SUMMARY Assuming that the search for a new model of study has begun, it is necessary to define the educational process at the FA STU in a more appropriate way, and to open the question of academic relationships as well. Even the best model of the curriculum or of the organizational structure remains outside academic […]

SUMMARY The paper is devoted to several basic issues of the role of design and its incorporation in the curriculum of the technical university. It proves the interactive relation between the technical and the artistic aspects of a design workpiece and its utilization in the field of economy or human communication.

SUMMARY The paper deals with the complexity of the comfort issue in relation to spatial design as a part of the body-conscious and human-centred design. It analyzes visual, tactile, behavioural, somatic, acoustic, olfactory, gustatory and socio-cultural comfort. The paper presents the interaction between the objects, environment and the human beings as cultural creatures within a […]

SUMMARY The aim of this paper is to introduce the importance and various methods of human-centered design (mainly universal design) in relation to environmental psychology and neuroscience, as well as pointing to the legislative, research and educational conditions in the United States. The contribution is based on six-month research at the Institute for Human-centered Design […]