scholarly journals “Conosci te stesso”: o quello che i progettisti possono imparare dalle scienze biologiche contemporanee

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-37
Author(s):  
Harry Francis Mallgrave
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Technical Science ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Temple

Wherein resides the ‘art’ in the ‘art of building’? Throughout history, architects have generally viewed their field as a craft informed by the human body, a creative sense of play, and technical science. Theory in the second half of the 20 th century departed from this direction by reducing art to the visual and semiotic understanding of form. The remarkable discoveries of the biological sciences in recent decades have opened an entirely new perspective for designers, based on our profound insights into human soci-ality, empathy, emotion, mirror systems, and design’s inherent powers of “tactility and kinesis.” The dictum “know thyself,” once inscribed in stone at the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, in many ways holds the key to locating the missing ‘art’ of design.

Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Tze-wan
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Constitutive Principle ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIn the Shuowen, one of the earliest comprehensive character dictionaries of ancient China, when discussing where the Chinese characters derive their structural components, Xu Shen proposed the dual constitutive principle of “adopting proximally from the human body, and distally from things around.” This dual emphasis of “body” and “things around” corresponds largely to the phenomenological issues of body or corporeality on the one hand, and lifeworld on the other. If we borrow Heidegger’s definition of Dasein as Being-in-the world, we can easily arrive at a reformulation of Xu Shen’s constitutive principle of the Chinese script as one that concerns “bodily Dasein.” By looking into various examples of script tokens we can further elaborate on how the Chinese make use not only of the body in general but various body parts, and how they differentiate their life world into material nature, living things, and a multifaceted world of equipment in forming a core basis of Chinese characters/components, upon which further symbolic manipulation such as “indication”, “phonetic borrowing”, semantic combination, and “annotative derivation”, etc. can be based. Finally, examples will be cited to show how in the Chinese scripts the human body (and its parts) might interact with other’s bodies (and their parts) or with “things around” (whether nature, living creatures, or artifacts) in various ways to cover the social, environmental, ritual, technical, economical, and even intellectual aspects of human experience. Bodily Dasein, so to speak, provides us with a new perspective of understanding and appreciating the entire scope of the Chinese script.

Feasibility Analysis of Thermal Energy Recovery for the Shanghai Railway Station

2011 ◽  
Vol 317-319 ◽  
pp. 2289-2292
Author(s):  
Zheng Ming Tong ◽  
Shu Jun Liang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Heat Energy ◽  
Feasibility Analysis ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Financial Capacity ◽  
Factory Production ◽  
New Perspective

In recent years, China has focused on the research of energy reuse and environmental protection with lots of manpower and financial capacity. And we have already gotten results on many aspects from transportation to factory production. In this paper, we will think about energy reuse from a new perspective: recovery and reuse of heat energy of human body. This paper researches and analyses the feasibility of thermal energy recovery for the shanghai railway station.

The Golden Vine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mailan S. Doquang
Keyword(s):  
Global Trade ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
First Crusade ◽  
Dome Of The Rock ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Church Design ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The Temple

This chapter posits a relationship between the foliate friezes that proliferated in French churches in the wake of the First Crusade and the golden vine of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. It argues that builders drew on textual descriptions of the Temple vine and on the golden vines inside the Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, a building conflated with the Temple, to forge and promote connections to the biblical model. Identifying foliate friezes as the golden vine not only provides a new perspective on a ubiquitous element in French church design, but it also brings to the fore meaningful points of contact between Western medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art and architecture in an era of pilgrimage, crusading, and burgeoning global trade.

A New Perspective on Teamwork in Teaching: A Report on German Lectures in the Biological Sciences

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Charlotte Brancaforte ◽  
Ursula Thomas ◽  
Alvin Yoshinaga
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
New Perspective

Isotopic tracer studies of chemical behavior of rare earth elements in environmental and biological sciences

2004 ◽  
Vol 92 (4-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Y. Zhang ◽  
Zhifang Chai
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Rare Earth Elements ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Chemical Behavior ◽  
Tracer Studies ◽  
Isotopic Tracer

AbstractRare earth elements (REE), a group of elements with atomic numbers from 57 to 71, have been widely applied in recent years not only in industry but also in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and medicine. Numerous anthropogenic activities make REE to easily enter the environment and finally the human body

Self-expression assignment as a teaching approach to enhance the interest of Kuwaiti women in biological sciences

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Farouk El-Sabban
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Nutrition ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
First Time

Stimulating the interest of students in biological sciences necessitates the use of new teaching methods and motivating approaches. The idea of the self-expression assignment (SEA) has evolved from the prevalent environment at the College for Women of Kuwait University (Safat, State of Kuwait), a newly established college where the number of students is low and where students have varied backgrounds and interests and are being instructed biological sciences in English for the first time. This SEA requires each student to choose a topic among a long list of topics and interact with it in any way to produce a finished product without the interference of the course instructor. Students are told that the SEA will be graded based on their commitment, creative thinking, innovation in developing the idea, and finishing up of the chosen assignment. The SEA has been implemented in three introductory courses, namely, Biology, Introduction to Human Nutrition and Food Science, and The Human Body. Many interesting projects resulted from the SEA, and, based on an administered survey, students assessed this assignment very favorably. Students expressed their pleasure of experiencing freedom in choosing their own topics, interacting with such topics, learning more about them, and finishing up their projects. Students appreciated this type of exposure to biological sciences and expressed that such an experience enhanced their interest in such sciences.

Opening the Temple in the Human Body

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 68-94
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Amodio ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Temple

scholarly journals Molecular machines – a new dimension of biological sciences

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Głogocka ◽  
Magdalena Przybyło ◽  
Marek Langner
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Biological Membrane ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Molecular Machines ◽  
Molecular Devices ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Controlled Flow ◽  
Information Energy

AbstractBiological systems are characterized by directional and precisely controlled flow of matter and information along with the maintenance of their structural patterns. This is possible thanks to sequential transformations of information, energy and structure carried out by molecular machines. The new perception of biological systems, including their mechanical aspects, requires the implementation of tools and approaches previously developed for engineering sciences. In this review paper, a biological system is presented in a new perspective as an ensemble of coordinated molecular devices functioning in the limited space confined by the biological membrane. The working of a molecular machine is presented using the example of F

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