It can help us at any time to recognise the individuality, distinctive nature, or specificity of a situation or an object. This sensitive form of perception does not only apply to works of art. A distinction is made here between the sensible cognition of the particular and the conceptual cognition that is directed towards generality, that is, the concept. Immanuel Kant later took this further, arguing that it was not a matter of determining or classifying something, but rather of perceiving the plenitude of its qualities and recognizing the uniqueness of its particular nature. In his 1750 work “Aesthetica”, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten describes the term cognitio sensitiva as a special aesthetic capability, complementary to scientific and conceptual knowledge, that specialises in the perception of complex phenomena: not with the intention to analyse them, but to envision them in their vivid fullness.
So how does one create an environment that makes precisely these patterns of thought possible and encourages new students to embark on a journey of discovery with an open-ended outcome, far afield of conformity and consumption of knowledge? They are examined, described and compared above all in aesthetics.
Such patterns are nothing new in our mind-sets they are already anchored in the structure of our consciousness. What takes place is more a transfer of knowledge than the production of knowledge.Īccepting and starting from notions of what an education means and what societal need and use and economic viability mean, we usually lack the categories and schemata for knowledge and perception that are a necessary condition for creativity and innovation. The goal appears to be to produce results that are regularised and standardised.
It is a unique capability that is not probed in today’s educational system, but rather for the most part is circumvented through prescribed approaches. Our faculty of imagination has always been our most precious resource. The design foundations class in architecture and industrial design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
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