Design Transactions asks what the future of building culture will be. It asks how new, shared computational platforms are changing our disciplines, examining how the digitisation of tools affects the way architecture is conceived designed and made. Questions arise as we enter a new era of advanced modelling, informed by new concepts of Big Data computing, cloud-based collaboration and steered r…
The sense of beauty has a more important place in life than aesthetic theory has ever taken in philosophy. The plastic arts, with poetry and music, are the most conspicuous monuments of this human interest, because they appeal only to contemplation, and yet have attracted to their service, in all civilised ages, an amount of effort, genius, and honour, little inferior to that given to industry,…
No two histories are the same size. Some are so tiny that you can nestle them in your hand, their translucent pages fluttering with your breath. Others range over many volumes, challenging the strength of your grip with the combined weight of their leather covers, rag paper pages and glassine illustration protectors. Some hold us enthralled with split-second events in tiny places, othe…
In this chapter we present the foundations of Newton’s theory of gravitation. Intuitively, the theory of gravitation is easiest to understand as “action at a distance,” Latin actio ad distans, where the force between two masses is proportional to the masses themselves, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This is the form of Newton’s general law of grav…
In traditional societies, undoubtedly the most common conception of the figure of the Earth was that the Earth is a flat disc extending to the horizon, with the sky curving like a dome over her. On the inner surface of the dome, the celestial bodies describe their complicated orbits. Children also have generally the same conception. Only with formal education does this “naïve world model” …
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Soal bagaimana wirausahawan politik sayap-kanan di seluruh dunia menggunakan rekayasa ketersinggungan untuk memobilisasi pendukung dan menyingkirkan lawan. Di Amerika Serikat, unsur-unsur keagamaan sayap-kanan mengobarkan ancaman eksistensial terhadap Islam serta menyebarkan retorika anti-muslim ke pentas politik arus utama. Di Indonesia, muslim garis-keras memanaskan hawa intoleransi dengan m…
The most comprehensive systematic transreligious theology is presented in Robert Cummings Neville’s three-volume Philosophical Theology. The first volume is called Ultimates and contains a précis of the whole. Neville establishes a metaphysical structure within which the various “ultimates” represented by or symbolized through various traditions find their place. His accomplishment, requ…
Luas hutan mangrove Indonesia sekitar 3 juta hektar yang mewakili 23 % keseluruhan ekosistem mangrove dunia. Kita kehilangan hampir separuh dari luas mangrove dalam tiga dekade terakhir. Lamun (sea grass) dan terumbu karang (coral reef) mengalami hal yang sama. Ini adalah potret bahwa pesisir Indonesia sepanjang 95.000 km sangatlah rentan terhadap kerusakan lingkungan. Perkembangan penduduk yan…