Somaesthetics and Design Culture

Richard Shusterman, Bálint Veres (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53664-7 (ISBN)

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Written by an impressive group of international scholars, this collection’s ten essays explore key issues and forms of design, from ancient life ideals to the new media, displaying how creative design always revolves around the soma, the living, sentient body.

Design permeates every dimension of our lifeworld, from the products we consume and the built environments in which we live to the adorned and stylized beings that we are and the natural preserves where we seek relief from the stressful bustle of urban life. Design is where contrasting values of functionality and aesthetic pleasure converge. At the core of design is the human soma, an active, perceptive subjectivity that creates and evaluates design but is also its cultivated product. This collection of ten essays explores the somaesthetics of design in multiple fields: from ritual, craft, and healthcare to architecture, urbanism, and the new media of extended realities.

Richard Shusterman is a prominent pragmatist philosopher. Author of several highly influential books in philosophical aesthetics and founder of the field of somaesthetics, he is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Bálint Veres is a Hungarian scholar of aesthetics and an award-winning teacher. He is a tenured Associate Professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME), and the head of its PhD-in-Practice Program.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Somaesthetics and Design Culture

Richard Shusterman and Bálint Veres

Part 1

Studies on Limitations

1 A World Is Born: Craftsmanship, Mediality, and the Somatic Implications of Plato’s Timaeus

Bálint Veres

2 From Making to Lighting a Candle: On Functions, Meanings, and Bodies in Ritual Design

Mădălina Diaconu

3 Can That Be Taught? Lessons in Embodied Knowledge from Memoir Writing for Craft and Design Education

Jessica Hemmings

4 Soma and Symbol: The Bridging Function of Style in Design History and Culture

Steven Leuthold

Part 2

Bodies, Senses, and Power

5 Sensing Kalasatama: Design Culture and Neoliberal Bodyhood

Guy Julier

6 Bodies Under the Weather: Selective Permeability, Political Affordances, and Architectural Hostility

Matthew Crippen with Illustrations by Mareike Joleen Timm

7 Across the Threshold: A Somaesthetic Approach to the Design of Extended Realities

Tom McGuirk and Alan Summers

Part 3

Transformative Experiences

8 Bespoke Healthcare Design

Dina Shahar and Jonathan Ventura

9 Sensory Activation in Design, Art, and Architecture – a Somaesthetic Perspective

Else Marie Bukdahl

10 Designing for Somaesthetic Transformation

Richard Shusterman and Dag Svanæs

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Somaesthetics ; 6
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	725 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	90-04-53664-7 / 9004536647
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53664-7 / 9789004536647
Zustand	Neuware