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claim:a-thing-with-more-living-structure-makes-the-observer-more-of-a-person-a-thing-with-less-living-structure-makes-the-observer-less-of-a-person

A thing with more living structure makes the observer more of a person; a thing with less living structure makes the observer less of a person

The experiential mechanism linking degree of life in objects to expansion or contraction of the observer's humanity

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Findings (2)

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At the small avenue of light green trees alongside the Dallas Art Museum, observers' sense of humanity was experienced as rising; in the harsh museum plaza with iron sculpture, humanity was experienced as dropping
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Experiential case study confirmed by audience nodding at Dallas City Hall Council Chamber in 1992
The ornament from a Pennsylvania barn causes the observer's humanity to expand; the symbolic ornament from Brasilia causes humanity to diminish, despite Brasilia's ornament being intended as uplifting
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Comparative case study illustrating that intended symbolic meaning does not determine actual phenomenological impact on observer wholeness

probe (1)

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Moment-to-moment humanity expansion probe
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Detailed version of the humanity-expansion test method, illustrated by Alexander's encounter with the homeless man and subsequent credit card transaction

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.821
Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.817
Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
Almost any social process can have a relatively more living character, or have a relatively less living character.claim0.812
Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.claim0.809
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.806
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.806
Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.804
Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.800
Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.