In our culture, dominated by shallow rationality and reliance on the empirical, measur-able and demonstrable, the embodied, experiential and mental dimensions of design are supressed. Yet, there is an interest in the possibilities of neuroscience to reveal the roles of space, form, materiality, memory and imagery in our sensory experiences and mind. Neuroscience supports the mental objectives in design, which are in danger of being eliminated in the crudely rationalized, quantified and functionalized processes of de-sign. The task of architecture extends beyond its utilitarian purposes to the existential and mental sphere. Articulating lived existential space, architecture constitutes our sys-tem of externalized order, hierarchy, memory and meaning. Neuroscience will reveal how the external and internal, material and mental, utilitarian and poetic dimensions constitute an integrated existential experience. The interest in the mental dimensions of architecture will confirm the significance of intuition, empathy and imagination.
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Titolo del capitolo
Corpo, mente e immaginazione: l’essenza mentale dell’architettura
Autori
Juhani Pallasmaa
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-286-7.05
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
La mente in architettura
Sottotitolo del libro
Neuroscienze, incarnazione e il futuro del design
Curatori
Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, Matteo Zambelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
240
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Firenze University Press
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-286-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-285-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-286-7
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-287-4
Collana
Ricerche. Architettura, Pianificazione, Paesaggio, Design
ISSN della collana
2975-0342
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0350