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Automotive Design Sketching in Teams: A Systematic Review
Full text linkAutomotive design sketching is crucial in the creative process, especially during conceptual design, as it facilitates shared understanding among design teams. Despite its significance, there need to be more comprehensive review papers addressing automotive design sketching in team settings. This systematic review aims to bridge this gap by identifying trends and evidence related to automotive design sketching within team settings. Employing the ROSES review flow diagram, five electronic databases – Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, SAGE, and Google Scholar – were utilized to search for relevant literature. Among the 902 non-duplicated articles initially screened, 17 studies from the past decade (2013-2023) underwent a thorough review and were integrated into the analysis. The findings emphasize the importance of team sketching, highlighting collaboration, communication, and creativity as essential values for enhancing shared understanding and design outcomes within teams. Significantly, the review uncovered a shortage of articles in recent years that encompass all three elements within a single study. This paper highlights the critical role of sketching in team-based automotive design and advocates for further research to investigate collaboration, communication, and creativity comprehensively. This knowledge is valuable for automotive designers, teams, and the industry, emphasizing the need for holistic approaches to optimize design processes and foster innovation
A Historical Approach to Understanding Differentiation of RYB vs RGB
Full text linkThis article defines the roles of colors and presents their historical development as a fundamental means of expression within artwork. It also introduces color theorists and practices, including the mixing of pigments, a necessary technique for artists-designers in creating tangible results. Modern artists-designers have used these theorists to express themselves in producing an aesthetic experience in the viewer through their artwork, starting with Sir Isaac Newton’s light-spectrum experiments using a glass prism and a beam of white light, and continuing through Johannes Itten’s color-wheel and creative color-matching exercises. This article objective defines the significance of color, its historical development on the basis of earlier perceptual theorists’ findings that color acquires dimension and meaning in response to cultural-historical context or psychological realities. As a result, this paper also explores how color affects our emotions, our psychic and spiritual manifestations. This psychic-spiritual manifestation is revealed through a process of visual perception and experimenting with color and its symbolic meaning. Artists such as Seurat, Munch, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Picasso, Joan Miro, or Mark Rothko demonstrated the expressive power of color-pigment. The authors hope that this paper will bring significant discussion, awareness, will assist general readers and academic researchers and truly advance knowledge
A Survey of Material Actuation Enhancement Approaches for Adaptive Architecture
Full text linkThis study examined design approaches for enhancing material actuation in adaptive architecture, aiming to make it perceptible for human cognitive engagement. Over recent decades, material actuation has gained attention as a sustainable alternative to mechanical actuation in architectural adaptation, utilizing materials’ intrinsic properties. This shift mitigates environmental concerns and enhances material engagement in spatial cognition. Enhancing material actuation’s effectiveness involves addressing inherent material limitations to ensure perceptibility in architectural work. This study explored new-structuralist adaptive design cases, categorizing enhancement approaches into ‘thinning’, ‘folding’, ‘aggregation’, ‘layering’, and ‘composite’. These strategies are pivotal in both pre-actuation and in-actuation phases of design and fabrication, facilitating interaction between humans and materials. The research methodology involved sourcing post-2010 publications from Google Scholar using keywords related to new materiality and architectural design. Selected articles featuring ‘material actuation’ were analyzed for their methodologies. Through clustering, five primary enhancement strategies were identified. This paper evaluates each approach’s benefits and limitations, highlighting potential utility concerns in material-based architectural adaptations. The analysis offers insight into material actuation’s role in adaptive architecture, emphasizing its environmental and cognitive implications
Representation of Multicultural Identity Through Old Houses and Displays: Case Study of Lasem, Indonesia
Full text linkLasem, located in Central Java, Indonesia, is an area where diverse cultural and religious groups, such as Javanese, Chinese, and Muslim communities coexist. In recent years, old houses that are considered heritage in Lasem have been revitalized and opened as commercial spaces such as guest houses, restaurants, and/or museums, displaying their collections to the public. This paper discusses cultural representation through the display of heritage buildings or artifacts. Employing qualitative methods with purposive sampling, three specific old houses located in Lasem were chosen as case studies: Rumah Oei, Rumah Merah, and Nyah Lasem. Similarities can be drawn between the three houses, in that they displayed old and new objects, combined to construct and represent the values, ideas, and meanings that are wanted to be exhibited by the exhibitors. Further research is needed to analyze the actual selections and curatorial system for the displays in each house
Transformation of Malay Manuscript Illumination as Embroidery Motif on Baju Kuruang Basiba
