Nancy Cheng's Interests & Context

Nancy Yen-wen Cheng: Interests & Context

Interests & ContextNancy Yen-wen Cheng

• Media & Design Process• Community : Real & Virtual


Media and Design ProcessSee more, do more, think more deeply

image by Stormy Deets

Maximize perceptions and insights


Teaching Drawing with Digital Pen Animations1. Illustrate specific techniques with examples2. Students draw with digital pen and paper3. Students dock pens to laptops4. Class discusses projected drawings


Digital Sketching for researchEnables accurate

recollection of drawing process

Make collecting many samples simple

Facilitates in-depth analyses












Lighting Visualization• Art and science of illumination


Lighting Visualization• Art and science of illumination


Digital Fabrication• Bridging two worlds of making


Virtual Design Studios• Creating opportunities through

global partnerships. Sharing design approaches, technical solutions and cultural contexts.

Partnership with Joachim Kieferle, Jeremy Ham

http://www.igp.uni-stuttgart.de/publika/pdf/Intercontinental_Seating.pdf


Outreach online: Oregon – Wiesbaden - Geelong Design for remote characters: Frog in Eugene, OR


Outreach online: Oregon – Wiesbaden - Geelong Design for remote characters

Seating design by Sandra Korzeczek in Wiesbaden, Germany


Oregon – 3rd-4th Year Community DesignTeams of students design a green village.

By Dan Roll, Brent Stuntzner, Kaelee Pearson, Erik Bischoff and Erin Pearce


Oregon – 3rd-4th Year Community DesignConnects to city with market & restaurant, nature & bikers at river park

edge

By Dan Roll, Brent Stuntzner, Kaelee Pearson, Erik Bischoff and Erin Pearce


Sustainable Intentional Communities: • Creating ecologically sound,

site-specific settlements. • Fostering rich interaction with

levels of privacy.

Diagrams by Brent Stuntzner, poster design by Tuan Vu


Giving back to the larger community

Brendan Soens presenting at Village Building Convergence


Learning Communities• Supporting shared learning through wikis, teleconferencing, online Web

2.0 alternatives to better utilize face-to-face meetings.

Kaitlin Czege, Oki Ludiro, Edwin Lee & Thaddeus Thompson


Nancy Yen-wen [email protected]

http://eportfolio.uoregon.edu/Members/nyc

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Nancy Cheng's Interests & Context