Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Of Industrial Arts'

Digital clay is a virtual material that exists currently in many 3D design software applications. Coupled with the rapid development of 3D printing technology, clay forms designed with a computer can now be externalized into the physical world as 3D prints or, vice versa, as digital scans. Recently, advanced tools have become available to artists and designers as affordable systems marketed to the professional consumer. As a response to these developments, my research examines the learning that occurs for eight artists who have been asked to play with physical and digital clay. This research employs a multiple case study methodology to understand the challenges of learning to work with digital clay and the supporting role of physical material engagement in this process. By interviewing participants and thematically analyzing their responses, I presented the subjective experience of the artists through portraiture showcasing the educational role play assumes when engaging across physical and digital media. Findings of the study suggest that engaging physical and digital materials calls upon a broad scope of cognitive processes including recollection and mental wanderings that contributed to reflection and discovery of novel ideas. Details from unstructured interviews were presented through narrative reporting as this research also strives to make sense of the participants' experience and situate the details of the study’s context.

This study exploits and describes how to manage donations and send them to the affected people when natural disaster occurs. Throughout my experience in working with some organizations for collecting donations, I found out that there are many problems that harden the goods. Since affected people need the help and the goods immediately, it will take time to reach and be delivered to the people who need them. The process takes a long period of time due to the following reasons: first, the donor ships unsolicited donations and that will consequently waist time and money because no one need them. Second, there is a time gap between receiving and sorting the donations. Third, donations? spaces need to be large and flexible. Fourth, the volunteers who work in good management put massive effort in sorting donations. Fifth, more volunteers are always needed. Finally, recipients still have to sort through donated goods to make them useful. In this research project, I came up with a solution that will help in these temporary donation places. I created a system that contains of 3 parts which will work together. The first part is a website that is designed as a source for the donors to know about if a disaster takes place and what donations are needed in each specific situation. The second part is the ?GoMa? stand which will be located in temporary donation places, so after you receive and know all the information about what people exactly need, you can take the donations to these places and find the stand to help minimizing time, place, and effort. The last part of the system is the labeling that will help the donors to consistently sort across multiple events and locations. Also, it will help the senders to streamline their logistics process, and to help the recipients understand what items they have gotten and how to deploy them.

In the past few decades, web technologies and increasingly accessible digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printers and laser cutters have made it easier for individuals and communities to create complex material objects at home. As a result, communities of individuals who make things outside formal institutions, known as maker communities, have combined traditional crafts and technical knowledge with digital tools and web technologies in new ways. This thesis analyzes maker communities as post-industrial participatory design communities and examines them as participatory spaces where technical communication occurs between individuals with varying levels of expertise and sometimes drastically different knowledges. Ultimately, this thesis asks what technical communicators can learn from maker communities about international post-industrial economies and the future of technical communication.

This thesis explores how the emergence of interdisciplinary maker communities is rooted in earlier open source movements and the web, how open source principles change when applied to material development processes, how makerspaces and maker faires function as sites that bring together makers in development, and how maker communities serve as examples of post-industrial configurations of participatory communities.

Through participating in and analyzing maker communities, I suggest that participatory communities are a fundamental component of post-industrial development processes, and that technical communicators are well equipped to deal with the socio-cultural, rhetorical, and technological challenges such communities face. Furthermore, drawing on Liza Potts' theory of Experience Architecture, I suggest that technical communicators will continue to act as guides in decision making processes and as creators of communities, while also creating systems that enable greater exchange of information across platforms and communities, in both physical and digital realms.

This paper analyzes the process of the developing collaborative creation in dance to adress issues in the modern food system. It begins with the examination of this history of Modern dance and collective theater and frames that history within the context of food system inequities.

Thèse réalisée sous la direction de M. Michel Draguet et présentée en vue de l’obtention du titre de Docteur en Histoire de l’Art.

Bruxelles, janvier 2005.

