Designing futures: Inquiry in climate change communication

There are many barriers and challenges associated with climate change communication focused on promoting community-based action for sustainable futures. Of particular interest is the challenge to embed community perspectives in a communication process of climate change solutions. In this paper we argue that 3D interactive simulations using design inquiry as a development process, can be an effective way of communicating climate change solutions and multiple community responses. People are more likely to engage with the challenges associated with complexity of climate change at the local level when their perspectives are integrated into viable and multiple pathways for action. Future scenarios of change processes situated in local experiences in compelling and interactive ways can be disseminated holistically by making links between scientific, social, political, economic and cultural elements. Design inquiry, as a research approach, integrates contextual knowledge into communication processes to aid imagining, re-thinking and reembodying viable pathways that explore the kinds of futures we collectively envision. This paper examines the contributions that design inquiry makes to climate change communication using an interactive simulation environment for designing futures. We discuss these ideas using the example of the Future Delta project, a virtual 3D environment that enables the exploration and simulation of multiple community-based climate change solutions in the Corporation of Delta, British Columbia.     

城市河流景观规划设计研究现状分析

随着我国城市化进程的快速推进,工农业的快速发展以及人口急剧膨胀,城市的河流污染严重,生态系统遭到严重破坏。本文对国内外城市河流景观规划设计研究的发展历程进行总结,并着眼于城市河流健康评价研究、城市河流景观规划理论研究、重大河流治理项目实践、城市河流景观规划中生态修复设计等几个方面归纳;提出国内城市河流景观规划设计研究中存在的问题和未来研究的可行方向,以期推动国内对城市河流生态环境的关注和多角度的纵向深入研究,同时也是对国内众多河流景观规划设计项目或河流生态治理工程起到借鉴与指导作用。     

校园网设计初探

校园网设计应当结合本校自身的实际情况，从软硬件二个方面进行网络系统布线、系统应用、系统设计，从而满足教职员工及学生的需要。     

工业设计中的环境保护

环境保护是工业设计不可忽视的要素,环境保护产品设计的原理遵从"多米诺骨牌"原理消除人为的过失骨牌或破坏环境的操作和浪费资源的行为骨牌.环保产品设计的原则是根据熵的法则,选择使用原材料;加强标准化观念;产品报废后的再生利用等.     

《结构设计方法》多元化培训方法探讨

《结构设计方法》是一门理论与实紧密结合的设计师培训项目。在该项目实施过程中,我们提出了针对不同内容,采用包括教师理论培训、实验室参观见学、工程专家案例培训、参训者团队研讨等的多元化培训方法(Diversified Training Method,DTM)。论文通过参训者团队的评价,指出DTM有利于参训者多种能力的培养,适合应用于其它工程应用型培训项目中。     

持久性框架的探讨

随着软件的发展,要满足新应用程序不断增长的需要,同时保持可控制成本,唯一的方法是用框架集建立应用程序,提供一组可以复用的软件服务集。持久性框架是实现软件复用的重要途径,它同时支持设计复用和代码复用,是将应用程序与其使用和操纵的数据源分离,从而使程序开发变得方便快捷,节省了大量不必要损失的时间,大大提高了软件开发的工作效率。     

Toward an integrative approach to designing service experiences: Lessons learned from the theatre

A critical element in designing a new service and ultimately achieving customer delight and loyalty, particularly for competitive services where the customer–service provider interface is high, deals with the delivery of memorable personal experience. Since many such services rely on attributes of theatre-like performance, this research examines the process by which theatre plays are chosen, designed and developed with the objective of better understanding how performance excellence is realized. Theatre plays were chosen as a basis for study because of their long history of mastering the critical elements of performance staging and the reputation for opening on time at near peak performance levels. Using a case-based, qualitative research approach, the theatre play process is described, implications are extracted and a corresponding management process model is presented. Research and management implications for new service design and service delivery excellence are suggested.     

Designing and executing memorable service experiences: Lights, camera, experiment, integrate, action!

Designing services that deliver memorable personal experiences is a science and an art that is poorly understood. Borrowing from the masters of managing performances, the theatre industry, we examine the process for staging plays. Based on our study, we draw inferences that can help service experience managers in a variety of settings create more memorable face-to-face service encounters. To this end, we illustrate seven steps managers should follow to ensure service experience success.     

价值工程与暖通设计方案优选

运用价值工程原理,对商办楼的暧通空调系统进行了技术经济分析,计算出不同方案下系统的价值系数,得出了最优方案,可节约投资30%左右.     

市场调研在产品前期设计中的运用

企业在决定开发新产品的过程中,首先需要对市场有一个全方位的了解,在理性分析和严格定位现有产品的基础上,再来进行新产品的开发设计,这样才能做到有的放矢。本文就是立足于产品前期的设计定位研究,通过对现阶段国内外调研方法的比较。总结出了一套适合目前国内企业进行产品前期设计的市场调研方法,并对其进行了可行性分析。