scholarly journals Machining Ornament: An investigation into contemporary machining practices and the creation of patterned ornamental surfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Samuel Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Sheet Forming ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Robotic Tools

<p>Robotic tools open a new frontier in surface articulation. The combination of computer modelling with robotic tools allows the transfer of digital information onto physical objects with comparative ease. This permits a more intricate approach to building; where the architect can incorporate new ornamental effects onto surfaces increasing the diversity of our built environment. This use of contemporary tools to articulate surfaces has heralded a return of ornament to the artistic repertoire of the architect. Once again, the architect can be involved in the intricacies of instilling narratives into material surfaces.  This thesis identifies this resurgence in ornamental effects and aims to question how robotic tools facilitate the creation of ornamental architecture. This thesis involves the digital creation of patterns which considers the creation of parametric designs that hold a particular narrative. This thesis also experiments with the potential of metal sheet forming to identify the parameters that guide the sheet form. These two topics work in unison whereby the digital design has been limited by the parameters discovered through physical experimentation. The machining process of Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) is investigated as to its potential in the manipulation of sheet metal. Specifi cally, the robot is used to discover the potential of sheet forming through the creation of a full-scale prototype.  This practical research shows how considered use of robotic tools can bring greater connection to our built environment. Intricate detailing of architecture boosts the experiential connection between the building and inhabitant, strengthening a person’s attachment to their physical environment.</p>

scholarly journals Machining Ornament: An investigation into contemporary machining practices and the creation of patterned ornamental surfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Samuel Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Sheet Forming ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Robotic Tools

<p>Robotic tools open a new frontier in surface articulation. The combination of computer modelling with robotic tools allows the transfer of digital information onto physical objects with comparative ease. This permits a more intricate approach to building; where the architect can incorporate new ornamental effects onto surfaces increasing the diversity of our built environment. This use of contemporary tools to articulate surfaces has heralded a return of ornament to the artistic repertoire of the architect. Once again, the architect can be involved in the intricacies of instilling narratives into material surfaces.  This thesis identifies this resurgence in ornamental effects and aims to question how robotic tools facilitate the creation of ornamental architecture. This thesis involves the digital creation of patterns which considers the creation of parametric designs that hold a particular narrative. This thesis also experiments with the potential of metal sheet forming to identify the parameters that guide the sheet form. These two topics work in unison whereby the digital design has been limited by the parameters discovered through physical experimentation. The machining process of Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) is investigated as to its potential in the manipulation of sheet metal. Specifi cally, the robot is used to discover the potential of sheet forming through the creation of a full-scale prototype.  This practical research shows how considered use of robotic tools can bring greater connection to our built environment. Intricate detailing of architecture boosts the experiential connection between the building and inhabitant, strengthening a person’s attachment to their physical environment.</p>

The Missing Dimension in the Built Environment: A Challenge for the 21st Century

1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Leo R. Zrudlo
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
City Design

This article addresses architects, planners, and developers but should also interest any other professionals involved in the creation of the built environment. It begins by stating that the built environment is principally made up of buildings and groupings of buildings. Therefore, architecture and urban design are the major focus of the article. Definitions of architecture are then presented from a variety of authors and architects. An argument is made that there actually is a missing dimension in the built environment illustrated by quotations from architects, architectural theorists, amid critics. It becomes evident that architecture is unable to satisfy the emotional and aesthetic needs of people and also that the profession itself, which admits that modern architecture has created bleak and insensitive environments, is in profound disagreement on how to rectify the situation. Under the heading “Architecture–The Object” arguments for and against different architectural movements or stylistic tendencies are highlighted by quotations from the proponents of tile various styles and theories. A similar approach is taken for cities under the heading “Urban Design–The Juxtaposition of Objects.” The fact that something is missing from architectural and city design is concluded, and examples of a preoccupation for the spiritual aspect of architecture and urban design are used to illustrate this growing concern for a dimension that has been much neglected in tile previous several decades. The notion of “spiritual” is then defined, followed by a list of spiritual qualities. Two important principles, unity in diversity and consultation are discussed before presenting some concluding thoughts on how the designers of the built environment can begin finding ways of infusing their designs with a spiritual dimension.

scholarly journals Teaching Interactive Fiction for Undergraduate Students with the Aid of Information Technologies: An Experience Report

RENOTE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-536
Author(s):  
Paula T. Palomino ◽  
Armando M. Toda ◽  
Wilk Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Rodrigues ◽  
Seiji Isotani
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Experience Report ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

