On Friday July 12, 2013, the Center for Islamic Studies Visiting Scholar, Carol Bier, presented her Islamic art workshop entitled, "Geometry and Islamic Art: Explorations of Number, Shape, and the Nature of Space" at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) UGM Graduate School in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Through a brief illustrated introduction and hands-on exercises, the workshop provided participants with an opportunity to explore the aspects of Islamic art and architecture that rely on the relationships between numbers, shapes, and the nature of space (i.e. the spacial...