Functional Beauty

Parsons, Glenn; Carlson, Allen

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“…Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the participants arrived at their conclusions on the basis of outward appearance of the supposed harmfulness or usefulness of a species, without drawing on their knowledge of its biology (''A cute rabbit can't possibly be a pest'' and ''a nasty snake can't be a useful creature''). In this context we refer to the controversial debate on 'environmental aesthetics' (e.g., Parsons & Carlson, 2008); the cognitivistic view is united by the idea that knowledge and information about the nature of an object is central to its aesthetic appreciation, which Carlson (1984) illustrates with the whale. As a mammal, the whale is graceful; were it to be perceived as a fish, it might appear somewhat clumsy.…”

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Attitudes towards potential animal flagship species in nature conservation: A survey among students of different educational institutions

Schlegel

Rupf

2010

Journal for Nature Conservation

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Attitudes towards potential animal flagship species in nature conservation: A survey among students of different educational institutions

Schlegel

Rupf

2010

Journal for Nature Conservation

166

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“…2013;Gunnarson, B. et al 2017). Nevertheless, preferences change over time, including historical times (Bodenstein, E. 1972) and it is also recognised that aesthetic preferences influenced by the experience, knowledge and use of landscapes (Knudsen, D.C. et al 1995;Bodnár, R.K. 2008;Parsons, G. and Carlson, A. 2008).…”

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A novel approach of mapping landscape aesthetic value and its validation with rural tourism data

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Landscape aesthetic research that emerged from the second half of the 20th century has become increasingly appreciated and popular in the last few decades. There are two main reasons for this. On the one hand, it was recognized the role of landscape aesthetics in land use and environmental planning, management and conservation. On the other hand, its definition among Cultural Ecosystem Services has made it clear that landscape aesthetics has significant impact on human well-being and there is a need to examine it in the concept of Ecosystem Services and, in particular, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). The mapping of landscape aesthetics is mostly based on the exclusive evaluation of objective, biophysical landscape factors. The aim of the research was to create the landscape aesthetic map of Hungary with a novel method based on human perception. For this, a questionnaire survey and a GIS approach were used. In order to better understand the role of factors influencing the aesthetic value of the landscape, value maps separately for land cover and elevation that are decisive for the landscape experience were prepared. To validate the results of the maps, and contribute a better understanding of the interrelationship between CES, a certain tourism product was chosen, and the connection between landscape aesthetics and the offer of rural tourism was examined in Hungary and in the Danube Bend priority tourism development area. Our findings show that there is a difference in the results of the objective (GIS-based) and subjective (questionnaire-based) assessment of landscape aesthetic value with the more important role of elevation in the latter. According to our tourism product-based analysis, which represents a niche approach in its kind, landscape values are higher in the areas with rural accommodation. At the same time, based on the results of the Danube Bend region, it can also be concluded that elevation and land cover together are crucial factors in landscapes considered to be the most valuable in aesthetic terms. The most direct practical application of our research is to orientate further tourism development of the new Danube Bend area designated in 2017.

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“…As I said before, Functional Beauty accounts hold that appreciating certain aesthetic properties requires appreciating the design object as designed for a particular function. Parsons & Carlson (2008) and Stephen Davies (2010) agree that it is "a kind of beauty that objects exhibit by virtue of the kind of function they have and whose appreciation requires knowledge about its function". 9 For P&C, our aesthetic judgements must be based on a perceptual experience of the object's appearance as seeing under the corresponding 'functional category' we apply to the object.…”

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Understanding Design Aesthetics beyond Functional Beauty Accounts

Sánchez

2019

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Abstract: Design is presented as an apt object of aesthetic appreciation. The nature of its aesthetic dimension will be developed in terms of the relationship between form and function. Specially, by looking at the role that knowledge about function plays in our design aesthetic judgements. Then, I will present the dominant view about the aesthetic value of design coming from functional beauty accounts. Finally, in the last section, I will focus upon some problems derived from the aforementioned integral model form-function in design aesthetics. By means of practical cases, I will point to the narrowness of functional beauty accounts and its inability to include a broader range of actual design objects and their relevant design aesthetic properties.

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Functional Beauty

Cited by 112 publications

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Attitudes towards potential animal flagship species in nature conservation: A survey among students of different educational institutions

Attitudes towards potential animal flagship species in nature conservation: A survey among students of different educational institutions

A novel approach of mapping landscape aesthetic value and its validation with rural tourism data

Understanding Design Aesthetics beyond Functional Beauty Accounts

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