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Planning and Landscape Architecture,
168 C Lee Hall, Box 340511, SC,
29634-0511, United States of
America
Keywords landscape architecture,
design, culture, Islam, globalization
Santiago Navarro
Universidad de Sevilla, Faculty of
Fine Arts, Seville
Keywords Alzheimer's disease,
sculpture, interdisciplinary research
Joseph Nechvatal
School of Visual Arts, MFA
Computer Arts, 143 Ludlow Street
#14, New York, Manhattan, 10002,
United States of America
Keywords immersive, excess, deep,
space, Apse of Lascaux,
University in Cairo, Egypt, and Master of Agricultural sciences in
Landscape Design from Pennsylvania State University. She is a
founding principal and CEO of HewittNassar Studio. Dr. Nassar served
as a faculty member at Ain Shams University while practicing at
COPA and ESEI in Cairo before arriving in the United States in 1996.
Originally from Egypt, Dr. Nassar brings her broad international
understanding of design and culture into her practice, research and
teaching. Her research and practice interests include historical and
cultural landscapes, Islamic landscape tradition, international
education, multiculturalism and the effects of globalization on
landscape change.
› Social justice agency in the landscape architecture studio: an action research
approach, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 7.2, 91-103.
Since 2007 Santiago Navarro has been Vicedecano de Relaciones
Internacionales (International Officer) in the Faculty of Fine Arts,
Universidad de Sevilla. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de
Sevilla from 1989 to 1994. Between 1994 to 1999 he received grants to
study at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence (Italy); Angel’s
Orensanz Foundation, New York, (EEUU); and the Scola de Belas
Artes, Belo Horizonte (MG-Brazil). Since 1999 he has taught sculpture
in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville and a doctoral course entitled The
Human Body: Meaning into the Contemporary Art World. Research
projects include The plastic-sculpture representation of Alzheimer’s
disease (1987–97) and Microfusion on ceramic shell: New techniques
in bronze casting (2002–06). This project is being developed at the
Universitá degli Studii di Firenze (Italy) and Universidade de Lisboa
(Portugal).
› Alzheimer's: Researching the disease through sculpture, International
Journal of Education through Art, 3.2, 133-140.
Since 1986 Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic
visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computerrobotic
assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown
regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. From 1991-
1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and
the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois,
France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer
viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2002 he extended that artistic
research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration