Design

This is the first refereed article that presents the life and work of JP Hully, a British modernist that worked with Gane furniture manufacturers in Bristol. His design life and tenure at Gane overlapped with that of Marcel Breuer. Both historical and historiographal, this article probes the remaining historical shards of JP Hully’s work, career and life, while making wider historiographical statements about the gaps, absences and silences of history.

The ubiquitous sameness of urban greenways prompts questions on generative design grammar and syntax, whether creative, critical rethinking at that level might be lacking. However the design syntax of urban greenways is not explicitly discussed thus leaving a critical gap in knowledge. This paper begins tackling the larger question by acting on the fundamental subset of it, by operationalizing the design syntax of urban greenways. This is done through mathematics-based graph studies to analyze patterns and shapes, photography based thermal, material and morphology studies, and section analyses to make imagery-derived deductions on the design syntax. Recommendation on approaches to diversify and enrich the design syntax includes a more direct reference from ecosystem science theories such for siting and planning the urban greenways at macro- to meso-scale, a mixed-method approach, combining mathematics, photography and drawings based frames for analyses at meso-, to micro-scale, and a turtle view scale for designing at meso- to micro-scale, with an emphasis on latter.
Keywords: Design thinking; Syntax; Greenway; Urban; Planning; Landscape; STEM integrated design; Inter-disciplinary

The paper presents a few examples of designed and constructed bridges which were inspired by quite strange prototypes from nature and even the history or the philosophy. It shows how it is important to establish a good cooperation between the architect and the structure engineer.

How can one walk the line between some sort of financial sustainability and the production of design work t hat critically challenges accepted power structures and discourse? How can one organise a design practice t hat creates space for work that is socially- and politically-engaged and aims for social transformation?

Sustainable design is a phrase commonly used in the realms of design practice and yet the definition of the same remains quite fuzzy, thus providing the motivation for this research. The paper looks at contemporary sustainable design practices in the area of architecture design, building construction and landscape architecture. The objective is to understand what the term “sustainable design” really means as used in practice and what strategies are being employed towards the goal of sustainable development. The ...

This dissertation discusses the role of designing adaptive kinetic patterns in architecture, architectural surfaces have been covered by patterns long time ago, and the problem is how kinetic adaptive patterns will be designed for improving the sustainability of buildings by providing a proper daylighting, there is no clear strategy for designing these kinetic patterns as it is still new to the field of architecture. This research aims to create a framework that provides strategy for designing adaptive kinetic patterns within the digital modelling phase that implemented by parametric and generative design tools, for making changes in the spatial quality response of the building, in order to enhance environmental performance through daylighting passive design. Creating design strategy will be done by analysing theories for designing this kind of patterns, extracting outcomes and design strategies from case studies, reinforcing the creation of the design strategy by design implementation. This research results indicated that the process of designing adaptive kinetic patterns has five phases: Design generation, Technology, Rationalization, Mechanism, and Materialization. Starting by design approach and specifications of the formal aspects of the designer, and how the designed pattern has been represented for following stages. Transforming the free-form and conceptual sketches into rational adaptive kinetic pattern joined with a supporting structure. Then selection of the technical machines aspects, processes, tools, systems and strategies. And finally taking decisions regarding the formal and interactive attributes of the structural system, the elements, and selecting materials. Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Tzortzopoulos Fazenda. Senior lecturer in Design; Programme Director MSc BIM and Integrated Design, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford.

Dalla Rivoluzione industriale a oggi, la prima storia completa del design. Uno dei piu grandi fenomeni culturali e socio-economici dell'eta contemporanea, visto nei suoi aspetti piu specifici: la progettazione, la produzione, il consumo e la vendita. Un nuovo inserto illustrativo completa la nuova edizione del volume.

RON DOUD'S life reads like a film, but with a tragic ending. Doud grew up and studied interior design at Seattle, graduating in 1970. Decades before Grunge rock, Seattle did have an active counter-culture in the 1960s but for young Doud by the early Seventies, another city was calling... New York and bright lights beckoned and he moved here in 1972. By the mid-1970s he was in independent practice and in 1977 Doud rose to fame as the interior designer of the most famous nightclub of all time: Studio 54. Fame even lead to an interior designer advertising luggage for Samsonite. During 1977-79 Doud consolidated his position as 'a leading New York interior designer' (The New York Times, 1983). We might know what Studio 54 looked like but what was the rest of Doud's work like? This is the first profile of this much overlooked designer: Doud would probably be well-known today if he was still alive, able to speak up for himself but alas his life was snatched away from him as a quite early victim of AIDS, dying aged only 35 in 1983, several months before Klaus Nomi and Glam Rocker/cabaret artiste Jobriath's death in the same year. Best known for his Studio 54 work, by the time Doud-openly gay at a time when this was highly unusual-died in February 1983 he was treated like a leper.

