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In Japanese culture the concept of katachi has special
significance, connoting relationships and connectedness. Although
katachi cannot be translated precisely, it corresponds most closely
to "form," "shape," "pattern," or "Gestalt." The contemporary study
of katachi is interdisciplinary and encompasses virtually all
scientific and aesthetic endeavors. Katachi research seeks to
bridge the gap between cultures - whether the "two cultures" of
C.P. Snow or the contrasting cultures of East and West. To help
achieve this aim and to foster international cooperation, the
interdisciplinary symposium titled "Katachi "U" Symmetry" was
convened in Tsukuba, Japan, November 21 - 25, 1994. With many
participants from differing backgrounds and cultural perspectives,
the symposium was the culmination of 15 years of work in the field.
Like-minded researchers and philosophers came together from two
movements in interdisciplinary studies of katachi and symmetry that
arose in the 1980s, one in Japan, the other in Hungary. The
proceedings of the symposium will stimulate and provoke the
interest of scientists and mathematicians, engineers and
architects, philosophers and semioticians - indeed, all those with
a lively sense of curiosity and a wide-ranging intellect.
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