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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465439003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-75344-5

1-299-28025-0

1-135-01401-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BhattRitu

Disciplina

701/.17

Soggetti

Design - Human factors

Human body

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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: A Construal of 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. Body Conscious 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Rethinking Aesthetics 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, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani Pall