visual manipulation flattens the imagination

In creative work, a powerful identification and projection takes place; the entire bodily and mental constitution of the maker becomes the site of the work with how one sees things, one’s own interpretations. Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journey. The computer creates a distance between the maker and the object, whereas drawing by hand put the designer in a haptic contact with the object, or space. In our imagination, the object is simultaneously held in the hand and inside the head, and the imagined and projected physical image is modelled by our embodied imagination.

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