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Sumi, Eiji "Reimagining Japanese Zen Garden with wave simulation." MFA
, King Monkut's Institute of Technology, 2021
Keywords/Fields of Study : Contemporary Art, Wave Simulation and Visualization, Art-Science, Nature and Artificiality, The modernity of Japanese Garden.
Abstract: ‘Reimagining Japanese Zen Garden with Wave simulation’ is an interdisciplinary research project that explores the art of Japanese garden making and its modernity demonstrated through the researcher’s evolving practice of art-science as a contemporary artist. A garden is a unique place where nature and humans meet and seek the harmonious amalgam of co-existence. This project aims to investigate nature and artificiality in the frame of the Japanese garden, how the experiences of beauty in nature differ from the beauty of artificially modified nature, how Japanese Zen rock garden exploits the inanimate objects and minimal aesthetics to create space for human and how the visionary who applied their own interpretation beyond the traditional method of garden making as creators. In this paper, historical analysis of Japanese garden’s evolutions, mechanical analysis of wave generator, scrutinization of the phenomena of water wave formation and interference through computer wave simulation, and all used together as methods for exploring to re-imagine the new form of Japanese Zen garden.‘Reimagining Japanese Zen Garden with Wave simulation’ is an interdisciplinary research project that explores the art of Japanese garden making and its modernity demonstrated through the researcher’s evolving practice of art-science as a contemporary artist. A garden is a unique place where nature and humans meet and seek the harmonious amalgam of co-existence. This project aims to investigate nature and artificiality in the frame of the Japanese garden, how the experiences of beauty in nature differ from the beauty of artificially modified nature, how Japanese Zen rock garden exploits the inanimate objects and minimal aesthetics to create space for human and how the visionary who applied their own interpretation beyond the traditional method of garden making as creators. In this paper, historical analysis of Japanese garden’s evolutions, mechanical analysis of wave generator, scrutinization of the phenomena of water wave formation and interference through computer wave simulation, and all used together as methods for exploring to re-imagine the new form of Japanese Zen garden.
Department: Design and Planning
, King Monkut's Institute of Technology
Advisor(s): Nigel Power
