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\u00a0<\/span>\u00bfDebe el dise\u00f1o pasar de la forma a la experiencia? La somaest\u00e9tica como marco<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n

About this session<\/b><\/h2>\n

This presentation examines whether design should be understood primarily as a discipline of form or as a discipline of experience. While design traditions have emphasized visual composition and object-based evaluation, such approaches often underrepresent the embodied, multisensory, and temporal dimensions through which design is encountered. Drawing on somaesthetics\u2014a philosophical framework centered on embodied perception and cultivated bodily awareness\u2014the presentation proposes a shift toward understanding design as the shaping of lived experience rather than isolated form. Building on pragmatist aesthetics and theories of embodied cognition, design is framed as a process unfolding through interaction between bodies, materials, and environments over time. To support this shift, the presentation introduces a distinction between Thin Description and Thick Description, adapted from anthropology, as a practical method for design analysis. Thin Description focuses on observable formal properties, while Thick Description attends to perception, context, duration, and bodily variability. Through examples from graphic, product, and interaction design, the presentation demonstrates how atmosphere, tactility, attention, and use shape meaning in practice. The framework offers a way to support design critique, teaching, and discussion by making lived experience more visible and describable.<\/span>
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Esta presentaci\u00f3n examina si el dise\u00f1o deber\u00eda entenderse principalmente como una disciplina de la forma o como una disciplina de la experiencia. Si bien las tradiciones del dise\u00f1o han enfatizado la composici\u00f3n visual y la evaluaci\u00f3n centrada en el objeto, estos enfoques a menudo subrepresentan las dimensiones corporales, multisensoriales y temporales a trav\u00e9s de las cuales se experimenta el dise\u00f1o. Bas\u00e1ndose en la somaest\u00e9tica \u2014un marco filos\u00f3fico centrado en la percepci\u00f3n corporal y la conciencia corporal cultivada\u2014, la presentaci\u00f3n propone un giro hacia entender el dise\u00f1o como la configuraci\u00f3n de la experiencia vivida en lugar de la forma aislada. Apoy\u00e1ndose en la est\u00e9tica pragmatista y en teor\u00edas de la cognici\u00f3n corporeizada, el dise\u00f1o se enmarca como un proceso que se despliega a trav\u00e9s de la interacci\u00f3n entre cuerpos, materiales y entornos a lo largo del tiempo. Para sustentar este giro, la presentaci\u00f3n introduce una distinci\u00f3n entre Descripci\u00f3n Densa y Descripci\u00f3n Superficial (Thin Description y Thick Description), adaptada de la antropolog\u00eda, como un m\u00e9todo pr\u00e1ctico para el an\u00e1lisis de dise\u00f1o. La Descripci\u00f3n Superficial se centra en propiedades formales observables, mientras que la Descripci\u00f3n Densa atiende a la percepci\u00f3n, el contexto, la duraci\u00f3n y la variabilidad corporal. A trav\u00e9s de ejemplos de dise\u00f1o gr\u00e1fico, de producto y de interacci\u00f3n, la presentaci\u00f3n demuestra c\u00f3mo la atm\u00f3sfera, la tactilidad, la atenci\u00f3n y el uso configuran el significado en la pr\u00e1ctica. El marco ofrece una manera de apoyar la cr\u00edtica, la ense\u00f1anza y la discusi\u00f3n del dise\u00f1o al hacer que la experiencia vivida sea m\u00e1s visible y describible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Session type: <\/b>Paper<\/span><\/p>\n

Presenters<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  • Hirbod Human, PhD Researcher, Design\/Aesthetics\/Arts, Florida Atlantic University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Time listed is Dominican Republic time.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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