Basing on the preserved and published epistolographic legacy of Teofil Lenartowicz, the author reconstructs the sculptural process used by the artist. Starting from outlining the research problems connected with the letters of a solitary... more
Basing on the preserved and published epistolographic legacy of Teofil Lenartowicz, the author reconstructs the sculptural process used by the artist. Starting from outlining the research problems connected with the letters of a solitary from Arno, he focused on the stages of the Polish art master’s work on sculpture. The author of the article analyses fragments of letters addressed to: Julia Jablonowska, Maria Konopnicka, Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski, Helena Mickiewiczowna, Ksawery Mroczka, the Resurrectionist Fathers, and Tekla Zmorska. The conclusions resulting from the analysis of epistolography, concerning particular stages of sculpture creation, allow us to compare Lenartowicz’s sculptural process with practices characteristic of art techniques of Renaissance and 19th century sculptors.
Solid shape is typically segmented into surface regions to define the appearance and function of parts of the shape; these regions in turn use curve networks to represent boundaries and creases, and feature points to mark corners and... more
Solid shape is typically segmented into surface regions to define the appearance and function of parts of the shape; these regions in turn use curve networks to represent boundaries and creases, and feature points to mark corners and other shape landmarks. Conceptual modeling requires these multi-dimensional nested structures to persist throughout the modeling process, an aspect not supported, up to now, in free-form sculpting systems. We present the first shape sculpting framework that preserves and controls the evolution of such nested shape features. We propose a range of geometric and topological behaviors (such as rigidity or mutability) applied hierarchically to points, curves or surfaces in response to a set of typical free-form sculpting operations, such as stretch, shrink, split or merge. Our method is illustrated within a free-form sculpting system for self-adaptive quasi-uniform polygon meshes, where geometric and topology changes resulting from sculpting operations are a...
This article contributes methodological insights into the role of posthumanism in documenting process in maker education for teachers. This research draws on two case studies of women teachers from Nigeria and Jamaica who engaged in... more
This article contributes methodological insights into the role of posthumanism in documenting process in maker education for teachers. This research draws on two case studies of women teachers from Nigeria and Jamaica who engaged in makerspace activities in a graduate university course on maker literacies. The study upholds the necessity to consider relationality with nonhumans as integral to maker entanglements in the classroom. From different backgrounds, the two teachers share how materials impacted them through their inter- and intra-actions with materials, positioning them as part of entanglements that can enact change in their community and beyond. The significance of this research speaks to the necessity to focus on maker processes rather than maker outcomes in teacher professional development, emphasizing how posthumanism allows for an acknowledgement of relationality between humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans.
