# Juhani Pallasmaa (2009). *The Thinking Hand*. : Wiley. > [!INFO] > Type:: [[]] > Title:: The Thinking Hand > Author(s): [[Juhani Pallasmaa]] > Year:: 2009 > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: pallasmaa_thinking_2009 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: The Thinking Hand](zotero://select/items/@pallasmaa_thinking_2009) > ReviewedDate:: [[2021-11-27]] ## Citation ```latex [@pallasmaa_thinking_2009] ``` ## Related ```dataview TABLE file.aliases AS "Title" FROM [[@pallasmaa_thinking_2009]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## Summary Training of the hand is provided in courses that teach elementary skills in the handicrafts, but the integral role of the hand in the evolution and different manifestations of human intelligence is not acknowledged. (12) This book emphasises the relatively autonomous and unconscious processes of thinking and working in writing, craftsmanship and making art or architecture. (21) ## Notes #### 인트로덕션: 현재 인더스트리얼 환경때문에 몸에 대한 계념이 단지 Passive한 것으로 바뀜. - (In our age of massive industrial projection,) our senses and bodies are objects of ceaseless commercial manipulation and exploitation. (13) - The senses are not merely passive receptors of stimuli, and the body is not only a point of viewing the world from a central perspective. Neither is the head the sole locus of cognitive thinking, as our senses and entire bodily being directly structure, produce and store silent existential knowledge. ==The human body is a knowing entity.== - '[U]nderstanding is not a quality corning to human reality from the outside; it is its characteristic way of existing,' as Jean-Paul Sartre clairns. ^[Jean Paul Sartre, The Emotions Outline of a Theory, Carol Publishing (New York), 1993, p.9] - (15) - In accordance with Sartre's argument we are born into the world which in itself Is the most important source of knowledge for us. ^[Our normal understanding is that children are born completely ignorant of the world. However, according to today’s cognitive psychology, this is a gross misunderstanding. ‘We know now that babies know more about the world than we would ever have thought possible. They have ideas about other human beings, about objects and the world—right from the day they are born. And these are fairly complex ideas, not just reflexes or reponses to sensation (…) Newborn babies have an initial theory about the world and the inferential learning capacities to revise, change and rework those initial theories on the evidence they experience from the very beginning of their lives.’ Gopnik, A. (2003) What Every Baby Knows. New Scientist 178 (2395) p.42–45.] - (16) Even masterful architects do not invent architectural realities; they rather reveal what exists and what are the natural potentials of the given condition, or what the given situation calls for. “The hand grasps the physicality and materiality of thought and turns it into a concrete image.” ([[Juhani Pallasmaa|Pallasmaa]], 2009, p. 16) “in the ecstasy of work, the draughtsman forgets both his hand and the pencil, and the image emerges as if it were an automatic projection of the imagining mind.” ([[Juhani Pallasmaa|Pallasmaa]], 2009, p. 17) - (17) - All our senses 'think' and structure our relationship with the world. although we are not usually conscious of this perpetual activity. - Albert Einstein's well-known description, in a letter to the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard, of the role of visual and muscular images in his thinking processes in the fields of mathematics and physics provides an authoritative example of embodied thinking: - The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certam signs and more or less clear images which can be 'voluntarily' reproduced and combined. [...] The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only In a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play Is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will. ^[Einstein’s letter published as Appendix IIin The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques Hadamard] [@hadamard_essay_1995, 142] - These modes of thinking are images of the hand and the body, and they exemplify essential existential knowledge. Instead of being mere visual aestheticisation, architecture, for instance, is a mode of existential and metaphysical philosophising through the means of space, structure, and matter, gravity and light. Profound architecture does not merely beautify the settings of dwelling ==great buildings articulate the experiences of our very existence==. (19) - Creative work calls for a double perspective, one needs to focus simultaneously on the world and on oneself, the external space and one's inner mental space. […] both in the experience of the artist and in that of the viewer/listener/occupant. In this sense, the art form of architecture does not only provide a shelter of the body, it also redefines the contour of our consciousness, and it is a true externalisation of our mind. - Even in the technological culture of today, the most important existential knowledge in our everyday life does not reside in detached theories and explanations, but it is a silent knowledge, beyond the threshold of consciousness, fused with daily environments and behavioural situations. - The poet, too, speaks of encounters at the 'threshold of being', as Gaston Bachelard points out. ^[Bachelard, G. (1994) _The Poetics of Space_. Boston: Beacon Press, p. XXIV] - Consequently, the essential trme dimension of art points to the past rather than the future; significant art and architecture maintains roots and traditions instead of uprooting and inventing. - ==이 부분은 좀 다시 생각해 볼 필요가 있지 않을까? 그렇다는 것은 speculative design 이나 art work는 과거를 미래로 돌려 놓는 것일까?== #Comments - However, today’s obsession with uniqueness and novelty has misguided our judgement of artistic phenomena. - ==Artistic revolutions always imply a reconnection with the invisible undercurrents of the universe of the human mind.== #### 챕터 1: 미스테리어스 손 - 르 코브지에의 손에 대한 그의 제자의 관찰 - 손과 도구 그리고 생각화되는 손