Il cinema di Alberto Grifi, regista e sperimentatore: breve panoramica sul cinema sperimentale italiano, Grifi e la lotta alle forme del potere attraverso il cinema e gli altri media, la documentazione della lotta antipsichiatrica degli anni '70.

Market globalization has brought us not only new opportunities, but also new challenges. The theme of innovation has become a mandatory topic for all industries -it has become a focal point for the enterprise, society and the world. The goal of innovation is to create business value by developing worthwhile ideas into a customer-centric marketable reality. This, for most companies, is difficult to achieve due to the lack of a methodology and tools for systematic innovative thinking. This paper introduces the concept and strategies for product-service innovation based on a Dominant Innovation Design approach. An innovation toolset that effectively combines an Innovation Matrix, Application Space Map, and QFD tools is explained. This methodology enables the identification of hidden customer needs and gaps as they relate to product-service requirements. This paper also shares two case studies of how this tool-set can be utilized for real product-service innovation. The case study includes an overall IT-enabled service solution for a traditional product, which encompasses service thinking, blueprint planning, technical solution evaluation, service platform implementation, and service operation. Combining these elements can lead manufacturing industries into new service business model based on their core product while creating more value to their customers.

Parametric Design is a computer based design approach that treats the geometric properties of the design as variables. The dimensions, angles and geometric properties (like curvature) remain malleable as the design progresses. Although at any time the 'parametric model' displays a determinate shape according to the set of currently chosen values, the essential identity of the parametric design resides in the malleable object's topology rather than its momentary determinate shape. This means that the design consists in the relationships that are maintained between the various elements of the composition. In fact the parametric design model is conceived as a network of relations or dependencies. This way of building up a design has the important advantage that the build-up of complexity and the detail resolution of the design can progress while simultaneously maintaining the malleability to adapt to changing requirements as new information is fed into the design process. The generation of alternative options remains viable and economical deep into the detail design without requiring abortive modeling and drafting work. This parametric malleability is advantageous both for the sake of continuous design adjustments as the design progresses, and for the sake of the generation of options and variations. The parametric model can be conceived as general building plan or genotype for the generation of many different versions or phenotypes that might co-exist (rather than substitute each other as options). Optioniering thus leads to versioning. Mechanical repetition is being replaced by mass customization.

Um dos grandes desafios da administração pública é a demanda crescente da população por intervenções e serviços cada vez mais eficazes e inovadores, buscando soluções para os problemas já existentes e antecipando respostas para problemas futuros. Embora avanços no âmbito da Política de Atendimento ao Cidadão tenham sido observados no Governo do Estado de Minas Gerais nas últimas décadas, muitos desafios ainda são impostos aos gestores para que sejam efetivamente oferecidos serviços de qualidade ao cidadão. Entre os vários métodos e técnicas disponíveis para se trabalhar com os problemas complexos do campo de públicas tem se destacado internacionalmente a abordagem do design de serviços, apontada como capaz de melhorar os serviços a partir do emprego de processos e técnicas que priorizam a cocriação e a perspectiva dos usuários. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho buscou adaptar métodos e ferramentas do design de serviços à gestão pública estadual, aplicando-os por meio de estudo de caso nas Unidades de Atendimento Integrado e analisando a contribuição de tal abordagem para a inovação na oferta dos serviços públicos e consequente melhoria da qualidade de vida dos cidadãos mineiros. Para tal, adotou-se uma abordagem qualitativa aplicada composta por pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, observação participante e design participativo. Constatou-se que, a partir da aplicação dos conhecimentos, capacidades e habilidades do designer, desempenhando os papéis de pesquisador, facilitador e cocriador, foi possível identificar gargalos e deficiências na prestação dos serviços, bem como mapear as possibilidades de melhorias nos processos e nos pontos de contato. Ainda, a pesquisa ofereceu subsídios aos profissionais da administração pública no emprego do design de serviços para o (re)desenho de políticas públicas sob a perspectiva do usuário, notadamente aquelas de atendimento ao cidadão.

