EXTERNAL WEBINAR REPORT

INT60504 Practical Report EXTERNAL SEMINAR/ TALK / CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP MUHAMMAD NABIL BIN RAZMAN 0346438 BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS) IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY LAKESIDE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Indoor Air Quality : Passive & Active Air Purification & Air Ventilation Solutions’ 22/09/21

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IDL + C Titik Temu : Interior Design in an Endemic Era

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Acquisition Interior Design Concept Talk : Perception & Illusion in Interior Design

23/09/21

24/09/21

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Dust is Where We Meet 24/09/21

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Diversity in Interior Design Approaches Across SEA

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ELR Lighting Presentation

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Abstraction and Mapping of Idea in Interaction Design

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Immersive Design

27/09/22

22/10/21

03/11/21

15/11/21

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SEMINAR 22/09/2021

‘Indoor Air Quality : Passive & Active Air Purification & Air Ventilation Solutions’ Moderator : Assoc Prof IDr Mohd Zafrullah Hj Mohd Talib Speakers: TS Chang Choo Khean & Rudy Azman Yusoff Cheah

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. To start of the presentation, Our moderator started to introduced himself. His name is Prof IDr Mohd Zafrullah Hj Mohd Talib. He is a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam (Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam). Our first speaker is TS Chang Choo Khean a senior lecturer at UNIKL. He is now pursuing his Phd in Mechanincal Engineering in the UPM. He has been attached to University of Southampton, United Kingdom for the collaboration research. As for our second speaker, his name is Rudy Azman Yusoff Cheah. He is an Assitant Manager Consulting Sales for Daikin Malaysia.

Starting with our first speaker TS Chang Choo Khean. We start off with discussing about active and passive ventilation. Active ventilation is ventilation provided mechanically. For example, by extractor fans, range hoods and whole house ventilation systems. These systems run on electricity which means the bigger the system and the more components, the more power it will use. As for passive ventilation which also called natural ventilation, it makes use of natural forces, such as wind and thermal buoyancy, to circulate air from an indoor space. Next is Indoor Air Quality. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) refers to the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants.

Understanding and controlling common pollutants indoors can help reduce your risk of indoor health concerns. In Malaysia, we are guided by UBBL which is every room designed for residential, business or other purposes except hospitals & schools shall be provided with natural lighting and natural ventilation by means of one or more windows having total area not less than 10% of the floor area and shall have opening for uninterrupted air passage of 5% - Bylaw 39(1). Poor air ventilation system may contribute to SBS which is Sick Building Syndrome. The term "sick building syndrome" (SBS) is used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified. He then explained about indoor air pollutants that contributes to SBS. The most common indoor air pollutants include Asbestos, Biological Pollutants, Carbon Monoxide. Cookstoves, heaters and the most popular would be dust. Most indoor air pollution comes from sources that release gases or particles into the air.

Other sources such as tobacco smoke and wood-burning stoves also cause indoor pollution.

Why is indoor air quality is so important? Its because its strongly connected to health and wellbeing. Humans tend to spend a large amount of time indoors. Breathable air that's free of health threatening pollutants can lead to a higher quality of life, lower risk of respiratory illnesses, and a reduced risk of various chronic conditions. Temperature and humidity cannot be overlooked, because thermal comfort concerns underlie many complaints about "poor air quality." Furthermore, temperature and humidity are among the many factors that affect indoor contaminant levels. Failure to prevent or respond promptly to IAQ problems can

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increase long- and short-term health effects for students and staff, such as: coughing, eye irritation, headaches, allergic reactions, asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Indoor air problems can be subtle and do not always produce easily recognized impacts on health, wellbeing, or the physical plant. Symptoms include headaches, fatigue, shortness of breath, sinus congestion, coughing, sneezing, dizziness, nausea, and irritation of the eye, nose, throat, and skin. In addition, the developing bodies of children might be more susceptible to environmental exposures than those of adults. Children breathe more air, eat more food and drink more liquid in proportion to their body weight than adults. Therefore, air quality in schools is of particular concern. Proper maintenance of indoor air is more than a "quality" issue; it encompasses safety and stewardship of your investment in students, staff and facilities.

Last but not least, we discussed about air ventilation solutions and ways to improve the air circulation in our room which is By simply opening the windows of different rooms of your house, you can create a cross flow that helps to improve the circulation of your entire home.

