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- Hughes, Rolf, et al.
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MODERN 2.0 : Post-criticality and Transdisciplinarity
- 2011
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In: Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. - Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. - 9789400701038 - 9789400735019 - 9789400701045 ; , s. 51-62
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In Chapter 4, “MODERN 2.0 – Post-Criticality & Transdisciplinarity”, Rolf Hughes and Ronald Jones give an account of a graduate seminar on transdisciplinarity they led in December 2009, for the Experience Design Group at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Rather than deliver a pair of prepared monologues, they decided on a more dialogic mode of presentation. This chapter is the record of their conversation. Developing Jack Burnham's identification of a paradigm shift from an “object-oriented” to a “systems-oriented” culture, Hughes and Jones consider how contemporary designers pursuing greater responsibility, influence, and relevance might contribute to today’s complex social problems. Their answer: by designing transdisciplinary social, political, economic, and educational “systems”. In a global economy, the authors argue, the seductive promise of epistemological transformation is less significant than the transdisciplinary design team’s capacity to impact meaningfully on urgent social, political, and ethical questions in ways beyond the reach of corresponding monodisciplinary, crossdisciplinary or even interdisciplinary initiatives. They discuss the increasing need to design transdisciplines “as interdisciplinary methods begin hitting walls, finding their own limits of relevance”. Citing examples ranging from Hans Haacke’s Rhinewater Purification Plant and Filipe Balestra’s Samba Architecture project in Brazil, to Freeman Dyson’s vision of artists and designers in the near future using genomes to create new forms of plant and animal life that will proactively reverse the effects of global warming, their vision is that of a debugged modernism - a post-critical, transdisciplinary project - a “Modern 2.0” capable of “realistically rebooting the Modern dream of an attainable Eden”
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- Hållander, Frida, 1981-
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KONSTHANTVERK : Crafted Vernacular -A practice based research through Craft
- 2011
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In: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199931 ; , s. 73-79
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper intends to expand and deepen the field of craft, underline it and dissolve it and thereby demand new points of reference to work from, and doing so through the practices of crafts. Craft is traditionally closely linked with what we could define as a well-established concept, within a so-called Swedish identity. I will highlight different “pottering” works and should be seen as a variety of crackdowns, both historic and contemporary, where the object is to highlight the most relevant dominion in the crafts discourse. The paper also discusses knowledge of bodily work, the handicrafts of a fruit-carving artist and the handson-method of crossing concept: konsthantverk. From this a micro cosmos is reflected; these heterotopes represent and resonate, “are”, in this sense, antagonistic practices. We are dealing with power relations, bodily work, plastic flowers, watermelons, values, intra-activity, with the authentic - as well as with the technicalities of cutting the flesh out of a watermelon.
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- Hällgren, Nina, 1977-
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Urban sound design : Utopia or urgent need
- 2011
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In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. - : Acoustical Society of America. - 0001-4966 .- 1520-8524. ; 130:4_Supplement, s. 2532-2532
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today we are facing the consequences of about 100 years of urbanization, confronting questions about quality of life in relation to efficiency and economical benefits. Hard facts are considered to be more reliable than values which are not so easily measurable. The quality of sound is one of them. Urban designers and architects are currently not fully aware of the interaction between the built outcomes of their work and the process of propagation and perception of sound. Designing houses, relations between houses, connections between places, whole neighborhoods, and cities is a serious task affecting many different aspects of life. But we can still note a recurring absence of knowledge regarding the complex relation between visual and sonic realities. This reality is in fact what surrounds the urban inhabitant for an entire lifetime. But what can or should the architects and planners do? As has been recently pointed out in a report on the subject, this professional group is lacking the tools, language, and guiding examples for being able to implement anything in reality. Implementing what? What can really be done or designed to improve the sonic environment and for what purpose?
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- Jones, Ronald
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The Post-Critical Hybrid
- 2011
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In: Artnodes. - : Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. - 1695-5951. ; :11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We have arrived at a point where critical theory is being called upon to answer a basic question: what is the continuing relevance, value, and productive potential of criticality, or “oppositional knowledge”? I propose a departure from relativism, the ambiguities of postmodernism and fashionable pessimism for a new “post-critical perspective”. Post-criticality means engagement with proactive strategies triggering entrepreneurial, interdisciplinary, innovative, scalable and attainable solutions to collective challenges. In one sense you could say that while locking out nostalgia for an earlier and simpler time, post-criticality can mean retrofitting Modernism with what we have learned in the last century in order to begin engineering both methods and means for producing results across disciplines; not merely grandstanding jingoistic evangelism promoting a cause. From there the door opens onto inheriting the key parts of Modernism’s ambition for engagement, and setting agendas for action, without having to accept the ambiguity of postmodernism.
