A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This chapter discusses the twelve senses distinguished by Soesman. The senses are vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, life sense, proprioception sense, equilibrioception sense, temperature sense, language sense, conceptual sense, and ego sense. Despite the predominance of visual images, other perceptual experiences occur such that architectural forms may trigger an emotion, as muscular tension responds to different sensations of space, material or texture. Such feelings or phenomena are experienced and embodied as multi‐sensory experiences. Overall the multi‐sensory experience of a place is key, whereby existential space is concretised and experienced differently by each individual. Anything can be a source of pleasure that taps into the reward system of our brains. In terms of aesthetics, pleasure may be derived from remembered past experiences, encompassing mixed emotions and be coloured by experience and learnt knowledge from prior encounters of people and places.
This chapter discusses the twelve senses distinguished by Soesman. The senses are vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, life sense, proprioception sense, equilibrioception sense, temperature sense, language sense, conceptual sense, and ego sense. Despite the predominance of visual images, other perceptual experiences occur such that architectural forms may trigger an emotion, as muscular tension responds to different sensations of space, material or texture. Such feelings or phenomena are experienced and embodied as multi‐sensory experiences. Overall the multi‐sensory experience of a place is key, whereby existential space is concretised and experienced differently by each individual. Anything can be a source of pleasure that taps into the reward system of our brains. In terms of aesthetics, pleasure may be derived from remembered past experiences, encompassing mixed emotions and be coloured by experience and learnt knowledge from prior encounters of people and places.
The Senses
Lewis, Nigel (author)
Design and Order ; 75-89
2020-09-08
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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