Download or read book Metatextile written by Tristan Weddigen and published by Dietrich Reimer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of medium as a technique, material, and metaphor within contemporary art, architecture, and criticism is addressed in this study that illustrates the relevance of textiles. It reveals how the rise of textiles as a prominent art form since the 1990s has not been subjected to comprehensive historical and theoretical reflection thus far. Attempting to map out some of the several meanings and functions of textiles in contemporary art so as to articulate a “metatextile” theory or a “textile discourse,” the book discusses central aspects of the contemporary medium from identity, myth, and clothing to technology, architecture, ornament, anthropology, phenomenology, and historiography. This edition is written in English, French, and German.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Applied Research on Textile and Materials written by Amel Babay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile in Architecture written by Didem Ekici and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long been used in interiors. Beyond its use as a material, textile has offered a captivating model and metaphor for architecture through its ability to enclose, tie together, weave, communicate, and adorn. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. The essays edited and compiled here, work across disciplines to provide new insights into the enduring relationship between textiles and architecture. The contributors critically explore the spatial and material qualities of textiles as well as cultural and political significance of textile artifacts, patterns, and metaphors in architecture. Textile in Architecture is organized into three sections: “Ritual Spaces,” which examines the role of textiles in the formation and performance of socio-political, religious, and civic rituals; “Public and Private Interiors” explores how textiles transformed interiors corresponding to changing aesthetics, cultural values, and material practices; and “Materiality and Material Translations,” which considers textile as metaphor and model in the materiality of built environment. Including cases from Morocco, Samoa, France, India, the UK, Spain, the Ancient Andes and the Ottoman Empire, this is essential reading for any student or researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.
Download or read book Personal Comfort Systems for Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality written by Faming Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first describes fundamental knowledge on human thermal comfort, adaptive thermal comfort, thermal comfort in sleeping environments, modeling of human thermal comfort, and thermal comfort assessment using human trials. Next, it presents an in-depth review of concept progress and evaluation of various personal comfort system, summarizes important findings and feasible applications, current gaps as well as future research needs. The seven chapters included in this section are task/ambient conditioning systems, personalized ventilation systems, electric fans, personal comfort systems, thermoelectric systems, personal thermal management systems, and wearable personal thermal comfort systems. This book provides valuable guidance for personal comfort system design and further improvement on the personal comfort performance. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers, engineers in industry, and government regulators in the field of sustainable buildings and built environment.
Download or read book Detained by the Alien written by Ashlyn Hawkes and published by Ashlyn Hawkes. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standalone instalove alien romance from author Ashlyn Hawkes. What can be worse than being detained by an alien? Being kidnapped by another alien. Gemma Whitley just wants a do over button. A terrible car accident left her almost dying when she saw light. She thought she was dying, but, no, an alien stole her from Earth. Only now she’s been taken by someone else. As the aliens fight for her, Gemma struggles to find a way out of this with her body, her mind, and her heart intact, but that just might not be possible… Trigger warning: this book includes some dark themes like consent and assault, but love will always win. No cliffhanger. Keywords: alien abduction romance, science fiction romance, scifi romance, paranormal romance, science fiction, standalone, happy end, happy ending, alpha male, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, steamy romance, happily ever after, romance, ebooks to read and download, scifi romance, alien abduction, alien romance, collection, box set, boxed set, Zenobia Renquist, Kate Rudolph, Starr Huntress, Sedona Venez, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Ava Hunter, Ruby Dixon, Jenny Foster, Elizabeth Stephens, Margo Bond Collins, Stasia Black, Lisa Lace
Download or read book Thermal Plasmonics and Metamaterials for a Low Carbon Society written by Kotaro Kajikawa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume for researchers and students, experts in thermal plasmonics and metamaterials technologies introduce cutting-edge energy and resource conservation techniques and environmentally friendly solutions in areas including energy generation and harvesting and radiative cooling. Through this book, readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the metamaterials and thermal plasmonics technologies used for such devices and the real-world applications of these technologies. This book is divided into three broad sections to address different aspects of these devices. The first section presents research on materials that can control thermal radiation and optical absorption, phase transition materials, and optical design using AI; the second covers research on thermophovoltaic elements, energy harvesting, and radiative cooling; and the third introduces research on photothermal materials’ applications, such as solar steam generation, desalination, recyclable inks, and radiative textiles. Each chapter is authored by an expert whose research is focused on a specific related technology or application. Readers can apply the information in this book to address many common problems related to environment and energy conservation. This book is invaluable for researchers and graduate students working in the fields of nanophotonics, energy, and environmentally friendly solutions, whether they are working on advancing the underlying technologies or expanding the range of usable applications to solve common global problems related to energy use, cooling, and resource consumption.
