http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518722
http://andrewjohnsonhci.blogspot.com/2010/02/design-implementation-and-evaluation-of.html
Category: Design
Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop, HFG Wismar+Philips Lighting, 2011
On 9 June 2011, students and advisers fine-tuned the staircase installation. This segment show how the shadows follow our choreography.
Youtube Channel
In March 2011, the Hochschule Wismar, with the support of Philips Lighting, launched a 4th-semester Dynamic Lighting Workshop project to develop creative and technically groundbreaking lighting concepts for public space. The goal was to explore how light brings static surfaces to life, lends dynamism to facades and enlivens buildings. You can read about the entire project on LightCommunity:
http://community.lighting.philips.com/blogs/WismarProjects
The Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop presentation was delivered by 22 students on June 10 at Hochschule Wismar, the Faculty of Design and Architecture in northern Germany. This film is a documentation of the installations, produced by students on the Communication and Media course of the school (Professor Jochen Wisotzki).
Staircase group project
Students: Olga Galkova, Fernanda Montecinos, Darío Nuñez, Volha Pakholkava, Natasa Rajic, Menekse Seyma Kaya, Julie Wangsajaya, Linlin Yang
Bridge Group project
Students: Frederik Friederichs, Christine Holzke, Stefan Maassen, Juan Felipe Rivera, Piyanut Siramanakun, Isabella Trybula, Daniel Witzler, Lin Zhang
Facade Group project
Students: Audry Brandsma, Jürgen Eisenhauer, Melanie Heilgeist, Janine Jeserig, Elena Kozlova, Akarsh Mahendra, Vikramaditya Varma
Philips Lighting HealWell, Philips, 2011
from PhilipsLighting Channel of Youtube
Feel better, heal better. Philips Lighting HealWell, a lighting solution that improves patient satisfaction and supports recovery in patient rooms
Daylight Window, Philips, (from Simplicity event at 2007)
from Philips’s Youtube Channel
The full presentation of the Philips Daylight Window concept, shown at the Simplicity Event 2007 at Earls Court in London.
(memo Sep20th2011)
around 3min, a scenario which considers light color effect for sleeping, adjusting jetlag and waking up is mentioned with some medical information/evidence such as cerotonine production.
Maya Lin
from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin
Lin, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City, went on to design other structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989) and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan (1995).[16]
In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. The title comes from an address she gave at Yale in which she spoke of the monument design process. Talking about the origin of her work, Lin says “My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings and this can include not just the physical but the psychological world that we live in”.[5]
According to Maya Lin, art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar.[5] When a project comes her way, she tries to “understand the definition (of the site) in a verbal before finding the form. To understand what a piece is conceptually and what its nature should be even before visiting the site”.[5]
Calleja de las Flores, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calleja de las Flores, Great Mosque of Córdoba in the background.The Calleja de las Flores is one of the most popular and tourist streets of Córdoba city in Andalusia, Spain. Positioned as an intersection of the street Velázquez Bosco, is a narrow street that ends in a plaza
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, John Thackara, 2006
amazon.com
Product Description
We’re filling up the world with technology and devices, but we’ve lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World.These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if “tech” ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives.Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we’re unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how?In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now — not in a remote science fiction future; it’s not about, as he puts it, “the schlock of the new” but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can’t. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology — ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles — above all, lightness — inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
Chapter4: Locality
Chapter5: Situation
California Wash, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, 1996
http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=301
California Wash is a narrative work of landscape sculpture combining a garden that portrays the former wash ecology, light, pathways, mural and sculptural forms that address the transformations of this site that are the inevitable outcomes of urbanization.
A drainshed mural, drawn on the new Pico-Kentner outfall cover, represents the current human settlement pattern with the California Wash garden as a reasonable reflection of, or memorial to, that which once existed. The mural also contains bronze plaques inset into the concrete, images of certain of the original fauna of the area. It is a reminder of the original life web of the Pico watershed, and of the disappearance of bio-diversity and the region’s most precious resource, its water.
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, Ronald Lee Fleming, 2007
Book Description
ISBN-10: 185894371X | ISBN-13: 978-1858943718 | Publication Date: April 1, 2007
This expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale. Dozens of case studies of spectacular and innovative works throughout the United States are accompanied by practical information, cost and policy analysis, artist interviews, examples of failures and major controversies, and strategies for the future, making this book an essential reference for anyone involved with transforming and improving our public spaces. “The Art of Placemaking” features public art projects since the 1990s, including the integration of public art in urban design, historic interpretation, street furniture, transit-station and roadway-corridor design, mural towns and more, making this title an invaluable resource for artists, architects, urban planners and teachers, as well as non-professionals seeking to bring art into their communities.
Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design, David Gissen(Ed), 2010
Product Description
Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting which pre-exists the production of new things. Ultimately, it suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.