Next is to incorporate house plants since plants are nature’s lungs, it makes a lot of sense if you bring them indoors. Other than that is to clean the duct often because dirt, dust, and debris usually accumulate in the ducts of your HVAC system over time. We could also install exhaust fans in the bedroom and kitchen since air ventilation is essential at these places. We tend to spend more time in our bedroom and theres a lot of heat in the kitchen. Therefore Installing exhaust fans will help ensure that your kitchen and bathroom remain fresh throughout. Exhaust fans work the same way that you would use window fans but in reverse manner. Lastly, we should also replace air filters of our HVAC since they act as the first line of defense. Therefore, it is essential to replace/clean your air filters regularly according to the manufacturer's recommendations. Clogged air filters are ineffective and can make your heating and air condition system inefficient which could cause a significant rise in your utility bills.

Overall, this talk has been really helpful for me about the importance of indoor air quality and how crucial it is in design where comfort always comes first. Theres a lot to take from this when becoming an interior designer. We design to solve problems and to create a better lifestyle rather than just pure aesthetic purposes. I enjoyed a lot from this session despite of feeling quite overwhelmed with my work at the moment and multitasking things. But either way. I managed to pull it through. One thing that they could improve is to actually improve on the sound of their speakers. I had some difficulties in understanding some of the speakers and it could be because of poor internet connection. But overall, its a very successful session.

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SEMINAR 23/09/2021

IDL+C Titik Temu : ‘Interior Design in an Endemic Era’

By Julie Ross

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. On the 23rd of September 2021, CSIA UITM has held another webinar session. CSIA is a club that host a wide range of talks with academics and professionals dealing with topics and issues related to interior architecture, design, professional practice, pedagogy, research & innovation and education. Ms Julie Ross is a Programme Leader for MA & BA Design, Instituto Marangoni in London. She has spent quite a bit of time in Singapore 14 years in total and traveled to Malaysia along the region. To begin her presentation she started to talk about the importance role of interior design in an endemic and I it so important to us because we were given the opportunity globally to rethink design values and it doesn’t matter in which country we are at. We are all impacted by Covid 19 tremendously and it is a very positive era that we’re entering as designers.

Interior design in an Endemic Era is a new way of social interaction and the first thing that us as a designers need to think of is this new adaptation among the society and its applied to all designers collectively be it interior, furniture, jewelery etc. As a designer we are responsible for how we would positively embrace the situation that we are in because of endemic and again rethinking the spaces would be one aspect. Next is space as a new luxury and could it be that space moving forwards could be considered as a new luxury for given the situation that we are facing right now. Then is Adapting to the “new norm” which is human centred systems where different countries are at different level in adapting to covid 19 in terms of lockdowns, education, working from home etc. Because of that we need to think about human centred systems in a sense to be much more responsible individuals within our families and communities or cities. Its more like resetting on how we interact with each other and it came back to our main keyword here which is “Adapting”. This brings up a huge question for us as interior designers on how do we see future buildings, green buildings, technology etc so we really need to think of ways to increase the airflow ventilation systems, windows that are open, gym rooms since “dividers” has become our new norms now. Also, as the result of the Endamic, touchless entries is also a feature that we need to really thought through for the future buildings and really about our day-to-day basis changed our lives as designers in terms of well being and to sure that we really think through possible solutions.

Future office spaces is another point that we need to rethink as we all know how covid 19 has impacted office spaces and also educational since we all know for the las 1 and a half years institutional universities had to adapt to being fully online or in some cases where its been possible to adapt to a hybrid mode of delivery and this is something that us as a designer to see as an opportunity to be innovative and to be creative in design solutions that will bring more wellness being into future office spaces as well as educational institution. Retail design is something that’s been impacted tremendously especially the ones at the big city center. This leads to a challenge for interior designers because as more people adapt and have to embrace technology and also by buying online, retail has really suffered from this Pandemic.

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Again, it is an opportunity for us to be innovative design solutions. Its about designing little popups stores and pop-ups solutions since these areas really need some original and innovative design solutions. Next is healthcare design which is obviously another area that has been heavily impacted from the pandemic and we need to start to look locally and see what are our own issues regarding healthcare since we’re all impacted at different level. Moving on to residential, and I think this is another huge area that’s been impacted by the arrival of covid 19 and now endemic such as working from home or probably having to share more space with families, siblings etc. we really need to find some innovative solutions in terms of working/studying from home, adapting to the new norms. She later then showed us a picture of an office design where its like a cubicle in a garden which brings us to our next point which is Working from Home. She said that its nice to have an office in an open garden that is affordable to construct rather that working in a tiny tiny flat where your room is your office. And of course, this is a design in UK. Most of their house are big landed houses. But still, we could take this as an inspiration for houses in Malaysia.

