DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2201281
Michael Hasey, Jinmo Rhee, Daniel Cardoso Llach
{"title":"Form data as a resource in architectural analysis: an architectural distant reading of wooden churches from the Carpathian Mountain regions of Eastern Europe","authors":"Michael Hasey, Jinmo Rhee, Daniel Cardoso Llach","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2201281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2201281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent research into architectural form analysis using deep learning (DL) methods has shown potential to identify features from large collections of building data, shedding new light into formal aspects of our built environment. As these methods begin to enter architectural, urban, and policy design contexts, it becomes important to develop critical approaches to employing them. In this paper, we document and reflect upon our efforts to create a custom dataset of 3-D models of 331 wooden churches located within the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, and to use DL methods to explore this dataset with the goal of revealing unexpected formal traits and advancing architectural scholarship on this subject. While existing scholarship groups them into four distinct stylistic categories, our analysis reveals stylistic overlaps, previously undetected micro styles, and shared architectural features. We posit the resulting analyses as an example of an ‘architectural distant reading’ that enriches our understanding of this architectural typology through an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of its formal characteristics based on a large architectural dataset. Crucially, drawing on recent developments in critical data and algorithm studies, we show how the dataset construction and subsequent analyses, and their results, were shaped by slow, manual data curation processes, methodological constraints, subjective decisions, and engagements with archives, domain experts. We thus illustrate how DL techniques might be contextualized for architectural studies in relation to other modes of knowledge and labour, and offer a detailed case study of state-of-the-art computational methods enriching established approaches to architectural form and historical analysis.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"103 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47737458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2228296
Yana Boeva, Vernelle A. A. Noel
{"title":"Critical computational relations in design, architecture and the built environment: editorial","authors":"Yana Boeva, Vernelle A. A. Noel","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2228296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2228296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Computation in design, architecture and the built environment, and its practices, methods, and tools frequently offer ‘neutral’ and ‘optimized’ techno-solutions to (social) design problems. Such a portrayal of these computational infrastructures as neutral solutions that open participation in design hides the social, political, and environmental entanglements involved in their creation and expansion. This special issue spotlights power relations between computational practices, technology infrastructures, knowledge, and their reproductions of bias at multiple scales.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"79 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46562956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2200762
Esther Dessewffy, Andrea Schikowitz, S. Davies
{"title":"Tracing (in)visibilising practices: engaging with simulations for architecture and spatial planning","authors":"Esther Dessewffy, Andrea Schikowitz, S. Davies","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2200762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2200762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using ethnographic vignettes from the development of simulations for architectural design and spatial planning in university contexts, this article discusses how the material, embodied, and tacit dimensions of developing and doing research with simulations can be opened up to analysis. We ask how (in)visibility comes to matter in simulations and how it is made and unmade in different situations. In particular, we explore how specific enactments of the things that are simulated and the practices involved in producing and handling them are rendered (in)visible through the simulation process. We argue that focusing on the politics of (in)visibility in making simulations can render power relations underpinning architectural and spatial planning practices more apparent.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"127 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47607557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406
Maja-Lee Voigt
{"title":"We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come","authors":"Maja-Lee Voigt","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Cities have long become interspaces, entangled in materialities and virtual worlds. However, as urban automation advances in cities increasingly made ‘smarter’, everyday processes are often controlled by oppressive standards hardcoded into technologies. Publicly neutralized as ‘objective’, corporately owned algorithmic architectures now function as urban gatekeepers. They determine social participation, possibilities of space appropriation on- and offline, and access to (social) infrastructures. Following five months of qualitative research on hacking and other tech-practices by German-speaking cyberfeminist collectives in 2021, my paper portrays their refusal of black-boxed, profitable, and biased technologies of classification. I argue that feminist hackspaces are important urban co-creators in digitized cities to come. They offer infrastructures to increase access to interfaces, (cyber-)spaces, and decision-making processes by sharing their tech-knowledge and tools. Their activism demonstrates how (urban) hacking is a crucial practice to break with non-democratically controlled digitalization processes: in favour of a city for all.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"162 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46828001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2200770
Selena Savić
{"title":"Techno-optimism and optimization in media architecture practice and theory","authors":"Selena Savić","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2200770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2200770","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Media architecture community systematically explores the potentials of computation and digital media to intervene in form-finding, fabrication of buildings and urban data collection processes. Combining social media topic modelling techniques with the review of media architecture-related literature, I discuss methods to locate the media architecture community in social media, conduct initial discourse analysis and pursue a deeper investigation of the topics addressed by community. In the literature, media architecture is presented as an interactive set of technologies for a participative public life. And yet, while a dynamic facade increases possibilities for participation and creative expression, it also facilitates reframing participation as a technical problem. I position optimization and efficiency in media architecture discourse as a form of optimism and offer insights into its political implications. I propose to rethink the shortcut between optimism and optimization by tracing conceptual and professional relations that inform media architecture.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"88 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42135399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2166080
