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Basics Design Methods
Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon of forms and established paradigms. At the same time, there must be enough leeway for a functional, systematic design conception to take shape. This volume focuses in depth on the design methods that have decisively shaped current architectural practice.
Themes are - Diagrammatic methods (using drawings and schematic representations), -Mimetic methods (imitative), - Parametric methods (using a characteristic quantity), - Automated and digital design methods of the contemporary avant-garde, e.g. scaling, datascapes, folding, and morphing.
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Application of “Magnetic Anchors” to Align Collagen Fibres for Axonal Guidance
The use of neural scaffolds with a highly defined microarchitecture, fabricated with standard techniques such as electrospinning and microfluidic spinning, requires surgery for their application to the site of injury. To circumvent the risk associated with aciurgy, new strategies for treatment are sought. This has led to an increase in the quantity of research into injectable hydrogels in recent years. However, little research has been conducted into controlling the building blocks within these injectable hydrogels to produce similar scaffolds with a highly defined microarchitecture. “Magnetic particle string” and biomimetic amphiphile self-assembly are some of the methods currently available to achieve this purpose. Here, we developed a “magnetic anchor” method to improve the orientation of collagen fibres within injectable 3D scaffolds. This procedure uses GMNP (gold magnetic nanoparticle) “anchors” capped with CMPs (collagen mimetic peptides) that “chain” them to collagen fibres. Through the application of a magnetic field during the gelling process, these collagen fibres are aligned accordingly. It was shown in this study that the application of CMP functionalised GMNPs in a magnetic field significantly improves the alignment of the collagen fibres, which, in turn, improves the orientation of PC12 neurites. The growth of these neurite extensions, which were shown to be significantly longer, was also improved. The PC12 cells grown in collagen scaffolds fabricated using the “magnetic anchor” method shows comparable cellular viability to that of the untreated collagen scaffolds. This capability of remote control of the alignment of fibres within injectable collagen scaffolds opens up new strategic avenues in the research for treating debilitating neural tissue pathologies.
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Architecture and the Mimetic Self
Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a theoretical guide to our unconscious behaviour in relation to buildings, and explains both how and why we are drawn to specific elements and features of architectural design. It reveals how even the most uninspiring of buildings can be modified to meet our unconscious expectations and requirements of them—and, by the same token, it explores the repercussions for our wellbeing when buildings fail to do so.
Criteria for effective architectural design have for a long time been grounded in utilitarian principles of function, efficiency, cost, and visual impact. Although these are important considerations, they often fail to meet the fundamental needs of those who inhabit and use buildings. Misconceptions are rife, not least because our responses to architecture are often difficult to measure, and are in large part unconscious. By bridging psychoanalytic thought and architectural theory, Architecture and the Mimetic Self frees the former from its preoccupations with interpersonal human relations to address the vital relationships that we establish with our nonhuman environments.
In addition to providing a guide to the unconscious behaviours that are most relevant for evaluating architectural design, this book explains how our relationships with the built environment inform a more expansive and useful psychoanalytic theory of human relationship and identity. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists, architects, and all who are interested in the overlaps of psychology, architecture, and the built environment.
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Territorial mimetics and room types: the spatial development of Swedish district courthouses 1970–2020
In this article I investigate the spatial development of Swedish district courthouses and their different room types from 1970 to 2020, with attention to the specificities and commonalities with other building types. How have spatial form and use travelled between building types during this period, and how has this contributed to the recent, quite radical developments and transformation of the courthouse as a building type? In the article, I focus particularly on aspects relating to the architectural and spatial culture of citation, and on what I call territorial mimetics here. Based on a mixed-method approach, the study traces and discusses five spatial themes of typological change in district courthouses, trends that also can be seen as a part of deeper spatial and mimetic tendencies circulating in Swedish society during these decades. I conclude with a discussion of the specific mimetic style of the courthouse as characterised by an ongoing negotiation between type-specific rules and cross-type models.
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Hybrid spin-CMOS stochastic spiking neuron for high-speed emulation of In vivo neuron dynamics
The spintronic stochastic spiking neuron (S3N) developed herein realises biologically mimetic stochastic spiking characteristics observed within in vivo cortical neurons, while operating several orders of magnitude more rapidly and exhibiting a favourable energy profile. This work leverages a novel probabilistic spintronic switching element device that provides thermally-driven and current-controlled tunable stochasticity in a compact, low-energy, and high-speed package. In order to close the loop, the authors utilise a second-order complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) synapse with variable weight control that accumulates incoming spikes into second-order transient current signals, which resemble the excitatory post-synaptic potentials found in biological neurons, and can be used to drive post-synaptic S3Ns. Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) simulation results indicate that the equivalent of 1 s of in vivo neuronal spiking characteristics can be generated on the order of nanoseconds, enabling the feasibility of extremely rapid emulation of in vivo neuronal behaviours for future statistical models of cortical information processing. Their results also indicate that the S3N can generate spikes on the order of ten picoseconds while dissipating only 0.6–9.6 μW, depending on the spiking rate. Additionally, they demonstrate that an S3N can implement perceptron functionality, such as AND-gate- and OR-gate-based logic processing, and provide future extensions of the work to more advanced stochastic neuromorphic architectures.
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'No cloud to hide their dear resplendencies': The uses of poetry in 1840s New Zealand
In this essay I look at the early forms of poetic production and consumption in New Zealand - what was written and what was read. I argue that poetry served a function that was neither mimetic nor escapist but one of willed and consciously embraced incongruity, reading as disjunct rather than reading as realistic reflection or moral instruction. Suspicious of the presentism of the postcolonial lens and resistant to the temptation to assimilate all nineteenth-century literary activity under a simplistically conceived 'Victorian' rubric, this essay identifies an early nineteenth-century, late-Romantic colonial reading culture that was discrete and local yet part of broad patterns of transmission and reception. The abundant literary and poetic content of early New Zealand newspapers and reading journals, largely of minor and non-canonical poets, provokes a number of questions. Is there a transformative moment when reading goes offshore? What does 'localism' mean in the very early stages of colonial formation? And how does the call to interiority so central to the Romantic reading experience relate to the exterior world when that exterior is unmapped and untextualised?
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Comparative Arts
There is a danger that intermedial exercises will expose the vanity or uselessness of art. I believe that every attempt to interpret, to find meaning, pushes the artwork into some medium other than the one in which it states itself: a poem becomes known through the pictures and the music it rouses in the critic’s imagination, a painting through the words that attempt to describe it, to locate the sources of its power, and so forth. Indeed, the aesthetic phenomenon is most strongly felt when art is liberated from itself, a condition that can happen only through the act of
Book Chapter
The System of the Arts
The system of arts that can be drawn from Immanuel Kant is discussed. Kant originates his theory with the idea that the arts are expressive and so must have the dimensions in which language is expressive.
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