To conclude this webinar, I find this webinar or titik temu series quite interesting. Its nice to have an international speaker to talk about their perspectives. It made more open and to see design differently. This webinar has definitely opened my eyes about the important role as interior designer during the Endemic and gave me the drive to be more creative and innovative in pursuing design as a career. It was a really refreshing session and the only think that could be improved is to make us interact more with the presentation such as games etc and that would make the audience more engaging.

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SEMINAR 24/09/2021

‘Acquisition Interior Design Concept Talk : Perception & Illusion in Interior Design’

By Aveline Chaw from Spacehauz

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture. On 24t of September 2021 I attended another webinar conducted by Daikin. This time our guest it Ms. Avline Chaw from Spacehauz. She has 11 years of experience as an interior designer at Spacehauz. A little bit of introduction of Spacehauz. Spacehauz is a design firm in Johor Bahru and their vision is to create memorable brand experience for their client while enhancing the quality of life for all they serve. They have a few achievements such as Nippon Paint Young Designer award 2009, Nippon Paint Asia Young Designer Award 2016, and other design award competitions on 2020. Other than doing interior design, they also provided furniture and home furnishing services.

She start the webinar by showing us one of her work which is a resident in Johor. The client loves dark colour and most of the wall are painted in black. As we all know black make the space looks smaller and congested. When it comes to small-space decorating, the common advice is to go all-white on the walls to reflect the most light and make the space feel bigger. If you love deep, rich color on the wall but still want your small room to feel bigger, consider going with a high contrast formula. If you love deep, rich color on the wall but still want your small room to feel bigger, consider going with a high contrast formula. And a good way to do this is by placing light furniture in a dark painted room. If you want to accomplish a longer room instead of a taller feeling room, try adding in some painted stripes. You can be bold and go for a high contrast look or you can be more subtle and paint stripes in the same color but in different paint finishes. She said vertical walls makes ceiling looks higher and as for the ceiling design they put like a one long horizontal profile that makes the living room longer.

Other than that, lighting is very important in making the space look spacious. A single, downward facing ceiling light will pool all of the light in one area of the room. Instead, try spreading light evenly to draw the eye around the room and make it appear larger. Evenly spread light is a key element in opening up a space and lighting up dark corners.

The next project is called Havn which means Harbor. The first identify the problem and one of the problem would be its location. It is located at Kulai. The client wants to remain the existing features and structure and wants a ‘harbor’ concept. Another task that they have assigned to is to do a space planning of the café and office. They proposed a water pond feature for the harbour concept at the entrance. This water element gave the sense of tranquility as the client enters. Most of the materials for the interior is very industrial and somehow has that rustic feel to it. They have also design a custom storage beneath the stairs just to maximize the dead spaces and made it functional. They love darker color tone and the mezzanine floor has a higher ceiling. They then painted the ceiling black to create an illusion of a lower ceiling height The next project is called Spacehauz Showroom. It is located at eco business park. It has an interesting concept called “terrarium” A terrarium is like an aquarium, but for plants instead of fish. It is made in just about any glass container. It is planted to look like a miniature garden or forest enclosed in its own little world. But as for this project it is in a bigger scale where

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they design the café in a geometrical glass structure that inspired by the terrarium shape. The space is a café. And they have an interesting approach with their way of promoting the spacd which is a new therapy experience with plants, essential oils and dessert which they called it as Plantherapy. Most of the food are served with scent herbs and essential oils that give you the sense of relaxation. Design wise, they have also encountered some problems in making the space comes to life. One of it is the ceiling layout is too high and they came up with a solution which is a linear design to illusion direction. Its like an arrangement of horizontal lines across the ceiling that gave a sense of direction for the user to follow. I find this very interesting when we combined aesthetic with functional. Even if its not something that we could use physically, but graphically we could understand its intention and that’s how a good design works. Most of the materials are cement so they are going towards that industrial style in a way.

Another interesting design is their lobby. Other than that, they have also faced some complication in building the terrarium shape structure. They have experimented with a lot of shapes and they need to find the one that is best and will be stable to construct. Moreover, the glass also made it heavy and the transparency of the glass will made the space become hot during the day. So they need to study on how to allocate the air ventilation accordingly.

