In the last decade, the region of Darfur, Western Sudan, like other parts of the African continent, has been exposed to waves of dry seasons that affected its farming system by transforming its fertile lands into an enormous desert. People starved to death, some of them fled to …
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The rediscovery of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian art is one of least appreciated accomplishments of the Renaissance "revival of antiquity." In the first decades of the Quattrocento, humanist "archaeologists" began to recognize the obelisks, pyramids, and other Egyptian and Egyptian…
The history of stringed instruments in the Aegean begins with the third-millennium Cycladic civilization, which possessed a form of triangular harp. In the second millennium, box-lyres appeared for the first time in the Aegean, among the Minoans, and the harp appears to have van…
This study documents the loom and weaving techniques in the Sa'dan Toraja village of To'Barana', Indonesia. Participation and observation were used to collect the ethnographic data, which were depicted using photography, illustration, and textiles. Highland Toraja people weave w…
One major problem facing society today is accessibility for the physically disabled. There is a crucial need to increase awareness of accessibility issues that people with physical disabilities face and to address their needs. In this society of mass production, providers are al…
The dramatic changes in living standards resulting from scientific discoveries and technological inventions in the last decade have significantly eroded the sense of tradition among peoples from many nations. This is particularly true with respect to their awareness of tradition…
Saudi Arabia in general and Riyadh City in particular experienced an increased demand for housing during the last twenty-five years because of population growth and economic development. To boost housing development, the Saudi government established several agencies, among which…
In order to succeed in today's global, competitive market, manufacturing industries need continuous improvements in their multi-disciplinary design processes. These improvements should result in expending fewer resources on the design process while achieving better quality and m…
The study of Indonesian batik offers a unique opportunity for the Western educated observer to begin to understand the culture of Indonesia. This monograph will examine batik from four points of view: the batik process, the historical development of batik, the symbolism of batik…
Two fundamental techniques of fonts representation are bitmap and outline. The outline fonts are produced from a gray-level image obtained by scanning the original characters drawn on paper. Contour points are obtained from the gray-level image and significant points are determi…
Just after Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in Luxor, Egypt, references to ancient Egypt appeared in nearly every medium of expression: fashion, architecture, decorative arts, literature, theater and advertising. On the surface, the explosion in E…
The Zionist Hotel, built in British Mandate Palestine, was born in an age of burgeoning nationalism, blooming tourism, expansion, and ideological immigration. While mitigated modernism was utilized in interwar Palestine as an agent of cultural and national representation of Jewi…
This study shows how Tunisia, the cross road of 3000 years of invasions and their respective cultures has given birth to a dress that reflects symbols of 'placenessness' (Hill 2005) rather than of its unique history. If browsing in the malls of Tunisia today, one would see the s…
This thesis examines the carpet as the embodiment of mythological and cultural manifestations. Through the exploration of carpet as a craft within the early Greek and Persian societies, two different world views are investigated. For the Greeks the textile artifact was a represe…
Originating from the inadequacy of teaching and learning frameworks in interior design education and the gap between design studio and supportive courses in design curricula, this study suggests a pedagogical approach for design studios to overcome the disentanglement in interio…
For the purpose of cultural heritage preservation, the task of recording and reconstructing visually complicated architectural geometrical patterns is facing many practical challenges. Existing traditional technologies rely heavily on the subjective nature of our perceptual powe…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive history of Somali dress, focusing on how the aesthetics (forms and meanings) of dress have changed as Somalis have interacted with people from other cultures and migrated from the Horn of Africa to Minneapolis-St. Paul, the largest So…
This study explored the current status of Turkish basic art education and the objectives of the first year art program at the university level in Turkey. Also, the researcher attempted to explore the objectives and expectations of Turkish art professors and to examine the applic…
Previous authors have discussed non-Western design forms with regards to the significance of integrating global issues, diversity issues in design curricula, and designing in diverse cultural settings. However, there are few studies that examine instructional approaches that use…