In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The Natya-Shashtra, a treatise on drama and dance, reveals the status of the performing arts as equal to prayer and sacrificial rites in the pursuit of moksha, the release form cycles of rebirth. Both dance and dancer function as a vehicle for divine invocation and are mirrored in the architectural surroundings. To investigate this connection between dance and place, it is imperative to understand the mythical origins of architecture and temple dance. the Hindu philosophy of the cosmic man and its religious relationship with the Dravidian architecture of Tamil Nadu is the starting point of the discussion of a south Indian aesthetic. The Vastu-purusha mandala is a philosophical diagram that provides a foundation for Hindu aesthetics, linking physical distance, religious position and universal scale in both time and space. Used as an architectural diagram, it becomes a mediator between the human body and the cosmos. The temple, as a setting for dance performances, and constructed based on the mandala, shares this quality of immersing its participants into a multi-sensory spatial experience. However, while the link between architecture and dance culture was explicit up to the 18th century, it is less compelling in the context of modern south Indian architecture. With an increasingly unstable political landscape during the 20th century, architectural growth in south India during this period is almost stagnant. Unfortunately, this creates a break in the continuity and comparative evolution of dance and architecture, leading to the fragmentation and abstraction of dance in its modern form. South Indian dance has since transformed into a prominent cultural symbol and various incarnations of the dancer have become the isolated yet important link, between tradition and modernity. As an evolving living embodiment of contemporary culture and identity, her transformation from Devadasi, to an icon of nationalism, to a choreographer of 'high art' provides the foundation for the reintegration of architecture in the cultural fabric. The culmination of this research aims to reinstate the importance of architecture as a cultural nexus in order to restring a fragmented dance, community and cultural identity.

Stimuler la creativite demeure un enjeu majeur pour soutenir l’innovation. Depuis les travaux theoriques fondateurs des annees 1950-1960, il existe aujourd’hui un grand nombre d’outils, de methodes, et de guides d’aide au choix diffuses parmi les praticiens. Cependant, les entreprises font aujourd’hui face a une telle complexite, a la fois technique et organisationnelle, que les outils et methodes traditionnellement utilises arrivent a leurs limites et manquent d’efficacite. Non seulement nous manquons encore d’une theorie fondamentale de la creativite qui fasse consensus, mais la recherche dans ce domaine manque souvent de pertinence en termes de transfert dans la pratique et d’adequation avec les besoins pragmatiques industriels. Cette these explore comment l'approche systemique permet d’etudier la creativite afin de mettre en evidence de nouveaux moyens de la stimuler dans des contextes industriels complexes. Cette approche nous a permis de synthetiser les mecanismes de la cr...

Design and technology education provides children with opportunities to create solutions to specific needs in innovative ways. This paper reports on research that focused on the language that the children used when they were involved in a design and technology activity. In accessing the results of the language study, the findings suggest that the children's motivation was high and played a significant role in children's task engagement and persistence. Analysis revealed that there were several key ideas that the children focused on, namely: the fun experienced by participating in the activity, the difficulty of doing the task, the satisfaction of completing the task, the importance of social interaction and the frustrations surrounding aspects of the task. These affective factors that are related directly to motivation will be demonstrated through the children's language responses to their participation in design and technology education.

This work presents a methodology for discovering structure in design repository databases, toward the ultimate goal of stimulating designers through design-by-analogy. Using a Bayesian model combined with latent semantic analysis (LSA) for discovering structural form in data, an exploration of inherent structural forms, based on the content and similarity of design data, is undertaken to gain useful insights into the nature of the design space. In this work, the approach is applied to uncover structure in the U.S. patent database. More specifically, the functional content and surface content of the patents are processed and mapped separately, yielding structures that have the potential to develop a better understanding of the functional and surface similarity of patents. Structures created with this methodology yield spaces of patents that are meaningfully arranged into labeled clusters, and labeled regions, based on their functional similarity or surface content similarity. Example...

Стаття присвячена окремим аспектам процесу формування графічної компетентності майбутніх бакалаврів з комп'ютерних наук у системі професійної освіти з орієнтацією на сучасні вимоги ринку праці, потенційних роботодавців та потреби у особистісному та професійному становленні студента. Досліджено місце комп’ютерного дизайну у змісті професійної освіти майбутнього бакалавра з комп’ютерних наук, та висвітлено його педагогічний потенціал, як необхідного чинника модернізації змісту професійної підготовки фахівців у галузі комп’ютерних наук. Визначено комбінаторні можливості та міждисциплінарні зв’язки з дисциплінами циклу професійної підготовки

AI symposium on 'Ethics and morality in non-human agents' presentation AAAI-16 Spring Symposium.  Slides as pdf.  Robot Priest was demonstrated, chasis, costume, hybrid raspberry pi/sermonator.  Details of present science around biology of human trust, our deteriorating public trust in various institutions including foundations of the catholic church priests, and the need to build 'trustworthy' AI.

Research in the broader IT context highlights that there are two main sources for vulnerabilities in IT systems. Firstly, there are technical flaws and architectural vulnerabilities that open back-doors into otherwise safe systems. Secondly, users can also use an IT system in a way that open that system for security issues, despite being technically sound otherwise. Responding to a discussion of this second source of system vulnerabilities, this project will explore how tool support for systems development engineers can be improved to allow for the development of safer systems.

