Overlooking the Visual : Demystifying the Art of Design

ISBN-13: 9780415308694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 254 str.

Kathryn Moore

Opis

Connecting the theory of design to its practice, this book encourages rigorous 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?

Overlooking the Visual challenges the traditional foundations of design theory 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 discourse. This groundbreaking new take on design is interesting reading for professionals and advanced students in the architecture and design fields as well as public policy makers. This is an innovative, fresh view on design and how we can improve it for both practitioners and pupils.

Spis treści

Foreword Paul Shepheard  Preface  1. Introduction  2. The Sensory Interface and Other Myths and Legends  3. Teaching the Unknowable  4. Aesthetics: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Universal Truth  5. Objectivity Without Neutrality  6. Studied Ignorance  7. Seeing is Believing  8. Theory into Practice.  Bibliography

O autorze

Kathryn Moore has lectured and published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. She is past President of the Landscape Institute, UK representative of IFLA, a design consultant,and is Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, UK.