The Aesthetics Of Imagination In Design Mads Nygaard Folkmann by Mads Nygaard Folkmann 9780262313773, 0262313774 instant download after payment.

In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always be dual phenomena — material and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible. Drawing on formal theories of aesthetics and the phenomenology of imagination, he seeks to answer fundamental questions about what design is and how it works that are often ignored in academic research. Folkmann considers three conditions in design: the possible, the aesthetic, and the imagination. Imagination is a central formative power behind the creation and the life of design objects; aesthetics describes the sensual, conceptual, and contextual codes through which design objects communicate; the concept of the possible — the enabling of new uses, conceptions, and perceptions — lies behind imagination and aesthetics. The possible, Folkmann argues, is contained as a structure of meaning within the...