INNOWIZ: a guided framework for projects in industrial design education

This paper presents the concrete application of the INNOWIZ methodology in a design education context. This methodical philosophy is used as a structural backbone in teaching the product design process to students in industrial product design. Observations and teaching experience concluded that these students need a METHOD to manage their creative processes, INSPIRATION in the form of tools and techniques to reach to the breakthrough ideas and make them more tangible one step at a time, and a PERSONAL APPROACH to tackle any specific situation and to deal with many different design briefs

The effect of leg-to-body ratio on male attractiveness depends on the ecological validity of the figures

Leg-to-body ratio (LBR) predicts evolutionary fitness, and is therefore expected to influence bodily attractiveness. Previous investigations of LBR attractiveness have used a wide variety of stimuli, including line drawings, silhouettes, and computer-generated images based on anthropometric data. In two studies, community samples of heterosexual women from the USA rated the attractiveness of male figures presented as silhouettes and as detailed computer-generated images with 3 different skin tones (white, black, and an artificial grey). The effects of LBR depended on the image format. In particular, a curve-fitting analysis indicated that the optimally-attractive LBR for silhouettes was fractionally below the baseline, whereas the optima for more detailed computer-generated images was approximately 0.5 SD above the baseline and was similar for all three skin-tones. In addition, the participants’ sensitivity to changes in the LBR was lowest for the silhouettes and highest for the grey figures. Our results add to evidence that the most attractive LBR is close to, but slightly above, the population mean, and caution that the effects of limb proportions on attractiveness depend on the ecological validity of the figures

Innovating Objects? Spolia and the Question of Appropriation

NWO024.003.012Classical & Mediterranean Archaeolog

Kosmopolitisch erfgoed aan de Euphraat. Nemrud Dağ en Kommagene in de Hellenistisch-Romeinse periode

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De kracht en onmacht van verbonden zijn. Objecten, globalisering en het ontstaan van de Romeinse wereld

Oratie uitgesproken door Prof. dr. M.J. Versluys bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar in de Klassieke en Mediterrane Archeologie aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 29 september 2017Classical & Mediterranean Archaeolog