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Book Design for Distinction

Download or read book Design for Distinction written by Suomi College and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ultimate Distinction

Download or read book The Ultimate Distinction written by Matt Mullen and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taoists call it yin and yang; Buddhists refer to the two truths: existence is both absolute and relative. Just as physicists accept that a subatomic particle is also a wave, we can understand that the universe is both one (absolute, undivided) and many (conceptual, material). Mystics get lost in the absolute, while most see only the relative. Matt Mullen points out that both are necessary for living a life in concert with the way things really are.

Book Philosophy and Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pieter E. Vermaas
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-12-05
  • ISBN : 1402065914
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Philosophy and Design written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, and on architectural and environmental designing. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing.

Book Distinction in Type Design

Download or read book Distinction in Type Design written by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Philosophy of Technology

Download or read book A Philosophy of Technology written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Philosophy of Technology: From Technical Artefacts to Sociotechnical Systems, technology is analysed from a series of different perspectives. The analysis starts by focussing on the most tangible products of technology, called technical artefacts, and then builds step-wise towards considering those artefacts within their context of use, and ultimately as embedded in encompassing sociotechnical systems that also include humans as operators and social rules like legislation. Philosophical characterisations are given of technical artefacts, their context of use and of sociotechnical systems. Analyses are presented of how technical artefacts are designed in engineering and what types of technological knowledge is involved in engineering. And the issue is considered how engineers and others can or cannot influence the development of technology. These characterisations are complemented by ethical analyses of the moral status of technical artefacts and the possibilities and impossibilities for engineers to influence this status when designing artefacts and the sociotechnical systems in which artefacts are embedded. The running example in the book is aviation, where aeroplanes are examples of technical artefacts and the world aviation system is an example of a sociotechnical system. Issues related to the design of quiet aeroplane engines and the causes of aviation accidents are analysed for illustrating the moral status of designing, and the role of engineers therein. Table of Contents: Technical Artefacts / Technical Designing / Ethics and Designing / Technological Knowledge / Sociotechnical Systems / The Role of Social Factors in Technological Development / Ethics and Unintended Consequences of Technology

Book Design Trends Presents Homes of Distinction

Download or read book Design Trends Presents Homes of Distinction written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly

Download or read book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly written by New South Wales. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.

Book Calendar

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of Sydney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book Calendar written by University of Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The forbid allow asymmetry

Download or read book The forbid allow asymmetry written by Bregje Holleman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questionnaires are widely used in the social sciences and very often survey data form the basis for governmental and commercial planning or evaluation. Yet the quality of survey data is not attested to, since a large variety of factors in the language-use situation prove to influence the answers unintentionally. The forbid/allow asymmetry is a well-known example of this: when respondents are asked whether something should be forbidden, about 50% may answer ‘yes, forbid’ – whereas an equivalent question phrased with the verb ‘to allow’ could well cause up to 75% of the respondents to answer ‘no, it should not be allowed’. Which question wording is preferable to measure respondents’ true attitudes? Only when we know why the answers differ, can we decide on that. This book is the first to apply a systematic cognitive approach to describe the causes of the forbid/allow asymmetry. The question-answering process is unravelled by a variety of experiments and meta-analytic techniques. Analyses reveal that the difference in question wording does not prompt respondents to retrieve different attitudes. Instead, the asymmetry reflects that the question wording causes the response options to be used differently. Because of the qualifying dimensions in the question text, the meanings of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ change, as well as the cognitive distance between them. This study sheds a different light on processes of question-answering and text interpretation. Furthermore, practical advice on questionnaire design and on the interpretation of survey data is given on the basis of these new insights.

Book Urban Transformations

Download or read book Urban Transformations written by Ian Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in their dislike of the transformations that cities have undergone in recent times. The physical form of the urban environment is not a designer add-on to 'real' social issues; it is a central aspect of the social world. Yet in many people's experience, the cumulative impacts of recent urban development have created widely un-loved urban places. To work towards better-loved urban environments, we need to understand how current problems have arisen and identify practical action to address them. Urban Transformations examines the crucial issues relating to how cities are formed, how people use these urban environments and how cities can be transformed into better places. Exploring the links between the concrete physicality of the built environment and the complex social, economic, political and cultural processes through which the physical urban form is produced and consumed, Ian Bentley proposes a framework of ideas to provoke and develop current debate and new forms of practice.

Book An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design

Download or read book An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design written by Andrew S. Gibbons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 AECT Design & Development Outstanding Book Award An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice. Both practical and theoretically sound, this approach is drawn from current international trends in architectural, digital, and industrial design, and focuses on the structural and functional properties of the artifact being designed rather than the processes used to design it. Harmonious with existing systematic design models, the architectural approach expands the scope of design discourse by introducing new depth into the conversation and merging current knowledge with proven systematic techniques. An architectural approach is the natural result of increasing technological complexity and escalating user expectations. As the complexity of design problems increases, specialties evolve their own design languages, theories, processes, tools, literature, organizations, and standards. An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design describes the implications for theory and practice, providing a powerful and commercially relevant introduction for all students of instructional design.

Book Operationalizing Sustainability

Download or read book Operationalizing Sustainability written by Pierre Massotte and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the emergence of the "science of sustainability" and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can be reformulated into business models and solutions for new growth and applications. They then move onto the reformulation of future thinking processes before ending by looking towards an approach for the measurement of sustainability and competitiveness.

Book Becoming a Designer of Distinction

Download or read book Becoming a Designer of Distinction written by Tabitha Evans and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of Patent  Design  Trade Mark  and Other Cases

Download or read book Reports of Patent Design Trade Mark and Other Cases written by Great Britain. Courts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theories and Practice in Interaction Design

Download or read book Theories and Practice in Interaction Design written by Sebastiano Bagnara and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ad hoc and interdisciplinary, the field of interaction design claims no unified theory. Yet guidelines are needed. In essays by 26 major thinkers and designers, this book presents the rich mosaic of ideas which nourish the lively art of interaction design. The editors introduction is a critical survey of interaction design with a debt and contribut

Book The Systematicity Arguments

Download or read book The Systematicity Arguments written by Kenneth Aizawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Systematicity Arguments is the only book-length treatment of the systematicity and productivity arguments. It explores each of the arguments in detail addressing the explanatory standard that is involved in the arguments, what is to be explained in the arguments, how diverse theories have attempted to meet the explanatory challenges of systematicity, and how successful these attempts have been. Classical, Connectionist, Tensor Product Theories of cognitive architecture, among others, are examined. While not intended to be an introductory work, the book presupposes no familiarity with the leading theories of cognitive architecture or the systematicity and productivity arguments. The theories, the arguments, and their ramifications are explored in detail. The book is, therefore, suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists in cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind.

Book Distinction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 113587316X
  • Pages : 641 pages

Download or read book Distinction written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.