They designed a textured wall that somehow looks like a tree that shows it patterns when the light hits. The lobby looks very interesting when there is sunlight. As for their design studio they have an open space concept for their office. Advantages of the open plan office layout include increased collaboration and creativity, as well as an improved company culture. They also have metal netting design as partition which I find very interesting since most partition in the office are very solid and chunky. It seperates us but as for this design. Its somehow create a semi private space without separating it completely. Overall this is very useful for interior designers. Theres a lot of tips and tricks that I learned from this talk. I hope they could improve on they way of making the presentation more engaging with more videos. But overall it was a good session.

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SEMINAR 24/09/2021

‘Dust is Where We Meet’

By Dr Tan Zi Hao

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. On the 24th of September 2021. Taylor’s university club called ‘Troublemakers’ has arranged another interesting webinar session for us. This time its called Dust Is Where We Meet By Dr Tan Zi Hao. A little bit of introduction of Dr Tan Zi Hao, He is born on 1989 at Kuala Lumpur. He is an artist, writer and researcher. His idea has taken shape across a diverse range of works involving soil ecology, language politics, interpretive etymology, mythical chimeras, and organic assemblages from carrier shells to household casebearers.

Most of his artworks are conceived with an ideological intention to challenge essentialism by privileging the assemblage. He has completed his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, undertaking fieldwork research on animal imagery in the Islamic art of Cirebon, West Java. He also holds an MA degree in International Relations and a BA degree in International Communications Studies from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

Dr Tan Zi Hao start the webinar by telling us his interest in dust and he said that dust is a metaphor that every life forms kind of constellated in this form of dust. But at the same time, he also think of dust as a times of grieving or mourning and dust is a perfect symbol that kind of speaks to us about the ideas of life as well of death because dust is something that is perceived from the human eye at least as gray colour. Interesting thing about gray is that grayness is an indication of corrosion of time so dust is a compilation of different stuff that has been touched by time and that is why dust in a way could be perceived as a symbolic of life as well as death. Dust is quite a relevant topic to discuss about during these times since we all have been staying at home. And the topic today is not actually about the actual dust but its about someone who collects dust and that thing is actually a tiny little creature that most of us from Southeast Asia familiar with which is household Casebearer. He then showed us a picture of household Casebearer in a larvae form coming out from its case. This creature will eventually grow into a moth. It will undergo pupation and then it will develop into a moth. The lifespacen is around three months or 70 over days. Majority of the time it will spent its time mostly in its case and that’s why its called household Casebearer. He later then showed us a picture of adult moth. He shared with his interest in household casebearer grow is when he returned from his postgraduate studies from Singapore. He noticed an explosion of household casebearer at home. He thought the reason why its increasing is because of the age factor of his parents where they couldn’t clean their house that often and they couldn’t reach the dust at the corners which increase the nutrition for these tiny insects. His first impression of the casebearer is that he thought it was just grey in colour. But after he put it under the microscope, its actually quite colourful assemblage of things which represent the things that they collect at your home like rocks, dust, insects poop etc. Theres a circular motives on the case and the reason that they have this kind of design is because of the way they grow. When the larvae grows or expand, they will have to expand the case as well. The case gives you the idea of its coordinate like where did they go judging by the thing that has printed on its case. He found

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out that some of the cases has some holes in it and started to wonder why and it cant be from the larvae. The reason why there is a hole is because of parasitiod which is wasp. These wasps will inject their eggs into these larvae and when it grows, it will consume the organs within the insects and the larvae will die within their case. These casebearer is actually in our skin right now and it feeds on our dead skin cells and we are in a state of to some extent we could call it a kind of decomposition metaphorically. Dust is a multiform but at the same time its formless.

Human are so interested in dust so that we could find a way to eliminate them but as we all know, dust is always around us and we are in fact the producer of dust as well since we shed our skin and hair. Because of that, we are actually creating dust as ourselves. Usually, the purpose of studying dust is always about eliminating them but can we actually clear the dust?

Or are we just rearranging it? Is something to ponder on.

Overall, this webinar is very fascinating and different from other webinar because it is so detailed studied and look through. But somehow related to interior as well and gave me a new perspective of seeing household casebearer differently. It made me realized that there are things around us and we might be able to eliminate them and metaphorically, a pest doesn’t mean or sound as bad at it is since it could also be a carrier of a new life. This has opened my eyes to be really enthusiastic in things that I want to study and embrace all the little things around me. This was a very good and a unique session held by Toastmakers and kudos to them. The only thing that could be improve is to engage more with the audience such as interactive presentation.

