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Introduction
Full text linkAs a design student in the UK in the late 1980s through to the late 1990s, I experienced many turns in design education. Towards the end of the 1980s, design was largely seen as something that could dramatically impact the corporate strategies and commercial performances of international companies such as Sony, Olivetti, Ford, and Philips. At this time, design was widely seen as a uniquely catalytic resource in a company's marketing strategy and new product development process. In short, design was seen as a key ingredient to a company's success in the global marketplace (Lorenz, 1987). The relationship between design, innovation, and commercial success has continued unabated since the 1980s with several design researchers and practitioners espousing design-led innovative ways to market success (Brown, 2009; Kelley, 2002; Myerson, 2001). In a more academic context, terms like “designerly ways of knowing” (Cross, 2011) and “design thinking” (Martin, 2009) became widely used to describe designers’ working methods and processes. In recent years, design has thus been seen as a widely applicable approach or way of working with a range of creative tools, methods, and techniques that can be used in a diverse range of contemporary issues. Elsewhere I have written about the “undisciplined” nature of global problems where issues are increasingly complex and interdependent and are not isolated to particular sectors or disciplines and how design education will need to be more “undisciplined” (not interdisciplinary) in its approach to these challenges (Rodgers and Bremner, 2013). This book, through eleven insightful chapters from authors based in six different countries, covers emerging practice and research in design education rooted in the age of the Anthropocene
Aspects of Black Hole Instabilities and Consequences
No full textThe core topic we study in this thesis is the concept of black hole instabilities. This in essence means that if one probes a black hole background with any classical field, modes scattering the black hole horizon which are growing in time are considered unstable.There are many interesting questions which arise as a result of an unstable black hole perturbation, such as; what is the endpoint of the instability? What does the solution and phase diagram of such a black hole configuration look like? The answer in somecases is that one finds hairy black hole solutions, which turn out to be even richer in their structure as we will explore in the second part of this thesis. Sometimes however, searching for an instability within the vast structure of black hole quasi-normal modes is itself an interesting task which requires robust numerical methods. One needs to use perturbative methods to guide the numerical search, which we discuss in the first half of this thesis
An Illustrated* A to Z for the Design of Care:H is for Hands, K is for Kin, N is for Noticing
No full textThis illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care book was written collaboratively by nearly 50 design researchers and practitioners during the Does Design Care…? [2] workshop held at Chiba University, Japan, 1–3 July 2019.Does Design Care…? [2] extended the explorations of design thought and action of the first Does Design Care…? workshop held at Imagination, Lancaster University in September 2017 that investigated different ways to conceptualise, provoke, contest and disrupt care. Care is not usually a word that we hear when we talk about design and when the word care has been used it is usually in a context warning designers to act carefully rather than carelessly. Still good advice, but as the Illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care book shows, design has dived headlong into completely new fields of care – particularly social care and health care – at exactly the same time as the service of Care has been instrumentalised so it can be Capitalised and extrapolated so it can be served in equal parts excessively, efficiently and inefficiently. In a circular mix of remarks Bifo Berardi, referring to Yuval Harari (who must have been thinking of Foucault) states that “Twentieth century medicine aimed to heal the sick. Twenty-first century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy” Harari explains that “Healing the sick was an egalitarian project. … In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project”. Updating Foucault’s notion that diagnosing what is ill is always equally about enforcing what is healthy. As a result the challenges in care systems have become intractable. There have been divide and conquer approaches to responsibility and accountability in care that act to cripple our ability to engage with the speculative and systemic approaches that design offers. Imagination has been cauterized by a risk-averse, Neo-liberal culture – the same culture that also profits enormously from turning care into a transaction.This illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care might help guide design out of these intractable and entangled challenges and set it on the path to reconcile the contradictory needs to abstract the gesture of care (its theories) while it grounds the bodiliness of that same gesture (its applications).<br/
GIDE:HOW CAN THE GROUP FOR INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EDUCATION REMAIN PART OF A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
No full textMilligan, A. and Savage, G., (2012), co-authored book chapter in Interior Futures 11 Conference, University of Northumbria, 3 & 4 March 2011. Output was in Session Four: - ‘International Border Nexus’ and paper entitled ‘How Can the Group for International Design Education Remain Part of a Sustainable Future?’ described the shared project themes and ethos of the GIDE network over a ten-year period, outlining our theoretical research, and focusing on successful examples of intercultural exchange as a vehicle for the on-going sustainable development of interior design. GIDE operates a rolling annual programme that revolves around a shared global design theme, allowing flexibility of interpretation from seven nations in an event that brings academics, researchers and regional commerce, community and cultural organisations into contact with an interdisciplinary group of art & design students together in one of the partner schools. The basis of shared projects- which explore the societal and ethical dimensions of a design problem linked to the host city in the EU- provides the foundation for subsequent integration into each GIDE partners curriculum. This paper invites delegates to offer alternative perspectives on the potential for the work of GIDE as it moves forward into more uncharted territories. Edited by Rodgers, Paul and published in 2012i, 'Interiors Education Futures: Contemporary Insights. Libri, Faringdon. ISBN 9781907471520, examined the multiple ways in which interior spaces impact our everyday experiences. They help us rest, they