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Not at Your Service
Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time. Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, "quick and dirty" design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise.
The Tale of Hansuli Turn
A terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal tribe" soon to be epically transformed by the effects of World War II and India's independence movement. Their headman, Bonwari, upholds the ethics of an older time, but his fragile philosophy proves no match for the overpowering machines of war. As Bonwari and the village elders come to believe the gods have abandoned them, younger villagers led by the rebel Karali look for other meanings and a diff...
space.time.narrative
Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally represented by the entirely different realms of curator and designer. Future successful developments in exhibition-making are dependent on whether this gap of antagonism can be bridged. space.time.narrative calls for a paradigmatic shift of focus. It puts forward a unique approach, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a wide-ranging theoretical context, redefining and expanding the parameters and the dynamics of the exhibition-format in t...
Bits and Spaces
Edited by Professor Maia Engeli and with a contribution by Professor Gerhard Schmitt, both of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Z rich), this book presents 33 exciting new projects which demonstrate the growing significance of CAAD for today's architects. Divided into 5 main chapters: Design in Space and Time; Learning and Creative Collaboration; Virtual Environments; IT and Practice; and Blurring Boundaries, the projects illustrate how computers can be used innovatively and creatively in designing physical, virtual and hybrid architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between man and computer, and also on the aesthetic aspects. The book is accompanied by a C...
New Trends in Animation and Visualization
Based on presentations at a graduate course in scientific visualization in Lausanne, Switzerland, 19 chapters discuss recent advances in computer graphics techniques for animation and visualization, visualization problems and applications, rendering natural phenomena, and computer animation. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Hochschulbauten im Spannungsfeld von Bildungspolitik und Stadtentwicklung
Eva Lingg präsentiert verschiedene Gestaltungslogiken, die beim Neubau von Hochschulen aufeinandertreffen. Sie stellt vor, wie sich diese in Planungsverfahren einbringen lassen und schließlich in der Materialisierung sichtbar werden. Die Autorin identifiziert entscheidende Faktoren und Momente in solchen Planungsverfahren und präsentiert Gestaltungshinweise für die zukünftige Planung von Bildungsbauten, die eine architektonische Entsprechung von neuen Lehr‐und Lernkonzepten, zeitgemäßen Arbeitsformen und erweiterten Formen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschung und Lehre bzw. den unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen finden sollen. Vielfach erfordert dies auch neue Standorte, die sowohl Platz für die Hochschulentwicklung bieten, als auch den Institutionen neue Strahlkraft verleihen sollen.
CAAD Futures '91
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Architektur mit dem Computer
Das Buch beschreibt Instrumente und Methoden, die Architektinnen und Architekten am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts beherrschen müssen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen deren Vorzüge und Nachteile im Verhältnis zu den bisher verwendeten Werkzeugen. Der Zeitpunkt, zu dem sie optimal zur Verwendung gelangen, schließlich die Einflüsse auf die Architekturausbildung sowie auf die zukünftige Architektur selbst.Zu Beginn werden die vielfältigen Beziehungen der Architektur zur Informationstechnologie beschrieben. Es schließt sich die Darstellung der neuen Grundwerkzeuge an, die sich in den Architekturbüros zunehmend durchsetzen, gefolgt von der Beschreibung der Instrumente für den Entwurf, die die Herstellung materieller Architektur unterstützen. Am Ende werden der Entwurf und das Bauen immaterieller Architektur, die in der Zukunft einen Teil der Architekturlandschaft ausmachen wird erörtert, gefolgt von einem kritischen Diskurs zur neuen Entwicklung.
Precarious Eating
The role of food and hunger in contemporary South African and Indian environmental writing From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn’t) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Precarious Eating follows the lead of writers and thinkers in South Africa and India who are tracing the production and consumption of food, exploring ways to reconnect our narratives about climate change, global capitalism, and social justice. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writ...
