The Meaningful Place: Transforming Taman Sari Banda Aceh as City Park

Interaction design as understanding and transforming place

Space becomes place through a rich interplay of actors, actions and associations, and techniques drawn from performance, gaming and architecture are well adapted to helping us understand and design for complex environments. Our experience working with masters-level interaction design students in the ATELIER project has demonstrated that these ‘cross dressing’ techniques can create a climate of ...

Rebuilding after the tsunami: reflections on medical experiences in Banda Aceh.

I met Yusni in June 2006, late in the afternoon on a busy day in the orthopedic outpatient clinic at Zainoel Abidin Hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. A year and a half earlier, Yusni’s village on the west coast of Aceh province was swept away by the infamous Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami. He lost his home and 2 of his younger siblings, yet Yusni somehow managed to survive, although he did su...

Simulation of Tsunami Impact on Sea Surface Salinity along Banda Aceh Coastal Waters, Indonesia

Clinical cases seen in tsunami hit Banda Aceh: from a primary health care perspective.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami caused catastrophic damage to many cities on the rim of the Indian Ocean. Banda Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia was particularly badly hit due to its close proximity to the epicenter. The Singapore Armed Forces Medical Team was one of the earliest medical teams to arrive in Banda Aceh, providing primary health care to the survivors. In the first 17 days o...

Park City Lectures on Eigenfuntions

These lectures are devoted to nodal geometry of eigenfunctions φλ of the Laplacian ∆g of a Riemannian manifold (M, g) of dimension m and to the associated problems on L norms of eigenfunctions. The manifolds are generally assumed to be compact, although the problems can also be posed on non-compact complete Riemannian manifolds. The emphasis of these lectures is on real analytic Riemannian mani...