This paper presents an experience report concerning the use of a platformcalled “Storium” in the subject of “Interactive Fiction” for undergraduatestudents, from a Digital Design Course. The objective was to use the learningtheories of constructivism and multimedia learning to create an instructionalplan devised to teach the students how to create complex interactive narrativesand stories from a practical perspective. During the course, the students learnedthe subject’s theoretical concepts and applied them directly, creating their owninteractive fiction. The results from this research proposes a new approach, usingdigital tools whose resources provides an environment for the creation ofinteractive narratives. These narratives can be used to aid future designs ofinstructional plans for complex writing concepts.

Semantic Web-Linked Data and Libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasim Rahaman
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Modern Technologies

The present society is considered an information society. A society where the creation, distribution, use, integration, and manipulation of digital information have become the most significant activity in all aspects. Information is producing from every sector of any society, which has resulted in an information explosion. Modern technologies are also having a huge impact. So managing this voluminous information is really a tough job. Again WWW has opened the door to connect anyone or anything within a fraction of a second. This study discussed the Semantic Web and linked data technologies and their effect and application to libraries for the handling of various types of resources.

The Role of the Built Environment in the Creation, Cultivation and Acquisition of a Knowledge-Base

2010 ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Kristine Peta Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Physical Design ◽  
The Creation

This chapter explores the role of the built environment in the creation, cultivation and acquisition of a knowledge base by people populating the urban landscape. It examines McDonald’s restaurants as a way to comprehend the relevance of the physical design in the diffusion of codified and tacit knowledge at an everyday level. Through an examination of space at a localised level, this chapter describes the synergies of space and the significance of this relationship in navigating the global landscape.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Aids

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Masamichi Watanuki ◽  
Shinya Abe
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Communication Aids ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Grid Onput is a set of novel two-dimensional codes comprising extremely small dots. The present authors recently developed software to overlap the dot codes on the user's designed sheet, to create a content to replay audios, to create a standalone application to replay multimedia, and to create an application to replay multimedia on iPad. Simply touching the dot codes with a speaking-pen and/or a dot-code reader enables users to directly access the corresponding digital information; a maximum of four mediums can be easily linked to each dot code icon. In collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world, one of the authors, Shigeru Ikuta, has been creating a variety of original self-made content and conducting various activities at both general and special needs schools. This chapter outlines the recent development of the state-of-the-art Grid Onput dot code technology and presents basic information regarding the creation of original teaching materials using newly developed software and the use at both general and special needs schools.

The Data Imperative

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Henri Schildt
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
End Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines digitalization as a set of new normative ideals for managing and organizing businesses, enabled by new technologies. The data imperative consists of two mutually reinforcing goals: the pursuit of omniscience—the aspiration of management to capture the world relevant to the company through digital data; and the pursuit of omnipotence—an aspiration of managers to control and optimize activities in real-time and around the world through software. The data imperative model captures a self-reinforcing cycle of four sequential steps: (1) the creation and capture of data, (2) the combination and analysis of data, (3) the redesign of business processes around smart algorithms, and (4) the ability to control the world through digital information flows. The logical end-point of the data imperative is a ‘programmable world’, a conception of society saturated with Internet-connected hardware that is able to capture processes in real time and control them in order to optimize desired outcomes.

Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172110091
Author(s):  
Begüm Adalet
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Scalar Analysis ◽  
Economic Institution

Political theorists are increasingly drawn to the recovery of anticolonial thinkers as global figures. Frantz Fanon is largely excluded from these discussions because of his presumed commitment to the nation-state and its territorialist assumptions. This essay claims, by contrast, that Fanon’s writings reveal an alternative way of thinking about worldmaking, less as a question of political and economic institution-building spearheaded by leaders than as a multiscalar project that permeates the production of the built environment and the creation of selves. I show how Fanon challenges the dichotomy between the global and the national by seeking to transform not just the national scale in relation to the international, but also the corporeal, urban, rural, and regional scales of an imperially configured world. In order to read Fanon as a scalar thinker and to highlight aspects of his thought that have been relatively neglected, I draw on concepts from geography, and specifically scalar analysis, which, I demonstrate, allows political theorists to develop a richer understanding of the operations of power in colonial contexts and how they can be restructured to inaugurate more liberated ways of being human.

