Bent Ekfeldt Olesen

Master of Engineering, with specialization in architecture and design from AAU.

Transformation of Baumgarten’s Aesthetics
into Instruments for the Description of the Design Process.

Guidelines for Designing and the Analysis of Works

The ontological approach to the projects is based on a thesis stating that the single category or types of artefacts can be characterized by a series of common characters or features.

The epistemological launch pad for the paper is based on Alexander Baumgarten. By way of analysis we can – inside the intellectual recognition – logically deduce an increasingly greater, intensive clearness. In contrast to that, we can only sense the sensitive recognition by way of several coordinated individual items. Baumgarten’s guidelines are used to throw light on the relation between individual items and theme in the analysis of works and the description of the design process.

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