Concentrated attention
Analytical frame
Sensuous aspects
A train station map shelter provides transparent aesthetic orientation.
“No single quality constitutes a privileged theme which the others would serve only to translate.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Matter structure
Meaning framework
Aesthetic enterprise
Shadows on fabric at a construction site morph into something else.
“The signs at work here do not have their own matter or, at best, they have an indifferent matter.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Active qualities
Inhabited meaning
Function spectacle
Urban space is at a premium when a removed building becomes a parking lot.
“Sense experience is that vital communication with the world which makes it present as a familiar setting of our life.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Technical requirements
Indissolubly material
Rules of unity
Structural elements characterize an increasing amount of abstraction as form overtakes function.
“The aesthetic object is defined both by what it wishes to be and by what it refuses to be.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Ship related
Dockside purpose
Durable resilient
Objects yield to a formal schema which binds them to certain rules granting an official status.
“Every art involves its own techniques and calls for a peculiar mode of composition.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Normative ordering
Investigate immanence
Consistent disengagement
The precise existence of things appear in ever again renewed describable confirmations.
“Now you will understand what it means to say that each experienced thing as such is an index for a certain normative ordering in consciousness as pure consciousness.” – Edmund Husserl
Everything boats
Mobility service
Accessory store
Demarcating the asphalt right up to the entry portal creates an angular plane intersection.
“Every one of our mechanics has received factory training.” – Alan Prater
Considered purely
Modes of givenness
Lived experience
Rental kayaks spend most of their time in dry dock.
“For our present investigation we exclude, in principle, every empirically founded judgment as a premise and a theoretical finding.” – Edmund Husserl
Joint effort
Context unified
Connection stream
In the city, interesting unplanned but synergistic design relationships manifest.
“Rather than pursuing experience and, living in the experiences, pass judgments and devise experiential theories and sciences, we receive, in terms of their pure being, into our realm, which itself is of pure being, every act of experience, every judgment of experience, and every complete or incomplete experiential knowledge.” – Edmund Husserl
Effectuating
Reterritorialization
Under given conditions
Venue transactions transpire inside the state marina building.
“Every event extends over other events which are parts of itself, and every event is extended over by other events of which it is part.” – Alfred North Whitehead