From flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designer

dc.contributor.authorVan Bergen, Jan Willem
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-01T09:31:54Z
dc.date.available2009-06-01T09:31:54Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn this article I will be elaborating a position first articulated by R. Buckminster Fuller. This position is that the geometry we rely on to inform and motivate our acts is central to our being in the world, and hence our ability to act with empathy. Buckminster Fuller uncovers how Euclidian geometry (flat earth thinking) can be contrasted with spherical geometry and what kind of impacts these two types of thinking have had, and are currently still having, on our ability to show empathy. Of fundamental importance to me in this article is to be able to convey the essential unity of all existence and that empathy cannot be expressed without a realisation of this. At the same time the critical method used in demonstrating this unity uncovers how nature is the best designer, and what the ‘Project of Architecture’ is in this context.en_US
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANS: Van 'flathead' tot gesentreerdheid: ’n omskrywing van empatie in antwerp en waarom die natuur die beste ontwerper is. In hierdie artikel brei ek uit op ’n situasie wat vir die eerste keer deur R. Buckminster Fuller geartikuleer is. Dit is dat die geometric waarop ons staat mask om ons dade te vorm en te motiveer, sentraal is ten opsigte van ons in-die-wêreld wees, en gevolglik ook ons vermoë om empaties te handel. Buckminster Fuller toon aan hoe Euklidiese geometrie (plat aarde denke) gekonstrateer kan word met sferiese geometrie en watter soort impak hierdie twee soorte dense gehad en steeds het op ons vermoë om empaties te wees. In hierdie artikel is dit vir my van fundamentele belang om die essensiële eenheid van alle bestaan te verduidelik, asook dat empatie nie uitgedruk kan word sonder hierdie besef nie. Terselfdertyd demonstreer die kritiese metode wat toegepas word hoe die natuur die beste ontwerper is, asook wat die ‘Projek van argitektuur’ in hierdie konteks is.
dc.identifier.citationVan Bergen, JW 2008, 'From flatness to centeredness: defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designer', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no.3, pp 75-84. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10275
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectHow nature buildsen_US
dc.subjectProject of Architectureen_US
dc.subjectEuclidianen_US
dc.subjectSphericalen_US
dc.subjectPositionen_US
dc.subjectGeometryen_US
dc.subjectEmpathyen_US
dc.titleFrom flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designeren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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