兩個多禮拜前,一位名為Esther Honig的記者發表了一個名為Before & After的專題。Esther想知道各個國家對於美是否有同樣的標準。於是Esther拍了一張自拍照,接著Esther將這張照片發送給世界各地的Photoshop專家請他們 “Make her beautiful”。結果如下圖。這個創意專題引起了大篇幅的媒體報導和討論,讓人們重新反思對於美的追求是否過了頭。
Esther自己是這麼說的
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“Photoshop allows us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more elusive.” – Esther
關於綠建築的標準,讓我們先回到 1990 年,當時英國建築研究機構(BRE)首次發布有關「建築研究發展環境評估工具(Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method,BREEAM®)」,是世界上第一個建築永續評估方法。美國則在綠建築委員會成立後,於 1998 年推出「能源與環境設計領導認證」(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED)這套評估系統,加速推動了全球綠建築行動。
之後,有許多學者發現「審美流暢理論」並不能完美解釋人的審美。例如,按照「審美流暢理論」,人看到新事物時並不會感受到美,因為缺乏過去經驗,大腦無法順暢處理。但研究發現並非如此,人在欣賞新物品時也會感到美,且愈典型常見的事物也並不一定會覺得美(Blijlevens, Carbon, Mugge & Schoormans, 2012)。生活中也可以發現人們對新物品感受到美的例子,2007 年 Steve Jobs 展示第一代 iPhone 時,iPhone 的設計在當時並非手機的典型,人們卻望著 iphone 讚嘆它的美。相反的,人會看膩常見的事物,你會看著一塊常見的橡皮擦,然後欣賞著橡皮擦的美嗎?
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因此後來有學者提出「審美流暢理論」的改版 :「愉悅─興致的審美模型(Pleasure-Interest Model of Aesthetic Liking, PIA Model)」 ( Graf, & Landwehr, 2015),此理論認為人在觀賞物品前會有所預期(我要來投新身分證的票囉),而在觀賞時勢必會遇到與預期不符的情形(喔!這個身分證設計跟我想像的不一樣),也就是大腦在處理看到的訊息時有了不流暢感(disfluency),此不流暢感會「序列性地」經過兩階段的審美處理:
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