Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Research for Cultural DNA in Design

   • John S. Gero

   Pages 1-13

3. Directly Interactive Design Gallery Systems: Interaction Terms and Concepts

   • Arefin Mohiuddin, Narges Ashtari, Robert Woodbury

   Pages 15-32

4. Underlying Principles and Emerging Designs: Design Exercises Based on Magic Squares

   • Jin-Ho Park

   Pages 33-45

5. Multi-leveled Tridimensional Public Place and Urban Promenade

   • Jong-Jin Park

   Pages 47-59

6. Fossilisation of Rural Streets Within the Modern City

   • Kyung Wook Seo

   Pages 61-71

7. Mods, Hacks, Makers: Crowdsourced Culture and Environment

   • Andrzej Zarzycki

   Pages 73-82

8. How Can Computers Learn Building Design Rules?

   • Hayan Kim, Jaeyoung Shin, Jin-Kook Lee

   Pages 83-93

9. A Sense of Dichotomy in Household Space and Smartphone

   • Deedee Aram Min, Namwoo Kang, Jimin Rhim, Ji-Hyun Lee

   Pages 95-105

10. The Need for a Cultural Representation Tool in Cultural Product Design

    • Yu-Hsiu Hung, Wei-Ting Lee

    Pages 107-114

11. User Defined Conceptual Modeling Gestures

    • Bige Tunçer, Sumbul Khan

    Pages 115-125

12. A Universal Basic Robot

    • Mathew Schwartz, Michael Ehrlich

    Pages 127-138

13. Paperless Grammars

    • Athanassios Economou, Thomas Grasl

    Pages 139-160

14. A Practical Shape Grammar for Chinese Ice-Ray Lattice Designs

    • Rudi Stouffs

    Pages 161-174

15. Visual Structures of Embedded Shapes

    • Iestyn Jowers, Chris Earl

    Pages 175-187

16. A Design Grammar for Identifying Spatial Uniqueness of Murcutt’s Rural Houses

    • Ju Hyun Lee, Ning Gu

    Pages 189-203

17. Craft, Performance, and Grammars

    • Terry Knight

    Pages 205-224

18. Back Matter

    Pages 225-225

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This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach. It approaches the subject from four different perspectives, in which the topics include theories, analysis and synthesis of cultural DNA artefacts.

After an opening section which reviews theoretical work on cultural DNA research, the second section discusses analysis & synthesis of cultural DNA at the urban scale. Section three covers analysis & synthesis of cultural DNA artefacts, and the final section offers approaches to grammar-based cultural DNA research.

The book places emphasis on two specific axes: one is the scale of the object under discussion, which ranges from the small (handheld artefacts) to the very large (cities); and the other is the methodology used from analysis to synthesis. This diverse approach with detailed information about grammar-based methodologies toward cultural DNA makes the book unique.

This book will serve as a source of inspiration for designers and researchers trying to find the essence, archetype, and the building blocks of our environment for the incorporation of social and cultural factors into their designs.

• Cultural DNA
• Shape Syntax
• Morphological analysis
• Cultural Artefacts
• Multi-leveled Tridimensional Public Place
• Urban Promenade
• Practical Shape grammar
• Cultural DNA methodology
• cultural DNA mapping
• urban dna mapping
• urban culture design
• Culture and public space
• urban geography and urbanism
• computational social sciences

• GSCT, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

  Ji-Hyun Lee

Ji-Hyun Lee is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. She received her Ph.D. in School of Architecture (Computational Design) at Carnegie Mellon University writing a thesis about integrating housing design and case-based reasoning. Since joining the GSCT at KAIST, her research focus narrowed down to three interdisciplinary areas that are not mutually exclusive: (1) calculation for UX + service design, (2) cultural DNA with morphological analysis, and (3) computational creativity. These explorations result in computer-based frameworks or systems contributing to the enhancement of the calculability using algorithmic and/or heuristic computational methods. In other words, her research focus is on 'computational culture' as an extension of computational design. ​

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