Focusing on the integration of smart materials in architecture, the book examines current global trends and their implications for design. It delves into adaptive architecture and "information materials," highlighting their uses and future potential. A thorough overview of architectural materials, both historical and contemporary, is provided, alongside educational approaches for incorporating these materials into design curricula. The final sections explore innovative phenomena such as aerogels and bioplastics, offering insights into their fabrication and application, and concluding with a vision for "living" architecture.
Synthetic Realities explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on design, art, and architecture. Edited by Manuel Kretzer, this collection features contributions from renowned experts, examining how AI reshapes creative processes, merges digital and physical realms, and fosters innovation. It offers fresh insights into the relationship between technology and creativity, urging readers to rethink their perspectives on the future of these fields.
This is a book about faces in everyday objects. It is also a book about planting trees - since 100% of the profits will be donated to a tree-planting charity. Most of all, however, this is a book about discovering and using one’s personal tools and abilities for something that matters. The quality of these pages is not in what they display, how they look, or what they generate, but rather it is in what they represent: turning something trivial into a method of action. This is our planet, this is our future, and this is our chance to design it the way we want it to be. The trick is to not succumb to the overwhelming helplessness we are confronted with, but to do what we understand as right and towards that which we care about. We don’t all have to take the exact same measures, such as eating vegan or cycling to work - but we should all do something - since everyone can make a difference. Manuel Kretzer is Professor for Material and Technology at the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Vanessa Schnurre is an artistic advisor and Assistant Professor for Communications Design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. All profits generated from the sale of these books will be donated to the organisation Plant-for-the-Planet, which plants trees as both a practical and symbolic action in efforts to reduce the effects of climate change.
Der Löwe Petersilie und seine Freunde, der Tiger Blumenkohl und der Papagei Papadu, werden während ihrer Wanderung in den Bergen von einem Gewitter überrascht. In einer Höhle entdecken sie unglaubliche Dinge und erleben ein Abenteuer mit längst vergessenen Kreaturen und neuen Freunden.
In einer Zeit, in der die Grenzen zwischen digitaler und realer Welt zunehmend verschwimmen, sieht sich auch die Disziplin "Design" mit einer Reihe an neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Einer dieser Bereiche ist das Feld "Digital Crafting", das sich mit der Vermittlung digitaler Entwurfs- und Produktionstechniken und der Konzeption und Gestaltung daraus resultierender Manifestationen befasst. Machen, experimentieren und Prototypen, das Erfahren von Grenzen und Möglichkeiten und die wechselseitige Beeinflussung von Entwurf und Objekt sind grundlegende Bestandteile dieses Themas. Die vorliegende Publikation zeigt Ergebnisse des Fachs "Digital Crafting" im Studiengang "Design in der Digitalen Gesellschaft" an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig während der Jahre 2015-2018. Die Inhalte beschreiben Punkte wie "Parametrisches Gestalten", "Generatives Entwerfen" und "Digitale Fabrikation" und erläutern diese zusätzlich anhand einer Reihe praktischer Tutorials.