Download or read book Multimodal electronic textiles for intelligent human machine interfaces written by Xiao Wei and published by OAE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart wearable electronic devices capable of information exchanging (such as human-machine interfaces) have developed into key carriers for the interconnection, intercommunication, and interaction between humans and machines. Multimodal electronic textiles that incorporate multifunctional sensors into daily clothing are an emerging technology to realize smart wearable electronics. This has greatly advanced human-machine interface technology by bridging the gap between wearing comfort and traditional wearable electronic devices, which will facilitate the rapid development and wide application of natural human-machine interfaces. In this article, we provide a comprehensive summary of the latest research progress on multimodal electronic textiles for intelligent human-machine interfaces. Firstly, we introduce the most representative electronic textile manufacturing strategies in terms of functional fiber preparation and multimodal textile forming. Then, we explore the multifunctional sensing capability of multimodal electronic textiles and emphasize their advanced applications in intelligent human-machine interfaces. Finally, we present new insights on the future research directions and the challenges faced in practical applications of multimodal electronic textiles.
Download or read book Imagining Outer Space written by Alexander C.T. Geppert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.
Download or read book Cultural Histories of the Material World written by Peter N. Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields—from Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Folklore, History, History of Science, Literature, Philosophy—to offer their vision of what cultural history of the material world looks like and attempt to show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means. The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.
Download or read book Network World written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.
Download or read book The Nomadic Object written by Christine Göttler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of renowned scholars examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform, demonstrating the significance of religious systems for a global art history.
Download or read book Metatextiles and the Triumph of Tapestry written by Kristen Irvine Adams and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestry triumphed as the most prized and celebrated artistic medium in Europe during the Early Modern era (1400-1750) – an age we normally associate with great sculptures and paintings. This is evidenced by tapestry collections included in inventories that outnumber other media by a significant margin. Despite tapestry’s prestige in this period, the innovative character and historical importance of this medium has gone largely unrecognized by modern scholars compared to other art forms, especially painting. My dissertation aims to redress this failure by analyzing shifts in tapestry design, initiated by Raphael’s tapestry designs made for the Sistine Chapel in the sixteenth century, which ultimately transformed the way in which tapestry was designed and experienced in subsequent centuries. The woven medium’s elevated status stems, in part, from the expense and material splendor of wool, silk, and gilt-metal threads, but I argue that it is also because tapestry was conceptualized as a metatextile, or a self-aware medium during this period. This means that tapestry manipulated innovations and characteristics from other media to better showcase the full range of its own artistic capacities. In other words, woven ensembles imitated other media like fresco and easel painting, sculpture, and architecture to great visual effect, but did so according to and by means of tapestry’s distinctive materiality, or its characteristics of thread, scale, and mobility. I consider the unexamined role that borders, a distinctive framing feature of tapestry design, played in tapestry’s articulation of other artistic media’s illusionistic forms. I argue that these framing devices, combined with the medium’s immense size, mobility, and material richness, are key to tapestry’s self-awareness in relation to other art forms in the period. By tracing this metatextile trajectory, my dissertation brings to life for contemporary viewers (who encounter only a fraction of tapestry’s original splendor when viewing these objects in the controlled environments of a museum) the manner in which Early Modern textile spaces were commissioned, designed, and experienced. In doing so, my dissertation reasserts tapestry’s novelty and prominence among the visual arts, and explains the attraction and challenge that this particular medium presented for the period’s leading designers.
Download or read book Material Cultures of Psychiatry written by Monika Ankele and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
Download or read book Display of Art in the Roman Palace 1550 1750 written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.
Download or read book Suffix Codes for Jobs Defined in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles written by United States. Bureau of Employment Security and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renewable Energy Generation and Value Addition from Environmental Microfiber Pollution Through Advanced Greener Solution written by Alok Prasad Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Abstracts from 22nd AUTEX World Textile Conference written by and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AUTEX conference brings together academics, researchers and industry partners from various universities, research and technological centres and companies who are interested in the amazing areas of fibres, textiles, clothing and more. The conference serves as a platform for exchanging ideas, presenting the latest developments and trends, proposing new solutions, promoting international collaborations, and networking.
