‘SEE YOURSELF SENSING, REDEFINING HUMAN PERCEPTION’; author: Madeline Schwartzman.
Edited by Black Dog Publishing.

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 See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception is the first book to survey the intersection between design, the body, science and the senses, from the utopian pods and head gear of the 1960s, to the high-tech prostheses, wearable computing, implants, and interfaces between computers ans humans of the past decade.

The book is divided into five chapters: ‘Reframers’, ‘Mediators’, ‘Tools’, ‘Environments’ and ‘Speculations’, according to the different functions and the diverse conceptual patterns to each project.
It’s important the examination of the role of the human body in the work, whether the body is the subject, the tool or simply the negated presence.

Industries thrive on modifying the architecture of the senses-augmenting our apertures, or making them more discrete as need be. Most of these enhancements have a direct affect on the wearer’s senses, and yet almost all are designed for the viewer’s delight. For the designers in this book, the architecture of the body is not simply something to behold, but rather something to analyse and explore from the inside out.

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Madeline Schwartzman is a licenced architect and a long-term Professor (Adjunct) at Barnard College, Columbia University where she teaches architectural design. She is also a long-term Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons. A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Schwartzman makes films and videos, writes and teaches.