HUM 3394: Representations of Place and Space

Part Two: Being In Place, Representing the Places We Are In

Dwelling

What is Dwelling?

• Dwellings
• Where is Home? Describing Where You Are, and Where You Want To Be
• Dwell: At Home in the Modern World
  • Fruit Bowl Manifesto
• House Beautiful
• Architectural Digest

How We Dwell: Heidegger, "Building, Dwelling, Thinking"

• Heidegger's Two Questions
• Not all buildings are dwelling
• Building is already dwelling
• Dwelling
  • Another definition of dwelling
• Building
• Thinking
• Problems with Heidegger's Analysis?

Where You Are and Who You Are: Identity and Theoretical Approaches to Place

Bodies and Philosophy in the Early Modern Era

• Descartes, Dualism, and Bodies
• Bodies and Minds in Early Modern Thought
• And Yet...
• Paying Attention to the Physical
• ...and Getting it Wrong

On Bodies and/in Place: What do our Bodies Know?

• Central Questions
• Knowing (With) Bodies
• Spatial Concepts That Are Related To The Body
• Mind Hacks
  • Mapping your Blind Spot
  • Gaps in your Vision
  • Tickling Yourself
• Illusions Page
• Visual Perception of Stochastic Resonance - sometimes noise helps
• Gallagher & Cole, "Body Image and Body Schema in a Deafferented Subject"
• Notes on Embodiment

Merleau-Ponty

• "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility", Phenomenology of Perception
• Against Representation
• Hubert Dreyfus, "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment"
  • Notes on Hubert Dreyfus: Merleau-Ponty's "Intentional Arc"
• Quotations

James Gibson and Affordances

• Affordances
• Purple Perils of James Gibson
  • "A Preliminary Description and Classification of Affordances"
  • "More on Affordances"
  • "What is Perceived? Notes for a Reclassification of the Visible Properties of the Environment"
  • "On the Difference Between Perception and Proprioception"
• Example of Affording Surfaces
  • Outside, Inside
  • Grand Canyon Skywalk
• Notes on Affordances
• Design
  • Don Norman
    • Perceived Affordances
    • In Praise of Good Design
    • Gibson vs. Norman on Affordances
    • Emotional Design
      • Three Teapots
      • Attractive Things Work Better
      • We Are All Designers
  • FormFunctionEmotion.net
  • BadDesigns.com

For more, see "The Purple Perils of J. J. Gibson" - unpublished notes and thought pieces

Joseph Grange

• Founding Place

Implications of Taking Bodies Seriously: Embodiment, Affordances, and Place

• If Bodies Know, Can Places Know?
  • Autopoiesis
  • Humberto Mariotti, "Autopoiesis, Culture and Society"
  • From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela
• Subjective and Objective
• Embodied Ethics

Other Resources on Embodiment

• Bibliography on Concepts of Person and Self - Embodiment, Self, and Personal Identity bibliography
• Place: Embodiment

• Gunter Dittmar, "Upon the Earth, Beneath the Sky: The Architecture of Being, Dwelling, and Building"
• Le Corbusier - Habitation
• Venturi, Scott & Brown - Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London
• Robert Venturi
• Surveillance: "Chicago Moving to 'Smart' Surveillance Cameras"