BMW has collaborated with Airbus to create a slick and stylish interior for its A350 jet shown in April at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2006. Lovers of led lighting and sky projections should def take note here - it simulates a moonlit night. BMW has also put together some fine-looking seats and a superlux interior for this A350, even in steerage.
September 01, 2006
August 31, 2006
Experience Architecture
Experience Music Project by Frank Gehry
Experience Architecture unites narrative content and media technology to offer a dynamic new approach to the built environment. This design orientation focuses on the guest experience, and highlights the potential for architects to integrate media, information, and other forms of content into their building vocabulary. It’s influencing a wide range of commercial and cultural building types, from retail and brand environments to museums, libraries, and civic spaces across the country. Experience Architecture is not a style, but rather an emerging set of design values that confront architects with issues of substance, and the ability of their work to express ideas and emotions.
August 27, 2006
Experiential Learning
John Dewey, an American educational philosopher, was an early twentieth century promoter of the idea of learning through direct experience (action and reflection). Experiential education differs from much traditional education in that teachers first immerse students in action and then ask them to reflect on the experience. In traditional education, teachers set the knowledge to be learnt (including analysis and synthesis) before students. They hope students will subsequently find ways to apply the knowledge. Despite the efforts of many efforts at progressive educational reform, reports by researchers such as Goodlad (1984) and Sizer (1984) suggest that most teaching, particularly at the high school level, still involves the teacher as purveyor of knowledge and the student as passive recipient.
August 21, 2006
Lascaux Caves 15,000 B.C.
In the beginning life was multi-sensory. By 15,000 B.C. Cro Magnon had evolved with a brain capable of modern intelligence. With this new intelligence the first art was created deep in subterranean caves in the Dordogne region of Southern France, in caves such as Lascaux, where Cro Magnon marked the birth of the aesthetic with the representation of animal figures and coded shamanist scrawls. He painted fantastic murals of reindeer, bison, and bulls in these resonant caverns that flickered with stone candles and smelled of the acrid aroma of animal fat where rituals were performed. A magic theater of the senses. lascaux caves