Con il tema proposto in questo primo numero – l’invo-lucro sensibile e il suo progetto – MD Journal si propone di indagare alcuni aspetti contemporanei del concetto di superficie. Nel design e nell’architettura involucro e rive-stimento rappresentano oggi il punto di convergenza di un duplice campo d’interesse: il primo riguarda la sen-sibilizzazione della superficie orientata a favorire nuove modalità di interazione tattile (aptica), l’altro ne coinvol-ge l’aspetto comunicativo sul piano dell’interazione visiva. In entrambi i casi – come interfaccia o come portatrice di significati – la superficie viene investita di un ruolo di mediazione, in cui aspetti tecnologici, sinestetici o cultu-rali convivono nell’ambito del progetto.

An important strand of research that is often neglected in the field of affective computing is that of how users respond to simulated displays of emotion. We present an overview of the few studies that have explicitly investigated this space and discuss a number of issues related to simulated emotion research. An overview of our own work in this area is then provided, along with forthcoming studies that we plan to conduct. We conclude with a number of suggestions of where future research in this space should focus.

Design, Diversidade Cultural e Uso Compartilhado: um estudo sobre artefatos para o cuidado com a roupa Design, Cultural Diversity and Shared Use: a study about artefacts for clothing care Vasques, Rosana Aparecida; Mestranda; Universidade Federal do Paraná

In the Anthropocene complexity, information and technology play a transcendental role in how we relate to our identity, context and otherness. The already widespread AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) technologies allow to play, teach, train, or educate, presenting also the potentiality to make people empathize with other realities and to envision healthier social scenarios. With the aim to define the benefits of applying AR/VR technologies to design in vulnerable communities, this research analyses several cases studies, underlying their effects on social interactions. Since contemporary projects of applications to vulnerable communities are limited, this work studied cases applied to (1) vulnerable groups (The Machine to Be Another, Carne y Arena, and Autism Empathy Tools) and (2) local communities (Within, Mondly Lenguages VR, Spatial, Alspace VR). An analytical comparison between these two kinds of applications shows how the application of these technologies can bring to benefits in terms of empathy, identity and alterity applied to several fields of life: works, leisure, education and sociality. Nevertheless, the research’s results are very clear in underlining how is extremely urgent to define a new narrative to efficiently represent the features of a vulnerable community.

An improvement methodology is proposed for the design process in construction projects. Based on concepts and principles of lean production, the methodology considers the design process as a set of three different models-conversion, flow, and value. Four stages are necessary to produce improvements and changes-͑1͒ diagnosis/evaluation; ͑2͒ changes implementation; ͑3͒ control; and ͑4͒ standardization. The methodology suggests the application of seven tools in accordance to specific needs ͑detected and desired͒ on five potential areas of improvement-client, administration, project, resources, and information. Results of an application included an increase of 31% in the share of value adding activities, 44% reduction of unit errors in the products, up to 58% decrease of waiting times in the process, and an expansion of the utilization in the cycle times. In this manner, not only did the efficiency and effectiveness of internal engineering products improve, but also the whole project, by improving one of the main suppliers of construction.

In this paper we explore the role of subjective well-being within the process of making together a personalized assistive device. Through a process of social product adaptation, assistive artifacts become part of occupational therapy and co-evolve with clients. Personal digital fabrication tools enable small user groups to make and share their one-of-a-kind products with the world. This approach opens up new possibilities for disabled people and their caregivers to actively engage with their own skills and challenges. The paper describes a case study of an inclusive participatory design approach, which leads to qualitative occupational experiences within the field of communitybased practice. The aim is to show how the process of collaborative designing, making and using artifacts fosters several elements of subject well-being in itself. The starting point of this open design process is a threefold interaction involving industrial designers, patients and occupational therapists withi...

Outside the Frame: A Critical Analysis of Urban Image Surveys Phoebe Crisman Aided by digital technology, designers and planners are making ever greater use of photographic images to depict and envision proposals for urban change. Yet, even as such presentations have become increasingly central to community planning efforts, the methods for employing photographs and their precise construction have not been adequately analyzed. Discussing the new reliance on imaging techniques in architecture, Cambridge Professor Andrew Saint recently noted, “the long-term challenge for the architectural pro- fession…is to ride this exciting, undisciplined, licentious, and dangerous beast, to control this irresponsible lust for image that pervades our culture.” 1 Several imaging methods have gained widespread cur- rency in the design of public places. This essay specifi- cally examines what have become known as urban image surveys. The inclusive and participatory intentions of Above: +6.1 This mixed-u...