Studio Environment Research Articles

Makers Marks: Capturing, Preserving, and Sharing the Sounds of Glassmaking

The Makers Marks Collaborative, an international team of glass artists, visual designers, composers, and engineers, embarked on a project together from 2015–2016 to use the glassmaking studio as a staging ground for interdisciplinary, collaborative making. The team aimed to capture and preserve the sounds of traditional studio glassmaking, and then to share them outside the workshop domain through digital technologies and glass art objects. The goal was also to fulfill a public engagement grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering to highlight the engineering through the art and the engineers’ vision within the art making. The team recorded and isolated the unique sounds of the glassblowing process and its studio environment, and then used the resulting digital sound collection as the foundation for developing artistic outputs: a virtual instrument library, a glass object-instrument of performance, a series of glass objects translating selected virtual instruments, and a music composition. They questioned the nature and materiality of glass through dialogue between media and conversation among team members, while exploring the practice-based research question: “How can we embed our recorded sounds of the glassmaking process back into the glass itself?” This paper focuses on the collaborative, interdisciplinary making process of the team, the project outputs, and the metaphorical language that was a key process facilitation tool.

Automation of Forest Fire Danger Index from the Near Real Time Satellite Datasets

Forest fire is a major ecological disaster, which has economic, social and environmental impacts on humans and also causes the loss of biodiversity. Forest officials issue the warnings to the public on the basis of fire danger index classes. There is no fire danger index for the country India due to the sparsely distributed meteorological stations. In this study, we have made an attempt to integrate both the Static and Dynamic fire danger indices and also used the near real time data sets that can be available for download through Earthdata website after one hour of the satellite overpass and also automated the entire procedure. SFDI is a constant over the study area, computed from the MODIS Land cover type yearly L3 global 500 m SIN grid (MCD12Q1) and ASTER GDEM datasets. In this study, DFDI has been calculated from the Near Real Time (NRT) Level 2 MODIS Terra Land Surface Temperature datasets (MOD11_L2) and MODIS TERRA NRT surface reflectance dataset MOD09. Dynamic danger index has been developed from three parameters i.e. Potential surface temperature, Perpendicular Moisture Index and Modified Normalized Difference Fire Index (MNDFI). Finally, The Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) has been developed from the static and dynamic fire danger indices by the additive model and the overall accuracy was ranging from 86% to 95% and AUC values ranging from 0.81 to 0.91 during the major fire episode of 2016. Thus, the FFDI has been useful to assess the fire danger accurately over the study area and can be useful anywhere, where the meteorological stations are un-available. The procedure of calculating the DFDI and FFDI has been automated in R studio environment in near real time and therefore, the fire danger maps can be disseminated to fire officials in near real time for the quick actions to suppress the fire activities.

Integrating ideas from design disciplines into the STEM curricula

ABSTRACTThe ‘Future of Jobs’ report from the World Economic Forum highlights that creativity is one of the most important skills needed by the workforce. One way of enhancing the creativity of students undertaking STEM subjects is by taking inspiration from design disciplines. The product design curriculum has creativity at its heart and follows a product oriented learning strategy, integrating ideas from the humanities and sciences, mixing theory and practice. The curriculum is structured to support multidisciplinary collaboration between students from different courses to bring in new ideas, perspectives and skills. Students are encouraged to explore new ideas, materials and technologies through play and experimentation. Teaching is undertaken in a studio environment rather than a lecture hall, enabling group discussions and practical activities to take place as part of teaching sessions. If ideas from the world of design are integrated into the STEM curricula, perhaps student creativity and engagement will improve?

Causes of Desktop FDM Fabrication Failures in an Open Studio Environment

The usage phase often dominates the lifetime environmental impact of energy and material consuming products. Improper human behaviors could increase the environmental impacts during the use stage of the product’s life cycle. The use phase of desktop fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers involves large energy and material consumption. In university makerspaces, many novices choose to use desktop FDM printers because of its easy operation, but novices often make improper design and operation decisions. The human errors increase the fabrication failures leading to higher material and energy consumption. Therefore, human behaviors should be investigated in order to identify the causes of fabrication failures in an open studio environment. Three types of failure causes are studied, which are designer error, operator error and machine error. In this research, computer-aided design (CAD) models, printing settings, user experience information and printing results were tracked and analyzed. In addition, the energy and material consumption were recorded from the printings. These data are analyzed to identify the key factors affecting printing failure rates and to improve the sustainability and efficiency of desktop FDM. From the collected data, a failure rate of 41.1% was observed. The failures caused by human error accounted for 26.3% of the total prints, which shows that human behaviors could influence the environmental impacts of FDM. For the factors impacting failure rates, user’s experience level and printing parameters were analyzed. We found that that experience did not result in higher expertise or lower failure rates.

BIOMECHANICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION OF SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUE BASED ON LINEAR ELASTIC AND HYPERELASTIC MODEL

The biomechanical modeling and simulation of human tissue are the basic part of virtual surgery system. As an important human soft tissue, the biomechanical modeling and simulation method of subcutaneous adipose tissue are urgent problems to be solved in virtual surgery system. In this paper, biomechanical modeling and simulation of subcutaneous adipose tissue were completed based on linear elastic and hyperelastic finite element model. First, the deformation process of subcutaneous adipose tissue was divided into two stages: Initial loading stage and later loading stage. Furthermore, the linear elastic model at initial loading stage and the nonlinear elastic model at later loading stage were established, respectively. Then, the biomechanical model of subcutaneous adipose tissue was solved based on the finite element method. Finally, the linear finite element calculation was included in nonlinear finite element calculations, and finite element simulation program of the subcutaneous adipose tissue was compiled in Visual Studio environment. The accuracy of the model was verified by comparing the simulation results with the experimental results. The efficiency of finite element simulation program of the linear and nonlinear hybrid model is evaluated by comparing the simulation time with the single linear model and the hyperelastic model.

An Investigation into Uncovering and Understanding Tacit Knowledge in a First‐Year Design Studio Environment

AbstractTacit knowledge, intuitive responses, empirical research – how can design elevate itself as a discipline when its main forms of knowledge gathering and generation are still believed to be less valuable than those in traditional academia? Beginning design students must learn to put words to their actions, to understand their processes and to be critical and reflective throughout all stages of a project. By guiding students into developing rigorous iterative processes that combine theoretical research, empirical research, questioning and reflection students will no longer need to hide behind the lure of the enigma of intuition. The introduction of writing in the studio classroom is one method that can help students see the relationship between the various stages of their creative process and articulate the reasons behind the decisions they make. Experiential learning techniques that combine writing, making, research and reflection will help students shift their personal frames of reference and thus create a more critically engaged student body.

The Effect of Studios on Learning in Design Education

The present study that aimed to determine the effects of the project classes conducted in the design studio on students was scrutinized specifically on the studio work conducted within the context of Environmental Design Project Course studio practice in Karadeniz Technical University Landscape Architecture Department. The study was a studio practice. In the first phase of the study, the content and practice of the studio course was examined. In the next phase, a survey was conducted with 174 students to investigate the effects of the fact that the courses were conducted in the studio environment on design students. The survey aimed to inquire the effects of the studio on the students’ creativity, development and learning of design skills. The satisfaction of the students in this course and their views about the use of the process in their future professional life was studied. Survey questions were asked to freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior students and the differences between these classes were determined. The questions were assessed using a 5-point Likert attitude scale. Conducted statistical analyses (SPSS 23.0) demonstrated that students considered the studios as environments that improve their creativity the most, students at all levels were satisfied with the studios, but that their satisfaction increased with their seniority, and they wanted to utilize this process in their professional lives and this desire was most prevalent among senior students. Correlation analysis findings demonstrated that satisfaction with the process was mostly related to the learning process. The present study findings demonstrated that design studios were instruction environments that provide students with design skills, improve their creativity and provide them practice opportunities. Study findings also revealed that the students were satisfied with design courses instructed in the studio and desired to experience the same process in their professional lives as well.

