Design and Spirituality
Design and Spirituality

Author: Stuart Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-30

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1000245950

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Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and our constricted notions of progress have contributed to today’s crisis of values, and argues for a re-establishment and re-affirmation of self-transcending priorities, together with an ethos of moderation and sufficiency. A wide range of topics are covered, including material culture and spiritual teachings; sustainability and the spiritual perspective; traditional and indigenous knowledge; technology and spirituality; notions of meaningful design; and how particular material things can have deeper, symbolic significance. There are also reflections on areas such as the language of design; busyness and its relationship to wisdom; design and social disparity; and traditional sacred practices. While not avoiding issues that are controversial, and sometimes hard-hitting, Design and Spirituality gets to the heart of the key issues affecting us today and presents them in a highly readable and accessible format. The author is a leading thinker in the field and he presents his arguments in a manner that invites the reader to reflect and think about where we are going, why we are going there and what really matters. Podcasts https://www.jesuit.ie/podcasts/the-spiritual-dimension-of-design/ https://newbooksnetwork.com/design-and-spirituality

Spiritual Design: Enrich Your Spiritual Practice with Lessons from Behavioral Science
Spiritual Design: Enrich Your Spiritual Practice with Lessons from Behavioral Science

Author: Stephen Wendel

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781733531207

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It's hard to make time for a meaningful spiritual life. This book can help you do it: by making small, clever changes to your environment. Spiritual Design offers a wealth of research to help you enrich your spiritual life, whether your goal is to meditate or pray regularly, follow a personal calling, or anything in between. You'll also learn about breaking bad habits and avoiding the moments of weakness we later regret. You'll apply lessons from behavioral science - the interdisciplinary study of how people make decisions in their daily lives - to design your environment to support spiritual growth and practice. This process, Spiritual Design, includes: Understanding how our minds are wired, and how our cognitive biases can lead us into temptation or hinder us from following through on our spiritual leadings, Overcoming the common obstacles that we face, and building habits that help us make time for our spiritual life, Learning why our daily lives are structured to distract us from what matters, and how to change that. Dr. Stephen Wendel is a behavioral scientist, who leads a team of researchers that helps people overcome behavioral obstacles in their lives. In Spiritual Design, he offers practical lessons on applying behavioral science in one's spiritual practice regardless of one's beliefs or denomination. To learn more about Spiritual Design, read Steve's blog at www.spiritualdesign.co.

Spirituality in Architectural Education
Spirituality in Architectural Education

Author: Julio Bermudez

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0813234816

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How does spirituality enter the education of an architect? Should it? What do we mean by 'spirituality' in the first place? Isn't architectural education a training ground for professional practice and, therefore, technically and secularly oriented? Is there even room to add something as esoteric if not controversial as spirituality to an already packed university curriculum? The humanistic and artistic roots of architecture certainly invite us to consider dimensions well beyond the instrumental, including spirituality. But how would we teach such a thing? And why, if spirituality is indeed relevant to learning architecture, have we heard so little about it? Spirituality in Architectural Education addresses these and many other important philosophical, disciplinary, pedagogic, and practical questions. Grounded on the twelve-year-old Walton Critic Program at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning, this book offers solid arguments and insightful reflections on the role that "big questions" and spiritual sensibility ought to play in the architectural academy today. Using 11 design studios as stopping grounds, the volume takes the reader into a journey full of meaningful interrogations, pedagogic techniques, challenging realizations, and beautiful designs. Essays from renowned architects Craig W. Hartman, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Campo Baeza, Claudio Silvestrin, Eliana Bórmida, Michael J. Crosbie, Prem Chandavarkar, Rick Joy, Susan Jones, and Daniel Libeskind open new vistas on the impact of spirituality in architectural education and practice. All this work is contextualized within the ongoing discussion of the role of spirituality and religion in higher education at large. The result is an unprecedented volume that starts a long-awaited conversation that will advance architectural schooling. ACSA Distinguished Professor Julio Bermudez, with recognized expertise on spirituality in architecture, will be the guide in this fascinating and contemplative journey.

Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality
Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

Author: Thomas Barrie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1317179013

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Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according to topical themes: Being in the World; Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition; Symbolic Engagements; Sacred Landscapes; and Spirituality and the Designed Environment. Even though the authors’ approach the subject from a range of disciplines and theoretical positions, all share interests in the need to rediscover, redefine, or reclaim the sacred in everyday experience, scholarly analysis, and design.

Beautiful Places, Spiritual Spaces
Beautiful Places, Spiritual Spaces

Author: Sharon Hanby-Robie

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1575675986

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Today's fast pace allows little room for time-consuming trips to decorating stores. Or perhaps the lack of funds keeps us from furnishing and redecorating our homes. This is a Bible study to understand how to build and maintain a biblical atmosphere in our homes. Designed to meet the needs of today's woman, BeautifulPlaces, Spiritual Spaces is the ideal companion for women navigating the uncharted territory of life - offering daily, short, inspirational mediations, and creative decorating how-to's.

The Dawn of the Golden Age
The Dawn of the Golden Age

Author: Paco Rabanne

Publisher: HarperElement

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781862043718

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In his new book, this famed fashion designer explains how we need to develop spiritually for the coming Age of Aquarius. The Dawn of the Golden Age contains practical advice, methods and rituals on how to purify one's home, protect yourself from your enemies and harmonize with the cosmos.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Author: Wassily Kandinsky

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 048613248X

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Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Think Indigenous
Think Indigenous

Author: Doug Good Feather

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1401956165

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A guide to integrating indigenous thinking into modern life for a more interconnected and spiritual relationship with our fellow beings, Mother Earth, and the natural ways of the universe. There is a natural law—a spiritual intelligence that we are all born with that lies within our hearts. Lakota spiritual leader Doug Good Feather shares the authentic knowledge that has been handed down through the Lakota generations to help you make and recognize this divine connection, centered around the Seven Sacred Directions in the Hoop of Life: Wiyóhinyanpata—East: New Beginnings Itókagata—South: The Breath of Life Wiyóhpeyata—West: The Healing Powers Wazíyata—North: Earth Medicine Wankátakáb—Above: The Great Mystery Khúta—Below: The Source of Life Hóchoka—Center: The Center of Life Once you begin to understand and recognize these strands, you can integrate them into modern life through the Threefold Path: The Way of the Seven Generations—Conscious living The Way of the Buffalo—Mindful consumption The Way of the Community—Collective impact

Workplace Spirituality
Workplace Spirituality

Author: Yochanan Altman

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3110711400

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Workplace spirituality is an emerging field of study and practice and this book asks the questions: Where have we been in the last ten years as a field and where should we be headed in the next ten years? The editors asked these questions of thought leaders from around the globe, leaders who represent different sectors, faith traditions, worldviews and organizational functions. This volume represents the best of current thinking about the state of the field of workplace spirituality and of what the future holds. There are four themes: (1) management themes such as leadership, ethics, change management, and diversity; (2) workplace spirituality in sectors such as health and wellbeing, policing and creative industries, (3) key issues that are emerging, such as self-spirituality, mindfulness, storytelling and the importance of nature, and (4) cutting edge epistemologies and methodologies including indigenous studies, relational ontology, ethnography, and psychodynamics. These articles were chosen to provoke new thinking, new research, and new practice in the field of workplace spirituality, with the goal of helping the field mature in the next decade.