
Somaesthetic Design
The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time
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1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-3-8376-8128-4 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past twenty-five years, design practice has expanded from making objects to shaping experiences that unfold in-time. As this expansion has accelerated, designers have gained powerful new tools - but often without a shared language for shaping embodied experience. Somaesthetic Design: The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time responds by focusing on the experiencing body as a key source of design knowledge. Drawing from embodied practices and performance traditions, Michael Arnold Mages and Stephen Neely give designers a shared vocabulary and framework for understanding, crafting, and evaluating lived experience as it is felt and sustained in time.
Reviews / Votes
»Though the essence of the design is interaction, designing is mostly taught and practiced as something visual or cognitive. This rich book is an important corrective, especially since the bodies it helps designers sense are not ergonomic machines, but emoting, dancing, meaningfulness-yearning ways of being-amongst-others. Michael Arnold Mages and Stephen Neely build out a comprehensive yet always practical philosophy for not just interaction design and service design, but all forms of design as the composing of dynamic, timeful experiences.«More details
Series
71
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
205
164 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-8128-4 (9783837681284)
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Michael Arnold Mages | Stephen Neely
Somaesthetic Design
The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time
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Michael Arnold Mages, Northeastern University (Boston, MA), USA
Michael Arnold Mages (PhD) is a designer, strategist, and musician. He teaches in the Information Design and Data Visualization and Experience Design programs at Northeastern University, where he is an assistant professor of design in the Department of Art & Design, and director of the Health and Wellness Design Lab.
Stephen Neely, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), USA
Stephen Neely (PhD) is a teacher, conductor, theorist, and clinician who lectures and presents workshops in the fields of design, music, architecture, and pedagogy. He is the Milton and Cynthia Friedman associate professor of music and director of graduate studies for the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music.