Reframing Human Endeavors

1. Rethinking Western Humanity: An Introduction.- PART I: FOUNDATION.- 2. Intuition, Intentionality, and Experience.- 3. Kant's Apperception and Philosophy of Mind.- PART II: ELABORATIONS.- 4. Epistemology of Design.- 5. Design, Livability, and Sustainability.- 6. Technology, Livability, and Sustainability.- 7. Technological Society, Livability, and Sustainability.- 8. Surveillance Technology, Livability, and Sustainability.- 9. Environmental Ethics, Livability, and Sustainability.- PART III: CASES & EXPOSITIONS.- 10. Motion Picture, Livability, and Sustainability.- 11.Sports, Livability, and Sustainability.- 12. Clothing, Livability, and Sustainability.- 13. Higher Education, Livability, and Sustainability.- 14. Power, Livability, and Sustainability.

Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent scholar in Toronto Canada. Bagoes earned his Doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Aachen University of Technology in 1990. Germany. He was a Postdoctoral fellow for architecture at the East-West Centre, Honolulu Hawaii, and a Fulbright scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, U.S.A. The area of specialization of his teaching and research experience is focused on the history, theory, and design of urbanism in various cultures and traditions in Southeast Asia and North America. He was a senior lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology (1981-3, 1993-2002), and visiting research associate at the Asian Institute, the University of Toronto Canada (2003-5). He was an associate professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2010 -2013). Most recent scholarly books by Bagoes Wiryomartono include Architectural Humanities: Divulging Knowledge, Ethics, and Aesthetics of the Built Environment and Habitation (Dordrecht: SpringerNature, 2021 forthcoming), Traditions and Transformations of Habitation in Indonesia (Singapore: SpringerNature, 2020), Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism (Singapore: Palgrave, 2019), Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society (2016), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield; Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form, and Culture in Indonesia (2014), New York-Berlin Singapore: Springer Business Media. He published his research in various Scopus journals on the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and culture in Southeast Asia.