Comments on: Urban, urbane or uber-urban? https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/urban-urbane-or-uber-urban/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/urban-urbane-or-uber-urban/#comment-155 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:13:52 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=377#comment-155 I agree. The models utilized within the natural sciences are often too reductive to be useful in
understanding design which is fundamentally iterative. However, there are some useful aspects of sensory coding for design (in particular for distinguishing levels of ‘expertise’ and richness of perception in an observer.

As an introduction Roland G Booth in ‘Perception of the Visual Environment’ distinguishes three aspects of precepts;
1. Perceptual knowledge about ‘what’ is present in the environment
2. Perceptual knowledge about ‘how’ to interact with the environment
3. Subjective perceptual experiences.

For Booth perceptual knowledge about ‘what’ is present in the environment is made up of the action of looking around, pre-existing empirical knowledge about objects in the environment and properties of objects which are available from the sense organs alone….

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/urban-urbane-or-uber-urban/#comment-154 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:25:09 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=377#comment-154 ‘Sensory coding’ is a useful analytical tool but it comes from psychology and I am retaining my skepticism about the concept having a design application.

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