| Thinking Geometrically: Re-Visioning Space for a Multimodal World Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Editor), Waisanen, John T. (Author), Slack, Jennifer Daryl (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820451843 ISBN-13: 9780820451848 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 620 |
| LCCN: 2001038978 |
| Series: Digital Formations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What skills do we need to negotiate the changing technological circumstances of our lives? How should we respond to the changing space of the visual, the technological? We are bombarded with answers to these questions: by media, by government, and by education. For the most part we are told that what we need to do is utilize the latest technologies and develop the newest skills (computer literacy prominent among them). Here, with keen interdisciplinary insight, historical sensitivity, and corporate design experience, John T. Waisanen offers a different kind of argument. He looks to particular skills we might be losing (and might have for some time been losing): drawing in particular; and to the art of integrating complex vision, thought and practice, what he calls design - or geometrical thinking. This points to the importance of the arts as a physical practice and to the cultivation of complex vision and thought gained in and through an education where geometry and literature are equally important, where physical intelligence (not just dexterity) and philosophical intelligence are equally important. |