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Arabic Type In Urban Environments: A Graphic Heritage, Shaima Elbardawil
Arabic Type In Urban Environments: A Graphic Heritage, Shaima Elbardawil
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Graphic design as a cultural object can contribute to the design of heritage in various ways. This study investigates the meaning of heritage and graphic design in relation to culture and communication. It discusses cultural heritage in Arab states with reference to Arabic type and introduces Naskh-style typefaces in wayfinding systems and signage as a graphic urban heritage. This is done using a framework for analyzing urban graphic heritage alongside empirical field study from the United Arab Emirates and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The study reveals that graphic design provides a unique framework toward understanding the role of typographic …
Imaginary Museums: A New Approach To The Learning And Assessment Of Design History, Benjamin Hughes, Ke Jiang
Imaginary Museums: A New Approach To The Learning And Assessment Of Design History, Benjamin Hughes, Ke Jiang
Learn X Design Conference Series
This paper outlines an approach taken to re-establish the status, significance and implementation of the design history component of a practice-based undergraduate design course in China. The format for delivery and assessment were found to have stagnated into a curriculum module widely regarded as of peripheral interest. A project was undertaken to revise not only the scope of teaching material so that it was more appropriate for remote learning, but also the mode of assessment. The traditional lecture format was replaced in part by an online course, augmented by widely available video and texts. In-person teaching was switched to seminar …
Tracing Matters Of Scale By Walking With Minerals, Petra Lilja
Tracing Matters Of Scale By Walking With Minerals, Petra Lilja
Nordes Conference Series
Most practices of design are dependent on materials, and an anthropocentric way of thinking matter as mere resource ready to exploit, dominates. This text attempts to counteract that mode of thinking about matter, by walking and thinking-with stones, minerals and fossils in a disused limestone quarry in southern Sweden. The text is folding together thoughts from philosophy of science and vital materialism with insights from the lithic, spatio-temporal scales of sedimented fossil archives of the quarry and situated experiential explorations taking place there. What emerged from the learnings of the minerals, and what this text contributes with, is a proposal …