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Specifically, it examines historical representational techniques in landscape design from manual drawings to recent computerized visualsit also explores the role of computer technology in landscape representation during media transition from hand to computer and critically analyses the trends of realistic pictorial depiction in recent digital landscape visualization. Firstly, examining the history of manual drawings, this research provides a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and functions of landscape representation and historical changes regarding specific techniques. Landscape architectural drawing has double functions, namely, illustration of not-yet-actualized landscapes (i.e. instrumentality) and generation of creative ideas (i.e. imagination), which are relative, interchangeable, and transformable. These characteristics have been embodied in the forms of particular types of drawing, projections, perspective views, and diagrams, whose characteristics are not so much clearly distinguishable as rather mutually complementary and hybridized in such a way that pictorial views of plants frequently are hybridized to projection drawings. Of course, particular drawing types or techniques have often emerged as suitable and thereby dominant forms, depending on particular historical styles of landscape design. Sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance gardens and seventeenth-century French formal gardens were generally visualized in the form of projections. Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century English landscape gardens were frequently represented in pictorial perspective view. In nineteenth-century America, the professional identity of landscape architecture started to be established and different drawing types were specialized depending on their respective functions. Furthermore, the map overlay method for site analysis emerged. Twentieth-century American modernists began to explore the diagram to deploy design strategies. However, such drawing types and methods have coexisted after their emergenceinstrumentality and imagination have been frequently hybridized for the visualization of future landscapes. Secondly, this work discusses the early history of the initial uses of major computer software to shed light on the major roles of such technologies in landscape visualization in the period of transition from conventional drawing tools. Computer technologies generally functioned as mechanical tools to imitate previous manual techniques and translate physical media into computer files. In the 1970s to 1980s, the medium of the map overlay analysis of Ian McHarg, namely, layer cake, changed from manual to computerized. In the transition of technologies, the computerized Geographic Information System served as a mechanical tool substituting the hand in that the GIS efficiently used methods similar to manual procedures, including inventory, evaluation, and visualization. Since the 1980s, Kathryn Gustafson and George Hargreaves have used physical modelling, such as sand and clay models, for landform study. In realizing such models on site, the CAD software generally functioned to translate three-dimensional (3D) models to two-dimensional (2D) construction documents, i.e. projection drawings. In the next two decades, landscape architects, including Yves Brunier, Adriaan Gueze, and James Corner, deployed the collage and montage using mixed media and photographic materials. Since the late-1990s, manual techniques have been increasingly produced using graphic editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, which generally functioned as a tool to perform processes similar to those of manual techniques. In Lifescape, the winning proposal in the Fresh Kills Park competition in 2001, as an exception, Corner fully exploited the potential of graphic software to explore creative visualization techniques, including plan collage, which was used to develop the design idea in the design process. Thirdly, this research offers a critique of the dominant trend towards realism in recent digital landscape representations. Since 2000, in landscape design, presentation drawings adopting a realistic depiction have gained increasing importance in communication with the public. Landscape architects, historically, have frequently used pictorial depictions of the appearance of landscapes as a dominant representational techniqueadvanced graphic editing software, including Photoshop, make it possible to achieve this desire for realism effectively. This trend is epitomized by perspective views using the composite photographic technique. In representations, discernible traces of cutting and assembling are removed, and visual effects are applied to create illusions via various commands and filters in the software. Thus, the complete representations are perceived as if they were a copy of an actual landscape. To refer to such representations, this dissertation coined the term photo-fake, whose several conditions (invisible frame and viewers position, illusions, landscape as theatre and human figures as spectators, and digital aura) were analysed by scrutinizing the visuals of recent international design competitions. These techniques often imitate previous manual methods, which historically date back to at least the eighteenth-century picturesque aesthetics and seventeenth-century historical landscape paintings. Whereas the photo-fake image can easily capture the publics eye, it is difficult for the static visuals to achieve full embodiment of all of the multisensory characteristics of a landscape. Thus, photo-fake techniques need to be exploited to deploy a designers specific vision of the not-yet-actualized designed landscape. Furthermore, digital modelling of landscape performance and various hybridized techniques with different drawing types and technologies provide the opportunity to explore various aspects of landscape and stimulate design ideas during the design process. If a designers vision of a future landscape cannot be immediately realized on the actual site, then such visions inevitably need to be visualized in other forms. Thus, visualization techniques, both to generate creative idea and exploit the potential of digital technology, need to continue to be simultaneously explored in landscape theory and practice.I. Introduction 1 1.1. Research Purpose 1 1.2. Research Objectives and Theoretical Perspective 5 1.3. Literature Review 6 1.4. Structure 11 II. Rethinking the History of Manual Drawing 14 2.1. Hybridization of Instrumentality and Imagination 14 2.1.1. Instrumentality and Imagination 14 2.1.2. Hybridization 24 2.2. Manual Drawings in History 37 2.2.1. Projection: The Italian Renaissance and French Formal Gardens 37 2.2.2. Pictorial Representation: The English Landscape Gardens 44 2.2.3. Diverse Specialization of Drawing: The 19th-century America and Frederick Law Olmsted 51 2.2.4. Emergence of Diagram: Modernism in America 57 III. Technological Transition 63 3.1. Hand and Computer Drawings 63 3.2. Transition from Hand to Computer 72 3.2.1. Scientific Visualization of Landscape Information: Map Overlay Method 72 3.2.2. Landform Simulation: Model Making 88 3.2.3. Exploration of Perspective View: Collage and Montage 100 IV. Digital Landscape Representations Photo-fake 124 4.1. Pictorial in Digital Landscape Representation 124 4.2. Photo-fake 134 4.2.1. Defining Photo-fake 134 4.2.2. Photo-fake Conditions 143 4.2.3. Opportunities and Limitations of the Photo-fake 156 4.2.4. Korean Landscape Architecture 160 4.3. Beyond the Depiction of Appearance 164 4.3.1. Modelling Landscape Performance 164 4.3.2. Hybridization Strategies 172 V. Conclusion 177 Bibliography 180 List of Illustrations 192 국문초록 201Docto

