scholarly journals Delicacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jaimee Morley
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Final Design ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

<p>A new acceptance of aesthetics, technological advancements and current trends of slenderness and lightness have encouraged contemporary society towards the delicate. Delicacy is a notion within the aesthetic concept of beauty. To explore this shift towards the delicate in this portfolio, I explore the potential of delicacy within architecture through shifting scales. The design-led methodological framework pursues an iterative approach of exploration. To aid in generative and reflective discovery this research is structured to address three different scales: a 1:1 installation, mid-scale project and a public-scale project. The three scales increased in architectural complexity whilst testing the proposition. Literary context, projects and design precedents fed into the design process, further refining the proposition as it shifted. Scale, materiality, and colour and whiteness were developed as an evaluative framework throughout the entire research. An installation investigating the ‘vast and the intimate’ highlighted the importance of the human scale and considering materiality and construction techniques. The next experiment tested the proposition at an architectural scale and, through evaluation, refined the proposition to focus on delicacy. The final design investigation considers the perception of delicacy through a seemingly effortless architectural outcome through multiple scales. To conclude, the research considers the overarching typology down to the detail. Structure, materiality and detailing can all positively inform and enrich architectural aesthetic possibilities in favour of the delicate, where complexities are hidden within the appearance of effortlessness.</p>

scholarly journals Delicacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jaimee Morley
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Final Design ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

<p>A new acceptance of aesthetics, technological advancements and current trends of slenderness and lightness have encouraged contemporary society towards the delicate. Delicacy is a notion within the aesthetic concept of beauty. To explore this shift towards the delicate in this portfolio, I explore the potential of delicacy within architecture through shifting scales. The design-led methodological framework pursues an iterative approach of exploration. To aid in generative and reflective discovery this research is structured to address three different scales: a 1:1 installation, mid-scale project and a public-scale project. The three scales increased in architectural complexity whilst testing the proposition. Literary context, projects and design precedents fed into the design process, further refining the proposition as it shifted. Scale, materiality, and colour and whiteness were developed as an evaluative framework throughout the entire research. An installation investigating the ‘vast and the intimate’ highlighted the importance of the human scale and considering materiality and construction techniques. The next experiment tested the proposition at an architectural scale and, through evaluation, refined the proposition to focus on delicacy. The final design investigation considers the perception of delicacy through a seemingly effortless architectural outcome through multiple scales. To conclude, the research considers the overarching typology down to the detail. Structure, materiality and detailing can all positively inform and enrich architectural aesthetic possibilities in favour of the delicate, where complexities are hidden within the appearance of effortlessness.</p>

scholarly journals The House Reformed: A Reaction to Suburban Monotony

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Florence Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Manual Methods ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
House Design ◽  
Made In

<p>Joyless rows of monotonous houses are be- ginning to define the suburban typology of tomorrow. Quality and innovation is being compromised for speed and quantity and there is a distinct lack of consideration for the home’s potential to enrich and influence the life-styles and well-being of its occupants.  This thesis is a reaction to the researcher’s dis- satisfaction with New Zealand’s suburban typology and seeks to identify and demonstrate an alternative design approach. The research- er considers that a house should enable its occupants to flourish by instigating moments of joy and surprise whilst maximising economy of space.  The thesis uses an investigative research method of five different design tests. Each test reveals strategies to aid the approach of designing the suburban typology, focusing on maximising joy, surprise and economy of space.  Both digital and manual methods are used, revealing their respective strengths and flaws. The Digital method used in the Data House and Rigid x Fluid house tests lacked the ability to apply tangible aesthetic qualities to a de- sign. The manual hands on method of used in the Patchwork House and House Reformed tests was hugely beneficial for the aesthetic qualities of design, however it lacked the rigor and capacity to apply individuality on a mass scale.  Discoveries made in the thesis investigations are collated in a final design outcome, the House Reformed. This house design demonstrates a compilation of the successful strategies identified in the research and reveals the benefits of approaching home design with qualities of joy, surprise and economy of space. The most successful strategies used to achieve these aims were establishing a great- er connection with the outdoors, providing flexible spaces through the use of innovative partitions and furniture and injecting unexpected aesthetic moments through the use of interesting texture and colour.  Overall the research reveals a successful de- sign outcome and provides interesting in- sights into design method. It explores worth- while questions and issues related to the lived domestic experience such as the lack of joy, surprise and economy of space in suburban housing and demonstrates the importance of designing with such qualities.</p>

Instrumenting the eHome and Preparing Elderly Pilots

2015 ◽  
pp. 335-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis E. Antoniou ◽  
Evdokimos Konstantinidis ◽  
Antonis S. Billis ◽  
Giorgos Bamparopoulos ◽  
Marianna S. Tsatali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Healthcare Costs ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
World Population ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
First World

In this chapter the lessons learnt from the build-up and integration of the USEFIL are demonstrated. First an introduction to Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) platforms, the infrastructure for eHomes of any purpose eHome is presented, in the context of their emergence as a viable way for managing healthcare costs in an aging first world population. Then technical and sustainability issues that are present after several years of maturation are touched upon. The USEFIL project's aim at an AAL platform that utilizes low cost “off-the-shelf” technologies in order to develop immediately applicable services, to assist elderly people in maintaining an independent, healthy lifestyle and program of daily activities is then briefly discussed. Afterwards, the methodological framework as well as principal results of the preparation and running of the pre-piloting phase of that platform are presented. Closing, current trends are explored in conjunction with future directions as triggered by this project in the context of cognitive impaired elderly support.

