What is it about?
Since René Descartes famously separated the concepts of body and mind in the seventeenth century, western philosophy and theory have struggled to conceptualize the interconnectedness of minds, bodies, environments and cultures. While environmental psychology and the cognitive sciences have shown that spatial perception is ‘embodied’ and depends on the aforementioned concepts’ interconnectedness, architectural design practice, for example, has rarely incorporated these insights. The article presents research on the epistemological foundations that frame the communication between design theory and practice and juxtaposes it with scientific research on embodied experience.
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Why is it important?
The article argues that art and design would be meaningless if they did not accept the task of contributing to a dialogue with nature that is marked by cooperation rather than domination. It further outlines an approach to conceiving the interconnectedness of minds, bodies, environments, the sciences and cultures, in favour of a future that is governed by creative wisdom rather than ‘smart’ efficiency.
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The thoughts outlined in this article were first presented at the 'Global Conversation' 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics, September 12-13 2020, under the title 'Thoughts on Time, Ecology and Art' and are continued in the Technoetic Arts issue number 19.1-2 in the article entitled 'On Globes, the Earth and the Cybernetics of Grace.'
Dr. Claudia Westermann
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: Poiesis, ecology and embodied cognition, Technoetic Arts, March 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/tear_00023_1.
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