ПІДГОТОВКА МАЙБУТНІХ СОЦІОЛОГІВ ДО КОМП’ЮТЕРНОГО АНАЛІЗУ ДЕМОГРАФІЧНИХ ПРОЦЕСІВ І СТРУКТУР

In the modern era of digital globalization, it is becoming more and more important to train sociology students in the field of demographics and demographic statistics based not only on demographic theories but also on the practical application of the new computer tools and technologies, databases and Internet services. The article analyzes the capabilities of modern computer tools for the analysis of demographic processes and structures in training sociology students; substantiates the use of the R environment as a tool for analysis and graphical representation of demographic data. It presents the idea of teaching students to perform computer analysis of demographic data using a combination of Excel spreadsheets, SPSS statistical package, R environment illustrated by two examples. The first example concerns building and comparing the gender-age pyramid of the population of Ukraine at different years and includes searching for the relevant data, building the pyramid using standard diagram building Excel tools, using SPSS tools (Chart Builder, Histogram, Population Pyramid), and using pyramid package of R environment. The second example relates to calculation of childcare and grandparent care load coefficients, visualizing their dynamics, and includes an introduction to the demographic passport of Ukraine. The article presents the developed methodological support for teaching sociology students to perform demographic data analysis, including presentation-lectures on the fundamental principles of work in R and R Studio environment, laboratory works (theory summary, detailed operative instructions, control questions, tasks for students ‘ independent work); data packages attached to every assignment. The author has analyzed the didactic capabilities of the free Gapminder service that includes the list of the tools titled `Play with Data`, bubble chart, maps, ranking, trends, age pyramids. This provides colorful and dynamic data visualization for chosen demographic criteria (depending on the research objectives) by countries and continents over time that stimulates the students to conduct additional scientific research.

GENERAL OVERVIEW TO DRUM KIT IN TURKISH POPULAR MUSIC DURING THE PERIOD 1970-1980

The invention of Drum has been known to trace thousands of years.However, the drum kit came to exist in the early 20th century. Considering its historical development and our country's popular music history, development of this instrument in Turkey is the starting point of this research. In this study, the cults and playing attitudes that influenced the drummers, the location of drum kit in the studio environment, the set up prefrrences in the band with equipments used will be commented by analysing the data obtained via interviews. Within this framework, questions in 4 main topic have been asked to Osman İşmen and Turhan Yükseler, two of the significant arrangers of the period; Okay Temiz, one of the significant drummers of the period; Cahit Berkay, one of the founders of the band Moğollar; İsmail Soyberk, the bass-guitarist; the drummer Mert Türkmen as the representative of Cezmi Başeğmez. In accoedance with the data obtained, it has been concluded that jazz and rock drummers influenced our country, Anadolu Pop attitude was seen in the playing attitudes and set ups of that period drummers, Studio Hayri and sound technician Sıtkı Acim (tonmeister) rose to prominence in terms of studios where drum records were made, Ludwig drums were used together with Turkish brands in equipments. Keywords: Drum kit, drums, popular music, turkey, drummers, drum playing

The extraction and processing of BIM data

The concept of Smart city includes creating eco-friendly, safe, energy-saving and comfortable human environment. New principles of Smart city management are based on the processing of the information about its status and about functioning of its elements. One of the important elements of the environment are buildings. Modern state of construction engineering is characterized by the transition to BIM technology. Accordingly, the information about the building is represented as its information model. In Russia great attention is given to the research of the effective application of information models throughout the whole life cycle of the construction object. During the process of design, construction and operation of the building there is a need of extraction, analysis and transmission of the data that is stored in the information model. The same problem occurs during the operational management of life support systems of the building. In this paper there is a classification of methods for extracting and processing of the building information model data by means of software Revit. The methods of data processing on the basis of internal software instruments are described. The transmission of data to specialized programs, which allow to analyze the parameters of the building, is discussed. The experience of analyzing the building information model for solving various specialized problems is described. Special attention is paid for extracting and analyzing data by developing additional software modules. The method of writing a macro within Revit project by using a built-in C# code editor is presented. An example of a plugin to create the dll-library for Revit in Visual Studio environment is given. The opportunities of data processing with the help of software Dynamo are analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages of various approaches are discussed.

The Perceived Value of Informal, Peer Critique in the Instructional Design Studio

The purpose of this study is to investigate how instructional design students perceive the informal, peer critique as an influence in their studio education. Our participants were students enrolled in beginning and advanced studio courses in the department of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. Groups of 2–3 beginning students were assigned a reviewer from the advanced course, who then led critiques over two face-to-face class sessions with their assigned groups. Students perceived the critique experience to be helpful, although beginning students perceived greater value than did the advanced (possibly due to the time advanced students took to build confidence in the beginners). Students also reported ways in which the critique experience could have been improved, with the most common suggestions being to hold critique sessions more frequently and for longer periods of time. We conclude by discussing the role of informal, peer critiques in the instructional design studio, including how they could complement other forms of feedback that students receive. We also discuss how our findings could contribute towards future research into the value of critique in the instructional design studio environment.

