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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Five-senses"”.
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Sensations: a fabric of natural alcoves to provide relief from city life and stimulate the five senses
… into the city and are designed to stimulate the five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and sound. They are connected both by design similarities and shared materiality, and create unique paths between them that run through the city and further insert nature into its environment. I have designed …
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Perspectives
The five senses are something we rely on to perceive our external world. Through an architectural sense, meditative and relaxing experiences establish themselves. How one is influenced by their surroundings a sense of self sparks a connection between body and place. Architecture, along with the …
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Sensual Architecture: Project for a Thermal Bath at Warm Springs
… understanding of how architecture addresses the senses. Guided by the practice of a craft, the vestige of art, architectural history and precedent, and the physiology of the five senses, an idea for a thermal bath was expressed through material. This book is a record of that process.
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
… be described as a cultural ‘reformation of the senses.’ Previous histories of religious behavior in this period have approached their subject through the lens of discourse analysis or visual culture. By contrast, this dissertation outlines a phenomenological approach which attends to the dynamic …
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The Renewal Center: Time, Experience, Memory
… and unconscious thought. It is through our five senses; touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, that these experiences are gathered. Humans are also born with inherent knowledge that our species has collected from generation to generation. This inherent knowledge, also called the collective …
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Odor mapping in neuroscience and design
… one of the least well understood out of the five senses. In this thesis we examined the mappings of the odors to pathways in the brain as an initial assessment for the feasibility of digital odor. The results confirmed previous findings that each odor activated 1-6 neurons. Next, we looked at …
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Feng Shui and Neighborhood Development
… process where we rely on training and our five senses, but not so much on our instincts. How can we reclaim this missing element and balance the rational with the intuitive? Feng Shui provides a method for enhancing the current planning process by evaluating the physical form through …
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WayFinding: A Story Told Through The Senses
Architecture often references the five senses through conveying moments and experiences that someone could have in a specific setting. The purpose of this thesis is to dive deeper into how the senses can be engaged and how they relate to the concept of wayfinding. This thesis explores how engaging …
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Bridging the Gap: Addiction Recovery
… engage the mind and body by activating the five senses: the auditory, visual, olfactory, somatosensory, and gustatory. Winding, natural pathways on the ground create an intimate and direct interaction with the landscape, whereas the elevated pathways above the landscape create a dynamic and …
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Blades, Blood and Bandages: A Qualitative Investigation of Self-Injury
… as an extreme but therapeutic workout for the five senses of the human body.
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Interpreting landscape : understanding through a story of architectural experiences
… upon the affects external stimuli have on the five senses. The ability of architecture to increase the stimulation of one sense would potentially trigger a memorable experience. Through the designed construction and placement of man-made and natural materials along a path, this thesis aims to …
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Redundancy reduction for computational audition, a unifying approach
… perception, even outside the realm of our five senses.
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Reading Between The Lines: An Account Of The Cognitive Gain From Literary Fiction
… gain in the Verstehen tradition and identifies five relevant senses of ‘understanding’ as the cognitive value at stake. The case is made that reading literary fiction as literature stimulates the relevant senses of understanding; in the course of the discussion I meet objections from elitism and …
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Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen
… a stimulus experienced in one of the five senses triggers a response in another sense. Although numerous types of synesthesia exist, I will focus primarily on sound-color synesthesia and the various forms of written, audio, and visual art it has inspired. Synesthesia is not reserved …
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ROLE OF A CONSERVED AMINO ACID MOTIF IN LOCALIZATION OF HUMAN CLIC5 TO MICROVILLI
<p>Hearing is one of the five senses and is important for survival and enrichment of life in numerous species. It is a complex and intricate biological process that is dependent upon the proper formation and maintenance of many structures. One of these structures is the hair bundle, known as the …
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Form and daylight as a creative medium : Church of John Paul II in South End, Boston
… most of us, Vision is the most powerful of our five senses and the main receptor of information, conditioning our memory and imagination. Sight (light, form and color) is the primary medium through which our surrounding is seen. Therefore, architecture receives its most powerful and true …
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A Study of the Posture of the Tongue in Individuals with Normal Occlusion
… of muscles and nerves and contains one of the five senses, the sense of taste. As H.B. Walter and L.F. Sayles stated in their book entitled: “Biology of the Vertebrates,” “The tongue serves many purposes. It is capable of great freedom of movement; it is a universal toothbrush, serves as a …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… such as allegorical representations of the Five Senses. Finally, I examine how prints of Susanna appeal to and engage their audience in order to offer their admonition.</p> <p>This dissertation also contains a catalogue of prints of Susanna produced in the Netherlands between 1508 and …
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A Sensory Tour of Cape Cod: Thoreau's Transcendental Journey to Spiritual Renewal
… in-depth examination of Thoreau's use of the five senses in Cape Cod to reveal both the eccentricities inherent in his relationship with nature and his method of resolving his fears of mortality. Some of the sense impressions in Cape Cod--particularly those that center around human death and …
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… that is not reliant on vision above all other senses? Is it possible for philosophy to not be grounded at its core in vision and visual concepts?</p> <p>In my project, I examine the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to determine if it is possible to philosophize from a …
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