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Using digital tech to design ice: The Lapland Snow Design Application
By icecircle
The Lapland Snow Design Application enables designing and building snow and ice environments on the Internet. It is an interactive design tool for constructing example snow constructions from available pre made snow models. The application was developed by a group of Lapland University of Applied Sciences
(Lapland UAS) students of the Software Engineering Laboratory, pLAB in cooperation with the Lapland Snow Design project.
The concept behind the Snow Design Application software is that it enables anyone to design snow and ice environments by using the pre-defined models of the application. The models are based on the tested real-life models that have been applied in various snow environments in Lapland over a number of years. The application is created for serving the customers’ needs. The user interface is designed to be easy and user-friendly where the user himself is the designer of the desired product. The application is made to help the visualization of the product easier. It enables to create and test ideas.
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Land art, Finland by Timo Jokela
By admin
As an environmental artist, Timo Jokela seeks an inner landscape; one which can be experienced through all the senses, often using natural materials, wood, snow, ice, or the local cultural heritage as a starting point for his works. He is particularly interested in the relationship between traditional, physical work within the environment and the aesthetic. He has had many exhibitions and he has realised several environmental art projects and community projects in Finland and abroad as well.
Jokela’s practical art and theoretical academic studies focused on phenomenological relationship between art and nature, environment art, community art and art education. He is also responsible for several international cooperative and regional development projects in the field of environmental art and art education.Timo Jokela also works as a professor of Art Education in Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. Since 1995 he has been as a head of the Department of Art Education. He is working also as a visiting professor of environmental a art and art education. Timo Jokela works also as a professor of Art Education in Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. Since 1995 he has been the head of the Department of Art Education. He is working also as a visiting professor of environmental art and art education at University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. Timo lives in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland.
