talk on "Land" explaining the research he discorverd which went indepth into the geologic forms of the county and their affect on soils and plants within the region.
Nicholas Grandi, our team leader for the project, presented his talk on "Water" explaining how vital and sensitive it is and the dominance it has on the total land cover of the county.
Sarah Nitchman concluded the presentation presenting the government information, which was the group I was also a member of. Federal and State Plans and Property, protection acts, and zones such as CAFRA were all discussed. She ended the talk with the statement "inventory is going to be an ongoing thing, however we know so much about Cape May County, our job from here out will be to process the information into a deeper knowledge and understanding that has the potential to inform the future and direction of Cape May County."

All in all our presentations went well. We all worked hard and everyday is a learning experience. As our information develops and our lay out is organized we will have reached the point I'm sure our professors are shooting for.

Following our presentation our guests offered their perspectives, critiquing our work, and guiding us to our next step of development, our analysis.
Our next steps include the introduction of sea level rise and climate change. This starts to revolve around questions of heirarchy and a crash between ecology and economy which also leads to considerations including property rights.

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4 comments:

  1. Your proposal of having the back wall as the location to orient the audience for this presentation was a well thought out idea....its good to see how great the maps came out as i witnessed your long nights in studio...good job to you and your fellow classmates

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  2. Hany, I have to applaud you on your over all involvement with inventory. You really showed me and many of our class mates how well you can work as a team. Your dedication and passion to this section of our semester long project lead to the success of inventory and your efforts have not gone unnoticed. I thank you as one of your class mates for doing such an excellent job and can personally say that I have learned a lot myself just from watching you. Keep up the good work. P.S. Pics look great!

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  3. well done guys and gals.

    you worked hard and it shows.

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