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- Klarén, Ulf, 1944-, et al.
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Colour and light in space : dynamic adaptation and spatial understanding
- 2011
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In: <em>Proceedings of </em><em>AIC 2011- Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association, </em><em>Zurich, Switzerland</em><em> </em><em>(</em><em>www.aic-colour.org</em><em>).</em><em></em>. ; , s. 485-488
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on our own observations and on scientific and scholarly references this paper discusses the appearance of colour constancy and the adaptation of colour and lightness in space. It presents part of an ongoing work, the aim of which is to formulate a spatially based colour knowledge. Our scientific approach is holistic and mainly directed towards colour and light phenomena as such, not towards underlying physiological processes. Earlier research has discussed lightness perception in colours very near neutral grey, with so low chromaticness that you can ignore the hue. In our research we have found that surfaces with nominally chromatic colours under special circumstances can be perceived as white and thus serve as anchors for perception of other colours in the field of vision. We also discuss how distinctions are made between perceived colours caused by on the light colour and such caused by the surface qualities. What we call adaptation is not limited to basic perception. Experience of colour in space is both perceptive and cognitive, as part of interaction between the individual and the world on many levels.
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- Klarén, Ulf, 1944-
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PERCIFAL - Perceptiv rumslig analys av färg och rum
- 2011
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Reports (peer-reviewed)abstract
- PERCIFAL -Perceptiv analys av färg och ljus- presenterar begrepp och metodiska ramar för beskrivning och analys av visuell upplevelse i rumsliga sammanhang. Utgångspunkten är en metod för visuell utvärdering av ljus i rum, som utarbetats vid Arkitekturskolan, KTH i Stockholm av professor Anders Liljefors.Anders Liljefors har också medverkat som konsult i PERCIFAL-arbetet. Syftet är att möjligöra beskrivning och kommunikation kring färgens och ljusets rumsliga helhetsverkan; genom diskussion och analys av systematiskt insamlade data kan man lära känna sitt synsinne och få en bättre förståelse för hur färg och ljus formar vår rumsupplevelse. Arbetsprocessen ligger nära konstnärens; mindre väsentliga detaljer offras till förmån för helhetsintrycket. Härigenom kan man beskriva grundläggande viktiga estetiska och visuellt funktionella rumsliga kvaliteter, som man inte kan komma åt på andra sätt.
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- Klarén, Ulf, 1944-, et al.
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The spacious greyness : on colour, light and space
- 2011
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In: Colore : quaderni di cultura e progetto del colore. - Milano : IDC Colour Centre. - 1590-3079. ; :69, s. 24-32
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the project Greyness and spatial experience we have studied visual qualities in grey/greyish colours "on location" in the - spatial - world around. We have carried out a number of observation series not only aiming to investigate variation of greyness in different spatial situations but also to develop a methodology and equipment for such studies. In this paper perception of greyness is discussed in relation to our own observations and to scientific and scholarly references. We make some basic reflections on colour in spatial context and in relation to traditional colour theory. In spatial context colours with low chromaticness, near the grey-scale, play a more significant role than distictly chromatic colours; hence they are very important in design of built spaces, both exterior and interior. The logically balanced distribution of greyness in shadows and in surfaces against the light produces a spatial feeling of coherency, and greyish inherent colours generally form a subordinated background to colours with high chromaticness. Simultaneously greyness to a high degree conduces to differentiation of spatial experience; an over-all spatial experience of greyness normally offers subtle but distinct contrasts of hue. In the field of colour most scientific research deals with colour phenomena as such. In focusing on colour as spatial phenomenon, colour theory can be given theoretical connection to intuitive understanding of the world around and be part of a wider field of aesthetic research.
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- Kristoffersson, Sara, 1972-
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Inredning är mer än ett snyggt yttre
- 2011
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In: Svenska dagbladet. - Stockholm : Svenska dagbladet. - 1101-2412. ; :2011-11-29
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Kristoffersson, Sara, 1972-
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Konst eller hantverk?
- 2011
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In: Rejmyre Art LAB Projects. - Rejmyre : Art LAB Projects. - 9789197940726 ; , s. 84-87
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