Design, poverty and sustainable development [PDF]
, 2006 Design in a poor context, or for the alleviation of poverty, has received little or no attention. An informal discourse analysis shows that design and poverty have not been linked, the two being seen as mutually exclusive.
Angharad Thomas, Thomas Angharad
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Review of Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers and Magnetic Soft Materials
Magnetochemistry, 2021 Magnetic soft materials (MSMs) and magnetic shape memory polymers (MSMPs) have been some of the most intensely investigated newly developed material types in the last decade, thanks to the great and versatile potential of their innovative characteristic ...
Sanne J. M. van Vilsteren +2 more
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Quantification of Atmospheric Humidity Variability using Fourier Transform [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesIn this paper, the methodology of the TEVY index is used to quantify the variability of atmospheric relative humidity during a year. Like the TEVY index, the variability of humidity is quantified by calculating the deviations between the observed values ...
Dimitriou-Kommata Konstantina +3 more
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Design for sustainable architecture and environments [PDF]
, 2008 This paper describes some of the research outcomes of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project partly funded by Department of Trade and Industry, UK.
Fieldson, Rosemary +2 more
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Examining the application of the new energy building regulation concerning lighting of parks and building facades in Greece and Cyprus [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesCompliance with standards and regulations is an important and integral part of lighting design projects. However, many lighting designers do not take always into consideration compliance with norms.
Tomasovits Militsa +5 more
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Strategies for Developing Sustainable Design Practice for Students and SME Professionals [PDF]
, 2008 Designers and engineers seem finally to be awakening to the challenge that sustainable development has given. Educators and students alike are keenly aware of the need to become more effective in the training and practice of their specific disciplines ...
A. de Eyto +18 more
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Effect of the Grain Boundary Microstructure on SCC Resistance of High Strength Al-Zn-Mg Alloy Extruded Materials [PDF]
Archives of Metallurgy and MaterialsIt is known while Al-Zn-Mg alloys extruded materials have high strength, those materials are characteristically occurred to Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC).
Tomoo Yoshida +4 more
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Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers [PDF]
Sustainability, 2022 This paper examines student learning in the Master of Arts in Sustainable Design course at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London. It considers what designers learn, how they learn and where they learn, in a postgraduate course that seeks to enable them to direct their practice towards sustainability by increasing their sustainability ...
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Framework for Armature-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Sensorized Soft Robots in eXtended Reality
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Soft robots are typically intended to operate in highly unpredictable and unstructured environments. Although their soft bodies help them to passively conform to their environment, the execution of specific tasks within such environments often requires ...
Elvis I. A. Borges +4 more
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Connected seeds and sensors: co-designing internet of things for sustainable smart cities with urban food-growing communities. [PDF]
, 2018 We present a case study of a participatory design project in the space of sustainable smart cities and Internet of Things. We describe our design process that led to the development of an interactive seed library that tells the stories of culturally ...
Baggio Aline +4 more
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