Mark Burry

Peter Downton

Andrea Mina

Michael Ostwald

"An exhibition studying the link between physical and digital models in the design process. In this, the final volume of the Homo Faber triology on architectural models, the focus of the work is power of digital modelling and the digitally controlled model making. This volume, which includes interviews with a range of Australasian architectural and design practices, investigates the impact of affordable digital manufacturing and modelling tools on the design process. The words "post-digital' in the title are used to describe the present state in the design professions where digital and computer models are so ubiquitous that they are no longer a novelty and, for the first time, might begin to be critically assessed for their strengths and weaknesses." -- Book jacket.

Modelling, Identity and the Post Digital

Homo Faber

Michael J. Ostwald

Modelling Architecture

Richard R. Nelson

Davide Consoli

Ronnie Ramlogan

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding, technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process, and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with medical innovation, management studies and the economics of innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

Science, technology and practice

Medical Innovation

Andrea Mina

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