scholarly journals El diseño como herramienta de desarrollo humano sostenible = Design as a tool for sustainable human development

2019 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Ángela Pérez Calleja
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Combined Process ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
Development Change ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The One

ResumenLa actividad del diseño industrial se desarrolla en un contexto y unas circunstancias, los cuales, concretados en problemas y necesidades, marcan sus objetivos y su dirección de evolución. El diseño es por definición desarrollo, cambio, y por ello puede generar un impacto en la realidad en la que existe. Las personas son las protagonistas del desarrollo, y también del proceso de diseño, que según las metodologías más actuales, como el design thinking y el diseño centrado en el ser humano, debe generarse por y para las personas, como herramienta de respuesta a sus problemas. Esta herramienta de cambio se proponecomo una nueva funcionalidad del diseño. Sus características se definen mediante una comparación de metodologías: de aquella propia de la producción artesanal, y de la propia del diseño industrial proyectual (tradicional y actual), buscando sus similitudes y diferencias, ydesembocando en una integración equilibrada de ambas, que generará un proceso combinado capaz de originar una mejora en situaciones de subdesarrollo.AbstractThe activity of the industrial design is developed in a certain context and circumstances, which may be specified by problems and needs, settling its objectives and direction. Design means by definition development, change, and that is the reason because it can generate an impact in the reality in which it exists. People are the principal subjects of development, and also of the designing process, which according to the modern methodologies like design thinking and human centered design, must be generated by and for human beings, as a tool for solving their problems. This tool for change is proposed as a new usefulness of design.Its characteristics are defined though the comparison of methodologies: the one used by the craftwork production and the one used by planning industrial design (traditional and contemporary), searching for its similarities and differences, and finally leading to a balancedintegration of both of them, that will generate a combined process capable of originate an improvement in underdevelopment situations.

scholarly journals Human Rights in Islamic Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Miss Robina ◽  
Altaf Ahmad Shah ◽  
Zafar Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Development and Human rights are interconnected and are safeguarded by the Charter of United Nations. So far as the Islamic concept of human rights is concerned Khutba Hajjatul Wada has paramount importance in the history of human rights and sustainable human development and progress. The end of the cold war brings multiple global problems and challenges to international relations and gives birth to new perception regarding human rights in the comity of nations. Religion addresses the matters of human good and especially Islam is the religion of peace and tranquility, which focuses on the success of human beings. In this research work, the researcher has conducted thematic analysis from the existing literature and construed his work with the help of a comprehensive study of all three monotheists religions and their concept of sustainable human development.

scholarly journals Human centered design education——Design Education in the new era

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boxin Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
New Era ◽  
Education Design ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Insight Into

China’s design education has not developed as fast and well as the economy. Instead, problems such as blindly imitating foreign design education, failing to deeply develop students’ potential, and failing to develop students’ design thinking have emerged. Since the industrial revolution, design has been repeatedly defined and revised at different times. Similarly, design education needs to be constantly discussed in combination with the country, era, culture and population. Colleges and universities should not train “hand-drawn/modeling machines”, but let every student find himself and know human beings; Have empathy for others, insight into the environment, and confidence to use your strengths. Because design and education have to deal with people, it means that they don’t have to follow a process, summarize a method to get the truth. Teachers, students and designers have been involved in adjusting cognition to find more responsive answers to this era.

Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Heinämaa ◽  
Timo Kaitaro
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

The chapter clarifies the connections between Descartes’ discussion of the mind–body union and classical phenomenology of embodiment, as developed by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. It argues that the perplexing twofoldness of Descartes’ account of the mind–body union—interactionistic on the one hand, and holistic on the other—can be explicated and made coherent by phenomenological analyses of the two different attitudes that we can take toward human beings: the naturalistic and the personalistic. In the naturalistic attitude, the human being is understood as a two-layered psycho-physical complex, in which mental states and faculties are founded on the material basis of the body. In the personalistic attitude, the human being forms an expressive whole in which the spiritual and the sensible-material are intertwined. The chapter ends with a discussion of the most important similarities and differences between Descartes’ and Husserl’s conceptions of philosophy as a radical science.

Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Coope
Keyword(s):  
First Principle ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The One ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves: they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for nonbodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate and becomes enslaved. This book discusses this notion of freedom, and its relation to questions about responsibility. It explains the important role of notions of self-reflexivity in Neoplatonist accounts of both freedom and responsibility. Part I sets out the puzzles Neoplatonist philosophers face about freedom and responsibility and explains how these puzzles arise from earlier discussions. Part II looks at the metaphysical underpinnings of the Neoplatonist notion of freedom (concentrating especially on the views of Plotinus and Proclus). In what sense (if any) is the ultimate first principle of everything (the One) free? If everything else is under this ultimate first principle, how can anything other than the One be free? What is the connection between freedom and nonbodiliness? Part III looks at questions about responsibility, arising from this perfectionist view of freedom. Why are human beings responsible for their behaviour, in a way that other animals are not? If we are enslaved when we act viciously, how can we be to blame for our vicious actions and choices?

Triumph of the Human Spirit

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The Future

This chapter is a transcript of Haq’s address to the North South Roundtable of 1992, where he identifies five critical challenges for the global economy for the future. If addressed properly, these can change the course of human history. He stresses on the need for redefining security to include security for people, not just of land or territories; to redefine the existing models of development to include ‘sustainable human development’; to find a more pragmatic balance between market efficiency and social compassion; to forge a new partnership between the North and the South to address issues of inequality; and the need to think on new patterns of governance for the next decade.

scholarly journals Bio-Inspired Modality Fusion for Active Speaker Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3397
Author(s):  
Gustavo Assunção ◽  
Nuno Gonçalves ◽  
Paulo Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Superior Colliculus ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Speaker Detection ◽  
The One ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Fusion Ability

Human beings have developed fantastic abilities to integrate information from various sensory sources exploring their inherent complementarity. Perceptual capabilities are therefore heightened, enabling, for instance, the well-known "cocktail party" and McGurk effects, i.e., speech disambiguation from a panoply of sound signals. This fusion ability is also key in refining the perception of sound source location, as in distinguishing whose voice is being heard in a group conversation. Furthermore, neuroscience has successfully identified the superior colliculus region in the brain as the one responsible for this modality fusion, with a handful of biological models having been proposed to approach its underlying neurophysiological process. Deriving inspiration from one of these models, this paper presents a methodology for effectively fusing correlated auditory and visual information for active speaker detection. Such an ability can have a wide range of applications, from teleconferencing systems to social robotics. The detection approach initially routes auditory and visual information through two specialized neural network structures. The resulting embeddings are fused via a novel layer based on the superior colliculus, whose topological structure emulates spatial neuron cross-mapping of unimodal perceptual fields. The validation process employed two publicly available datasets, with achieved results confirming and greatly surpassing initial expectations.

scholarly journals Two Conceptions of Second Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg W. Bertram
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Open Future ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
The Open Future ◽  
The One ◽  
First Nature

AbstractThe concept of second nature promises to provide an explanation of how nature and reason can be reconciled. But the concept is laden with ambiguity. On the one hand, second nature is understood as that which binds together all cognitive activities. On the other hand, second nature is conceived of as a kind of nature that can be changed by cognitive activities. The paper tries to investigate this ambiguity by distinguishing a Kantian conception of second nature from a Hegelian conception. It argues that the idea of a transformation from a being of first nature into a being of second nature that stands at the heart of the Kantian conception is mistaken. The Hegelian conception demonstrates that the transformation in question takes place within second nature itself. Thus, the Hegelian conception allows us to understand the way in which second nature is not structurally isomorphic with first nature: It is a process of ongoing selftransformation that is not primarily determined by how the world is, but rather by commitments out of which human beings are bound to the open future.

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