Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity

Comprehensively describes four different perspectives of Cultural DNA research

Offers interesting topics including theories, analysis and synthesis of Cultural DNA artefacts

Provides extensive information to the reader on the grammar-based Cultural DNA methodologies

Comprehensively describes four different perspectives of Cultural DNA research Offers interesting topics including theories, analysis and synthesis of Cultural DNA artefacts Provides extensive information to the reader on the grammar-based Cultural DNA methodologies

Autorentext
Ji-Hyun Lee is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. She received her Ph.D. in School of Architecture (Computational Design) at Carnegie Mellon University writing a thesis about integrating housing design and case-based reasoning. Since joining the GSCT at KAIST, her research focus narrowed down to three interdisciplinary areas that are not mutually exclusive: (1) calculation for UX + service design, (2) cultural DNA with morphological analysis, and (3) computational creativity. These explorations result in computer-based frameworks or systems contributing to the enhancement of the calculability using algorithmic and/or heuristic computational methods. In other words, her research focus is on 'computational culture' as an extension of computational design.

Inhalt

THEME 1 Theories for Cultural DNA Research.- a) Research for Cultural DNA in Design.- b) A Design Gallery System.- c) Underlying Principles and Emerging Designs Based on Magic Squares.- THEME 2 Analysis & Synthesis of Cultural DNA at Urban Scale.- a) Multi-leveled Tridimensional Public Place and Urban Promenade.- b) Fingerprint of the City: How Old Country Roads become Fossilised within the Modern City.- c) Mods, Hacks, Makers: Crowdsourced Culture and Environment.- THEME 3 Analysis & Synthesis of Cultural DNA Artifacts.- a) How to Let Computers Know Building design Rules? - A KBimCode Mechanism to Translate the Sentences in Korea Building Act for the Automated Code.- b) A sense of dichotomy in household space and smartphone.- c) The Need for a Cultural Representation Tool in Cultural Product Design.- d) User Defined Conceptual Modeling Gestures.- e) A Universal Basic Robot.- THEME 4 Grammar-based Cultural DNA Research.- a) Paperless Grammars.- b) A practical shape grammar for Chinese ice-ray lattice designs.- c) Structures in shapes: a perspective from rules and embedding.- d) Grammatically Measuring the Functional Uniqueness of Murcutt's Domestic Architecture.