1. the literal and phenomenal in art and design dr mahnaz shah

2. what is this about?
why does it matter?
how does it connect to art and design?
how does it connect to me?

3. how does it connect to the constellation philosophy?
change of perception/identity
narratives, meanings, readings
theoretical perspectives

4. literal and phenomenal

5. Definitions
Literal:
true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual:
a literal description of conditions.
being actually such, without
exaggeration or
inaccuracy
(of persons) tending to construe
words in the strict sense or in an
unimaginative way; matter-of-
fact; prosaic.

6. is it ever possible to be literal

7. Definitions
Phenom-
-enal;
philosophical study of
the structures
of subjective experience
and consciousness
Edmund Husserl (1859 -1938)

8. exercise 1
smile

14. Definitions
something that
indicates bounds or
limits; a limiting or
bounding line.
Boundaries: Kantian principle:
thought can only advance by freeing
itself from the shackles of its own
subjective conditions.
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

16. Up to now it has been
assumed that all our
cognition must
conform to the objects;
but ... let us once try
whether we do not get
Kant: farther with the problems
of metaphysics by
assuming
that the objects must
conform to our cognition.

17. Existentialism
holds that the starting point of
philosophical thinking must be the
experiences of the individual

18. Existentialism :
visual perception is
visual thinking and therefore a
cognitive activity.
Rudolf Arnheim (1904 – 2007)

19. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg73BUxJLI

20. Martin Heidegger (1889- 1976) Being and time
on the phenomenology of place

21. a winter’s evening
georg trakl (1887 - 1914)
a winter’s evening
windows with falling snow is arrayed
long tolls the vesper bell
the house is provided well
the table is for many laid
wandering ones, more than a few
come to the door on darksome courses
golden blooms the tree of graces
drawing up the earth’s cool dew
wanderer quietly steps within
pain has turned the threshold to stone
there, lie in limpid brightness shown
upon the table bread and wine

22. Heidegger’s
definition of the dwelling
when a person is capable of dwelling
the world becomes an ‘inside’.

23. is the literal phenomenal and the phenomenal literal