Die Elektroschocktherapie gilt als eine Ikone der technisierten Medizin des 20. Jahrhunderts und ihres Zugriffs auf den Menschen. Doch fehlte bislang historische Forschung zu ihrer Technik. Diese Studie untersucht umfassend und international vergleichend die Gestaltung der EKT i…
"Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with these new hybrid forms is increasingly mediated through physical materials, and therefore interaction design is increasin…
A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction. Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analogue materials in design…
"Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with these new hybrid forms is increasingly mediated through physical materials, and therefore interaction design is increasin…
A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction. Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analogue materials in design…
"Active matter is a newly emerging field focused on physical materials that can assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and sense, react, or compute based on internal and external information"--page 11.
Inexhaustible terrain: guano from the Chincha Islands, Peru to central park, 1862 -- Range of motions: granite from Vinalhaven, Maine to Broadway, 1892 -- Rivers of steel: steel from Pittsburgh to Riverside Park, 1937 -- Breathing with trees: London plane trees from Rikers Islan…
This book explores the techniques used to create pottery of the early Islamic Period. It describes the manufacture, materials and pigments of both body and glazes.
Glitter is ubiquitous throughout our material world. Likewise, it has become prevalent in works of contemporary art. Despite the growing presence of glitter in recent art, scholars and critics have largely dismissed its significance as a complex material with a variety of signif…
Through the process of re-framing, re-sampling, and visually cropping, I explore post-vandalism, graffiti art and visual histories embedded in the ethos of surface. The multi-layered surfaces of my paintings reference the tension between the construction and deconstruction of fo…
This thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary l…
by Wada, Kazuo
fromStudies in economic history