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WEBINAR 27/09/2021

IDL+C Titik Temu : ‘Diversity in Interior Design Approaches Across SEA’

By Bill Bensley Moderator : Sarah Rahman

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. On today’s webinar, we have Mr Bill Bensley. Mr. Bill Bensley is trained as a landscape architect at California State Polytechnic University and an urban design at the Harvard graduate school and practice in all the architectural fields including landscape interior and conservation established in 1989 in Bangkok and later Bali. Bensley has been designing some of the world’s most iconic hotels, resorts, spas and palaces with 150 interior designers architects. Bensley has designed over 200 resorts and hotels in 30 countries and continues to push forward. He is interested in sustainable design and believes to help conserve he environment.

The topic of today webinar is diversity Diversity in Interior Design Approaches Across SEA. He start off the webinar by showing a few of his case studies and one of his latest project that is finished right before covid stepped in and its in Capella Ubud, Bali. When they first started this project, they were only assigned to do the interior and landscape only and he was working with a local architect who suggested on site to do 120 rooms. It was quite a big site and it sort of rolled down the site and then took out a big tsunami that took everything in its path and if they have built this, there wouldn’t be any tree left on site. He asked Mr Suwito who is the owner of the land whether they want to proceed with this project and Mr Suwito gave the Bensley to decide what he thinks it’s the best. Bensley suggested that they do something that’s really has a minimal impact on the environment and that is when they come up with this 24 rooms hotel + 24 tents that sit up on stilts that rather tiptoe through the forest which would not disturb the drainage pattern. They spent quite a long time to figure out on where to put the building and towns but the key is to make small footprints. They built these beautiful series of tents which sits high up the platform above the jungle floor and the drainage patterns are never disturbed so they just continue underneath the tents. Equipments such as air conditioning and such are hung underneath the slung that allows them to keep a really clean ceilings. The tents are made of Ferrari fabric. He also mentioned that when were building a hotel, Things doesn’t have to brand new in terms of furniture etc. They like to keep things quite vintage so it has the kiss of a century which is so much special than anything new from ikea. Bensley loves to collect art that are 20 – 30 years old. By doing so, he is able to make every single room different and had the idea of that this is camp that was actually built in the 17 th century and t represents a Dutch army camp that came to take the slaves from Bali. The Dutch came to Bali for about 4 times to collect people to make them slaves in Batavia and the Balinese fought back. So this could have been a dutch army camp. The interiors are really punctuated I think the floor had that hand finished timber look. Every single tent has its own lining. As for the ceiling at the restaurant there are a painting in the 17th century and they had a very limited way of painting which is more towards the 2-dimensional painting. They painting is telling the stories of Ramayana.

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Bensley hired an Italian painter to paint the artwork using the actual media and dyes that are available in the 17th century and I find that rather interesting. Long story short, they made a place which is very Balinese with the untouched drainage patterns and without separator walls but tents. They have no television and room service since they want everyone to come back into the camp and eat. It’s a whole experience and it has become Bali’s most expensive hotel now and also the world number one hotel to travel and leisure as for 2020.

His next project is called Rosewood Luang Prabang which is a hotel in Laos. The architecture of this building is in a French Colonial Style where it is in the guidelines at Laos where they could only build a certain type of vernacular, building etc. This hotel was build on a foundation of an existing building and its just a small hotel with 30 rooms. The fun part about this hotel is they did 5 of the 30 rooms to represent the tribes of Laos and when all of the 30 rooms are put together it’s in away representing a time capsule of what is Laos. This is a way of teaching interior design that also teaches people something new and made the interior more meaningful rather than just pretty. They also implemented gold and using stencil on both floors. They use traditional woodworking and the local craftsmen of Laos teaches guest something that the guests can take away from it.

To conclude this talk, I find this webinar is rather interesting since I get to learn about different cultures and see a different perspective from another designer. And ways to justify a design is so important too because we need to have a meaning and purpose on how it built that way etc. This talk has also made me appreciate my culture even more and would love to embrace my culture into my design. The thing that he could improve on is to make the audience more engaging such as interactive presentation etc but overall it was a good session.

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SEMINAR 22/10/2021

‘ELR Light Fittings Presentation’

By Teresa from ELR

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. On the the 22nd of October 2021. Studio Bikin has invited a speaker to give us a talk and presentation about her company’s lighting products. Teresa works at ELR under marketing department and she has interior background. ELR or Engineered Lighting Revolution, is focused on producing premium architectural LED lighting solutions for hospitality, commercial, retail and residential applications. They are established in 2008 and has grown substantially reaching out to different parts of the world such as United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Europe, Middle East, Australasia, China & Hong Kong, India, and South East Asia.