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Research examines participatory design from the perspectives of clothing design, design activism and co-design through engaging users in a participatory clothing design process. Design for sustainability serves as a background paradigm and an ideological inspiration for this research. A questions of how to engage users in a clothing design process, is presented. What works, for whom and in what contexts is examined. Research is conducted as practice-based design research and a research strategy of applying multiple research methods of practice-based research, action research and realist evaluation is adopted. Through a literary review of the theoretical frameworks, a programme theory is constructed, illustrating preliminary understanding and serving as a model for the participatory design process. This programme theory is then followed up, tested and evaluated and revised in an abductive and cyclical design and research process. Multiple data collections methods are used as the research strategy allows and the researcher is taking many roles as a participant observer, researcher, designer and a facilitator. In addition to the continuous evaluation of the process, a thematic analysis is conducted to gain further insights. Data is analysed on three levels, tools and techniques, method and approaches. The multiple answers to the research questions present themselves during analysis. Main results are summarised and conclusions drawn through a concept of conviviality. To engage in any participatory activities, one needs to define the approach, context and the goal, engage the relevant people and find the suitable method, techniques and tools to reach that goal. Convivial engagement is informed, generative and scaffolding, disciplined, but creative. There is a sensitivity to levels of involvement and time invested. Building collective knowledge, practice and shared understanding is crucial.Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tutkia keinoja osallistaa käyttäjiä vaatesuunnitteluprosessiin. Keinoja ja työkaluja siihen mikä toimii, kenelle ja missä kontekstissa, tarkastellaan vaatetussuunnittelun, muotoiluaktivismin ja osallistavan suunnittelun näkökulmista ja tutkimuksessa toteutetun osallistavan vaatesuunnitteluprosessin kautta. Kestävä suunnittelu toimii tutkimuksen ideologisena inspiraationa ja taustaviitekehyksenä. Tämä käytäntölähtöinen, työkaluja ja prosesseja tutkiva muotoilun tutkimus hyödyntää käytäntölähtöisen tutkimuksen, toimintatutkimuksen ja realistisen evaluaation yhdistävää tutkimusstrategiaa ja hyödyntää moninaisia aineistonkeruumenetelmiä. Kirjallisuuskatsauksen ja teoreettisten viitekehysten tarkastelun kautta on muodostettu esiymmärrys osallistamisen keinoista ja mallinnettu ohjelmateoria osallistavaa muotoiluprosessia varten. Ohjelmateoriaa testataan, arvioidaan ja uudelleensuunnataan toimintatutkimuksellisten syklien kautta. Teema-analyysin avulla aineistoa lopuksi tarkastellaan kolmella tasolla: työkalujen ja tekniikoiden tasolla, sekä menetelmien, että lähestymistapojen tasolla. Kolmen eri lähestymistavan synteesistä oivalluksena noussut hyväntahtoisen, tai konviviaali suunnittelu käsitteenä kokoaa tutkimuksen tärkeimpiä havaintoja. Yksittäisten työkalujen ja metodin toimivuus eri konteksteissa todetaan jo analyysin kautta. Lähestymistapa, konteksti ja päämärät tulee aina määritellä osallistavan prosessin aluksi, jotta tiedetään ketä osallistetaan, miksi, ja missä vaiheessa prosessia. Tästä johdetaan soveltuvat menetelmät ja tekniikat. Konviviaali suunnittelu on tietoista, generatiivista ja yhteistä tietoa rakentavaa. Se on järjestelmällistä, mutta soveltavaa ja luovuutta tukevaa. Hyväntahtoisesti osallistamisen tasoja ja aikaa huomioivaa. Yhteisten suunnittelun käytäntöjen ja ymmärryksen rakentaminen on keskeistä

