DEA WEEK 1
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- Human Ecology
- The College of Human Ecology is dedicated to improving the human condition, whether through policy, nutrition, shelter and clothing, medicine, or the legal system.
- What is DEA 150?
- The study of how the physical enviorment affects human condition.
- What is Plasticity?
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The ability of an organism to respond to pysiologically or devolopmentally to an enviormental stress
ie: critical period for kittens - Give an example of Enviorment Efficiancy
- Cornell Triangle Kitchen, this is optimum design to maximize space
- Enviormental Determinism
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Physical features of the enviorment determine culture. Not social conditions.
ie: tropics cause laziness
weather changes cause intellect - Cognitive Appraisal
- Human responses to enviorment are mediated by symbolic latent meaning.
- Manifest Function
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explicit being, house, used for shelter
ie: igloo, tropical air circ - Latent Function
- symbolic, home, emotional connection, comfort and identity
- Miller/Maxwell view on Kitchen
- Large,open, visual acsess,place for craft, movable seating, living room adjacent
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: Diminutive
- managable proportions at human scale, encourages social interaction, suggests intimacy
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: Embracing
- trees, heirchy of space, welcome mat, home shows your values
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: annuemonic
- objects have personal significane, family pictures
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: Aesthetic
- natural materials, divided light windows, shutters,
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: Authenticity
- What makes the home real?
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: Informal
- avoid modern objects/cottage like/beueatiful and humble
- McCracken Properties of Homeyness: situating
- person becomes part of the home
- Jews
- Mizuzah,kosher laws
- Chatholics
- Churches built like a cross
- Mecca
- about direction, prayer rug,homes orientated inward so you can't see out
- Southwest Pueblo
- celestial patterns
- Shakers
- architecture divided between sexes, two doors, no ornaments, very clean
- Native American Kitchen
- main place to meet
- Anglo house whats imp?
- Living room is center
- Puerto Rican house whats imp?
- Kitchen is center, living room is private
- Nigs kitchen?
- Semi-private
- Akwekon patterns?
- circular, dome represents celestial bodies, longhouse elements
- User Designer Gap
- The more we use builders the more the there is a gap between the designer and the user.
- Incongruence with house
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house does not fit with the needs of the person
ie: toilets too small for children - Proxemics
- therioes of mans use of space as an elaboration of culture.