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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.

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Author:   Richard Shusterman ,  Bálint Veres
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789004536647

ISBN 10:   9004536647
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   30 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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