Archaeology for all: Overview of public outreach within the 'Vinča project', Serbia

Arheološko nalazište Belo brdo u Vinči iskopavano je u nekoliko serija terenskih kampanja. Pre inicijalnih istraživanja, lokalitet, odnosno njegov arheološki sadržaj bili su manje-više poznati samo žiteljima sela, odnosno predgrađa Vinča. Prva istraživanja odigrala su se početkom 20. veka i proslavila su lokalitet. Ti najraniji radovi na terenu i spektakularna otkrića privukli su pažnju lokalnih i inostranih časopisa onog vremena i zahvaljujući tome široka publika je mogla da dobije prvi uvid u arheologiju Vinče te prepozna značaj ovog nalazišta. Arheološkom timu su se tada priključili pojedinci izvan struke, a njihov angažman bio je ključan za obezbeđivanje finansijskih sredstava za istraživanje, pre svega onih iz inostranih izvora. Uprkos tome što je, s jedne strane, važnost lokaliteta isticana u javnosti, a s druge - uočena šteta koju su nalazištu nanosili reka Dunav i širenje savremenog naselja na areal lokaliteta, nikakav trud nije uložen u fizičku i pravnu zaštitu ovog arheološkog nasleđa. Istraživanja u drugoj polovini 20. veka odvijala su se u uslovima pojačanog interesovanja za arheologiju, te su imala primetno veći publicitet. To je bila glavna prednost, koja je omogućila da se šira javnost edukuje u pogledu karakteristika i načina života u praistorijskom naselju u Vinči, a istovremeno i da se istaknu uloga i relevantnost arheološkog istraživačkog rada. Tadašnji istraživači Vinče bili su svesni potrebe (i prednosti) približavanja lokaliteta i naučnog rada različitoj publici. Zahvaljujući njihovom zalaganju na ovom planu, nalazište je proglašeno za kulturno dobro od nacionalnog interesa i stavljeno pod pravnu zaštitu. U 21. veku, arheolozi-istraživači Vinče su uložili znatnu količinu energije u javnu prezentaciju i promociju nalazišta i naučnog rada. Osnovni cilj bio je da se oprobaju nove metode popularizacije arheoloških nalazišta i rezultata, a da se pritom javnost uključi u arheologiju preko neposredne komunikacije sa arheolozima i kroz zajedničke aktivnosti. Na osnovu prisustva ili odsustva interakcije sa publikom, i njenog oblika, primenjeni pristupi prezentaciji naučnog rada na Vinči mogu se svrstati u nekoliko kategorija: indirektan pristup (izložbe fotografija u realnom i virtuelnom okruženju), direktan (uobičajene galerijske izložbe, predavanja za širu publiku), interaktivan (podrazumeva neposredan kontakt između publike i arheologa ili publike i arheoloških nalaza) i praktičan (aktivnosti i radionice za decu). Dobar deo ovih poduhvata iziskivao je veliku energiju i upornost, ali su rezultati bili nadasve ohrabrujući i inspirisali su dalji trud. Zamišljene aktivnosti izuzetno dobro je prihvatila nenaučna publika, koja je bila veoma raznovrsna u pogledu starosnog doba, interesovanja, profesije, finansijskog i društvenog statusa. Ako se imaju u vidu sve češće pogrešne i zlonamerne interpretacije nalazišta u Vinči, ključni su i krajnje relevantni napori arheologa da dopru do najšire moguće publike, te da je uključe u promotivne aktivnosti i na taj način edukuju. Ovaj aspekt shvatamo kao neophodan i integralan deo arheološkog rada na Vinči i smatramo da upravo arheolozi nose odgovornost za izgradnju odgovarajuće i naučno zasnovane slike o arheološkim otkrićima i njihovom značaju. Fokus u budućnosti treba da bude na udruživanju snaga sa lokalnom zajednicom u pogledu planiranja i realizacije promotivnih aktivnosti, kao i na uspostavljanju partnerstva i saradnje sa drugim zainteresovanim stranama.Science outreach has increasingly been recognised as a method of promoting research institutions, areas, process, results, and of contributing to the awareness and education of the public. This paper describes many different ways - some unconventional and highly imaginative - in which the archaeologists working at the site of Vinča in Serbia presented and promoted their work to the widest possible audience. The activities are provisionally placed into categories: indirect, direct, interactive and hands-on, indicating the route by which the information was conveyed to the public, but also reflecting the nature of the public response. The likely most effective, and certainly most enriching, were the outreach actions envisaged as a two-way process, enabling the flow of information between the presenters and the audience. Some new venues in publicising the research also were tested, through joint work of archaeologists and non-archaeologists. That engaging interested public in archaeology can bring practical benefits, which can be essential, was demonstrated already in the early 20th century-excavations at Vinča, when funding for the research was secured thanks to non-archaeologists on the team. Over the years, this practice has underpinned the efforts aimed at preserving and communicating the Vinča heritage. It might also be a domain in which a joint effort towards the site protection is possible of the opposed specialist and non-specialist voices interpreting the archaeology of Vinča

