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As an integrated, multi-discipline firm, collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do at Herrera. It's how our designers, scientists, and planners approach the complex challenges of creating integrated solutions that serve our communities. Our new blog series, Cross Discipline Collaboration, will showcase how we apply Science+Planning+Design to drive meaningful outcomes. Our initial topic: How Wetland Scientists Can Partner Effectively with Design Engineers. Join us as we talk about the art and science of asking the right questions to elevate communities and ecosystems: https://lnkd.in/gequPPUn

Creating sci-fi digital art involves exploring futuristic themes, advanced technology, and imaginative landscapes. Here's a conceptual framework for designing sci-fi digital art. #FuturisticEnvironments #AdvancedTechnology #AlienWorldsandSpecies

Check out my latest blog post from my fabulous experience with the Science in Design Academy #scienceindesign

Weekend Brain food. Symmetry, Sight lines, Contrast and Harmony, Flow, Design narratives, materials...etc..There is actually as much science as there art. And the concepts apply to process and policy design, as they do for physical space design.

📰 White Paper: Design for Justice presentation during the Share Fair (4 June) 📅 This white paper aims to provide an introduction into design for justice for a wide audience. It also demonstrates ongoing research on this topic by the TU Delft community and to contribute to the exchange of relevant knowledge and expertise. As one of the outcomes of the activities organised for the Delft Design for Values Institute’s annual theme ‘design for justice’, this document includes recommendations on how to foster design for justice. These recommendations are not just relevant for designers, engineers, and academic researchers but also for educators and policy makers. Please register here to be present at the 4th of June: https://lnkd.in/eYRrjZuX Main authors are: Ibo Poel, van de, Nynke van Uffelen, Edo Abraham, Fernando Secomandi and Marielle Feenstra Other contributions from Cynthia Liem, Roberto Rocco, Aarón Moreno Inglés and Anna Melnyk. #Whitepaper #designforjustice #values #design #justice

Did you know many modern solutions to humans' needs are inspired by nature? Biomimicry is a technological-oriented approach focused on putting nature's lessons into practice. From imitating prarie dogs burrows for ventilation systems to mimicking shark skin for antibacterial surfaces, designers and engineers explore diverse avenues inspired by nature. This is the story of how engineer Eiji Nakatsu, faced with a sonic dilemma in Japan's high-speed trains, turned to the kingfisher for a solution. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/dXCSGMtj

ART-CHITECTURE The Extensible Spatial Metaphor EYECANDIES @eyecandiescn × Kui Yuan Gallery @kuiyuangallery , Shanghai, China 16 Dec 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 In the broader context of a more macroscopic era, as the relative relation between stability and instability continues to evolve, the once seemingly immutable sense of safety is influenced by a certain ever-changing sense of crisis. The social environment, in turn, appears to move from accommodating changes to resisting them, attempting to counteract the external evolutionary processes. For the disciplines of architecture, such context has shifted the delicate balance between the materiality and immateriality within. The traditional, constant operation modes seem to gradually become opposed to the diverse and divergent extensions again, while the non-material representations of architecture then become more of the transitional objects with the same rigid nature. However, as the ontological foundations of architecture are also simultaneously subjected to intense upheaval, and while navigating through this tumultuous flux, prompting a search for conceptual changes that involve interweaving and permeation, which then allow the disciplinary methodologies to serve not only as mediums to access objects but also as the target objects themselves, could be presenting a potential proactive response. 📷 The Extensible [2] #JXYStudio #culture #art #architecture #exhibition https://lnkd.in/gk5xCcK9

Great way to end the year. Deborah Ascher Barnstone and I signed a contract with Bloomsbury for our co-edited book titled Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Visual Culture in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to be published in 2024. An amazing line up of scholars: Erin Maynes (LACMA), Ben Seyfert, Birgit Lang and Eliza Coyle, Camilla Smith, Patrick Roessler, Peter Chametzky, Mila Ganeva, Nina Lübbren and Fay Brauer. Great to be working with Bloomsbury's editor Alex Highfield. Germany is considered one of the central sources of modernist aesthetics after the First World War when innovation and experimentation were ubiquitous in all the arts. Conventional histories tend to present the new aesthetics as fixed and agreed values yet, as this volume demonstrates, modernist aesthetics were developing at a rapid rate and largely in flux during the 1920s and 1930s.The established historical narrative used to posit a stark difference between the explosion of modernist art innovation during the Weimar Republic, the conservative aesthetics favored during the Wilhelmine era, and stifling of modernist expression during the National Socialist period. In fact, the story is far more nuanced and complex in art historical and socio-cultural terms. Photo: László Moholy-Nagy, (Eifersucht) Jealousy 1927.

I respect Judy's concept tremendously but here is my proposed approach to Neurodiversity: from an architectural perspective there needs to be a shift from respect to invention. https://lnkd.in/efmYkTi4

🧠 Understanding how our brains respond to different environments can significantly impact architectural design, creating spaces that enhance well-being and overall human experience. Explore the intriguing connection between neuroscience and architecture in this insightful blog post from ArchDaily: https://vist.ly/3dynx