Overlooking the visual : demystifying the art of design / Kathryn Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Kathryn (Kathryn J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Philosophy.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2010]

Summary:

Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that design is impossible to teach? This book challenges the traditional foundations of perception and takes an imaginative, radical approach, setting itself apart from the traditions of analytical philosophy, evolutionary psychology, and phenomenology which underpin much of current design theory and discourse. The new definition of perception produces startling consequences for conceptions of language, intelligence, meaning, the senses, emotions and subjectivity. This is an innovative, fresh view on design and how we can improve it for both practitioners and students in the architecture and design fields as well as philosophers.

Contents:

Introduction

The sensory interface and other myths and legends

Teaching the unknowable

Aesthetics: the truth, the whole truth and universal truth

Objectivity without neutrality

Studied ignorance

Seeing is believing

Theory into practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613039989

978-0-415-30869-4

978-1-134-39357-2

978-0-203-26256-6

978-1-134-39358-9

978-0-203-16765-6

OCLC:

707190959