http://folksonomy.co/?rss=490 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Thu, 16 May 2013 13:36:55 +1000 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:36:55 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3305 for over 40 years Pablo has been putting his stamp on the moving image through works such as the opening of Stanley Kubrick s Dr Strangelove and the revolutionary split-screen montage of 1963 s The Thomas Crown Affair He has also created the opening titles for Hal Ashby s Being There 1979 and Gus Van Sant s To Die For 1995 Art of the Title http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3305 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:36:55 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Politecnico di Milano in order to present the School of Design in its own stand at Salone del Mobile 2013 asked DensityDesign to realize a 4 mt x 2 mt poster showing the structure and the efficiency of the School of Design system at Politecnico The visualization is a picture of the 2010 2011 academic year We began with the visualization of the figures related to students On the left side you can start following the students path from the admission test to their bachelor degree which is connected to data related to the type of contract one year after graduation data referred to a 2010 survey We decided to integrate the visualization with information related to credits distribution Every circle is a course of study and shows its typology of exams theoretical courses labs etc with related C F U university course credits Inside it is shown the average of earned credits by students every year In the right side you can see the same data related to master degree We also visualized how many teachers each department gives to the school of design The poster has been completed with information about PhDs technical and research labs and the number of students for each school of Politecnico The poster was realized in one week by Gabriele Calvi and Sara De Donno with the supervision of Michele Mauri Sara De Donno 24 April 2013 Density Design http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3293 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:56:40 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3292 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3292 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:46 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 This is a lecture given to MA students at the University of Hertfordshire It explores how contemporary kinetic typography relies on historical developments such as 3D woodblock print Romain du Roi and Modernist modular lettering Students are encouraged to let their design work respond to historical research This does not mean creating something that looks old or retro rather creating something innovative and new by re-imagining historical ideas in light of new technologies and contexts Barbara Brownie http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:20:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3272 Metal setting is practised today by only a handful of specialists but it continues to provide the standards by which good typesetting is judged Photosetting and the computer setting which has largely displaced it are criticised for being too perfect and lacking the character of hand-crafted type Now increasingly designers are using desktop publishing systems such as the Macintosh to do their typesetting The technology has matured considerably over the last two years and the time is ripe for a reassessment is good typesetting possible on the Macintosh Andy Benedek 1991 Andy Benedek 1991 The craft of digital type Winter no 2 vol 1 Eye Magazine http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3272 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:46:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3271 PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images each for 20 seconds The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas works thoughts holiday snaps just about anything really in the PechaKucha 20x20 format Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3271 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:17:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3258 Inviting play and reflection on the role of green buildings ECOS presents data on the Cube using a simple and interactive game-like application The data shows how energy consumption and generation impacts people in a variety of climates within a five-star rated green building like the Science and Engineering Centre SEC where the Cube is located ECOS incorporates live weather data into an interactive illustration and places a fictional green building into different climates allowing users to play with the parameters of the buildings and observe the results and the possible impacts on people ECOS promotes behavioural change by demonstrating the factors that influence sustainable energy consumption and generation Project team Prof Jeff Jones Cube Project Leader Debra Polson Project Leader David Wallace Cassie Selin Warwick Mellow http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3258 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:01:13 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3256 Perception of external sources of inspiration prompts new imaginings Research on the role of externalisations in design thinking has concentrated on the role of sketching 14 Sch ouml n 15 has shown that for many architects sketching is an essential part of creative design and creation is driven by making and perceiving sketches Sch ouml n characterises design as an interactive conversation between mind and sketch Designers directly appreciate different types of information in their own sketches 16 alternating between seeing that and seeing as 17 Ambiguity in sketches facilitates reinterpretation triggered by dissatisfaction with the current design 18 For designers who make active use of sources of inspiration in designing they play a similar role to designers own sketches Claudia Eckerta Martin Stacey p 526 2000 Design Studies 14 Purcell A T and Gero J S Drawings and the design process Design Studies Vol 19 1998 pp 389-430 15 Sch ouml n D A The reflective practitioner how professionals think in action Basic Books New York 1983 16 Sch ouml n D A and Wiggins G Kinds of seeing and their functions in designing Design Studies Vol 13 1992 pp 135-156 17 Gabriela Goldschmidt The dialectics of sketching Creativity Research Journal Vol 4 1991 pp 123-143 https blog itu dk DIND-E2010 files 2010 10 goldsmidt dialectics paper pdf 18 McFadzean J Cross N G and Johnson J H Notation and Cognition in Conceptual Sketching in Proceedings VR 99 Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design MIT Press Cambridge MA 1999 Claudia Eckerta Martin Stacey 2000 Sources of inspiration a language of design Design Studies Volume 21 Issue 5 September 2000 Pages 523-538 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3256 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:36:51 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3248 DESIGNERS ENJOY DESIGNING The practicalities of the design-based Ph D or Ph D s generally in the creative arts often fails to recognise the wider needs of the researcher who would typically have bachelors and masters degrees in their field and where the structure of their degree programme s would have been practice-based i e they have considerable prior history of creative practice they enjoy creative practice and they may well miss the fulfilment of creative practice if none was undertaken during a three to five year full time Ph D STUDENTS NEED TUTORS THAT CAN DESIGN Practice-based learning at undergraduate and masters level requires a significant taught input by competent practitioners It is all too common for academics to loose or fail to develop capability in practice as they move through an academic career that is based on teaching and research The typical route by which full-time academics with a practitioner background acquire a Ph D is through part-time study In order to maintain competence as a practitioner for the benefit of students there is