Metaphors in Design Problem Solving: Implications for Creativity Metaphors in Design Problem Solving:Implications for Creativity Hernan Pablo Casakin The College of Judea & Samaria, Ariel, Israel Metaphors help designers to understand unfamiliar design problems by juxtaposing them with known situations. Keywords - Metaphors, Creativity, Architecture, Design-Problem-Solving. Relevance to Design Practice - Instead of re-using known design schemas and familiar solutions, the implementation of metaphors in design practice can contribute to creative thinking and thereby to more innovative products. Citation: Casakin, H. Received December 31, 2006; Accepted June 28, 2007; Published August 1, 2007 Copyright: © 2007 Casakin. Corresponding Author: casakin@bezeqint.net Hernan Casakin Ph.D., M.Sc., BA, is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, College of Judea & Samaria, and in the Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University. Introduction Apart from knowledge and expertise, design problems require creativity. Creative Thinking and Design Methods
Shadow Poetry - Don J's Bestbook Poetry Guide Articles Don J. Carlson is a poet, teacher, and a retired activity therapist who worked providing instruction and activities in a youth correctional facility for some twenty years. He has also been a commercial artist, school teacher, social worker, and a janitor/maintenance man. Through it all, he has been writing poetry, essays, and short stories for over forty years. Don and his wife, Mim, are musical performers, and have performed American Frontier music of the nineteenth century as a duet and in several other groups including Old Fuss 'n Feathers and The Waffles. Don has a bachelors degree in Art Education. Don admits he enjoys poetry and has read and studied it quite a bit since he was in high school.
Passive vs. Active Voice By Erin English teachers like myself love to warn new writers against the evils of passive voice. Here at Daily Writing Tips, Michael has written about passive writing, and I recently wrote about dummy subjects, but it looks like there’s still some confusion about passive voice and its use. For more on passive vs. active sentence construction, I turn to two books that should be staples in any writer’s library: William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, and Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax. First, let’s review what passive voice is. In a passive sentence, the subject of the sentence is acted upon rather than performing the action, as in: The ball was thrown by Jason. Verbs in the passive voice have two parts: some form of the verb “to be” and a past participle form of the action verb: was thrown. A writer may choose to use the passive voice in order to emphasize one thing over another. Zinsser says that passive voice should be used sparingly–only when there’s no way around it.
BODY LANGUAGE - Communicating Without Words - Body language accounts for more than half of what other people respond to and make assumptions about when they connecting with you. Why Body Language? Body language can help you get on not, just because you may look the part, exude confidence and act assertively, but because you can look beyond what people say to what they really mean. Know What Your Body Is Saying Body language plays a very important role in communication. Cultural Differences Your Attitude Is Infectious and Drives Behavior Your attitude is the first thing people pick up on in face-to-face communication.6 Just as laughing, yawning, and crying are infectious, attitude is infectious. Open and Close Signals With your body language, "you're constantly saying either, "Welcome, I'm open for business," or, "Go away, I'm closed for business." When you are operating from inside a really useful attitude, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and humility, your body language tends to take care of itself and sends out unmistakable signals of openness. Face Values The Face Values system4 is based on facial behavior. Synchronizing Body Language
Andy Warhol Soup Cans The Origin of Andy Warhol's Soup Cans or The Synthesis of Nothingnessby Gary Comenas (2003/revised 2010) Robert Indiana: "I knew Andy very well. The reason he painted soup cans is that he liked soup." (RI623) Marcel Duchamp: "If you take a Campbell Soup Can and repeat it fifty times, you are not interested in the retinal image. Andy Warhol used soup cans as subject matter at various stages of his career. Ted Carey and Andy Warhol (Photographer unknown) Ted Carey: "... Lichtenstein later denied that he had any knowledge of Warhol's comic strip paintings prior to doing his own: Roy Lichtenstein: "I saw Andy's work at Leo Castelli's about the same time I brought mine in, about the spring of 1961... It is unlikely that Lichtenstein saw Warhol's cartoon paintings at Castelli as early as spring 1961 as the gallery did not have any of Warhol's cartoon paintings at that time, but Lichtenstein could have seen them in spring 1961 in the Bonwit Teller department store window. From Thomas R.