ELR have continuously designed and produced LED luminaires with key differentiators, innovative features and quality materials. With dedicated R&D resources Starting off the presentation, she explained about one of her products which is modular design concept that applied on their light fixtures. The modularity designs provide future proof upgrade and possibility for on-site maintenance. Their recessed downlight comes in 3 different parts which is the fixtures, led driver and led module. You can change the light bulb by just pushing it from the light fixture without any hacking works. This method is quite convenient since you just need to change the light bulb without changing its fixtures. As for the module it has a warranty up to 3 years. She mentioned that higher voltage doesn’t mean bright lumens. So its important to choose the right fixture and driver so that we don’t have to spend much money on paying the bills while still having a bright luminous. With high voltage, it also made the bulb become hot faster and that will reduce the longevity of the lightings. Their led module is also upgradable and “future proof” when it comes to design whereas their design is most likely to last for a decade and doesn’t require frequent changes. Other than that, the module is also flexible on site because of its interchangeable led modules fixtures. The module can play with different lenses and fittings and we don’t have to take it out.

Next is its thermal management where the light doesn’t heat that much. 90-98% of the bulbs' energy emits as heat. It depends on factors like bulb shape, surrounding airflow, or bulb materials. One of the most underpublicized home safety concerns is the use of overly hot light bulbs to get extra light in fixtures not designed to handle the heat. Failure to do so can result in damage to the fixture and/or insulation on the electrical supply wires. This can result in an electric shock or fire. They also has heat sink design. Heat sinks are designed using materials that have high thermal conductivity such as aluminum alloys and copper. Copper offers excellent thermal conductivity, antimicrobial resistance, biofouling resistance, corrosion resistance, and heat absorption.

After that, she mentioned about colour quality and the term CRI which stands for Colour Rendering Index. Colour rendition is important to ensure faithful representation of colours. Its how the light will. The chart measures a scale from 0 to 100, depending on how accurately it can produce light that matches a naturally referenced light source, such as the sun. A good CRI will be between 80 to 90. When it comes to choosing the right light bulbs for

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your home, CRI for lighting plays a role. You want colors to be crisp and everything to look sharp so that your décor, paint colors and furniture look the best they can. It may also affect your eyesight when you're doing certain task like reading a book, watching television or preparing food in the kitchen. Choose lighting that has a higher CRI rating so you can be sure you're getting the most accurate color portrayal in your home.

After that she explained to us about colour temperature. Their fittings has this one system called Dali System where the light temperature can change gradually/smoothly.

Flexible room temperature can be easily achieved with ELR tuneWHITE Light colour from 1800K to 6500K resembles the cycle of sunlight. 5100k to 20,000k is considered cool white where it is more towards the cooler side and often use by the hospital. Cooler colour temperature in lighting makes the user more focus especially in surgical room while warmer temperature give the sense of coziness and relaxing often applied for residential. She also explained to us about MacAdam. The MacAdam ellipse shows how LEDs, belonging to a certain production line, deviate from standard values in their colour consistency.

To conclude this presentation, I would say that it is quite an interesting presentation because Teressa brought most of the lighting fixtures and demonstrate it to us which gives us so much better understanding regarding her products and the lighting terms. Overall it was a really good session. Its nice to have a physical presentation at the office after a really tiring and stressful day. The only thing that could be improve is to show us more videos to make the presentation more interesting.

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SEMINAR 03/11/2021

‘Abstraction and Mapping of idea in Interaction design’

