107th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Black Box

Learning from Aviation. Learning from Architecture. Or Cockpits and Hospitals Psychologically Considered, from Arnheim to Barshi

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Joy Knoblauch

This paper begins with the deceptively simple question of what architecture can learn from aviation psychology and what aviation psychology can learn from architectural design. In the process, I hope to explore new ways for research to “articulate architecture’s disciplinary core while contributing to its evolution.” The experience of flying a plane and the aviation industry’s adaptation to that affective condition of sensory intensity, high emotional stakes, and also boredom / monitoring provide an example that is both similar and different from the artistic modes that have informed the last fifteen years of design’s interest in gesture, empathy, and affect.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.47

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0