On Line and on Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering. Kathryn Henderson

Isis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Design Engineering ◽  
On Line

The Visual Culture of Engineers

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 196-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The West ◽  
Engineering Drawings ◽  
Graphics Design

This chapter defines and illustrates the visual culture of engineers as situated in practice, delineating the components of engineers' visual culture and its relationship to tacit knowledge. A historical account traces the development of drafting conventions in the West, discussing how engineering designers' daily practices have constructed a visual culture not necessarily compatible with the assumptions built into computer-graphics design. The visual literacy which engineers develop in practice is described along with levels of encoding in engineering drawings. Parallels are drawn between these encoding structures and those found in language and artworks in order to explain how visual representations function as boundary objects and conscription devices and why visual representations are such a powerful tool.

Migration, Gender and Visual Culture:

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenija Vidmar Horvat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Critical Angle ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Current Field ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
European Migration

 This paper investigates visual representations of migrants in Slovenia. The focus is on immigrant groups from China and Thailand and the construction of their ‘ethnic’ presence in postsocialist public culture. The aim of the paper is to provide a critical angle on the current field of cultural studies as well as on European migration studies. The author argues that both fields can find a shared interest in mutual theoretical and critical collaboration; but what the two traditions also need, is to reconceptualize the terrain of investigation of Europe which will be methodologically reorganized as a post- 1989 and post-westernocentric. Examination of migration in postsocialism may be an important step in drawing the new paradigm.

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2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Szcześniak ◽  
Łukasz Zaremba
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Polish Culture

A chapter from the book Kultura wizualna w Polsce. Spojrzenia [Visual Culture in Poland. Looks], ed. Iwona Kurz, Paulina Kwiatkowska, Magda Szcześniak, Łukasz Zaremba (Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Instytut Kultury Polskiej UW: Warsaw, 2017). The essay is devoted to protest imagery in Polish culture - from avant-garde painting to contemporary, vernacular visual representations used during protests.

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