By Prof Takashi Ohta

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture. On the 3rd of November 2021 I attended another seminar and its called “Abstraction and Mapping of Idea in Interaction design” by Professor Takashi Ohta. I have just finished my work and I quickly drive home and grab my dinner first before joining this session. Before we get to the core of this seminar. The moderator Introduced us to Prof Takashi Ohta. Prof Takashi Okta is currently attached with the School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology. He works on research projects in the field if Interaction Design, User Interface, Ambient Computing, MultiDisplay System and Visualization. Previously, he has been searching on Scientific Computation, especially on Parallel Computing and designed a programming framework. He worked on a Grid Computing system with IBM global and also at a branch to design and promote new business opportunities. Since joining Tokyo University of Technology. He switched research fields to interaction design, User interface, Ambient Computing, Multi-display System and Visualization. He had led his students to create various contents that combined digital algorithms and fabrication of real things. He aims to design digital functionality as daily environment. At the beginning of the session he introduced us to the introduction to Interactive design. Interactive design is designing process (or change) like example, signage. Signage are things that we usually look at everyday and its usually for visuals and its boring because there are no interaction. Therefore he showed us some of his signage design that has more interesting to look at and users could actually interact with it. The signage was designed by his company has like this interesting anime character that interacts with the users such as giving direction to them. The users will also received coupons from the character or the moving visuals and I find that very innovative in doing some kind of advertisement and I can see the idea of metaverse or NFT which is the non-fungible-token being applied in the future. His ideas are so innovative and he told us that his ideas came from Variation + Expectable + New combination ideas. After that he explained abut Core idea and variant in visual design. He told us a little bit of interesting fact about the movie Lion King. Lion King somehow plagiarised “Jungle Taitei” which is an old Japanese cartoon programme back in the 90’s. From the concept to its main character shows a lot of resemblance taken from Jungle Taitei. Next, he mentioned about transplanting and mapping of idea which is extracting the core idea by extracting the approach or content. He said “we can observe things, higher abstraction greater difference of themes” He later then showed us one of his projects when he was in the University which is called “Transparent-able wall” where yu can wipe the wall to see the other side of the room just by touching the wall. I find that very fascinating yet creepy at the same time. But its amazing to see things that he could come up with and the idea behind it. Next he shared with us his another project which is called Multi-display screen. This project is quite common and I think its already here now. Its like when you put two devices together or multiple devices together, It will create like a larger screen and all of the devices seemed to interact with each other when its displaying a video. This is quite an interesting concept because it requires multiple devices in order to succeed. By doing so, It cultivates co-operation and teamwork. Its

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such a fun project because everyone could interact with each other. Next he told us about the benefits of Information Technology. One of it is it could transfer information fast. When transferring informations we tend to do it in a physical way such as keeping it in files or folders and that is quite hard to organized and look for. When things are digitalised it is more efficient and we can get the things that we need In just short amount of time. Things like Google Drive or Onedrive are the best specimens to justify this point since most of the company are using those to store their files. Other than that, It also makes our life easier because we don’t have to carry the files with us all the time when we can just store it in a pendrive. Moreover, I would say that it is quite safe in terms of security because some of the files can be password encypted in order for us to access it. Either way, there are also cons and bad problematic aspects to it such as people be consuming too much time with the computers. With people be so consumed with their social media and devices they will be less engage with the reality around them which is bad. This will lead to social anxiety and them being scared of talking in reality because of their constant online presence. They lose the feeling originated to the physical world. Next, People must work hard in keeping wit the process speed and that makes their work life and personal life is not balanced. Last but not least, They became so addicted to viewing smartphones. Over exposed to the digital screen has a lot of bad effects such as to your eyesight. We should be considerate with our screen time to maintain our eyesight. To much screen time will also lead to the previous point which is feeling excluded with the real life. To conclude. This seminar has opened my eyes in seeing the possibilities of the AI world from graphic design, advertisement to gaming industry. There are a lot of things we have not yet discovered and I really enjoyed this session with Prof Takashi. Prof Takashi has an interesting approach in his presentation such as make us engage more with the QR code that he gave us. We are able to react or jot down in his presentation and that made it more interesting I’ve learned a lot and there's so much things that I could relate with interior design and I most definitely apply that in my future projects. Last but not least, I wish they have this session more in the future

Figure 1.0 Zoom Screenshot of Attendance for Abstracting and Mapping of Idea in Interaction Design

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SEMINAR 15/12/2021

‘Immersive Design’ Moderator : Esther Chez Speakers: Fooch, Unsigned Studio + Vickram Thevar + John Hup

Greetings, my name is Muhammad Nabil Bin Razman. My student ID is 0346438 and I am a student from School of Art Building and design doing my bachelor degree in Interior Architecture at Taylor’s University. Before starting, our moderator Ms. Esther introduced us with all the speakers and the first speaker is Mr. Fooch from Unsigned Studio. Unsigned Studio is a multi-disciplinary global team of over 40. We bring together professionals with backgrounds in animation, art direction, film, architecture, technology and coding. Mr. Fooch established a digital studio in the practice that was to become Studio Magnified in 2009 to deliver a unique creative offer to Australia and Southeast Asia. While Fooch’s focus at Unsigned Studio is business development, he is naturally ‘hands-on’ in the studio and is passionate about developing the visual techniques we use to communicate the built environment. Unsigned Studio is a global team of creative professionals that enable people to experience and explore urban environments and infrastructure like never before. Using visualisation, interactive, and creative technologies they shape how their audience sees their project. He is from Subang and loves to draw as a kid. He came over to Melbourne for University in 1999. He is now an Industry Advisory committee and a lecturer. Other than that, he is an architecture graduate.

