While the green lawn exemplifies an aesthetically desirable but environmentally harmful phenomenon, wind turbines and outdoor laundry hanging offer the opposite example. They are often objected to by the area residents, even including environmentally-minded ones, for their presumed eyesore effect. Thus, by virtue of seemingly innocuous and inconsequential attitudes, choices, and actions motivated by aesthetics, we unwittingly harm the environment and ourselves.
Contrariwise, the success of sustainable design and goods producedunder humane conditions often depends upon the acceptance of newaesthetic paradigms, such as gardens consisting of wildflowers oredible plants, garments and furniture made with recycled or reusedmaterials, and green buildings that reduce literal footprints on theland as well as carbon footprints (Walker 2006, 2017; Salwa 2019).Some work has also been done to explore the ways in which moralvirtues such as respect, thoughtfulness, and humility can be expressednot only by persons but also by the aesthetic features of objects andbuilt structures and environments (Norman 1990; Whiteley 1993, 1999;Sepänmaa 1995a, 1995b; Pallasmaa 1999; Taylor 2000; Orr 2002;Berleant 2005, 2010, 2012; Berleant and Carlson 2007; Saito 2007,2017a). In addition, as indicated by social aesthetics, cultivation ofaesthetic sensibility and practice of aesthetic skills can contributeto facilitating respectful, thoughtful, and humane socialinteractions
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Mean liking rating (y axis) as a function of proportion of concavities (30% 40% 50%; x axis) and number of vertices (10, 20, 30; red, green, blue colour respectively), displayed separately for angular shapes (left) and curved shapes (right). The actual number of concavities for each shape type is reported above the bars. Each condition shows the average from 1280 trials. Error bars indicate 95% C.I.
The large inclusive survey texts and anthologies that have characterized design-history publishing in recent years are necessarily reflective, but current and ongoing work in design history may be seen as responding to one or more of a handful of directions. These are the mediation turn and the globalization imperative already discussed, plus three more: sustainability, food design, and performance. 2ff7e9595c
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