Visual Thinking and Structures: Art, Science, Architecture and Life

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Visual thinking is the phenomena of thinking through visual processing and is fundamental to most creative-making endeavors. Visual thinking education is concerned with questions of the nature of thinking and knowing relative to human existence and aesthetic experience. Structure, in a basic sense, is the unity of parts to create a whole; it gives form to both inorganic objects and all organic matter. This course utilizes visual thinking to understand and create structures inspired by art, science, architecture and life. Loosely organized around a book of essays, Structure in Art and in Science, edited by Gyorgy Kepes and conceived 'as a collective endeavor in which designers, artists, scientists, psychologists and historians would explore ways of combining their respective skills and knowledge to visualize--and eventually realize--a better future.'