Physical, Hybrid, and Digital Escape Rooms

2022 ◽  
pp. 340-355
Author(s):  
Beatriz Revelles Benavente
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The University ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Esl Classroom

Contemporary society has demanded innovative solutions for the uncertainties that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed in our educational system. Gamification has long demonstrated that students' active engagement provides positive results if taken into account in the design of the educational strategies. One of the innovative solutions that this chapter proposes through the use of gamification is the tool of educational escape rooms. In order to do this, it provides three study cases implemented in the ESL classroom and the classroom of “Introduction to Literary Techniques” at the University of Granada. Doing so, it provides solutions and recommendations for the identified challenges to use these tools in the classrooms by introducing escape rooms within different educational scenarios as well as proposing affective pedagogies as a robust theoretical and methodological framework.

scholarly journals Unddragelsens kunst. Hermetiske objekter og deiksis uden kontekst i Gertrude Steins “Tender Buttons”

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (77) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Bak Herrie
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Object Model ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Linguistic Term ◽  
The Aesthetic

Maja Bak Herrie: “The Art of Withdrawal – Hermetic Objects and Deixis without Context in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons”The last decade has seen an increased attention toward things and objects in the aesthetic disciplines. This article explores the analytical potentials of the quadruple object model from Graham Harman’s object-oriented philosophy in a literary context, namely Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms. With the assistance of the quadruple object model and the linguistic term deixis, paradoxically concrete but non-contextualised, literary objects in the form of everyday items and foods are conceptualised as being in a process of withdrawal and emergence.

scholarly journals Linguistic Features of the Concept “Beauty” in English, Uzbek and Tajik National Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3862-3866
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Different Cultures

Questions such as What is beauty? What is beautiful? Who's handsome? are as ancient as the world itself. The answers to these questions are of interest to everyone from Plato to the present generation. These questions, first of all, require an understanding of the philosophical and aesthetic nature of "beauty". However, the problem of analyzing the expression of the concept of "beauty" in the language (in the English, Uzbek and Tajik national cultures) has not been studied from the point of view of cognitive linguistics and linguistic Culturology. Consequently, the aesthetic picture of the world in English, Uzbek and Tajik languages, the possibility of expressing and reflecting the concept of "beauty" on the phraseological and lexical tiers of the language, the interpretation of values in different cultures, comparative analysis of linguistic and cultural features, and the study in direct connection with cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, general linguistics determine the relevance of the topic of the article

scholarly journals Where the Twin Oceans of Beauty and Horror Meet: An Aesthetic Analysis of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek // Donde los océanos gemelos de belleza y horror se encuentran: Un análisis estético de Pilgrim at Tinker Creek de Annie Dillard

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Anastasia Cardone
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
Annie Dillard ◽  
Natural Signs ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts

