User:Joleung/sandbox

I am using the sandbox to practice syntax and formatting before I go live.

I'm interested in how manipulating visual thinking techniques can be used to influence and improve the design process especially in art and architecture. I hope to expand the "Art and Design Education"

These are copied and pasted from the article "Visual Thinking":

Spatial-temporal reasoning and spatial visualization ability

Main articles: Spatial–temporal reasoning and Spatial visualization ability

Spatial-temporal reasoning is the ability to visualize special patterns and mentally manipulate them over a time-ordered sequence of spatial transformations. Spatial visualization ability is the ability to manipulate mentally two- and three-dimensional figures.

Spatial-temporal reasoning is prominent among visual thinkers as well as among kinesthetic learners (those who learn through movement, physical patterning and doing) and logical thinkers (mathematical thinkers who think in patterns and systems) who may not be strong visual thinkers at all.

Visual Thinking in Art and Design Education

Concepts related to visual thinking have played an important role in art and design education over the past several decades, but this has not always been the case.[12] In Ancient Greece, Plato tended to place an emphasis on music to aid cognition in the education of heroes because of its mathematical tendencies and "harmonies of the cosmos". On the other hand, visual images, paintings in particular, caused the reliances on "illusionary images" [13] However, in the Western world, children begin primary school with abstract thought and shapes, but as we grow older, according to Rudolph Arnheim, "arts are reduced to a desirable supplement"[14] The general world trend in the late twentieth century caused an emphases towards scientific, mathematical, and quantitative approach to education, and art education is often refuted because it is based on perception. It is qualitative and subjective which makes it difficult to measure and evaluate.

Sources

• Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul (1969), Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, University of California Press, ISBN 1-57586-162-3
• Michel Deza & Elena Deza (2009), Encyclopedia of Distances, Springer
• Felder, Richard M. (2007), ARE LEARNING STYLES INVALID? (HINT: NO!) (PDF)
• Pashler, H.; McDaniel, M.; Rohrer, D.; Bjork, R. (2008). "Learning styles: Concepts and evidence". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 9: 105–119. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6053.2009.01038.x.
• Silverman, Linda Kreger (2005), Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner (PDF), Maria J. Krabbe Foundation for Visual Thinking