- Kathryn Moore, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK)
www.Design-Conference.com - Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute, at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK), Professor Kathryn Moore has lectured and published extensively design quality, theory and education. Her teaching and research, set within landscape architecture has clear implications for architecture, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally. Recent consultancy projects include membership of the team for Martha Schwartz Inc, Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund project, for Birmingham City Council and creating an urban vision for the Black Country with Lovejoys, Birmingham which evolved into a study of regeneration catalysts. She is currently writing a book partly funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, proposing a radical reappraisal of the relationship between the senses and intelligence. A trustee for CBAT, the arts regeneration agency in Cardiff, she is a member of the steering committee for the international City Park Design Competition, Birmingham City Council.
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal has been accepted for inclusion in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.
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The fourth issue of Volume 3 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available.
Volume 3, Number 4 contains:
- A Survey of Industrial Design Graduates’ Employment by Ming-Ying Yang, Manlai You, Chun-Yu Guo and Yung-Ping Chou.
- Context, Continuity and Texture in the Designed Environment: Bridging Psychoanalysis and Design by Lisa DeBenedittis.
- The Impact of Urban Design Elements on the Successes and Failures of Modern Multi-family Housing: A Comparative Study of Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago and HanGang Apart Complex, Seoul by Jae Seung Lee.
- The Shaping of Persian Urban Environment by Fatima Abbas Zadeh, Ahmad Bashri, Hasanuddin Bin Lamit and Nasser Mohseni.
- Visual Communication Skills for Business and Engineering Students by Siu Kay Pun.
- Craft-based Techniques as Heuristic Tools for Visual Investigation: Redefining the Role of the Handmade within Graphic Design Process by Claude Marzotto.
- Migrating Designs: Matching Product Evolution to Social Migration by Rizal Rahman and Chris Rust.
- Playing in the Courtyard: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Designing Space in the Heart of the City by Andrew Buss and Leslie Elkins.
- Back to the Future: “Cuboctahedron” Revisited by Hakan Hisarligil and Beyhan Bolak Hisarligil.
- Communicating Design: 750 First Year Engineering Students, a Writer-in-Residence and an Artist-in-Residence by Marjan Eggermont and Sarah Lockwood.
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