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Man Spends 7 Years Drawing Incredibly Intricate Maze Almost 30 years ago a Japanese custodian sat in front of a large A1 size sheet of white paper, whipped out a pen and started drawing the beginnings of diabolically complex maze, each twist and turn springing spontaneously from his brain onto the paper without aid of a computer. The hobby would consume him as he drew in his spare time until its completion nearly 7 years later when the final labyrinth was rolled up and almost forgotten. Twitter user @Kya7y was recently going through some of her father’s old things (he’s still a custodian at a public university) when she happened upon the maze and snapped a few photos to share on Twitter. Update: Prints now available over in the Spoon & Tamago shop, just $40.
Where the Internet Lives: The First-Ever Glimpse Inside Google’s Data Centers So it really is a series of tubes. For the first time ever Google has posted dozens of rare photographs inside and around its data centers revealing the absurd level of organization, energy and design that goes into powering some of the largest, most powerful systems plugged into the internet. My absolute favorite aspect is the color-coordinated design of their infrastructure as it correlates to the Google logo. What wonderful attention to detail. See many more photos of their eight data centers and Street View imagery of their Lenoir, NC data center at Where the Internet Lives. Problems Caused By Introduced Hoofed Animals in Australia Deer are indigenous to all of the continents on Earth except for Australia and Antarctica, and all of the feral deer now living in Australia were introduced in the 19th century and early 20th centuries. Many of them were introduced by the Acclimatisation Societies and even Queen Victoria unwittingly contributed by sending a small herd of red deer to the state of Queensland in 1873 as gift after they named the state after her, which were subsequently released on the Cressbrook Station. They survived and bred successfully and their descendants can still be found living in the area. Apart from the red deer, there are five other deer species that can be found in the wild in Australia today and these are chital, fallow, sambar, rusa and hog deer. However, deer started to be farmed for venison and many escapees found their way into the bush, swelling existing populations and creating new ones so that there are now around 200,000 feral deer in Australia living in some 218 populations.
The 15 most toxic places to live - Lake Karachay, Russia Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks The 15 most toxic places to live - Dzerzhinsk, Russia Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks Brain Basics - 3D Model of Brain Injury | BrainLine.org Animated Deceleration Injury from a Traumatic Brain Injury TBI Inform: Introduction to Brain Injury What Happens When a Brain Bleeds? Areas of the Brain Affected by Concussion What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? Concussion Recovery The brain is incredibly complex. Located behind the forehead, the frontal lobes are the largest lobes of the brain. planning organizing problem solving memory impulse control decision making selective attention controlling our behavior and emotions The left frontal lobe plays a large role in speech and language. Problems After Injury Injury to the frontal lobes may affect: emotions impulse control language memory social and sexual behavior The temporal lobes are located on the sides of the brain under the parietal lobes and behind the frontal lobes at about the level of the ears. recognizing and processing sound understanding and producing speech various aspects of memory Damage to specific parts of the temporal lobe can result in: heart rate breathing swallowing
Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic/Extrinsic motivation and Hierarchy of Needs MOTIVATION: Something that energizes, direct, and sustains behaviors. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: Internal desires to perform a particular task, people do Certain activities because it gives them pleasure, develops a particular skill, or It’s morally the right thing to do. EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION: Factors external to the individual and unrelated to the Task they are performing. Rewards. · Intrinsically motivated students are bound to do much better in classroom activities, because they are willing and eager to learn new material. · How can we motivate students intrinsically? A theorists by the name of Abraham Maslow, has concluded that before we can be intrinsically motivated we must first satisfy some more basic human needs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ·The first four needs are what we call deficiency needs, because they come from things we are lacking. ·Self-actualization is a growth need.