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- Arnkil, Harald, et al.
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PERCIFAL: Visual analysis of space, light and colour
- 2011
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Ingår i: AIC 2011, Interaction of Colour & Light in the Arts and Sciences, Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association, Zurich, Switzerland, 7–10 June 2011: Conference Proceedings, CD. - Zurich : pro/colore, 2011. ; , s. 229-232
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the need for better and more accurate methods of recording and analyzing the visual experience of architectural space. PERCIFAL (Perceptive Spatial Analysis of Colour and Light) is an ongoing project that aims at developing a method of analysis that can capture coherent spatial experiences of colour and light. The starting point for PERCIFAL is a method of visual evaluation of space and light, developed by Professor Anders Liljefors at the former department of architectural lighting at KTH Architecture. PERCIFAL is based on direct visual observations and the recording of these observations by verbal-semantic descriptions using a questionnaire. It has been developed primarily as an educational tool, but we see in it potential for a design tool for professionals as well as for an analytical method for research. The first test results, conducted in Sweden, Norway and Finland, show that the method has significant pedagogical merits and that it allows interesting comparisons between physical measurements and visual experiences of space, light and colour.
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- Broms, Loove, 1977-, et al.
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Days in the life of the Energy Aware Clock
- 2011
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Ingår i: Swedish Design Research Journal. - 2000-964X. ; :1, s. 30-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a potential for greater electricity savings if we can better understand how design affects behaviour. This paper describes om design of an energy awareness artefact - the Energy AWARE Clock- and discusses it in relation to behavioural processes in the home. The Energy AWARE Clock showed to play a significant role in drawing households' attention to their electricity use. It became a natural part of the household and conceptions of electricity became natmalized into informants' everyday language.
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- Fridell Anter, Karin, 1950-, et al.
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Successive approximation in full scale rooms. : Colour and light research starting from design experience.
- 2011
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Ingår i: AIC 2011, Interaction of Colour & Light in the Arts and Sciences, Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association, Zurich, Switzerland, 7–10 June 2011: Conference Proceedings, CD. - Zurich : pro/colore, 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- OPTIMA is a pilot study attempting to simultaneously involve all visual aspects of the room, with an analysis starting from the totality instead of dividing it into different parameters. Its primary aim is to develop and test methods for this, combining a scientific approach and experience based practices of art and design
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Crafting Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian in the United States
- 2011
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Ingår i: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199931 ; , s. 277-284
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are Nordic Spaces crafted in the Nordic Countries and in the United States? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage? Drawing on theories of materialization and ritual performance; this paper discusses vernacular gifts as a form of materializing relationships; crafting bonds and delimiting boundaries between regions and museums in the wake of migration. By highlighting vernacular gifts from individuals and groups to Scandinavian museums in the United States; I would like to address how gift exchange maps out boundaries; between inside and outside; below and above; distant and close; near and far. The paper will show how gift exchange plays a creative role when Scandinavian museums craft relationships with particular regions; nations; and areas recognized as Scandinavia and Norden.
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- Hellström, Björn, 1959, et al.
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Modelling the shopping soundscape
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Sonic Studies. - Leiden : Leiden University Press. - 2212-6252. ; 1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article’s pivotal theme is: “How to compose a site-specific sound-art installation for a commercial space in order to improve conditions, while taking perceptual, social, aesthetical, temporal and spatial criteria into account” The interdisciplinary, art-based research approach is derived from the concept of acousmatics, i.e. the process of apprehending any sound, the source of which is invisible. Acousmatic perception concerns the everyday identification process; when lacking visual contact with the sound source, we automatically seek references, such as social (what produces the sound and what is my relation to it?), aesthetical, spatial and temporal (e.g. orientation and demarcation). The acousmatic concept identifies phenomena based on individually, culturally and spatially conditioned experiences. Today, a shopping culture dominates urban space. Indoor malls expose us to all types of acousmatically perceived sounds: jingles, signals, music and muzak from public loudspeakers, mobile devices, etc. In this respect, one could claim that the soundscape of the shopping culture embodies an acousmatic environment. In 2009, the research and sound-art group Urban Sound Institute (USIT) created a permanent sound installation in a shopping mall (Gallerian) located in downtown Stockholm. This installation serves as a case study for the present paper. The artistic assignment involved the creation of a meeting place without material devices as well as the enhancement of the overall atmosphere. The research objective was to elucidate different qualities of the sound installation in regard to the acousmatics of the shopping mall, promoting discussions on the articulation of sound-space configurations in relation to time and site-specific context, issues on musical-architectural qualities as well as objective, subjective and inter-subjective interrelationships between the experience of the sound-art installation and the experience of the shopping mall soundscape. Other applied, interrelated concepts are metabolic environment and masking- and cutting effects.
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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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Ingår i: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199931 ; , s. 73-79
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: 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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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Artnodes. - : Fundacio per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. - 1695-5951. ; :11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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