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MOVEMENT IN AESTHETIC FORM CREATION
Dahl Thomsen, Bente
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Guy Bingham, Darren Southee, John McCardle, Ahmed Kovacevic, Erik Bohemia, Brian Parkinson
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Series:
E&PDE
Institution:
Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University – DK
Section:
Exploring Design Education
Page(s):
019-024
ISBN:
978-1-904670-62-9
Abstract:
This paper presents the good practice based experiences found when movement is used to strengthen form creation and to create flow in the process of artistic education. Faced with the design engineering students’ problems with creating forms with aesthetic statements, the experiences with movement inspired the thesis that the design engineers’ training in aesthetic form creation can be improved by integrating the movement potential into their education. The paper documents the on-going work on developing a model for embodied creation of form called ‘Somatechne model’. The study also identifies a lens to assess the students’ development of mind-body skills, known as ‘The Three Soma’. The Somatechne model also helps to identify the activity that gives the students the opportunity to develop their sensibility and thus aesthetic attention.
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