Corporeal experience: A haptic way of knowing

Journal of Architectural Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-12

  O'Neill, Máire Eithne ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 57349171812     PISSN: 10464883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/104648801753168765     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore point out the designer's overemphasis on visual understanding of the built environment and discuss the character of other forms of environmental perception. Few environmental designers have pursued this topic, perhaps precisely because it tends to fall outside the largely visual expertise of the design professions. Body, Memory, and Architecture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), p. 49.
2. Kenneth Frampton, "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance," in Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983), p. 28.
3. Anne Hyde discusses the cultural biases of history paradigms and illustrates, for example, the socioeconomic dynamics that led to the development of mythologized perspectives of the past in the American West. Anne Hyde, "Cultural Filters: The Significance of Perception in the History of the American West," The Western Historical Quarterly (Aug., 1993): 351-374.
4. Donlyn Lyndon and Charles W. Moore, Chambers for a Memory Palace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994), p. xiii.
5. Eugene V. Walter describes topistic as an adjective associated with place, as spatial is associated with space. The term might be thought of as placial. Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988), p. 20.
6. Tony Hiss, The Experience of Place (New York: Vintage Books, 1991 (1990)), p. 3.
7. James J. Gibson, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1966).
8. Physical educator, Eleanor Metheny asks, "Does anyone really believe that there is no continuity between the complex processes of sensation, perception, feeling, emotion, thought, and action?" Moving and Knowing (Los Angeles: Peek, 1975), p. 96.
9. Erwin W. Straus, "The Forms of Spatiality," in Erling Eng, trans., Selected Papers of Erwin W. Straus: Phenomenological Psychology (New York: Basic Books, 1966), p. 11.
10. The basic orienting system includes the sense of balance, postural sense, and auditory cues. Bloomer and Moore, Body, Memory, and Architecture, p. 33.
11. Kraft Von Maltzahn, Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994), p. 79.
12. David Seamon, "Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place Ballets," in Anne Buttimer and David Seamon, eds., The Human Experience of Space and Place (London: Croom Helm, 1980), pp. 157-158.
13. Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1974);
14. Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1997).
15. Paul Rodaway, Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense and Place (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 54.
16. For a discussion of learning styles, see Malcom Knowles, The Modern Practice of Adult Education (Chicago: Follet, 1980)
17. and Howard Gardner, States of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
18. Rodaway, Sensuous Geographies, p. 60.
19. Máire O'Neill, Learning Rural Perceptions of Place: Farms and Ranches in Southwest Montana Doctoral dissertation (Bozeman: Montana State University, 1997).
20. The cultural anthropology model is described in detail by James Spradley and David McCurdy, The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1972).
21. Wm. J. McKeachie, "Psychology and Adult Cognition," in Robert A. Fellenz, ed., Cognition and the Adult Learner (Bozeman, MT: Center for Adult Learning research, Montana, State University, 1988).
22. See O'Neill, "The Space on the Edge," for a detailed methodology developed by the author for the recording and analysis of perceptual modes from extensive interviews.
23. O'Neill, Learning Rural Perceptions of Place, p. 172.
24. The author describes and illustrates the method developed for comparison of site plans in "The Space on the Edge," pp. 257-263.
25. Tuan, Topophilia.
26. Details of the study of the impact of local folklore on understanding place is presented in papers by the author: O'Neill, Learning Rural Perceptions, p. 191-213;
27. Quote from a rancher in O'Neill, Learning Rural Perceptions of Place, p. 219.
28. Seamon, "Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place Ballets."
29. Wm. J. McKeachie, "Psychology and Adult Cognition."
30. The widely ranging results of an architectural aesthetics study by Phil Hubbard point to the challenges of subjectivity and lack of universality in interpreting the built environment. "Conflicting Interpretations of Architecture: An Empirical Investigation," Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16 (1996): 75-92.
31. Setha Low, "Professional Culture: The Boundary Between Theory and Practice in Design," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, CA., Dec. 1981.
32. Spradley and McCurdy claimed "the single greatest challenge in teaching undergraduates was to help them become aware of their own ethnocentrism as well as other people's cultural perspectives." The Cultural Experience, p. vii.