Beyond Making and Unmaking: Re-Envisioning Sacred Art

Habits, Their Making and Unmaking

Envisioning Theories through Origami Art

Beyond Requirements: Software Making as Art

N o one paying attention to software development recently could miss the raging methodology war. On one side you find formalists, who remain fond of the word " process, " emphasize detailed planning to produce quality products, and aspire to a level of repeatability that evokes manufacturing imagery. On the other side you find agilists, who value " individuals and interactions over processes an...

The Making and the Unmaking of a Dullard

relations, but as bushels of wheat, sacks of corn, fence boards, and barn timbers. His study of mechanics began with an "old oaken bucket" swung from an iron pulley, progressed through the grindstone stage to the mechanism of a reaper, to the profound discovery that the turning of a small gear moved a larger one more slowly but with greater power, and finally broke out into an ecstasy of deligh...

Envisioning explanations – the art in science

Visualization involves making and manipulating images that convey novel phenomena, ideas and meanings. It is central to the intellectual objectives of almost every area of science. It is therefore surprising that we still lack an understanding of how visual thinking works. Examples from different sciences illustrate how scientists interpret and explain phenomena by actively manipulating those p...