Full text linkThis study proposes creative industry products with decorative motifs inspired by antique illuminated manuscripts collected by the Leiden University Library. Three illuminated Malay manuscripts were taken, namely: the manuscript with the number Or. 1703 entitled Sejarah Melayu; Or. 1768 entitled Collective Volume with Texts in Malay; and Or. 1967 entitled Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain. A descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. Field observation was conducted by interviewing an expert in decorative motifs to achieve the harmony of motifs and aesthetics in baju kuruang basiba. The motif was created using the CorelDrawX7 software. This study created embroidery motifs that can be classified as naturalistic ornaments. The design of decorative motifs for baju kuruang basiba can be embroidered with the suji and kapalo samek techniques. Meanwhile, the material used is a material that does not show because the sewing of baju kuruang basiba does not use furring. The decorative patterns that can be used are rasp patterns and fringe patterns. Baju kuruang basiba is a typical Minangkabau shirt that must be preserved as a cultural heritage object. The addition of this embroidery motif can add to the aesthetic appearance of the shirt to make it more attractive and luxurious
Cultural Origin of European Modern Design
Full text linkCultural studies of modern design are of great importance to scholarly research of modern design history, particularly in the context of the trend towards analysis and interpretation of modern design from sociological and cultural points of view. This article investigates the link between European modern design and the tradition of Western culture. Based on the definition of rationalism and idealism as ideal types of the Western cultural tradition, the investigation revealed that European modern design presents these ideal types through diversified design activities in the modern movements. It concludes that European modern design, as visualization of cultural codes, is a manifestation of Europe’s cultural heritage, although it reflects a revolutionary stance against the cultural background of modernization and achieved a breakthrough that showed the innovative quality of modern culture. This study also unfolded the long-term effect of culture on the rise of European modern design, which strongly indicates culture’s continuity in the long-range historical process and explains that the significance of European modern design is embodied not only in the revolution or innovation of modern culture but also in cultural inheritance and historical continuity
Understanding ‘Batik Belanda’ in Dutch Society via Co-Creation Experience of Creative Tourism Practice
Full text linkBatik Belanda is a long-established acculturated cultural heritage from the Dutch East Indies era. Some examples of Batik Belanda can be seen in Batik Buketan (bouquet) and Batik Snow White (folklore). However, the representation and understanding of Batik Belanda remain deceptive. Additionally, this specific batik is still underrepresented in modern society, losing its dialogical purpose as a heritage and its connection to Indonesian and Dutch individuals’ cultural identities. Developing creative tourism is one of the solutions to promote heritage – deemed to provide a better understanding via in-depth learning and personal contact. This qualitative research was conducted in the Netherlands to analyze the potential of Batik Belanda and creative tourism practice. The creative tourism practice was done by creating an immersive batik workshop with the goal of generating interest in both Indonesian and Dutch communities in the Netherlands to connect with their cultural heritage from Indonesia. Participants’ observations and interviews with 10 workshop participants served as the main methodology. This research indicated how participants’ experiences increased their understanding of cultural heritage and fulfilled their emotional needs through the workshop, giving them motivation and shaping their interest in the pre-visit stage of cultural tourism in Indonesia. On the other hand, their interest in culture and tourism in Indonesia was divided, determined by how they perceive post-colonial subjects and their cultural identities as a community in the Netherlands
Interaction of Digital Art, Space and Memory: The Case of Alkazar Movie Theater
Full text linkThe pursuit of new art formed by the integration of digital technologies with art is used in many areas of architecture, such as facades, surfaces, showcases, and interiors. The use of art together with the technological infrastructure, especially on interior surfaces, has enabled artists to develop their limits of creativity. In this sense, one dimension of creativity is the designs made through the memory of space. This study focused on how digital artworks produced through the memory of space are applied in the Alkazar Movie Theater in Beyoğlu, Istanbul and their effect on the user. At the point of transferring social memory, Refik Anadol’s work titled Alkazar Dream, renowned for its visualization of memory through digital art, has been effective. The study examined how this interaction was achieved, using a descriptive-analytical and qualitative data analysis method. As a result of the study, the effect of experiencing space and social memory through digital art on the user was revealed. It was found that the interaction of the user with digital art as a viewer and participant is an effective method for the preservation and transfer of social memory into the future
A Discussion on Interdisciplinary Approach of Visual Art Syllabus in Malaysian Higher Education
Full text linkThis article contributes to the discussion on the need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in the visual art syllabus, specifically in higher education in Malaysia. Over the last two decades, the academic world has faced rapidly advancing technology and the rise of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0). Because of the increased level of high-tech software and hardware competency among students, universities are in dire need to improve and innovate their current syllabi. Hence, this study was carried out to discuss the need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to improve current visual art syllabi in Malaysia. The topics that are explored in this paper include the definition of an interdisciplinary approach in visual art syllabi, the current status of visual art syllabi in Malaysia, factors that are important for the integration of art with other fields, and how an interdisciplinary approach can be implemented. The data used in this research were obtained from a seminar, in-depth interviews, and a literature review, and were analyzed using a qualitative method. The findings indicate that visual art education duly needs a new program or needs to be revamped into a future-ready curriculum. Therefore, an interdisciplinary approach, or the integration of two bodies of knowledge in one program, could be one of the solutions to this issue