Creating Knowledge

by Von Seggern, Hille

• ISBN13: 9783939633488
• ISBN10: 3939633488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Jovis

Summary

"Climate change, globalisation, water dynamics and multicultural living are only some of the complex phenomena shaping urban landscape performances today. What does design mean for acting and gaining knowledge in this context? How can innovative design strategies be formulated? What part is played by creativity and understanding? Starting out from design processes at the Studio Urbane Landschaften experts from philosophy, neurobiology, psychology art and landscape architecture unfold their perspectives of how creativity and understanding are connected. Examples of internationally renowned landscape architecture indicate how closely the production of ideas, design practice and aesthetic expression are bound up with an understanding and investigation of landscape. Creating Knowledge thus formulates a contemporary, interdisciplinary approach of design."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

With Brains, Heart and Hands: For a Culture of Creativity in Scientific Theory and Practice	p. 9
Designing as Working Knowledge	p. 13
Introduction	p. 21
Designing as an Integrative Process of Creating Knowledge	p. 35
Exploration Creativity, Understanding and Idea
Exploration: Creativity, Understanding and Idea	p. 69
What Does Understanding Mean?: The Perspectives of Heidegger and Gadamer	p. 83
Artistic Processes of Understanding among Language, Sign and Image: Selected Pictures by Trude Fumo	p. 97
Creativity in the Balance between Action and Complexity	p. 109
The Neurobiological Preconditions for the Development of Curiosity and Creativity	p. 125
The Maiuetics of Knowledge: Body, Sense and Language	p. 139
Creativity and Understanding: Neurobiology, Mimesis and Art	p. 151
Curatorial Acting: Art, Work and Education	p. 167
Focus Urban Landscapes, Designing and Innovation Strategies
Focus: Urban Landscapes, Designing and Innovation Strategies	p. 197
Understanding is Essential for Designing	p. 213
Improving the Quality of Fragmented Urban Landscapes - a Global Challenge!	p. 253
Productive Open Spaces	p. 267
Design Knowledge	p. 277
Ideas - How Can They Emerge?: Design Teaching at Studio Urbane Landschaften	p. 291
Design is Experimental Invention	p. 333
Manifold Horizons	p. 363
Stossworks: Hybridized, Expansive, Incomplete	p. 377
We focus on People	p. 391
Multiscale Design: Ontwerpen door des schalen heen	p. 403
Dynamic Media: Water and Vegetation in Process-oriented Design	p. 413
Designing through Experiment	p. 435
The "Park of Least Resistance": An Inventory	p. 447
Appendix
The Authors	p. 457
The Editors	p. 461
Picture Index	p. 463
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