'Tacitus' project: identifying multi-sensory perceptions in creative 3D practice for the development of a haptic computing system for applied artists

This paper outlines the major motivating factors concerning a novel collaborative project between Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre. The Tacitus project will investigate the use of multi-modal virtual environments, specifically, the haptic (touch) modality, with regards to the creative processes employed by designers working within the field of applied arts. The salient areas of research are described, and the methods by which information regarding these areas will be obtained are considered. Initial investigations have revealed a strong need to mimic the traditional applied artists' workspaces, with co-location of visual and haptic cues a priority.     

Towards computer game studies

It is relatively stress-free to write about computer games as nothing too much has been said yet, and almost anything goes. The situation is pretty much the same when it comes to writing about games and gaming in general. The sad fact with alarming cumulative consequences is that they are under-theorized; there are Huizinga, Caillois and Ehrmann of course, and libraries full of board game studies,in addition to game theory and bits and pieces of philosophy – most notably those of Wittgenstein – but they won't get us very far with computer games. So if there already is or soon will be a legitimate field for computer game studies, this field is also very open to intrusions and colonisations from the already organized scholarly tribes. Resisting and beating them is the goal of our first survival game in this paper, as what these emerging studies need is independence, or at least relative independence.     

包豪斯预备课程的建筑迂行——以拉兹洛·莫霍利-纳吉主持的课程为例

包豪斯设计教学改革的理念与实践传播到中国,深刻影响了20世纪中国现代建筑教育的发展进程。其中,包豪斯基础教学的引入,是最具历史意义的部分。本文聚焦拉兹洛·莫霍利-纳吉这位代表性人物,对他主持期间的包豪斯预备课程展开研究。从课程构建的多重训练方式出发,追溯其思想渊源,解析"完整的人"和"总体作品"这两个核心概念,透视预备课程在包豪斯教学体系整体架构中的基础作用,以剖析预备课程与建筑以及建筑师培养之间丰富而深刻的关联。同时,本文也检视莫霍利-纳吉教学探索中的视觉化倾向,揭示包豪斯内在矛盾性,为进一步反思包豪斯的中国影响提供关键性的视角。     

Prejudicial Narratives: Building Tomorrow's World Today

Film production requires world building: the power to visualise and bring to life narrative through a film's total environment. This is often entirely speculative, imagining alternative or future worlds. Here, Alex McDowell , acclaimed British production designer, producer and Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) describes his world-building, narrative approach to production design, which he consolidated in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002) that envisioned Washington DC in the year 2050. The possibilities of this storytelling technique are demonstrated by its transference into real-life projects, such as the immersive model that his production company, 5D GlobalStudio, developed for Al Baydha, a Bedouin village in Saudi Arabia.     

Burton Brothers of New Zealand

Abstract

The New Zealand firm of Burton Brothers was engaged in a wide spectrum of enterprise, icluding portrait, topographic and commercial photography. It came into being withing 20 years of the founding of the Otago Settlement. The firm soon became widely known for its ethnoghraphic photographs of the South Pacific, and later for its output of photographic postcards under the name of Muir & Moodie. Thomas M. B. Muir, who joined the firm early on, was related both to James Weaver Allen, a noteworthy pioneer photographer in the colony, and to Fred Muir who carried his camera to the unexplored interior of the South Island of New Zealand and brougllt back views of the hitherto unknown lakes, waterfalls and natural wonders to fascinated townspeople. Not surprisuingly, therefore, Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie are household names in New Zealand, and are also well known to librarians and ethnographers throughout the world.     

莫霍利-纳吉创立的新包豪斯与设计学院

莫霍利-纳吉在芝加哥建立了新包豪斯和设计学院,开设了基础课程、摄影课、视觉设计、产品设计以及建筑设计等主要课程。学院最初只是对包豪斯思想的植入,到后期受到美国实用主义理论的影响,开始强调适用于工业化的设计。这种实用主义的教育理念对当今建筑教育仍具有重要的借鉴意义。     

包豪斯教学模式对风景园林规划与设计教学的启示

文章回顾了包豪斯学校以基础课程教学和工作坊式实践教学为主体的教学模式,并以这种教学模式为基础,针对风景园林规划与设计专业学科特点和当前国内此专业的教学现状,提出以强化综合性的基础课程体系为铺垫,以强化实践性与协作性的工作室教学方式为主体的风景园林规划与设计本科教学优化方案。     

The Rise of the ‘Invisible Detail’: Ubiquitous Computing and the ‘Minimum Meaningful’

The architectural detail has provided the essential material building block for conveying an idea. Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ask how this, though, is all set to change in a digital context. As technologies shrink and vanish from sight, what might become the new minimum meaningful unit for architecture? How might a new relational scale establish itself, at the level of the ‘invisible detail’ or the microchip? How might this, in turn, change the very nature of buildings as they become highly responsive, human-occupied transmitters?     

《建筑师》四十岁:致礼·致敬·致意

<正>散发旧纸茧黄和新墨油香的《建筑师》从书架上被取下摞在书案,翻阅于手,四十年的回味千头万绪,不禁思潮腾涌,潸然花溅,感喟不已。首先,向《建筑师》的学术大格局致礼。《建筑师》创办于1979年,与中国改革开放同步。创刊伊始,便建构出相对稳定的特色栏目以及学术争鸣等相关栏目:特色栏目包括"建筑