Exploring the Islamic Garden Concept as Inspirational Landscape Design

Exploring the Design of an Inspirational ISAR for use by Artists

1.2 ISARs and the Nature of Creativity There are many different perspectives on creativity. Theories span epistemological, artistic and social science venues. For our purposes here, let us adapt a theory about creativity that combines two generally acceptable theories: That creativity is the amusing, serendipitous or profound combination of ideas. Thus, an ISAR with the purpose of eliciting cre...

Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy

Fundamental Phenomenological Categories of Garden and Landscape

ZGARBOVÁ, M.: Fundamental phenomenological categories of garden and landscape. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2012, LX, No. 8, pp. 299–306 The current scientifi c methods describing gardens and landscapes all over the world are not always suffi cient for the purpose of deep understanding of specifi c and close relations between landscape/ garden and its inhabitants/visitors. A new ...

Analysis of Persian Gardens using Kaplan’s landscape preference theory (Case study: Fin garden, Shazdeh Mahan garden, Eram Garden & El Goli garden)

A review of findings shows that Persian gardens have attracted a wide area of interests between psychologists and environment designers. The main reasons behind the attraction of Persian gardens are natural content and particular landscape configuration. To study these features, overall organization examination is employed according to psychological pattern. One of the impressive psychological ...

Design for brawling -Exploring emotional issues for concept design

This paper describes a case study of a student course about design for user experience. The theme of the course was emotionally loaded behaviour, brawling. Our objective was to teach, how to tackle a combination of emotional behaviour, user centered design approach and designer’s personal interpretation during product concept creation. The students were first introduced to the theme, then they ...