Somaesthetics and Design Culture
Published on 30. March 2023
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-90-04-53664-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"I hope that Somaesthetics and Design Culture will introduce new ways of thinking and doing to designers and educators via its pragmatist approach; and somaesthetics will continue to create its own community to heal the world via transformative experiences." - Erdem UEnguer, in: The Design Journal, 2024"This volume aims to initiate an interdisciplinary platform, bringing together different perspectives for analysis, critique, and inspiration. [...] To conclude, more than directly appropriable guidelines, what is offered here is an invitation to take on somaesthetics as a bridge and connect design research with other disciplines through a holistic lens." - Estelle Berger, in: Somaesthetics and Design Culture, 2025
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53664-7 (9789004536647)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Balint 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.
Balint 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.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Somaesthetics and Design Culture??
??Richard? ?Shusterman?? and ??B?a?lint? ?Veres?????
Part 1?
Studies on Limitations??
1?A World Is Born: Craftsmanship, Mediality, and the Somatic Implications of Plato's Timaeus???
??B?a?lint? ?Veres?????
2?From Making to Lighting a Candle: On Functions, Meanings, and Bodies in Ritual Design
??M?a?d?a?lina? ?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? ?Svanaes??????
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Somaesthetics and Design Culture??
??Richard? ?Shusterman?? and ??B?a?lint? ?Veres?????
Part 1?
Studies on Limitations??
1?A World Is Born: Craftsmanship, Mediality, and the Somatic Implications of Plato's Timaeus???
??B?a?lint? ?Veres?????
2?From Making to Lighting a Candle: On Functions, Meanings, and Bodies in Ritual Design
??M?a?d?a?lina? ?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? ?Svanaes??????
Index