      Although Annie Dillard's masterpiece Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) has conventionally been analyzed as a piece of Nature writing embedded in the Thoreauvian tradition, little has been said about the aesthetic concepts that underlie the text and Dillard's entire take on Nature. This research applies the concepts of Baumgarten's “science of sensible knowledge” to the narrator's perceptions in order to demonstrate that Dillard's ultimate message is the acceptance of Nature, even in its seemingly inhuman places. The study begins with the analysis of the structure of the book, which outlines two types of experience of Nature. Thevia positivais related to the aesthetic concept of beauty and to an active participation of the subject in the aesthetic experience of seeing as a verbalization, whereas the via negativais linked to the concept of the sublime and the experience of seeing as a letting go. Furthermore, the analysis employsand develops Linda Smith's valid conclusions (1991) to show how these two paths join in a third mystical and aesthetic path, the via creativa. By leaving the interpretation of natural signs open-ended, Dillard's modern vision enables the author's total acceptance of Nature's freedom, which fosters its beautiful intricacy as well as its horrible fecundity. Thus, Nature's creativity becomes the basis for an aesthetics of Nature's wholeness, which leadshuman beings to embrace the true essence of Nature, freed from anyprejudices.Resumen       A pesar de que Pilgrim at Tinker River (1974), obra maestra de Annie Dillard, ha sido analizada convencionalmente como una pieza de literatura y medio ambiente incrustada en la corriente Thoreauviana y ha sido estudiada extensivamente, poco atención se le ha prestado a los conceptos estéticos que subyacen la obra y que pueden servir para comprender mejor la opinión de Dillard sobre la naturaleza. Por lo tanto, esta investigación aplica los conceptos de “ciencia del conocimiento sensible” de Baumgarten a la percepción del narrador con el fin de demostrar que el mensaje final de Dillard es la aceptación de la naturaleza, incluso en sus lugares aparentemente inhumanos. El estudio comienza con el análisis de la estructura del libro, que describe dos tipos de experiencia de la naturaleza relacionados con caminos místicos que llevan a Dios, dentro de la teología Neoplatónica. La vía positiva está asociada al concepto estético de la belleza y a la participación activa del sujeto en la experiencia estética de ver, la cual es definida como una verbalización. Por otra parte, la vía negativa está vinculada con el concepto de lo sublime y la experiencia de ver como un dejar ir. Además, el análisis emplea y desarrolla las válidas conclusiones de Linda Smith (1991) para mostrar cómo estos dos caminos se unen en un tercer camino místico y estético, la vía creativa. Al dejar la interpretación de signos naturales abierta, la visión moderna de Dillard permite al autor la total aceptación de la libertad de la naturaleza, lo que fomenta su hermosa intrincación, así como su horrible fecundidad. Así, la creatividad de la naturaleza se convierte en la base para la estética de la naturaleza en su totalidad, lo que lleva a los seres humanos a aceptar y respetar la verdadera esencia de la naturaleza, libre de cualquier prejuicio.

scholarly journals Programmable Kirigami: Cutting and Folding in Science, Technology and Architecture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyang Liu ◽  
Grace Chuang ◽  
Hun Chun Sang ◽  
Jenny E. Sabin
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
2D Pattern ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Doubly Curved ◽  
Forward Process

Abstract This paper investigates the potential of kirigami-folding with the addition of strategically placed cuts at multiple scales through both computational design and physical prototyping. The study develops a novel method and workflow for generating two-dimensional (2D) kirigami patterns developed from doubly curved three-dimensional (3D) surfaces (Inverse process). Corresponding simulations of the kirigami folding motion from 2D pattern to 3D goal shape are presented (Forward process). The workflow is based on a reciprocal feedback loop including computational design, finite element analysis, dynamic simulation and physical prototyping. Extended from previous research on kirigami geometry, this paper incorporates material properties into the folding process and successfully develops active kirigami models from the DNA scale to human scale. The results presented in this paper provide an attractive method for kirigami design and fabrication with a wide range of scales and applications.

scholarly journals QUALITY PARAMETERS IN CONSERVATION-RESTORATION CHOICES – THE CASE OF THE TOWER OF THE WINDS IN ATHENS

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-254
Author(s):  
Maria Papadopoulou ◽  
Andromache Gazi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Restoration Practice ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
Qualitative Factors ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Inform Decision Making

The chemistry- and physics-based approach of conservation has led to the view that conservator-restorers use quantitative criteria which provide objective choices. Today, however, there is a shift of focus from material-centred to people-oriented approaches within the field of heritage preservation. This shift leads to a redefinition of the conservation-restoration field and its ethics in relation to society and calls for the adoption of diverse methodologies. Within this context, this paper discusses the qualitative factors which inform decision-making processes in conservation-restoration practice. More specifically, the paper examines the case of the so called “Tower of the Winds” in Athens and looks at the quality parameters which informed conservation-restoration work carried out at the Tower during 2014-2015. Overall, it is shown that the prominence of the quality parameters which inform contemporary conservation-restoration practice reveals the subjective dimension of conservation-restoration choices. The research has also showed that current trends tend to emphasize the historical rather than the aesthetic or other values of monuments.

scholarly journals VOICES OF “THE UNHEARD” AND “NEW SINCERITY”: PRACTICES OF GERONTOLOGICAL, PENITENTIAL, ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS EXCLUSION AND THEIR CONCEPTION IN MODERN THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE (PROBLEM STATEMENT)

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
S. N. Ovodova
Keyword(s):  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse

The article examines the understanding of exclusion procedures in the theory and philosophy of culture. The methodological framework for studying the practices of gerontological, penitentiary, ethnic and religious exclusion in modern culture is determined. The heuristic potential of the decolonial optics and the metamodern approach in the study of exclusion practices in modern culture is revealed, which, in particular, manifests itself in changing the principles of representation of cultural traumas. Replacing the postmodern construction of the narrative about the experience of the traumatized and excluded on the principle of “shock and show” with a metamodern new sincerity allows us to move away from commodification and stigmatization. The article analyses the current trends in the construction of relationships with the Other in postcolonial discourse, decolonial optics, trauma studies, memory studies, and metamodernism.

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