Digital Three-Dimensional Labeling System of Product Design Information Based on MBD

2014 ◽  
Vol 912-914 ◽  
pp. 1617-1620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Cao ◽  
Ni Ping Gao ◽  
Zhou Fang
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Reference Plane ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Product Model ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Labeling System

MBD (Model Based Definition) technology is the development trend of digital design and manufacture. Design information includes geometric elements, annotations and process attributes. In the paper, the focus is concentrated on digital three-dimensional (3D) labeling of annotations. The 3D labeling system of product design information is seamlessly integrated with NX platform to define digital information of a 3D product model. The Key technologies of the 3D labeling system realization on NX platform mainly includes transformation of space coordinates, reference plane construction based on solid modeling and 3D dimensioning. NX internal program mode is adopted where the developed program is compiled and linked to generate the dll file whose codes are small and whose connection speed is fast. Integrated digital definition of a 3D model shortens product development cycle and improves product design and manufacturing efficiency.

scholarly journals PROPOSALS FOR THE CREATION OF THE APPROPRIATE INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS OF THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOGISTIC CLUSTERS IN THE ECONOMIC REGIONS OF UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3(72)) ◽  
pp. 138-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.V. TRUSHKINA ◽  
N.S. RYNKEVICH
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Cluster Approach ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Economic Regions

Topicality. One of the dynamic and rapid lines of development of modern regional ecosystems is transport logistics as an effective source of competitive advantages. This requires the use of new tools to improve the competitive ability of regions, including the cluster approach, the essence of which is the formation and development of logistic clusters by consolidating the efforts of the state, business, science, education in priority fields of economic activity. As international practice shows, the implementation of the cluster model of logistic activities will contribute to the reduction of total logistic costs by 12-35% as a result of reducing transport costs by 7-20% and the cost of handling operations by 20-30%, as well as accelerating the speed of circulation of material resources by 20-40%. Therefore, the creation of logistic clusters will create favorable conditions for the growth of the volume and quality of transport and logistics services and create a qualitatively new model of the regional economy.Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to analyze the current state and problems of the formation of the institutional environment of functioning of logistic clusters in the economic regions of Ukraine, as well as to develop proposals for the creation of the appropriate institutional conditions for the development of logistic clusters as illustrated by the Prydniprovsky and Sloboda economic regions.Research results. It was found that the formation and effective functioning of logistic clusters in the regions of Ukraine is hampered by many key barriers that can be conditionally classified into the following groups, such as political, foreign economic, institutional, investment and financial, infrastructure, logistics. It was proved that for the effective development of logistic clusters in the economic regions of Ukraine it is reasonable to develop proposals for the creation of appropriate institutional conditions, which are to finalize the Strategies of the regional development in terms of institutional, investmen and financial, organizational and economic and information support of the functioning of logistic clusters using the cluster approach, as well as the Concepts of creating logistic clusters and Strategies for the integrated development of logistic clusters as a component of the regional transport and logistic system; implementation of the financial support mechanism, which includes exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the development of the regional transport and logistic system; the principles on which the formation of logistic clusters should be based; management functions (forecasting, planning, organization, accounting, control, analysis, regulation); a set of tools governing the organization and implementation of logistic activities, as well as the provision of transport services; financial instruments (venture investment, crowdinvesting, factoring, public-private partnership on the basis of attracting private investments, funds of credit institutions, foreign investment resources, grants of international financial organizations); means (digital, information and communication technologies, software, regulatory documents).Combination of modern cluster policy, mechanism of institutional support for the development of an integrated transport and logistic system and strategies of smart industry specializations in the context of decentralization will create the appropriate conditions for the formation of a logistic cluster as an effective form of partnership, strengthen the competitive advantages of the Prydniprovsky and Sloboda economic regions and increase the economic capacity of territorial communities.Conclusion. It was substantiated that the introduction of proposals for the creation of the appropriate institutional conditions for the formation and development of logistic clusters will contribute to a synergetic effect, the components of which are to increase the level of investment attractiveness of economic regions; increase revenues due to economic growth of territories; creation of new jobs and growth of employment; increase in the volume of cargo transportation and turnover; optimization of movement of logistic flows; cost reduction for the organization of logistic activities for the reduction of transport component in the cost of services, reduction in time to complete customs procedures for clearance of goods; provision of favourable conditions for the functioning of logistic market; creating objects of the appropriate logistic infrastructure (transport, trade, service, etc); improvement of the technology of transportation with the use of modern digital information and communication technologies.

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