Augmenting visual design: Designing the changing classroom

Art and design undergraduate educational programmes such as Graphic Design studies are based upon best practice within the Graphic Design industry. Thus, the classroom environment is designed to mirror a typical design studio environment. However, traditional design studio interaction and collaboration are undergoing rapid transformation in practice triggered by an increasingly global digitally networked professional environment. In response, this paper outlines our journey of redesigning an undergraduate graphic design curriculum to enable students to engage beyond the context of the classroom to a potentially global audience. Over two redesign iterations Visual Communication Design students explored new technologies including mobile augmented reality and virtual reality to enhance the reach and impact of their portfolios of work. Using the concept of Visual Poetry and a combination of typography and moving image, the students created a range of art pieces inspired by a specific location, and shared these via an ecology of resources chosen to digitally augment their work and facilitate the production of student eportfolios. The goal of the curriculum redesign is to broaden students’ educational experiences beyond the confines of the traditional studio based classroom to include wider community outreach and participation within an increasingly global environment.

Interactive Learning: The Sounds of Bonne Chance

Our Project, Bonne Chance, meaning good luck in French, is an immersive language learning game that manifests in the form of a mobile app. The game is designed as a course-companion for French 111 and 112 beginning language courses for college students. Instead of merely computerizing old teaching practices or creating grammar practice cards, we are radically re-envisioning the design of the learning experience. This project endeavors to build an “ecology of learning that extends beyond the four walls of an institution and engages [students] in ways that are exciting, empowering and culturally relevant” (Salen et al., 201100. The Project functions under four teams: the coding team, the user experience engagement team, the music curation and production team, and the app development team. As the music team, we focus on the music and sounds of Bonne Chance. The music and sounds of Bonne Chance contribute to this ecology by curating an authentically French soundtrack of pre-composed and original music, stimulating the learning environment, creating a sense of historical accuracy, and channeling the primary purpose of the game, which is to help immerse students in the French language. By conducting research into French composers and cultural trends throughout the ages, French musical history can be characterized as a diverse and central figure in the arts of humanity. French history has shaped human history, and its music sheds light on the roots of its global influence. The game itself is currently still in a series of prototype phases as we continue to test our most viable product [MVP]. Through our game-based learning application, our audience of elementary-level French students will gain language learning skills and intercultural empathy. Working in an innovative studio environment has allowed us to grow in the domains of collaboration, project management, programming, music history, research, music composition, music arranging, and music production. ­

Facilitating epistemic fluency through design thinking: a strategy for the broader application of studio pedagogy within higher education

ABSTRACTTomorrow's professionals will require an enhanced capacity for collaboration, cooperation and creative thinking. Markauskaite and Goodyear (Markauskaite, L., and P. Goodyear. 2016. Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education: Innovation, Knowledgeable Action and Actionable Knowledge. Springer) have posited epistemic fluency as the pedagogical approach necessary to prepare graduates for increasingly complex challenges. They have provided a framework for creating epistemic learning environments but not a clear implementation strategy. This paper draws parallels between epistemic fluency and design thinking to position the design studio as a relevant pedagogical model with an established set of strategies for facilitating epistemic fluency. A series of experiments undertaken to optimise the studio environment for the development of epistemic fluency will be drawn on to illustrate its suitability. The intent is to provide guidance for how studio learning could be adapted for use within other disciplines and to highlight the challenges teachers need to address within this process; particularly, that epistemic environments require the continuous exercise of design thinking by both teacher and learner.

Printed log‐periodic trapezoidal dipole array antenna with a balun‐feed for ultra‐wideband applications

The authors present design of a printed log-periodic trapezoidal dipole array (PLPTDA) antenna with a balun-feed operating throughout the 2-18 GHz frequency range. For this purpose, the antenna is designed and simulated in the CST Microwave Studio environment. Thus, better directivity along the operation bandwidth is achieved via the iterative simulations with a 33.33% reduction in the dipole length at the lowest frequency 2 GHz as compared with the counterpart standard log-periodic antennas. Furthermore, they fabricated the PLPTDA antenna with and without the balun-feed. Thus, influence of the balun on the performance is investigated and the average gain of the PLPTDA antenna with the balun-feed is measured as 8.16 dBi provided voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) <; 2, which agrees with the simulation results. Furthermore, these measured gain/directivity results are compared with the counterpart antennas' measured performances in the literature considering their operation bandwidths and sizes. It can be concluded that their proposed PLPTDA antenna will prove to be useful in both wideband civilian and military applications in the S, C, X, and Ku bands within the 1:9 ultra-wideband bandwidth which is the largest achieved in this class antenna technology in the literature up to now.

