Design and Waterproof of Car Coatings Using Art Simulation Techniques and Flora Polyacrylamide

Since car is one of the issues that people deal with constantly and daily, improving the efficiency of its components, such as seat covers, not only does not reduce its value, but also provides greater comfort to passengers. Improving the design of car coatings and waterproofing of fabrics which have different advantages such as reducing accumulation of dirt on the cloth are considered in this research. The aim of the study is using flora polyacrylamide (FPAA) waterproof material with a chemical structure of weak cationic, non-ionic through the conventional padding method on polyester fabrics along with art simulation techniques. For this purpose, different concentrations of the composition of flora poly-acrylic waterproof coating was used on polyester fabric. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties of polyester fabrics were evaluated by water absorption tests based on a standard test method called the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists 79 -2003. As such, art simulation techniques were applied to car seat covers. The results of the study demonstrate that the use of appropriate amounts of waterproofing flora polyacrylamide composition could significantly prevent water absorption from polyester fabrics. Therefore, waterproofed fabrics designed by art simulation techniques can be used in auto production centers in Iran

The Colorsong Prophecy: Using Gardner\u27s Theory of Multiple Intelligences to Develop Hero Archetypes for a Young Adult Fictional Fantasy Series Aimed at Promoting a Mythology of Nonviolence

This synthesis explores the value and possibility of using Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory to inform the development of hero archetypes for use as protagonists in my original fictional fantasy series entitled The Colorsong Prophecy. These seven books, in the process of being written, are intended to provide adolescent readers with strong hero models that mirror the intellectual diversity of their own population and promote a new mythology of nonviolence that depicts nonviolent choices as mighty in their own right. I relate this literary work-in-progress to the foundational theories upon which it is based, examining the relevant literature from the domains that investigate the human experience – Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore, and Education. Theoretical works considered include Gardner’s (1983) Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Kohlberg’s (1980) Stages of Moral Development as a Basis for Moral Education, Campbell’s (1949) The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and Jung’s (1969) The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Later, I also explore the essential elements of good fiction, identify the target audience for this literary work-in-progress, and present examples of the manifestation of these theories by examining excerpts from and plans for the first book of The Colorsong Prophecy, and by discussing the development of the six subsequent books. Lastly, I reflect upon the creative process of writing these fantasy novels, and communicate my hopes and plans for the future completion of The Colorsong Prophecy. Sample chapters from the first book are included in the Appendix of this paper

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2050: The settlement on Mars has been cut off from Earth for nearly 5 years. In spite of their efforts to conserve what little food and water and oxygen they still have, they are running out of time... The Desperates back on Earth have mastered Darwinian survival, while the STEM-Heads have pursued a more discreet evasion of Death since the Collapse of 2045. Yet all of them dream of escaping from their overheated, overpopulated Hell called Home. As the mission to clean-up after First Mars leads a small STEM-Head band towards Kennedy Space Center, rumors of a distant paradise reach Desperate leaders, and, all of sudden, all eyes are back on Mars..

Little Town Blues

Little Town Blues is a novel about a woman burdened by a childhood accident and surviver\u27s guilt. She sneaks into a vacation house on Friday nights to read a novel. Bored with her marriage and her work as a hairdresser, her behavior becomes increasingly riskier

Care making: practices of gleaning, using and future fashioning

The scene of this research is a fashion design practice centred on immersive material engagement. Professional skills honed through the crafting of intimate, body-based garments and objects, find new relevance within the maker’s everyday living space, where craft practices emerging from domestic concerns reside. The professional, the domestician and the gardener, as personified practitioner modes, entwine through their inherent care of, and response to, materials when making. The mingling that ensues within this co-residency of skills, folds into the creation of a micro, home-based, artisanal practice. The quest is to redirect away from the unsustainable, aiming to shake the systemic roots of practices and products that negate future existence. The terrain explored lies beyond technocratic fixes to make existing products and their systems of production more efficient and less environmentally damaging; beyond creation motivated by capitalist growth. Taking a redirective approach, the exploration follows in the traces of the originating practice. An overgrown path, stuffed with too much stuff, is discovered: unused materials yet to be made; under-utilised skills, wasting away; made things yet to be used; and used things that now lay stagnant. The way is shown through a series of iterative making experiments in a domestic environment, seeded by the initial concern for a bagged, abundance of inactive leather remnants. Via intentional anthropomorphising and a process of empathetic, materially attuned making, the leftovers become companions in making, appreciated in all of their unique, imperfect and unexpected states. When gleaned, materials and knowledge that lack a palpably useful life are reactivated and given a potential future life. A barbecue, clothed in a covering fashioned from husband’s degraded jeans, reinforces a future life of barbecuing together, expressed in the sharing of the garment form. The letters written to the maker’s own red jacket, while in the process of the jacket’s remake, tell of balances between retention and surrender, in the remade form. Crocheted lettuce forms created using the maker’s own post consumer waste fold into questioning of the surrounding practices that generate this waste. Linkages are formed through making and using, merged as one practice. Practicing the care required for this iterative making, functions as a bridge, connecting narratives of the objects, their maker and the surrounding artificial ecology. Created and intermingled through care, these stories tell of capabilities afforded, lives honoured and beauty discovered and used well. Preoccupation with physical transformation — making waste material into functional, usable products — dissolves, as its endpoints are superseded by the most salient point, that making, and a newly developed fashion ability, function to critique, and to critique themselves. Objects and ways are fashioned that in turn, engendering further care, fold into an ecology of objects: a personal system for making and living, that like a garden, is a curated life, imbued with care

Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century

Copyright @ 2010 Greenleaf PublicationsLeNS project funded by the Asia Link Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy

This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/oer-ost/1007/thumbnail.jp

Fortress of the Soul

French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details. More than just decorative flourishes, however, the visual language employed by Huguenot artisans reflected a distinct belief system shaped during the religious wars of sixteenth-century France.In Fortress of the Soul, historian Neil Kamil traces the Huguenots' journey to New York from the Aunis-Saintonge region of southwestern France. There, in the sixteenth century, artisans had created a subterranean culture of clandestine workshops and meeting places inspired by the teachings of Bernard Palissy, a potter, alchemist, and philosopher who rejected the communal, militaristic ideology of the Huguenot majority which was centered in the walled city of La Rochelle. Palissy and his followers instead embraced a more fluid, portable, and discrete religious identity that encouraged members to practice their beliefs in secret while living safely—even prospering—as artisans in hostile communities. And when these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of artisanal security.Drawing on significant archival research and fresh interpretations of Huguenot material culture, Kamil offers an exhaustive and sophisticated study of the complex worldview of the Huguenot community. From the function of sacred violence and alchemy in the visual language of Huguenot artisans, to the impact among Protestants everywhere of the destruction of La Rochelle in 1628, to the ways in which New York's Huguenots interacted with each other and with other communities of religious dissenters and refugees, Fortress of the Soul brilliantly places American colonial history and material life firmly within the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world

Material Witness: Doris Salcedo's Practice as an Address on Political Violence through Materiality

Material Witness: Doris Salcedo's Practice as an Address on Political Violence through MaterialityHistory of Art and Architectur