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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.
Price: $209.00
Pages: 310
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Somaesthetics
Publication Date:
30 March 2023
ISBN: 9789004536647
Format: Hardcover
"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 Üngür, 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
"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
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.
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.