obc | towards a biophilic future: culture and human nature
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Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki, Finland Towards a biophilic future: Culture and human nature http://obc2012.outofthebox.si/TRANSCRIPT
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1 st Out of the Box Conference
University of Maribor
Maribor, Slovenia
15-17 May, 2012
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, Professor
TOWARDS A BIOPHILIC FUTURE
-culture, beauty and human nature
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THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURAL EUPHORIA
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“Architecture’s horoscope today is such that my words becomenegative and that isn’t pleasant. Parallelopipeds of glass and synthetic materials, the inhuman dandy-purism of the big cities, hasled irrevocably to a fashionable architecture, which is a dead end”.
Alvar Aalto, 1958
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE SPECTACLE
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“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation”.
Guy Debord
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“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point whereit becomes an image”.
Guy Debord
“A spectacle is an image accumulated to the point whereit becomes capital”.
Hal Foster
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THE MIXED BLESSING OF GLOBALISATION
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THE OTHER ARCHITECTURE
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THE INTEGRATING TASK OF ARCHITECTURE
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ECOLOGICAL ETHICS
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FALSE SUSTAINABILITY
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THE LIVED METAPHOR
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“[…] Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual systems, in terms of which we both think and act, are fundamentally metaphorical in nature”.
George Lakoff
Mark Johnson
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“Metaphor is primarily a form of cognition rather than a trope or figure of speech. Further, metaphor as a cognitive tool can operate unconsciously, so that a metaphoric process is one aspect of the unconscious mind”.
Arnold H. Modell
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CHANGING METAPHORS
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A NEW VIEW OF OURSELVES
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“All of man’s troubles may well arise, as Vercors (Jean Bruller) suggested in You Shall Know Them, from the fact that we do not know what we are and do not agree on what we want to become”.
Edward O. Wilson
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LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
LOGICAL – MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
BODILY – KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
NATURALISTIC INTELLIGENCE
SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE
EXISTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
ETHICAL INTELLIGENCE
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THE MARVELLOUS BRAIN
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“Art [is] an extension of the functions of the visual brain in its search for essentials”.
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“Most painters are also neurologists […] they are those who have experimented upon and, without ever realising it, understood something about the organization of the visual brain, though with techniques that are unique to them”.
Semir Zeki
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HUMAN HISTORICITY AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEAUTY
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“Man is an aesthetic being before becoming an ethical being”.
“Believe it or not, the purpose of evolution is beauty”.
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Laureate Poet
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“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful”.
Hermann Weyl, mathematician who perfected the quantum and relativity theory.