A material strategy: Exploring material properties of computers

International Journal of Design

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Vallgårda, Anna ^a,b   Sokoler, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computational composites; Computed causality; Connectability; Design strategy; Formgiving; Material properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952875301     PISSN: 19913761     EISSN: 1994036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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