Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis, usewear analysis, typology, zooa...

I have worked for 28 years in the Spanish building industry as an architectural designer/project manager, and I have seen it all. You will be surprised what can come across your path when you start your journey to purchasing a property in Spain. I have inspected many properties before, and unfortunately also some áfter the purchase. When viewing properties, people tend to look at the view and forget to look at the house. With the information I provide, you will not forget to look at the mos...

The composition of our brain of a human part of consciousness and analytical thinking, and a primal brain where the primary life functions are regulated, is the cause of many misunderstandings in our thinking and opinions over all kinds of things.

For example, we consider cultural matters like painting and music to be high-quality activities, whereas they are based only on physical-chemical processes that are not properly understood by the human part of our brain and therefore highly assesse...

If every signified evoked by reading or hearing any signifier is indeterminate, it makes no sense to formulate a semiotics cum philosophy that attempts to prove the correctness of the proposition that every signified is indeterminate, since that proof uses signifiers.

Those who proclaim as their unshakeable conviction that man (= every human being) is only consciousness, as the most famous structuralists and Derrida with in their wake the deconstructionists do, and that consequently only subj...

Hundreds of books on motorcycle racing have been published. Usually provided with beautiful photos. They are often sublime action photos, taken by professional photographers. Images from the paddocks are often in the minority. The booklet “With the camera in the paddock” fills this gap by presenting pictures of a pur sang enthusiast about the period 1961 until 1975. The photographer in question, Klaas Tjassens, has knowledge and a love for motorcycles, plus a nose for beautiful technology...

Touch of Heaven is a story about Ellen, a 23-years-old Armenian woman living in Yerevan, who has just started working as a fashion designer. She grew up being very popular with lots of friends, and was almost engaged to the love of her life. Everything in her life seemed perfect until the day she got into an accident which left her in a coma. From that moment on, her soul has been wondering out of her body and she continuously lives in a world that is between death and life. Heaven would gran...

IT systems have a lot of functionality. We used to present this functionality as a whole to the user. He could then choose what he needed. This created enormous amounts of stress and many erroneous actions. It doesn’t have to be that way.

A lot of stakeholder-oriented techniques may help you put the functionality in the right perspective for the user. The navigation model brings this information together and transforms it into a scenario, a narrative. Accompanied with the motivation of the ...

How can technological development today help studio-based learning take place in virtual space? Can technologies transform and reform design education? Can online learning replace face-to-face tutorials across different disciplines within design education? And how should design educators adapt to the new direction this era is facing?

How has technology empowered us, and what has it taken away from us? What has it done to enhance our learning and teaching methodologies? How are teachers using ...