Ning Zou, Qing Gong, Qing Chai, Chunlei Chai
{"title":"The role of virtual reality technology in conceptual design: positioning, applications, and value","authors":"Ning Zou, Qing Gong, Qing Chai, Chunlei Chai","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2166080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2166080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Virtual reality (VR) is a popular information technology in design and manufacturing. In the conceptual design stage, VR has been proved to be an auxiliary tool with great potential. However, the development of VR in the conceptual design has not been systematically investigated. This study conducted a review of the application of VR in the conceptual design stage on design activities and cognitive needs in recent 18 years. This study proposed a framework of design activities and cognitive needs in the conceptual design stage based on the design information cycle model. The technical characteristics are analysed and role of VR in each phase of conceptual design is discussed. Then the principle and application value in developments of VR technology for conceptual design are analysed. Finally, the research directions and application scheme of VR in conceptual design in the future are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"53 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43779261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2165107
Clara Palomar-Garcia, Ariadna Fernández-Planells, C. S. Domenjó
{"title":"Uses and abuses of User-Centered Design: literature review and proposal of a tool for evaluating ethics in the design of mobile applications","authors":"Clara Palomar-Garcia, Ariadna Fernández-Planells, C. S. Domenjó","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2165107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2165107","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to study the implications and ethical variables of User-Centered Design (UCD) methods in the design of mobile applications. We carried out a review of the literature on ethics in User-Centered Design within the field of mobile applications. We studied three disciplines that are applied in the design of mobile applications and that include UCD in their definition: Human–Computer Interaction, User Experience, and Design for Behavior Change. The analysis has allowed us, firstly, to identify different ethical approaches to applying UCD, and secondly, to propose a new tool for analyzing the ethical implications of UCD taking into account two variables: alignment with the user’s interests and will, and the type of influence the design generates. This paper shows that UCD methods are not always used for the benefit of the user, and asserts the ethical responsibility of design processes involving how users interact with mobile technologies as well as the importance of media education so that citizens become technologically responsible.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"37 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42770014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2174557
Henriikka Vartiainen, M. Tedre
{"title":"Using artificial intelligence in craft education: crafting with text-to-image generative models","authors":"Henriikka Vartiainen, M. Tedre","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2023.2174557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2174557","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) and the automation of creative work have received little attention in craft education. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring Finnish pre-service craft teachers’ and teacher educators’ (N = 15) insights into the potential benefits and challenges of AI, particularly text-to-image generative AI. This study implemented a hands-on workshop on creative making with text-to-image generative AI in order to stimulate discourses and capture imaginaries concerning generative AI. The results revealed that making with AI inspired teachers to consider the unique nature of crafts as well as the tensions and tradeoffs of adopting generative AI in craft practices. The teachers identified concerns in data-driven design, including algorithmic bias, copyright violations and black-boxing creativity, as well as in power relationships, hybrid influencing and behaviour engineering. The article concludes with a discussion of the complicated relationships the results uncovered between creative making and generative AI.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47794279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2159445
Elif Kucuksayrac
{"title":"Digital prototyping, open design, and sustainability in industrial design education: a case study","authors":"Elif Kucuksayrac","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2159445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2159445","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates digital prototyping in undergraduate industrial education through a case study of two pilot projects and a new elective and project-based course. It explores the literature on digital prototyping, open design, and sustainability, analyses student projects through the case study, and discusses the findings in relation to the literature review. In the study, two frameworks are suggested that aim to guide digital prototyping education in the industrial design field. The first framework aims to frame the content, and the second seeks to frame the context for the student projects. The first framework focuses on the relationship between the completeness of the products when they meet the users, the level of users’ design skills, and possible user-intervention types to the product. The second framework focuses on environmental and economic sustainability, considering the benefits and risks of four possible scenarios according to the user-engagement type.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"34 1","pages":"22 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48011196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2141261
Anna-Maija Nisula, Sanna Heinänen, A. Kianto, Ilona Toth, K. Blomqvist
{"title":"A psychological perspective on the sociotechnical enablers of knowledge worker digital creativity","authors":"Anna-Maija Nisula, Sanna Heinänen, A. Kianto, Ilona Toth, K. Blomqvist","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2141261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2141261","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While the work realm moves toward digital environments, the antecedents of knowledge worker digital creativity remain poorly understood. This study investigated the digital work environment as a sociotechnical environment and contextual enhancer of knowledge worker digital creativity. We proposed a research model that links perceived organizational support, sense of virtual community and digital creativity. Furthermore, we proposed an indirect moderation model suggesting that the relationship between organizational support and digital creativity is moderated by the sense of virtual community that, in turn, is facilitated by technology ease of use. We tested the model with data collected from platform knowledge workers (N = 159) using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The results indicate that organizational support positively relates to digital creativity, and that the sense of virtual community moderates the effect of organizational support for digital creativity, whereas technology ease of use facilitates a sense of virtual community.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"314 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49052266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}