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Daniela Rosner Joins Department III as Artist in Residence
Artist in Residence Daniela Rosner joins Department III
Sep 2, 2019Chinese Building Manuals and Traditions of Architectural Technology
In China, master craftsmen and imperial architects as well as scholars summarized practical knowledge of building in manuals and presented them to spe
Media and Methods of Practical Knowledge Transmission: Craftsmanship and the Qing Court
This project addressed sociocultural issues, knowledge mobility across space, and the social context of artisans. In this context, socialcultural issu
Geographies of Knowing: China Historical GIS
Models and sketches provide a way of transmitting practical knowledge across distances without personal contact. Their role in Chinese history is uncl
Tracking Citation Patterns and Knowledge Diffusion in Song Dynasty Notebooks
This project analyzed the social, thematic, spatial, and temporal dimensions of information exchange in imperial China through the quantitative and qu
Craft Knowledge Experimentation and Theory Construction: A Rereading of the "Jingjing lingchi" 鏡鏡詅癡 (Blazoning Infatuation in Front of Mirrors)
Stimulated by a group of optical toys and instruments from Europe, such as eyeglasses, mirrors, camera obscura, magic lanterns, telescopes, and kaleid
"Understanding is Within One’s Grasp” (遼 然 在 握 Liaoran zai wo): Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of Memory
When Chinese authors included diagrams of hands with characters inscribed on them in their books, they used the hand as a tu 圖—a diagram, map, illustr
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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