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1. Form & Formlessness : Questioning aesthetic abstractions through art projects, cross-disciplinary studies and product design education
Abstract : This research is based on empirical, embodied studies aimed to generate and regenerate aesthetic reasoning through three approaches:an educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts.an art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessnessa multi-disciplinary exploratory approach concerned with aesthetic experiences shared in laborations demonstrating complexity and transformation. READ MORE
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2. Recasting Objective Thought : The Venture of Expression in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Abstract : This thesis is about meaning, expression and language in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, and their role in the phenomenological project as a whole. For Merleau-Ponty, expression is the taking up of a meaning given either in perception or in already acquired forms of expression, thereby repeating, transforming or congealing meaning into gestures, utterances, artworks, ideas or theories. READ MORE
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3. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?
Abstract : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. READ MORE
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4. Binding Three Kinds of Vision
Abstract : Pictorial cues, together with motion and stereoscopic depth fields, can be used for perception and constitute ‘three kinds’ of vision. Edges in images are important features and can be created in either of these attributes. READ MORE
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5. Perceptual Dynamics. Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of Gestalt Psychology
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