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Exploration, Creation And Evaluation Of Plant Image In Ceramic Artworks In Jingdezhen City, China
(2024-09)
Sun, Xiaoli
Contemporary PICA combines ceramic media with a long history, plant motifs, and modern innovative thinking. Significant changes have taken place compared with the past. However, regarding theory, the research on plant motif, cultural meaning, creation technique, and application form is insufficient in China. Regarding practice, the plant motif is outdated, and ceramic artists must try to implement innovation and update the traditional creation mode. Therefore, this research aims to explore the application, creation, and innovation of plant images in contemporary ceramic artworks. First, discovers the aesthetic characteristics, cultural meanings, application forms and expressive features of plant image in ceramic artworks through literature research and observation. Second, uses questionnaire survey and expert interview method to research and collect data. The SPSS software was used to quantitatively analysis the data of 103 respondents, aiming to understand people's perception and preference for PICA and variant correlation and influence relationships. NVivo’s software conducted a qualitative analysis of the interview content of 6 ceramic experts and explored the main concerns and thinking angles of creation. Third, apply experimental creation method to implement the practice, collecting various plant images for modelling and texture, collage and hollowing, colour experiment, and comprehensive material creation. The results show that: (1) 46.6% respondents prefer flower motifs, culture meaning showing personal expectations, natural materials, abstract and creative shapes, rich glaze or texture, handmade, and used in home decoration.
Perception And Comprehension Of Signage Wayfinding System In Hospitals For The Elderly In Guangzhou, China
(2024-07)
Lujie, Deng
In the context of china's aging population, wayfinding in large and complex hospitals is one of the key challenges faced by the elderly.Currently, there exists a lack of research on the elderly’s perception and comprehension of hospital signage in china. This study aims to determine the actual requirements of hospital wayfinding signage among the elderly, and to provide recommendations for an age-friendly signage system. This study used mixed methods to investigate the elderly’s perception and comprehension of signage systems in three hospitals in guangzhou. The results of this study shows that most elderly have chosen to first ask others for directions, before using and following signage systems. And the elderly experience more difficulty reading and interpreting hospital signage. In signage, importantly helpful and valuable to the elderly are graphics, text, colour and updates to the signage system, because these elements directly affect the readability and understandability of the signage. Additionally, younger and more educated participants responded faster and more accurately. Moreover, the five cognitive features of symbols are positively correlated with comprehension levels; the accuracy of semantic depiction showed as the best predictor, followed by familiarity and concreteness, as these features are more likely to affect symbol comprehension and guessing ability. In conclusion, this study reveals the importance of considering the opinions and feedback of elderly users in designing hospital signage systems.
The Impact Of Narrative Images To Create Awareness About Environmental Degradation In Kafanchan City, Nigeria
(2024-05)
Timothy, Titus
The environment in kafanchan city, nigeria heavily deteriorates every day due to human factors such as refuse dumping, bush burning, deforestation, and open grazing. Therefore, this study employs narrative images to raise awareness of the degradation problems occurring in the city by using photography. Photography has proven to be an essential medium of visual communication to raise awareness, but its potential is not fully utilised in nigeria. Hence, this study is qualitative and utilizes an exploratory research design in its approach. The data was collected by using the stratified sampling method by interviewing two groups of people, civil servants, and non-government workers. Analysis of the data was done by using thematic and visual narrative methods. A simple percentage was used to calculate whether the images were effective in conveying environmental degradation messages based on a 3-point likert scale. The likert scale was used to add value to the qualitative research. Findings from the respondents indicate that the images have a very strong impact in conveying environmental degradation messages. This shows that environmental degradation messages can be effectively conveyed through narrative images in the form of photographs. As an outcome of this research, the photobook tells a story and increases awareness about environmental degradation. This study is a call to action towards the conservation of the environment in kafanchan city nigeria. Recommendations were also made for future studies in the field.
Spatial Behavior Of Informal Street Vendors In Formal Spaces: Case Study Of Tegallega Park, Bandung Indonesia
(2024-06)
Irwan, Sudarisman
The bandung city government issued a policy allowing street vendors to conduct their activities in public spaces in 2011. The problem is that urban public spaces designed with a formal approach do not have a space to accommodate the informal activities of street vendors. Street vendors' space use causes issues. Knowing and understanding the needs of street vendors is crucial to designing a space that will facilitate their activities. Street vendors' activities in public spaces like city parks are still understudied, especially the relationship between park spaces and street vendor activities. This happens in bandung's tegallega park. This study examines the city government's regulations and actions on street vendors, other factors that affect street vendors' activities, and the impact of street vendors' activities on space and other park users in tegallega park. This study uses qualitative descriptive and behavioural mapping methods. Literature studies of regulatory documents and city government actions, mapping and documentation of activities and spaces, and visual observation of street vendors and other park users' behavior provided data. The results showed a relationship between the regulations and actions of the city government, the type of business and equipment used by street vendors, and the form, building elements, and materials of the space for street vendors’ activities. In addition, street vendors’ activity causes changes in the function and quality of space and the behaviour of other park users using various spaces.
Visual Depiction And Transformation Of Time And Space Through Landscape Abstraction
(2024-07)
Wei, Jinqin
Time is never-ending, while space is created by the positioning of objects and the changes that occur with their movement. Landscapes are essentially all-encompassing, changing, and transient with the passage of time. The word “transient” is of Buddhist origin and suggests the changing state of everything in the world, which affects all aspects of human activity and the environment. The concept of the Japanese tea ceremony involving “one period, one encounter” originates from Chinese Zen Buddhism, which has conducted a fundamental exploration of “transient” and developed a philosophical context for studio practice research. Based on the philosophical context of transience and guided by two theories of spatio-temporal relations, ‘endurantism’ and ‘perdurantism’, this research incorporates Guo Xi’s ‘three distances’ method of observation, color symbolism, and Graham Gibbs’s Reflective Cycle into a studio practice to investigate how the relationship between time and space can be visually depicted and transformed through landscape abstraction. This study relies on years of personal experience and transient context to generate a personal understanding of the possibility that spatio-temporal relationships. This research suggests that time affects the real presence of landscape space, making it an abstract form of stillness, ambiguity, or change (conceptualized respectively as “freezing the moment,” “instantaneous blur,” and “time change”), thus making a new contribution to studio practice.

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