Title & Author:

Rethinking aesthetics : the role of body in design / edited by Ritu Bhatt.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Role of Aesthetic Response in Everyday Life. Everyday Aesthetics of Embodiment / Richard Shusterman -- Dewey's Big Idea for Aesthetics / Mark Johnson -- Attention and Imaginative Engagement in Marcel Breuer's Atlanta Public Library / Sonit Bafna -- From Buildings to Architecture: Construing Nelson Goodman's Aesthetics / Remei Capdevila-Werning -- The Extended Self: Tacit Knowing and Place Identity / Chris Abel -- Modes of Aesthetic Response: Tacit Perception and Somatic Consciousness. Somatics and Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design / Galen Cranz -- The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics / Yuriko Saito -- Traditional Knowledge for Contemporary Users: An Analysis of Everday Practices of Self-Help in Architecture / Ritu Bhatt -- Environmental Embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, and Bill Hillier's Theory of Space Syntax: Toward a Phenomenology of People-in-Place / David Seamon -- Mental and Existential Ecology / Juhani Pallasmaa.

Summary:

This is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology, somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and everyday life much clearer. The essays range from an integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of possible inquiries. By placing the body in the center of design, Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the limits of both essentialism and skepticism.

ISBN:

9780415534741 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415534747 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415534758 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415534755 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Design Human factors.
Human body.
Design Facteurs humains.
Corps humain.
Design
Architektur
Körper
Ästhetik
Wahrnehmung

Added entries:

Bhatt, Ritu, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282533
Call No.: BIB 220167
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available