Connecting to the World: Christopher Alexander’s Tool for Human-Centered Design

Beauty connects us viscerally to the material universe. Life forms evolved to experience biological connectedness as an absolute necessity for survival. Starting one century ago, however, dominant culture deliberately reversed the mechanism responsible for visceral connection. The resulting disconne...

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Main Author: Nikos A. Salingaros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872620300666