Dear Eduarado 

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! You are one of the sweetest men whom I have the fortune to 'know'! 
Before I say more, I should make a disclaimer:

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM EAD 06!!! 
ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE MERELY MINE. 

I have fun myself watching the 'visible viewing' process unfold at EAD 06 website
ead06.hfk-bremen.de

Of course, we won't know how things will turn out in the end, but i am happy so far with the interactions. we have also planned to conduct a formal survey after the conference to gather information about the experience. be good or bad, i hope the experiment with 'visible review' will add to our collective learning. 

i have also submitted an abstract, if it gets accepted. i plan to invite close friends to comment on my paper via BRP.
and i hope that we - you, me... everybody will experiment with BRP on your own. the floor is open. 

furthermore, i feel that visible review must find a theoretical home and your comments on that are most welcome. i see that visible review can be anchored on a perspective and an ideal, namely knowledge as a social construction and democracy as a way of life, a way of design. 

as i notice, some individuals are not as excited about EAD 06 as we are, understandably. so if there is a need, we might be able to open a line of dicussion about BRP on the EAD 06 website. please feel free to contact me if you have any suggestion. 

with best regards, 
rosan 
p.s. i like to be the cat. 





----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Eduardo Corte-Real <[log in to unmask]>
An:      [log in to unmask]
Datum:   04.08.2004 17:41
Betreff: BRP - summer time in Bremen

> Dear All:
> 
> I wish to comment on what will be, for eternity known, as the Bremen
> Reviewing Process (BRP) now competing with the formerly other famous thing
> about Bremen (the four musicians). But first, let me tell you a story:
> 
> When I was research fellow in Rome I discovered that I could dine very
> cheaply at an Enoteca by asking for a glass of wine and a dish of
> antipasti. Since my scholarship was reducing every day I tended to go to
> the same Enoteca every day. Eventually I became friend of the bartenders,
> boys and girls. One day, one of the boys was staring at the television. The
> most intriguing thing was that the television was tuned at a teletext
> program and the screen exhibited only the following information: Lazio – 0
> Roma – 0 over a somewhat bluish light. He stayed there immobile for a half
> hour, eventually nodding his head. I knew he was a Lazio fan and I asked
> him: Gianni, are you that “Tifoso”? No, he answered hardly looking at me.
> Luckily, in the middle of the second half he cried: Gol!
> Sadly, near the end he murmured: Porca Miseria and other untranslatable
> things, horrible composite blasphemies.
> 
> Well, I feel like Gianni looking at the BRP website and imagine that other
> Giannis are, from time to time, watching it waiting to see a “not yet set”
> changing to a “under review” or a 1 appearing.
> 
> I recall discussions about reviewing processes from three years ago
> specially one very good long post from Terry Love. Early this year, like
> forest fires in Portugal in the summer, the discussion irrupted again. I
> must give credit to Rosan Chow for defending gallantly more transparency in
> reviewing. This system may not be perfect but has a reasonable amount of
> fairness. It has, also an enormous pedagogic virtue: it allows students,
> teachers and researchers to have an overview of the state of the art in
> terms of theoretical propositions and current research work in Design.
> For instance, the number of papers about architecture surprises me. Since I
> live in a country where, wrongly, Design is considered to be a sub field of
> Architecture I find that so many Arch. Theory submissions for a Design
> Conference is very eloquent and I will strongly advertise it, here.
> Most of all I find the process amusing.
> My applause to the new four musicians: Wolfgang Jonas and Jan Mayer-Veden
> who introduced this format at the Basic Paradox, to Rosan Chow who set
> things on fire and invented expression “visible reviewing” and Niels
> Verhaag for the wonderful/usable website.
> 
> I’ll keep watching my Lazio-Roma
> 
> Eduardo
> 
> P.S. Looking at the map for the Venue I was surprised by the fact that all
> that part of Bremen was designed by Zaha-Did.
> 

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