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Felice Frankel - MIT and Harvard research scientist, author of Picturing Science and Engineering, and founder of image and meaning workshops.  







> On Sep 11, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Richard Herriott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Scientists and beauty: my view is that natural science is not very well equipped to deal with the subjective phenomenon of beauty. It can investigate brain states and look at things. Researchers can analyse phenomena found to be beautiful.  Scientists are naturally able to say what they find beautiful and indeed may say that there is beauty in mathematics and theories. When they do that they no different than anyone else saying "wow", me included.
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> I spend a lot of time teaching students the value of natural science. We need more of it in design and design reseach.  I do not think however science is much good at saying anything about the subjective experience of beauty and (punchline!) nor indeed is design research of any type very good at this either.  
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