Hyper-realism and loose-reality: the limitations of digital realism and alternative principles in landscape design visualization

Kullmann, Karl

doi:10.1080/18626033.2014.968412

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“…The best angle is sought and the most flattering light applied. The result are realistic or hyper-realistic images that represent an idealised version of how the final object will be [5]. They don't take into account the user's experience in relation to that object.…”

Section: Digital Renderingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Post-processing on Scale Models - A Tool in Design Education

Mandea

2019

LUMEN Proceedings

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Design education can benefit from using a more integrated approach between digital techniques and traditional model-making. This approach expands perception and can add layers of imaginative thinking, advancing the design process. Model making is an important tool in design as a way of developing and transmitting ideas in a three-dimensional manner. Also photography has been used in the past to understand and perceive design models. However, in recent years, due to both photography and digital post-processing of images being made accessible on a larger scale, it is becoming used as a fast rendering technique by some professionals and students. But it isn't yet being used in design education. The process has three stages, without being linear: model-making, photography on the model and post-processing. They often influence each other, as new information and creative input in one stage can determine changes in another. So the model will affect the photograph and the post-processed image and also the post-processed image can induce changes in the model and, therefore, in the form of the object. This paper is based on theoretical research, observations of current practice and three workshops done at the Architecture School in Bucharest in February-March 2018. It expands the ways in which we can use accessible technology in design and design education.

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Section: Digital Renderingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Post-processing on Scale Models - A Tool in Design Education

Mandea

2019

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“…Simulacra and the concept of hyper-reality have gained increasing attention with the rise of modern 3D modelling techniques that give unprecedented levels of visual detail and a sense of realism (Kullmann, 2014). However, the socio-political status of imagery is equally important.…”

Section: Simulacra and Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The semiotics of landscape design communication: towards a critical visual research approach in landscape architecture

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In landscape architecture, visual representations are the primary means of communication between stakeholders in design processes. Despite the reliance on visual representations, little critical research has been undertaken by landscape architects on how visual communication forms work or their socio-political implications. In this theoretical paper, we argue that such research is of great importance. We explain how concepts of visual and critical social theory such as visual semiotics, simulacra and simulation, and power/knowledge can be used to critically reflect on landscape architectural representations. We further propose to study these representations at different stages of meaning-making by using visual methodologies such as visual discourse analysis, iconographical content analysis and social semiotic analysis. We conclude that these research approaches have the potential to explain issues such as dominant power structures, miscommunication between participants, and visual path-dependencies during landscape design processes.

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“…Where entry eligibility is opened to multiple professional disciplines, design competition results potentially illuminate disciplinary alignments and interactions over time. To be certain, while the graphic spectacle associated with some high profile competitions has been criticized for superficializing design (Kullmann 2015b), the majority of competitions analysed here are for routine project procurement and deal in the same graphic Hyper-realism that is now pervasive throughout the design disciplines (Kullmann 2014).…”

Section: Study 1: Design Competition Prizesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hyper-realism and loose-reality: the limitations of digital realism and alternative principles in landscape design visualization

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Digital Post-processing on Scale Models - A Tool in Design Education

Digital Post-processing on Scale Models - A Tool in Design Education

The semiotics of landscape design communication: towards a critical visual research approach in landscape architecture

Disciplinary convergence: landscape architecture and the spatial design disciplines

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