Camera Creatures: Rhetorics of Light and Emerging Media

Camera Creatures addresses the new media landscape in which cameras, in most situations, outnumber pens. The dissertation argues that despite the accessibility and power of imagemaking devices, there persists in the humanities and social sciences a hesitation to engage the possibilities for composing with optical media. A number of factors contributing to this trend are addressed, including the preference for image analysis over imagemaking practices, persistent assumptions of the camera\u27s mechanical objectivity, and a tendency to teach visual invention as collage. As a counter-measure, a proposal is made for investment in the mediation of light, or \u27photonic rhetorics.\u27 To explore these effects in visual communication and the possibility of bringing them into practice, three emerging camera technologies are examined. The first, the photo app, focuses on the controversy surrounding embedded journalists who use social networks and the Hipstamatic camera phone application to relay stories of U.S. Marines deployed in Afghanistan. The chapter argues that the filters and shooting styles of these mobile apps encourage fluencies in the persuasive effects of light. The second camera technology, the video clip, addresses the long take as the predominant technique of everyday video-making. Film theory, video sharing trends, and circadian science contribute to a discussion of the rhythms of long-take shooting and its capability to expose both visual habits and the contingencies capable of disrupting them. The third site turns to video game \u27shooters\u27 and the virtual camera\u27s construction of \u27surrogate vision,\u27 which the author argues is a critical tool for understanding the future of mediated interactivity in both physical and digital landscapes. The dissertation concludes with a pedagogical section devoted to conscientious cheating. Alongside theories of deliberate practice, \u27cheating\u27 is repurposed for education, offering new ways of testing the \u27rules\u27 of optical composition while discovering opportunities to intervene in light\u27s constant mediation of perception

The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age

Within this text, I explore the hidden power of images in American visual culture through painting-based installations. I investigate images of the past and present juxtaposed in a surrealist landscape. Through the use of images in the news, entertainment, advertising, and images within the home, I depict how the problems of the past bleed into our perceptions of the present. I find that this cycle of problem inheritance connects us as humans regardless of time, generation, and place. In my work, I explore the complexity of image culture and its shifting presence within the digital age. Using surrealist collage, I place unexpected images from different time periods next to each other in a simultaneous representation of time. Through themes of theater, I illude to the performativity of life. Large wall paintings and wooden prop pieces create an inhabitable space or stage where viewers can step into the work. The viewers’ physical image and identity collides with the images that give our lives, experiences, and perceptions context. I aim to emphasize the power of images by centering viewership as its catalyst

Looking Beyond Appearances: Synthetic Training Data for Deep CNNs in Re-identification

