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Special Section of Leonardo Transactions: 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, 2012 (Part 2)
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Publisher: Journals Gateway
Leonardo (2014) 47 (3): 286–289.
Published: 01 June 2014
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View articletitled, A Study of Sustainable Techniques in Chinese Traditional Microenvironment Design—Taking Natural Ventilation as an Example
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This paper analyzes the physical, spiritual and cultural mechanisms of the national ventilation techniques in Chinese traditional microenvironment design and points out that traditional ventilation techniques not only include the physical technical means, but also are adept in comprehensively mobilizing other human sensory factors in addition to the sense of touch to create a place that is wholesome, comfortable and spiritually pleasing, thereby reaching a very high spiritual state in the end. This construction outlook uses “heaven and earth as buildings” and “houses as clothes” and the result derived from an environment outlook that features equality between man and nature.
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Leonardo (2014) 47 (3): 290–293.
Published: 01 June 2014
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View articletitled, Symbolic Practice of Rural Sanitation Science Popularization in the Period of Collectivization
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In the period of collectivization, the New China government carried out extensive sanitation science popularization in rural areas. The rural sanitation science popularization in the period highlighted the practical functions of sanitation in health improvement and, at the same time, vested sanitation with rich meanings and make it a symbol of rich meanings. The operation of such symbolized rural science popularization was the core strategy for the rural sanitation science popularization in the period.
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Leonardo (2014) 47 (3): 294–296.
Published: 01 June 2014
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View articletitled, Neuroaesthetics Research in the Construction of Chinese Character Art
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The cognitive mechanism of the brain's visual nerves is the inherent biological basis for the artistic creation and aesthetics of Chinese characters, which has a profound and even decisive influence on the visual construction and cultural communication of Chinese character art. It is mainly manifested in the neural perception model of the forms of Chinese characters, the abstraction and integration instinct of biological visuals, the neural cognition of enhanced adaptability and the neural mirror of aesthetic psychological space, which is the source of formulating the rules of Chinese character art, which is a combination of font and meaning.
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Leonardo (2014) 47 (3): 282–285.
Published: 01 June 2014
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View articletitled, Re-Imagining Utopias: The Bat/Human Project
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The making of the modern world has long been fuelled by utopian images that are blind to ecological reality. Botanical gardens are but one example - who typically portray themselves as miniature, isolated ‘edens on earth’, whereas they are now in many cases self-evidently also the vital ‘lungs’ of crowded cities, as well as critical habitats for threatened biodiversity. In 2010 the ‘Remnant Emergency Art lab’ set out to question utopian thinking through a creative provocation called the ‘Botanical Gardens ‘X-Tension’ - an imagined city-wide, distributed, network of ‘ecological gardens’ suited to both bat and human needs, in order to ask, what now needs to be better understood, connected and therefore ultimately conserved.