Dès la fin du XVIIIe puis tout au long du XIXe siècle, le secteur décoratif connaît une mutation profonde sous l’impulsion de la Révolution industrielle. La production décorative, jusqu’alors issue d’un artisanat de longue tradition, se développe désormais également dans le registre industriel (production et diffusion à grande échelle). Cette nouvelle situation est la source d’un renouvellement important quant à la nature des disciplines décoratives, aux missions qui leur sont assignées ainsi qu’à l’organisation générale du secteur.

L’étude présentée sous le titre susmentionné vise à observer l’impact de ce bouleversement sur le secteur industriel belge durant le XIXe siècle, depuis la fondation du pays en 1830 jusqu’au moment d’éclosion de l’Art Nouveau en 1893, amorçant une nouvelle phase d’évolution du secteur.

Notre étude vise dès lors à établir une nouvelle lecture de l’évolution décorative belge de cette période. Au-delà des manifestations stylistiques, majoritairement passéistes tout au long du siècle, le secteur connaît une mutation profonde s’opérant autour de nombreuses interrogations quant à ses nouvelles orientations et ses nouveaux objectifs. La question de l’équilibre délicat entre la nouvelle nature industrielle et le caractère artistique de la production décorative en constitue le point central. Nous décelons deux phases clefs dans l’évolution de cette problématique. Dans un premier temps (durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle) deux catégories distinctes – l’une nouvelle, l’autre ancienne – cohabitent désormais au sein du seul secteur décoratif :d’une part un « art industriel » moderne aux missions sociales, d’autre part un « art décoratif » traditionnel et généralement luxueux. Si les objets produits dans les deux registres répondent communément à une destination utilitaire, leur rapport au « Beau » s’oppose. Dans un deuxième temps (durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle) – et suite à l’Exposition universelle de Londres de 1851 qui mettra à jour les limites de la situation développée durant la première moitié du siècle –, la majorité des acteurs du secteur ambitionneront la dissolution de cette dichotomie par la fusion de ces deux registres. L’alliance de l’art et de l’industrie constituera effectivement l’objectif principal d’une large partie du secteur décoratif belge de l’époque. Deux chantiers principaux viseront à l’accomplissement de cet objectif :d’une part, la réforme de l’enseignement décoratif et d’autre part, la création d’un musée d’arts décoratifs et industriels.

Ce cheminement révélera, simultanément, la nécessité d’une réforme stylistique. Celle-ci est alors conçue comme un aboutissement des deux principaux chantiers…….

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation histoire de l'art et archéologie
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This research aimed to investigate how important it is to embed business education into undergraduate industrial design curriculum and help design students understand the financial aspects of their design ideas, particularly in the areas of cost and profit. To respond to this question, a user-centered design approach was applied to understand design students' perceptions towards business education. Later on, the research findings were synthesized into a list of design requirements for developing a financial assessment tool. After rounds of ideation and looking into other frameworks from business related disciplines, a financial assessment tool was developed. Consequently, this tool was prototyped and piloted in a senior industrial design class in order to test its effectiveness. At last, students who had participated in the experiment evaluated the tool. Their positive feedback proved such methods could be successfully integrated into undergraduate design curriculum and help industrial design students gain a better understanding of the business aspects related to their ideas.

Organizations spend billions of dollars on information and data security, and most of this expenditure is directed externally; however, there is ample evidence in the literature that employees account for most security breaches. For information security (IS) measures to work, employees need to adopt the organization’s information system security measures. To understand employees’ adoption of security systems in the manufacturing industry in the US, this empirical study tested the extended Technology Acceptance model and Theory of Planned behavior in relation to employees’ perceptions of the IS measures usefulness, ease of use, and subjective norms and how these perceptions predicted their intention to use the security measures. Additionally, under investigation was whether age and employees’ perception of managerial support moderated the aforementioned perceptions to affect employees’ intention to use the security measures. Results of a standard multiple regression and a hierarchical regression indicated that the TAM and the TBP explained variances in the DV; however, contrary to extant literature, employees’ perceived usefulness of IS measures did not statistically significantly predict their intention to use IS measures. Implications of these findings are discussed, as well as recommendations for future research.