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Happy Christmas
This Christmas I made some laser cut baubles, putting my rusty AutoCAD skill to use at last Made around 650 of them in total for the Christmas market and personalised orders. 22 meticulous design and A-Z. Anyway, here is hoping for a Merry Christmas and have a fantastic 2019! Cheers.
PhD project_the interactive abstract and list of output
I would like to share the good news that I recently passed my PhD viva voce examination and I will attend graduation in November 2018. Here is a link to my Prezi, of an interactive abstract. The aim of this short Prezi is to give a snapshot of the PhD (see embedded video below). List Read More
PhD online program #2-
A short explanation and potential use of the scripts can be found here: Tedjosaputro and Shih, Y.-T (2018- preprints). A visualization tool to investigate the interplay of external and internal processes. In: Gero, J.S. (ed.) DCC’18- The 8th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. Springer. For the online program #1, click here. It is Read More
Ningbo Drawing Circle: a short interview with Ningbo TV
Hiya, here is an update about the short interview Gillian and I had with Ningbo TV. Ningbo Drawing Circle is part of Brew Drawing project. An article for the series of “I am in Zhejiang” covering foreigners live in Zhejiang province, is available though the Wechat article can be found here. And a link to Read More
DCC18 conference: list of papers
List of papers could be found here: http://dccconferences.org/dcc18/papers.html THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC’18 or DCC18) Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research. July 2018. Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Ningbo Focus November 2017
A little bit something about myself and our life in Ningbo, China. Ningbo is a home of 7 million people, 2 hours away on high speed train from Shanghai, and only an hour away from Hangzhou. Just a hop skip away. Ningbo is good compromise between urban life and nature, and the campus is our home. Matt Read More
an article in The Design Journal (2017)
Interplay of Sketches and Mental Imagery in the Design Ideation Stage of Novice Designers. Tedjosaputro, M. A., Shih, Y.-T., Niblock, C. & Pradel, P. (2017). Interplay of Sketches and Mental Imagery in the Design Ideation Stage of Novice Designers. The Design Journal, 1-25. Link to article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2018.1395655
Life Cycle 7 Endurance Ride 2017
It is that time of the year again, Life Cycle time. The 4 days endurance ride covering up to 540km in Zhejiang province. We will be riding next week, from October 3rd to 6th. A much bigger riding team (18 cyclists) and a logistics team. Stay tuned for updates. In the meanwhile, here is a Read More
Upcoming on drawing circle: a short documentary
Our local TV station (NBTV- Ningbo TV) has plans to make a short documentary about the drawing circle project, this month. I am excited and stay tuned for a sneak peek! Drawing circle is part of Brew Drawing Circle and head over the blog for the two years project. Bfn.
Drawing Circle 2 Mini Exhibition and the Opening Party
It was a wrap. This is the end of second year of the drawing circle, and I am happy to say that am glad I initiated the circle two years ago. Thank you for all sketchers, contributors and special thanks to James Johnson-Perkins for the music. I hope you all had a good time!! Links Read More
Research seminar: Friday, May 26th
A quick heads up about an upcoming research seminar on a short paper I just submitted. It is part of my methodology exploration of my PhD project, illustrating a possible use of developed JavaScript program of adapted coding schemes. The developed scheme recognises distinctive processes within Cognition, Body and Environment categories. Linkography can be drawn within Read More
Drawing Circle 2 Exhibition- Venue
Map to the exhibition venue (an alley opposite Incity- Yinzhou district): “Visual brain spew in a collective sketchbook!” is what the Drawing Circle in a nutshell. SAVE THE DATE: 27 May 2017 at 6:30-8:30pm for the opening party. It is open to public and free admission, drinks can be purchase on the spot. Meet the sketchers Read More
Drawing Circle 2 Mini Exhibition- Sneak Preview
The second year of Ningbo Local Drawing Circle is coming to an end soon. Similarly with last year, we will be exhibiting the work which has been produced by 12 sketchers + 1 montage work as an introduction to the second year. The plan is before the summer break starts, the opening party will be Read More
LaTeX or Scrivener
Have been using Scrivener for more than two weeks as a writing software, and I have to say it is a sturdy way of writing. A regular word processing software is commonly regarded as not the most optimum environment to write big chunks of writing. Also yesterday I had a chance to attend a LaTeX Read More
Theses management tool
My final PhD theses is a project, it is definitely the biggest written project I will produce (approximately 100k words). Before I started writing, I had a quick look on what can possibly go wrong with such a lengthy document, as a precaution. For instance, the regular word processing software starts to be unreliable when Read More
Differences in Sketches and Mental Imagery in Ideation Stage of Novice Designers
Update: The most recent publication is now up in Springer. It is part of my ongoing PhD discussions related to the use of external and internal representations. Abstract. Previous empirical studies in sketches and mental imagery showed that there is no significant difference in overall quality and possibility to use mental imagery as design tool. This preliminary study Read More
Have a jolly Christmas
It is that time of the year again. The festive season, only a few sleeps to Christmas. I hope you are enjoying the season wherever you are, maybe with a lovely family gathering, whoever you are with. 2017 will be a big year for me as I am approaching my PhD theses submission. You might Read More
Drawing Circle 1 mini exhibition: photographs and video
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Drawing Circle 1 mini exhibition 22 October: Maps and pictures.
I cobbled together an overall map to show where the exhibition place (Da Bu Li Yuan) is and a more detailed map. It is not far from Shangrila Hotel, Ningbo. Please ask the taxi driver to drop you at Dabu Park (Dabu Gong Yuan), 48 Dabu Street (Dabu Jie). Jump off, go through the park Read More