Stellenbosch Town situated north of Cape Town holds remnants of the aftermath of the apartheid Regime. The reality of dispossession in the context of Die Vlakte, the fractured connection of Kayamandi to the Stellenbosch core, and other neighbourhoods that lie along the peripheries of the privileged and well-resourced centre, are all encompassed in the context of Stellenbosch. The less tangible history of Die Vlakte, a multi- racial community that was declared a white-only area due to the Group Areas Act of 1950. At the start of democracy, those dispossessed had the opportunity to claim land that was lost during the forced removals (Du Toit, 2010). Despite this, there is a continued spatial disjunction and fraction that echoes that of apartheid spatial planning. The sense of place evident in the Stellenbosch historical core currently lacks representation of individuals and communities of Die Vlakte and Kayamandi. Despite the tangible evidence of place concerning the built fabric; a sense of place is held further in the intangible memories, meanings, and narratives of individuals. This document explores elements of the intangible that is to make space and place, a sociopolitical art practice that is grounded in spatial form, historical influences that take place, and analysis of the street within Stellenbosch. In discovering what these aspects are, this research aims at uncovering potential approaches to design spaces for reconciliation that are empathetic to past and current injustices.

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Starting this thesis with the intention to inspire and to be inspired, I have tried to zoom out and look on designing a car from a new perspective. By telling a holistic design story rather than solving a specific problem I want people to imagine a future where one can live a modern and connected life in rural communities, all made possible after a green energy revolution. Design research, brand analysis, sketching, form verification using clay and digital modeling and advanced visualization were the main activities performed during the project. They helped me to explore, understand and successfully propose a complete story of vehicle and context. The result is BMW iMPULSE, a shared and fully autonomous vehicle that is wirelessly powered by clean energy and is always ready to support the spontaneous lifestyle

A proposal for a living laboratory for the University of Pretoria's south campus. The University of Pretoria is celebrating its 100th year anniversary. In 2008 the Department of Landscape Architecture has requested that the final year Landscape Architecture students choose a site within the university owned land as a site for their dissertation. / Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted

Interaction design is changing as a response to new social, technological, and environmental contexts, which bring new scopes of complexity into the frame interaction designers are con-cerned with. These changes demand that established ways of designing are in need of revision, because failing to do so will inevitably lead us to reinforce established ways of designing. This thesis is a proposal of how to shift our attention from ‘what we design’ to ‘how we design’ through critical inquiry into designing itself. By using experiments as a means and facilitator of communication, I have been able to open up tensions between what designing is and what designing is becoming which inform our ways of doing. I have utilised probes to prompt fellow interaction designers to submit their vision to critical inquiry and experimented with physical experiences to facilitate awareness of embedded behaviours and thought patterns. Through my experiments, I have been able to design the constellations in which the underlying became visi-ble and tangible in ways that mere conversation cannot.Through a programmatic design research approach, this thesis work has been a journey of shed-ding light on the design program that embeds the relation to established and emergent design ideals, and experimenting with ways to make the tensions between the established and emerg-ing visible and conversational. In the process of carrying out this thesis, I have identified that the tensions between established and unfolding design ideals are often taken for granted within current design practices. Through my work, it became visible that established structures and relations within design obstruct designers from thinking beyond solutions and seamlessness. It became visible that the tensions that fiction, uncertainty and problem-framing approaches cre-ate within our current ways of doing are rarely conversational, and therefore revision of promi-nent ways of doing is lacking.  In this thesis, I am proposing an alternative design program that pushes designers to subject their practices to critical dissemination and expose collective relations to what designing is and is becoming. In my final manifestation I am proposing an activity that facilitates the type of col-lective conversation that I argue is needed to start to open up to reflecting on our current design program. By facilitating collective discussion around ‘what designing is’ and ‘what designing is becoming’, have prompted more awareness of collective relations to ‘what designing is’.In this thesis, I argue that failing to alter our design program and continuing to take ‘what de-signing is’ for granted will prevent interaction design from evolving from what it is, to what it can be, as taking what designing is for granted will lead design practices to merely solidify es-tablished ways of doing. I believe we should be doing the opposite of taking things for granted. I believe we should be actively designing interaction design(ing).

Taiwan electron industry was development, brand of management and original equipment manufacturer is each to have the dissimilarity develop the mode, how organize the arrangement with whole combine, carry on organizational change and design to let to operate maximization, support high to grow up and high the market share is all executives must the depth consider of important subject. This research case A computer company in 2004, which won the world's motherboard market share of companies with the highest. From 2005 to 2009, enterprise merger & acquisitions brand and original equipment manufacturer to divide inheritance of organizational activity, inquire into the whole process in the business activity and fluctuating of the business organization. Also, this research case takes the A computer company-enterprise and government department as an example, in the organizational change, how to expand a business market, and anticipate with the interview, through from interview to northern, central, southern dealer and A computer company representative sales, tidy up the current conditions and problems that closed path operates, inquire into more organization design according to current market condition and organization construction.

We design actuated cilia that can maneuver microscopic particles normal to a microfluidic channel wall and transport microscopic particles parallel to the channel wall. For identifying the design specifications, we employ a hybrid LBM/LSM computational model, to simulate hydrodynamic interactions between oscillating elastic cilia and microscopic particles in a microfluidic channel. The oscillating synthetic cilia are elastic filaments tethered to the channel wall and actuated by sinusoidal force acting at their free ends. The cilia are arranged in a square pattern. The microscopic particle is a neutrally buoyant solid sphere, which is sufficiently small compared to the cilium length and inter-cilium distances, so that the particle can move freely inside the ciliated layer. We study the effect of actuation frequency on the particle motion inside the ciliated layer. We show that depending on the frequency, particles can be either driven away from the ciliated channel wall or drawn towards the wall. We also examine how to use inclined cilia to transport particles along the ciliated layer. We show that the particle transport along the ciliated layer can be regulated by the frequency of cilium oscillation. The results uncover a new route for regulating particle position and transport in microfluidic devices.

Vocational guidance plays an important role for students at school. Especially it is importantin in the school years as schoolchildren in basic, general schools and gymnasium, particulary, have to choos the profile of education, direction and relate their options to their future occupation. however, the results of the research described here indicate absence of opportunities created at schools for proper learner support in preparing them for their professional career.