Iestyn Jowers
Iestyn Jowers
Full-time PhD student 2002-06
Department of Design and Innovation
Current position
Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Contact Information
Email: i.r.jowers@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1908 653554
Fax: +44 (0)1908 654052
Room: N2018A, Venables building
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, The University of Manchester, 1999 MSc Applied Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics, The University of Manchester, 2000
Summary of work
Iestyn will shortly submit for the award of PhD, The Open University. The research for this PhD is concerned with the application of shape grammars to freeform shapes. Initial definitions of shape grammar formalism have been restricted to regular forms composed of straight lines, planes or solids. Shapes composed of a more freeform nature have rarely been considered. As a result, shape grammars have been successfully applied in architecture, where designs are commonly composed of regular shapes, but have rarely been applied to more general fields of design, where freeform shapes are required. In order to address this issue, Iestyn’s PhD is concerned with extending the shape grammar formalism to include shapes composed of curve segments.
Iestyn Jowers recently joined the Engineering Design Centre at Cambridge University as a Research Associate on the EPSRC Immortal Information and Through Life Knowledge Management (KIM) Grand Challenge Project. His research is concerned with developing integrated models of design that combine product, process and rationale models. These models are intended to address the need for design information to be recorded in a sustainable manner suitable for access over long product lifecycles.
Research interests
- Design Process Improvement
- Generative Design
Publications
Prats M, Earl C, Garner S, Jowers I* (2006), Shape exploration of designs in a style: towards generation of product designs, AI EDAM, special issue on Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style, 20(3), /(accepted)/
Prats M, Jowers I, Earl C, Garner S* (2004), Generative curves in product design, Design Computing and Cognition DCC´04, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Prats M, Jowers I, Earl C, Garner S* (2004), Improving product design via a shape grammar tool, Proceedings of the 8th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Jowers I, Prats M,* *Earl C, Garner S* (2004), On curves and computation with shapes, Generative CAD systems symposium: G-CAD 2004, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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