PRIORITISING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN DESIGN Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Heidegger, Norberg-Shultz and Merleau-Ponty 4 3.0 The Application of Phenomenological Principals in the work of Steven Holl 6 Thoughts 9 Glossary 10 Websites 10 Referenced Images 10 Bibliography 11 Notes 12 Architecture Phenomenology Philosophy Movement Spaces Dwelling Design Experience Theory KEYWORDS 1.0 Introduction Now it is time that gods emerge From things by which we dwell
Identity, Perception, Action and Choice in Contemporary and Traditional "No-Self" Theories ABSTRACT: The ego is traditionally held to be synonymous with individual identity and autonomy, while the mind is widely held to be a necessary basis of cognition and volition, with responsibility following accordingly. However Buddhist epistemology, existential phenomenology and poststructuralism all hold the notion of an independent, subsisting, self-identical subject to be an illusion. This not only raises
phenomenology of Husserl, see: S. Ahmed, ‘Orientations: Towards a Queer Phenomenology', A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol.12, no.4, 2006, pp 543- 545. , while Merleau-Ponty notes that it is the connection between the mind and the body that enables us to interpret how we experience the world through our bodies L. Negrin, ‘ Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion', in A. Rocamora and A. Smelik (ed), Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists, London, I.B. Tauris, 2016, p. 115
Time, Abram argues in “The Living Present,” cannot be viewed as a series of points on a timeline indicating so many present moments. Nor should time be separated from space and space separated from time. Abram noted that his family and friends seemed to dedicate a disproportionate amount of time trying to preserve the past and guarantee the future compared to the traditional people with whom he had been working. He found that he could tap into the “sensuous present” by imagining the future and
This essay will refer only to the three texts given here: M.M.P - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences E.H - Edmund Husserl, Pure Phenomenology, Its Method, and Its Field of Investigation M.H - Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, Its Principle, and the Clarification of Its Name Pure phenomenology takes as given the existence of an intersubjective world(1), ("the totality of perceptible things and the thing of all
artists only relationship is to the materials they have selected, it is completely up to the viewers senses to distinguish their own immediate response in relation to the piece. Maurice Merleau- Ponty is a french philosopher who lends himself to the artistic movement in his focus on the human experience. At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, it studies the foundation in observing and engaging in the world that surrounds oneself. This observational study is known as Phenomenology. Phenomenology
portrayal of a set of geographical locations, and her visual and verbal emphasis on female embodiment within a set space. Making the feminist phenomenological approach to her films particularly tasteful for her viewers. Drawing from the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “it explores haptic imagery and feminist strategy.” In The Gleaners and I, the materialization of space characterizing Varda’s paralleled work of fiction and documentary allows for the relationship of people and their environment to often
Haptic: Of or relating to the sense of touch. Greek: haptikos, from haptesthai, to grasp, to touch. Seeing is believing, but touching is the truth. Haptics in Philosophy This essay is an exploration of the notion of the haptic in architecture. It will explore it in architectural design and in experience of architectural space. I will discuss perception as a precursor to haptics. In philosophical terms perception is how we understand our environment via our senses through identification and interpretation
Using Psychoanalysis to Understand Human Behavior According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe’s statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important tool for understanding human nature. Furthermore, psychoanalytic criticism of authors, characters, and readers has a place in literary criticism that is
historical convenience. The term was explicitly adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul Sartre, and through the wide dissemination of the postwar literary and philosophical output of Sartre and his associates — notably Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus — existentialism became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists (many of whom — for instance Camus and Heidegger — repudiated
Existentialism and its Reemergence in Postwar Europe Existentialism is a philosophical movement rooted in the work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who lived in the mid-1800s. The movement gained popularity in the mid-1900s thanks to the work of the French intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus, including Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (1943). According to existentialists, life has no purpose, the universe is indifferent to human beings, and humans must look to their own actions
prove some of her more radical idea’s such as examples from other philosophers, performativity, and worldwide examples on gender/sex. Some philosophers that seem to be of relevance to her fighting cause are Michel Foucault, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and George Herbert Mead. Her use of the doctrine of constitution takes ‘the social agent as an object rather than the subject of constitutive acts” (Performative). In other words, Dr. Butler will question the extent to which we as a human
Introduction “The house is a machine for living in”. Famous quote from Le Corbusier which generated a lot of criticism and discussion. Should housing be seen as a machine or as an organism itself. With the development of human existence, the aspect of living is also changing trough the eras. This essay is devoted to the examination of the Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation and Steven Holl’s Simmons Hall. Regarding the aspects of how social hosing is being developed in the past century and today’s
The article “Beyond Words” written by Nevine Sultan from Counseling Today magazine introduces a new approach to counseling patients struggling with sexual trauma. Nevine explains how trying to help patients who’ve experiences sexual trauma using strictly cognitive or emotional methods can be compared to attempting to build a house without constructing a sturdy foundation first. She states that in order to heal sexual trauma you must start by working with the body. Sultan describes a scenario with
Religious scholar, Stephen Prothero, sees religion as a major organizing ideology to the social and political reality of the nineteenth-century. For Prothero, there is a close and intimate ideological relation between theological beliefs and a culture; therefore, they are not separable from characterizing the religious mood of the nineteenth-century. Prothero argues that many Americans were, “inspired by [the] republican rhetoric of liberty and equality, and by a popular revolt against deference
The Scene of the Screen Envisioning Cinematc and Electronic Presence It is obvious that cinematic and electronic technologies of representation have had enormous impact upon our means of signification during the past century. Less obvious, however, is the similar impact these technologies have had upon the historically particular significance or "sense" we have and make of those temporal and spatial coordinates that radically inform and orient our social, individual, and bodily existences. At
The following paper is an inquiry into my experience with neurofeedback (NFB), through the different problems and questions it raises regarding the old problem of body-mind and object-subject dichotomy, ending in a tentative attempt at applying Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy and notion of the individuation process to the study of the mind and the self, through brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in general and NFB in particular. In a sense, this can be said to fit well with Simondon’s work, where “an
Patricia Benner was born in 1942 in Hampton, Virginia. However, she received her education in California. Patricia Benner has had a tremendous impact in nursing with her numerous contributions. She is a very successful and accomplished nurse. She has earned several degrees, served as a member on numerous committees, published several works, has been involved in several writings and research projects and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. She attended Pasadena College where
Hume on Revolution David Hume offers a well conceived plan for the formation of government and its political workings. Furthermore, he grants that in special circumstances the citizens of a particular government may revolt. However, with respect to obedience and disloyalty, Hume gives no formal rules for revolution. We would like something more from Hume regarding revolution and, more specifically, what he considers justified revolution. Some authors, such as Richard H. Dees, find the basis for
Why Isn't Consciousness Empirically Observable? Emotional Purposes As Basis For Self-Organization ABSTRACT: Most versions of the knowledge argument say that if a scientist observing my brain does not know what my consciousness 'is like,' then consciousness is not identical with physical brain processes. This unwarrantedly equates 'physical' with 'empirically observable.' However, we can conclude only that consciousness is not identical with anything empirically observable. Still, given the intimate