Immersive Design describes design work which ranges in levels of interaction and leads user to be fully absorbed in an experience. This form of design involves the use of AR, VR and MR that creates the illusion that the user is physically interacting with a realistic digital atmosphere.

People in design industry seems to have fear to it. Immersive Design is a tool that already here.

It exists around us. Last 2 years technology has shifted and everyone has to go online.

Technology has accelerated since pandemic. But nothing beat physically but do we need to be physically? Said Mr Fooch. Especially during this pandemic we have been staying at home a lot and Immersive design has started to grow phenomenally. Some of the initial takeaways here are that immersive art exhibits provide attendees with a real, tangible experience that allows them to step into another world. They can offer an escape during this difficult times.

The next speaker is Mr. Vickram Thevyar. My very own lecturer from Taylor’s University.

He start his presentation by explaining the word “Immersion” and it came from “Mergere” which means to believe something to be true. He did a research on attention economy and how attention is currency. Example, Spotify premium and how we pay just to skip ads. While the Spotify free is paid by your attention. Other than that. Music has also evolved throughout years and the way it constructed. Example, 80’s music took 22 seconds for the first vocals to appear while 2000’s music took 8 seconds for the vocals to appear. On the other hand, Technology has made our attention spans shorter. It has altered human physiology. It affects memory, attention spans and sleep cycles. But there are some good things too about technologies. It made us progressive and its the future of education. VR Chat and metaverse is very popular these days. A metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection. In futurism and science fiction, the term is often described as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual and augmented reality headsets. Mr. Vickram showed us and snapshot of him conducting his class by using a VR Chat where students could join and enter the “class” without actually being physically present. To make it even more fun they could immerse a version of themselves as avatars in its environment, usually through augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR), which

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people are and will increasingly be able to access using tools like VR goggles. Its like sims in a way and that’s quite interesting. The downside of it is that people are free to say things that they want and that could be dangerous. Bad behavior in the metaverse can be more severe than today's online harassment and bullying. Other than that, privacy and security implications. Many of the digital solutions existing today have been associated with concerns regarding privacy and security. The main agenda for criticism of digital solutions revolves around the fact that they collect data from users. Such data can be used for intrusive online advertisements and identity theft.

Lastly, our last speaker is Mr John Hap. Obtained his Masters in Architecture. Founder of Metamosaic an Architectural designer in Kuala Lumpur. They also provide architectural visualization, video and animation. He start the presentation by explain Passive and Interactive design. Passive design is a system or structure that directly uses natural energy such as sunlight, wind, temperature differences or gravity to achieve a result without electricity or fuel. Active design is a system or structure that uses or produces electricity. Timing and budget (capitalist platform) cost saving, avoid investment failure. His take on immersive design is that immersive experience, In a small shop lot we can create an experience such as creating a space and playing shooting games. Small spaces can be experience with a lot more. The only way to get used to technology is to grab it, get used to it and learn it. Metaverse also can be a place for people to overcome their phobia (public speaking) alter ego and personality. One thing that we could take away from this is that this webinar is one of my favourite seminar. The topics are quite interesting since I have always been into all these metaverse and AR technologies. This webinar is so much fun and we have the best moderator Ms. Esther in handling this webinar.

All of the speakers has their own style in presenting their talk and creativity is very subjective and I think all three of them have did very well in making the presentation more interesting.

Things that could be improve would be they probably could conduct it in AR or let us experienced the metaverse since its our topic and that could be even more interesting but overall it was a good session.

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“Its around us, as a designer we’re not as locked in as we used to be. Every design based profession, We all using the same language since everyone is sending pdfs. We already using the tools that we already use in creative industry” – Fooch, Unsigned Studio

“Human being uses a tool. Use the tool until you master it and don’t allow the tools to master you” – Vicram Thevar, Lecturer at Taylor’s University

“Always ask question “is this real?” virtual world being an extension to your career. What could be the next of decoration surface.

Things already happening and its just how much you want to invest in. NFT- tokenized the virtual assets” – John Hap, Metamosaic

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