Overlooking the Visual

Kathryn Moore has lectured and published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. She is past President of the Landscape Institute, UK representative of IFLA, a design consultant, and is Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, UK.

• Foreword Paul Shepheard Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Sensory Interface and Other Myths and Legends 3. Teaching the Unknowable 4. Aesthetics: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Universal Truth 5. Objectivity Without Neutrality 6. Studied Ignorance 7. Seeing is Believing 8. Theory into Practice. Bibliography

"...this is a book designers ought to read, not least because it is a role model of how they could advocate theories in everyday prose that deals both clearly and rigorously with difficult philosophical and design issues." - Times Higher Education"[Overlooking the Visual] is ahead of the curve in the current task of reconnecting theory to application, positioning design knowledge as embodied, accessible, and reproducible." – Philip Plowright, Lawrence Technological University"The book fills a gap in the literature whereby it makes a very important point from the perspective of landscape. My students so far have mostly all agreed with your argument, and actually found little to quarrel with..." – Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Graduate School of Design