Aesthetics shaping sacred space

Sacred Space

A space can be sacred, providing those who inhabit a particular space with sense of transcendence-being connected to something greater than oneself. The sacredness may be inherent in the space, as for a religious institution or a serene place outdoors. Alternatively, a space may be made sacred by the people within it and events that occur there. As medical providers, we have the opportunity to ...

Teaching leadership as exploring sacred space

Sacred Space and Sublime Sacramental Piety

Agora: Shaping Social Space from Information Space

Agora is a Java based client-server tool that provides for both synchronous and asynchronous communication within the context of a web page. Real-time text based ‘chat’ is augmented by shared news, personal mail, recent visitor history and user profiles.

Acoustic Shaping: Application to Space Based Construction

Previous work has shown the formation of solid particles into thin walls of specified shape using a resonant acoustic field in microgravity. Here these results are summarized, and extended to study the qualitative effects of liquid addition and melting/ solidification in the acoustic field. Pure liquid forms into sheets, even in the 1-g environment, due to the static pressure differences in the...