Developing an Art Therapy Program in a Children’s Hospital

There is a growing understanding for the integration of art therapy into hospital settings. This viewpoint explores a newly introduced art therapy program at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Launched with private funding, the success of the program has been predicated on communicating the importance of art materials and studio environment, appropriate referrals, session processes, and the patient experience.

Critical perspectives of technology-enhanced learning in relation to specialist Communication Design studio education within the UK and Australia

This paper investigates the widespread integration of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) within specialist Communication Design studio education in the UK and Australia. The impetus for this paper has grown from the challenges facing day-to-day design studio education and the recognition that the use of technology in higher education today has increased dramatically. Conventional design studio facilities are being reconfigured into blended studio-based classroom learning spaces (often generically termed as ‘studio’). This study compares the lived experiences of students interacting with technology within two differing international studio settings. The two case studies used a Participatory Action Research approach and employed sensory affect as a lens through which learning within studio education was investigated using Participatory Design practice-led methods. The study finds that the Australian participants working within a TEL classroom-based environment faced significant obstacles to engagement and that their UK counterparts, who were situated within a conventional studio environment, much less so. This paper aims to support Communication Design students as they engage with studio education via the proposed transferable methodological framework – the Methods Process Model.

Потенціал технологій візуалізації в навчанні шкільного курсу математики

The article deals with the main problems of mathematical education at school, which primarily relate to the lack of motivation in students to achieve success in learning, interest in learning activities in the whole. The aspects of the use of visualization technologies as a powerful tool for optimizing the educational process and an effective factor for raising pupils' motivation and activating cognitive interest are highlighted. The outlined issues are revealed within the framework of the importance of mathematical sciences, which play a significant role in the country's scientific and technological development and are important for life in the modern information society. However, there has recently been a tendency to decrease interest in the study of mathematics due to many factors, the main of which is the complexity of understanding abstract concepts and the lack of awareness of the students of the practical significance of knowledge. The article states that one of the directions of solving this problem is the use of visualization in the learning process. The importance of the use of visual materials in the professional activity of the teacher during the study of the school course of mathematics in the transition of pupils from junior high school to senior is revealed. As a software tool for creating visual resources aimed at supporting the study of the mathematics course, the authors selected the Anime Studio environment, which has a powerful toolkit and allows the teacher to fully realize the creative idea in order to achieve the set educational purpose. The program of the course is analyzed, in order to identify the most difficult to understand the topics of the fifth grade mathematics course. Examples of application of the Anime Studio environment for solving tasks for calculation of speed, distance between objects, calculation of time intervals, tasks for joint work and tasks on interest calculations, which are the most complex in this course, are offered.

Modeling Instabilities in Relativistic Electronic Beams in the CST Particle Studio Environment

The paper is devoted to the development of the classical vircator model in the CST Particle Studio for the investigation of the physical mechanisms of the development, coexistence, and interaction of Pierce/Bursian and diocotron instabilities in relativistic electronic streams. Such a model is numerically analyzed by the CST Particle Studio. We find that a numerical instability develops, which leads to an additional small-scale space density modulation in the electron beam during its motion in the system. We find the character time scale of the instability and determine its relation with a spatial mesh step. We study the instability in detail and propose a method to suppress it by the CST Particle Studio. Also, important notes concerning the development of models of microwave devices in the CST Particle Studio are presented.

Energy efficiency enhancement of a single mixed refrigerant LNG process using a novel hydraulic turbine

The advancement in hydraulic turbine (HT) technology was exploited for energy and cost benefits in natural gas liquefaction. Replacing the conventional Joule–Thompson (JT) valve with HT has the potential to recover the work input. This research investigated the effect of replacing the JT valve with HT in the energy efficiency enhancement of a single mixed refrigerant (SMR) process. To fully take the potential benefit of the HT, the proposed SMR schemes were optimized by using a modified coordinate descent optimization method, which was implemented in Microsoft Visual Studio environment and linked to the rigorous HYSYS® model. The results showed that the required energy of the proposed HT based SMR process could be saved up to 16.5% in comparison with the conventional SMR process using the JT valves. Utilization of the recovered energy into boosting the natural gas feed pressure could further reduce the energy requirement up to 25.7%. Exergy efficiency analysis also showed that whole exergy efficiency of the enhanced SMR process can be increased by about 11% as compared to the base case. The proposed HT based liquefaction technology can be extended to other natural gas liquefaction processes as an attractive option for enhancing the energy efficiency.