Re-identification is generally carried out by encoding the appearance of a subject in terms of outfit, suggesting scenarios where people do not change their attire. In this paper we overcome this restriction, by proposing a framework based on a deep convolutional neural network, SOMAnet, that additionally models other discriminative aspects, namely, structural attributes of the human figure (e.g. height, obesity, gender). Our method is unique in many respects. First, SOMAnet is based on the Inception architecture, departing from the usual siamese framework. This spares expensive data preparation (pairing images across cameras) and allows the understanding of what the network learned. Second, and most notably, the training data consists of a synthetic 100K instance dataset, SOMAset, created by photorealistic human body generation software. Synthetic data represents a good compromise between realistic imagery, usually not required in re-identification since surveillance cameras capture low-resolution silhouettes, and complete control of the samples, which is useful in order to customize the data w.r.t. the surveillance scenario at-hand, e.g. ethnicity. SOMAnet, trained on SOMAset and fine-tuned on recent re-identification benchmarks, outperforms all competitors, matching subjects even with different apparel. The combination of synthetic data with Inception architectures opens up new research avenues in re-identification.Comment: 14 page

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

‘Postmodernism’ was the final instalment of a 12-year series of V&A exhibitions exploring 20th-century design. It examined a diverse collection of creative practices in art, architecture, design, fashion, graphics, film, performance and pop music/video, which the curators, Pavitt and Adamson (V&A/RCA), identified under the common theme of ‘postmodernism’. The exhibition assessed the rise and decline of postmodern strategies in art and style cultures of the period, exploring their radical impact as well as their inextricable links with the economics and effects of late-capitalist culture. The exhibition comprised over 250 objects, including large-scale reconstructions and archive film/video footage, drawn from across Europe, Japan and the USA. It was the first exhibition to bring together this range of material and to foreground the significance of pop music and performance in the development of postmodernism. Pavitt originated and co-curated the exhibition with Adamson. They shared intellectual ownership of the project and equal responsibility for writing and editing the accompanying 320-page book (including a 40,000-word jointly written introduction), but divided research responsibilities according to geography and subject. The research was conducted over four years, with Pavitt leading on European and British material. This involved interviewing artists, designers and architects active in the period and working with collections and archives across Europe. The research led to the acquisition of c.80 objects for the V&A’s permanent collections, making it one of the most significant public collections of late-20th-century design in the world. The exhibition was critically reviewed worldwide. For the Independent, ‘bright ideas abound at the V&A’s lucid show’ (2011). It attracted 115,000 visitors at the V&A (15% over the Museum’s target) and travelled in 2012 to MART Rovereto, Italy (50,000 visitors) and Landesmuseum Zürich, Switzerland (70,000 visitors). Pavitt was invited to speak about the exhibition in the UK, USA, Poland, Portugal, Ireland and Italy (2010-12)

Putting the Pieces Back Together: Using a Kintsugi-Influenced Directive to Promote Self-Forgiveness and Resiliency in Young Adults with Shame and Guilt

Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art form of repairing broken pieces with lacquer. It is highly regarded as an art form that represents the beauty of scars and life after destruction. Currently, the field of art therapy has little literature on how destruction of art can be used in the field to aid clients. This study was dedicated to researching a new art directive based on the kintsugi form of art making and its philosophies. To assess the therapeutic value of the destruction of art, the chosen population was millennials, an age group that is misunderstood. This study aims to show that this directive can help this age group process through their shame and guilt, and in turn build resiliency and self-forgiveness. Participants engaged in a three-part art making process and eleven short interview questions focused on their experience. They were asked to create artwork, destroy it, and then use the pieces to either repair it or create something new. Qualitative data was analyzed to assess the experience of the participants. Overall, the results showed that this directive was effective in evoking feelings of resiliency and self-forgiveness. It is hoped that this study can further the conversation on using kintsugi and other types of destructive art in the field of art therapy

Lgr5 and Col22a1 mark progenitor cells in the lineage toward juvenile articular chondrocytes

The synovial joint forms from a pool of progenitor cells in the future region of the joint, the interzone. Expression of Gdf5 and Wnt9a has been used to mark the earliest cellular processes in the formation of the interzone and the progenitor cells. However, lineage specification and progression toward the different tissues of the joint are not well understood. Here, by lineage-tracing studies we identify a population of Lgr5+ interzone cells that contribute to the formation of cruciate ligaments, synovial membrane, and articular chondrocytes of the joint. This finding is supported by single-cell transcriptome analyses. We show that Col22a1, a marker of early articular chondrocytes, is co-expressed with Lgr5+ cells prior to cavitation as an important lineage marker specifying the progression toward articular chondrocytes. Lgr5+ cells contribute to the repair of a joint defect with the re-establishment of a Col22a1-expressing superficial layer