Visual Wellbeing
Rethoric
Visual design
Relation
Assumptions
Goals
Function
Deal with
Function
Context
Social aspects
Language and symbol systems
Needs rethoric
To Instruct
To move
To please
Needs design
Fascination with sight and seeing
Mental images required in construction of memory
Use symbols to persuade creatures who by nature respond to symbols
All human symbols may be analyzed in rethorical terms
Art & Practice
Theory and skill development
Achieved through practice
Testable in practice
Key Concepts
Enargeia / Enargia
Ability to create a vivid description
Present evidence
"Graphic", "active","representing actuality"
Visual clarity, immediacy, self-evidentia, strong emotional appeal
Goal=Good/Pleasurable
Eudaimonia
Wellbeing,pleasure,happiness
Expression of virtue
Personal expressiveness
Deeply held values
Enriching activities
Meanings
Self-realization
Cultural rooted
Visual Wellbeing
Feeling healthy, happy and content
Experience of objects through visual sense
Power relationships
Intersubjectivity
Conscious experience
Cooperation
Influence
Persuasion
Exigence