Conscious Dwelling: For Transdisciplinary Cityscapes

This book explores the complex urban dimension, focusing on increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic. It aims to inspire design research that overcomes a paradoxical binary logic and improves places' liveability. The first part explores built spaces, the second part deals with aesthetic spaces, and the third part examines relational spaces and how they influence human behavior. The book benefits scholars and practitioners interested in interior architecture and design, as well as researchers involved in the relationship between people and places.

Format: Hardback
Length: 239 pages
Publication date: 13 April 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book delves into the intricate urban landscape, grappling with the challenges of rising density, soil consumption, abandoned spaces, and the recent pandemic that has highlighted the inadequacies of megacities in providing healthy psychophysical conditions. Embracing a transdisciplinary approach, it seeks to inspire design research by challenging a paradoxical binary logic that separates public and private, outside and inside, culture and nature, mind and places.

The first part of the work explores built spaces, highlighting sustainable strategies to address ecological and systemic crises while enhancing the liveability of our contemporary cities. The second part delves into our perception of aesthetic spaces, drawing from neuro-aesthetics studies to explore the affordances and atmosphere that shape our experiences. The third part examines relational spaces, exploring how they influence human behavior from psychological, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives.

This book appeals to scholars and practitioners in interior architecture and design, as well as researchers interested in the relationship between people and places. In the face of the recent pandemic, the book emphasizes the importance of consciousness, culture, and creativity in enhancing the intelligence of our surroundings, fostering a sense of belonging, and improving personal and mutual well-being.

Weight: 553g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030979737
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022