a case to encourage the use of practice in staff Ph D s RESEARCH OUTCOMES NEED DESIGNING An unexpected outcome from the author s experience of Ph D supervision in creative disciplines has been the scenario where professional practice was necessary for the progress of the research Tools are a popular and relevant outcome from design-based Ph D s and situations arise where the tool itself must be designed in order to facilitate its validation It is therefore necessary to consider the use of researcher-practice where practice is not a direct means of the data collection but a process by which research outcomes can progress to validation Mark Evans p 75 2009 Evans M 2009 Creative professional practice in methods and methodology case study examples from Ph Dos in industrial design EKSIG 2009 Experiential Knowledge Method amp Methodology Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3248 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:16:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3245 Nexus thinking is a new way of thinking that recognises the crucial interdependence of water energy and food - a relationship that forms the core of the Environment Nexus project This new IIEA video explores the deep interconnections between the three essential resources and highlights the need for nexus thinking to help meet the worldos needs as it grows from 7 to 9 billion by 2050 The Institute of International and European Affairs 20 February 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3245 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:19:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Pedagogical experiments played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century In fact the key hypothesis of our Radical Pedagogy 1 research project is that these experiments can be understood as radical architectural practices in their own right Radical in the literal meaning from the Latin radice as something belonging or relating to the root to its foundations Radical pedagogies shake foundations disturbing assumptions rather than reinforcing and disseminating them This challenge to normative thinking was a major force in the postwar field of architecture and has surprisingly been neglected in recent years Architectural pedagogy has become stale Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before it happens The fact that they wait for instruction is already the problem Teachers likewise worry too much about their place in the institutional hierarchies Curricular structures have hardly changed in recent decades despite the major transformations that have taken place with the growth of globalisation new technologies and information culture As schools appear to increasingly favour professionalisation they seem to drown in self-imposed bureaucratic oversight suffocating any possibility for the emergence of experimental practices and failures There are a few attempts to wake things up here and there but it s all so timid in the end There is no real innovation In response to the timidity of schools today the Radical Pedagogy project returns to the educational experiments of the 1960s and 70s to remind us what can happen when pedagogy takes on risks It s a provocation and a call to arms Beatriz Colomina with Esther Choi Ignacio Gonzalez Galan and Anna-Maria Meister 28 September 2012 The Architectural Review 1 Radical Pedagogy is an ongoing multi-year collaborative research project by a team of PhD candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Beatriz Colomina and involving seminars interviews and guest lectures by protagonists and scholars The project explores a remarkable set of pedagogical experiments of the 1960s and 70s that revolutionised thinking in the discipline Each student is working on one of these experiments and collectively mapping the interconnections and effects of these experiments towards a major publication and exhibition Fig 1 Tournaments in the Course Culture of the Body at the Valpara iacute so School 1975 Courtesy of Archivo Hist oacute rico Jose Vial Escuela Arquitectura y Dise ntilde o Pontificia Universidad Cat oacute lica de Valpara iacute so http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3236 This paper considers differing understandings about the role and praxis of practitioner-based research for the arts Over more than a decade the nexus between theory and practice has been a point of debate within the contemporary arts school both in Australia and overseas This paper attempts to reveal ways of approaching this issue from within and across the disciplines Discussions with colleagues from the arts representing fields as diverse as music visual arts creative writing women s studies dance and theatre studies indicate that the research principles explored albeit briefly here have resonance for each of these disciplines Consequently in an attempt to be broadly relevant for these diverse fields I have chosen to position the model as practitioner-based Within this widened context I will be exploring the different ways in which studio-based practitioners and academics conceptualise the processes and characteristics of research in the arts and professional practice However as this is still work in progress my exemplars will largely reflect my own field of the visual arts Further research will enable this model to expand Presented is a way to conceptualise and explain what we do as studio-based researchers in the arts In so doing I am recognising that contemporary practices in the arts reflect a meridian era of evolution which requires us to be articulate practitioners This includes being able to analyse and write about our practice in sophisticated ways I see practitioner-based research and the resultant exploration of personal praxis as a way to achieve this What I propose is that as artists we open up a larger domain by recontextualizing and reinterpreting aspects of standard mainstream research processes looking at the resemblances the self-resemblances and the differences between traditional and practitioner-based research methods as a logic of necessity Robyn Stewart 2001 TEXT Vol Vol 5 No 2 October 2001 http www griffith edu au school art text http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3236 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:15:26 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3234 Uploaded via SlideShare as Adobe PDF http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3234 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:44:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3233 Dorothy Iannone Innocent and Aware 8 March 2013 - 5 May 2013 Camden Arts Centre in London Iannone s portrayals of male and female sexuality celebrate the joy of her most intimate relationships while subverting traditional gender stereotypes of dominance and control Through graphic paintings sculptures and video boxes her works depict partly-clothed and naked figures on bright psychedelic backgrounds of flora mandalas and biomorphic patterns Recalling classical Indian erotic art Egyptian frescoes and Byzantine mosaics Iannone s intricate work communicates a personal narrative passionate love affairs and lifetime pursuit of ecstatic unity through transcendence and spirituality Camden Arts Centre 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3233 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:29:40 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3231 Prentenboek met 18 platen met geometrische gevormde figuren van een van de constructivistisch gerichte experimentele schilders met plaatjes die gemaakt lijken met behulp van de tangramdoos S de Bodt Prentenboeken Bevat onder andere gedichten en prenten over een vlinder kippen spreeuwen een geitenbok speelgoed een varken de sproeiwagen een watermannetje de vuilnisman lammetjes spelen met een tol een interieur met zonnestraal een kwikstaart koe en schaap in de wei een lezend meisje regen sneeuwpret en Sinterklaas The Memory of the Netherlands Simon Franke 1927 Gouden Vlinders picture book illustrated Lou Loeber http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3231 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:27:00 +1000