provide facilities for cleaning us, they help transport us from one place to another in safety and comfort, and they help us relax. The designed interiors of university libraries, restaurants, factories, cafes, airplanes, trains, automobiles, and nightclubs therefore significantly contribute to making us all feel warmer, better, brighter, faster and happier. Interiors Education Futures contains 16 intriguing and stimulating papers on the subject of interior design / architecture education. The collection of papers contained within this edited book deal with a wide range of interior design education-related subjects including storytelling, practice-led design projects, post-optimal design, the phenomenology of retail design spaces, physical computing technologies in interior architecture, and design for branded environments, amongst others. The book includes a set of rich and varied debates surrounding the future of interior design education, practice and research that were held during the inaugural Interior Educators Conference at the School of Design, Northumbria University in March 2011. As such this book will form the basis of future developments in interior education, practice and research in the years ahead
Designed with DeMEntia : building long-lasting collaborative care
Full text linkDementia strips people of the unique attributes that form a person’s identity, but it is suggested that how we relate to the world emotionally is one of the last things to escape us (Evans, 2001). Therefore, it is imperative to work within models of care that recognise and engage with how people living with dementia feel about things they are engaging with. In terms of emotional well-being, a diagnosis of dementia is also often accompanied by a sense of loss, a loss of purpose, a loss of value, and the loss of societal usefulness diminishing self-worth (Batsch and Mittelman, 2012). It is commonly recognised that people with a diagnosis of dementia are often written off by society long before their time (Katsuno, 2005). In addition to this, all too frequently people living with dementia underestimate themselves further contributing to a lack of self-belief, capacity, and esteem (Kinnaird, 2012). This research rejects those widely held assumptions and pre-conceived ideas surrounding people living with dementia. Instead, it focuses on the positive aspects people living with dementia possess, such as the ability to learn new things, develop new knowledge and skills, and participate in new creative ventures. In particular, this work explores how design as an interventionist tool and method can empower people and support the reinforcement of their personhood (Kitwood, 1998). The work presented in this paper looks to develop an individual’s capabilities above and beyond his or her existing personal experiences and does not dwell on incapability. As such, the way design is used unlocks latent skills, explores personal knowledge and tastes, and promotes personal opinions within collaborative practices. Through developing projects, products, and events, the inclusive social activities in Designed with DeMEntia unpick these themes. In this work, multiple media, techniques, and tools, all seen as part of the designer’s toolkit are utilised and have been adopted by people living with dementia. Through the design-driven projects described in this paper, the act of conducting real-world research leading to the formulation of ideas plays out within groups of people who desire to make some sort of impact in their own lived experience. In their production of very real and impactful outcomes, which have been purchased by the general population, people living with dementia have taught themselves new ways of looking at the world. Stimulated by engaging with the influences that surround them, people living with dementia have explored their capabilities, and in so doing, promote a genuine sense of value and self empowerment. People living with dementia, through their participation in these projects and abilities to deliver new ideas or by driving new approaches, are recognised throughout this chapter as co-designers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Phase diagram of the charged black hole bomb system
Full text linkWe find the phase diagram of solutions of the charged black hole bomb system.
In particular, we find the static hairy black holes of Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar
theory confined in a Minkowski box. We impose boundary conditions such that the
scalar field vanishes at and outside a cavity of constant radius. These hairy
black holes are asymptotically flat with a scalar condensate floating above the
horizon. We identify four critical scalar charges which mark significant
changes in the qualitative features of the phase diagram. When they coexist,
hairy black holes always have higher entropy than the Reissner-Nordstr\"om
black hole with the same quasilocal mass and charge. So hairy black holes are
natural candidates for the endpoint of the superradiant/near-horizon
instabilities of the black hole bomb system. We also relate hairy black holes
to the boson stars of the theory. When it has a zero horizon radius limit, the
hairy black hole family terminates on the boson star family. Finally, we find
the Israel surface tensor of the box required to confine the scalar condensate
and that it can obey suitable energy conditions.Comment: 36 pages, 12 figure
Boson stars and solitons confined in a Minkowski box
No full textWe consider the static charged black hole bomb system, originally designed for a (uncharged) rotating superradiant system by Press and Teukolsky. A charged scalar field confined in a Minkowski cavity with a Maxwell gauge field has a quantized spectrum of normal modes that can fit inside the box. Back-reacting non-linearly these normal modes, we find the hairy solitons, a.k.a boson stars (depending on the chosen U(1) gauge), of the theory. The scalar condensate is totally confined inside the box and, outside it, we have the Reissner-Nordström solution. The Israel junction conditions at the box surface layer determine the stress tensor that the box must have to confine the scalar hair. Some of these horizonless hairy solutions exist for any value of the scalar field charge and not only above the natural critical charges of the theory (namely, the critical charges for the onset of the near-horizon and superradiant instabilities of the Reissner-Nordström black hole). However, the ground state solutions have a non-trivial intricate phase diagram with a main and a secondary family of solitons (some with a Chandrasekhar mass limit but others without) and there are a third and a fourth critical scalar field charges where the soliton spectra changes radically. Most of these intricate properties are not captured by a higher order perturbative analysis of the problem where we simply back-react a normal mode of the system.<br/
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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