A new perspective on the architecture of psychiatric healing

Some researchers claim that the modern landscape of psychiatric treatment is mechanized to approach healing of the patients through the form the chemical treatment (Rhi, 2001). This method does not prove to be efficient for every patient, leaving them in a burdening psychological state. Elements such as holistic practices...

Liminal design: A conceptual framework and three-step approach for developing technology that delivers transcendence and deeper experiences

As ubiquitous technology is increasingly mediating our relationships with the world and others, we argue that the sublime is struggling to find room in product design primarily aimed at commercial and transactional goals such as speed and efficiency. We suggest a new category of products to promote deeper and more meaningful experiences,...

Hybrid fabrication for transcended manufacturing: Flexible manufacturing system in support of the Transcended manufacturing process

Transcended manufacturing is a new emerging manufacturing paradigm in response to the rising need for mass personalisation and ultra-personalised products. Through product personalisation, people can assert their identity in an increasingly impersonal world. But the one-off a kind nature of ultra-personalised make them hard to manufacture with...

Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

The entirety of built environment exists in a state of flux and adaptation under the effect of a mutual relation between society and its spatial outcomes. Since human beings’ existence cannot be separated from space and its man-made forms, built environment can alter people through embedded biases. And these biases are mostly manifested by...