Colleagues, especially Terry
If you are interested in the relationship between art and science (especially expressionism and neuroscience) you will not find a better resource than by Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. It is a well written, beautifully illustrated, and comprehensive history of the emergence of cognitive psychology and neuroscience as it grew from the Vienna of 1900 to the present. Kandel also explains the shift from realism to expressionism to abstraction in art that accompanied and expressed this growth in the science of the mind. He does this with great attention to the people, institutions, technologies, and cultures involved. It is a model for the book relating design to cognitive science that Terry Love has been asking for and that I have been trying to write but will never realize at the level attained by Kandel. Design thinking, in its complexity, needs an understanding of the unconscious in mind and brain that will depend on the developments he describes so well.
The book is:
Eric Kandel, 2012, "The Art of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain" New York, Random House
While I'm at it, and on another topic.
I have just read the most thorough, well written, and informative article yet on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses.) It thoroughly covers how they emerged and are being organized and offered by various universities and by companies like Coursera, Udacity, and EdX. It explains the academic, economic, staffing, and cultural issues involved, reactions to them, and various development strategies being explored and tested. It is clear that the impact on all education will be immense. (A MOOC on Urban Design is the only one in a traditional design field that I know of but you can bet they will be along soon.) The educational revolution fed by networked organization and technology is underway. We should all be aware of it.
The article is:
Nathan Heller, Annals of Higher Education, "Laptop U: Has the Future of College Moved on Line", The New Yorker Magazine, May 20, 2013 p 80,
Chuck
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