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In C. Eastman, W. Newsletter & M. McCracken (eds.) (), Design knowing and learning: Cognition in design education. New York: Elsevier, Chapter 9 Visual Analogy - a Strategy for Design Reasoning and Learning Gabriela Goldschmidt Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel Abstract This paper proposes that the use of visual analogy in problem solving is an example of. Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness.
Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum.
Visual analogy – a strategy for design reasoning and learning
How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, "we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference. The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude.
The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times.
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The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. Barbara Stafford is the William B. In Visual Analogy , Barbara Stafford argues that contemporary culture, with its increasing awareness of diversity, desperately needs a rhetoric that can find simluarities across difference, a rhetoric she locates in analogy.
Richly illustrated and trenchantly argued, Visual Analogy re-invigorates the ancient trope of analogy and establishes its continuing relevance for postmodern thought. A generous and wonderfully wide-ranging account of how, by restoring the visual to its rightful place in our thinking, we can approach a fuller sense of our humanity. Artists in all disciplines should be grateful to Stafford for the grace and authority she brings to such a crucial project.
She is, in the fullest sense of the word, a mediator—between iconophones and iconophiles, artists and critics, words and visions—making much-needed connections in an intellectual environment that appears all too often committed only to enforcing divisions. This innovative history makes it possible to imagine the coming epoch of holistic multimedia in which analogy plays the role that allegory played in postmodernism.
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Katherine Hayles, Professor of English, University of California A generous and wonderfully wide-ranging account of how, by restoring the visual to its rightful place in our thinking, we can approach a fuller sense of our humanity. Gregory L. Related Books.