The Spectrum of Visual Imagination and its Relevance to Design

What do typical visualizers experience? How do hyperphantasics experience visual imagery? Melanie Scheer presents a new way to depict the visual imagination spectrum.
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The Spectrum of Visual Imagination With Melanie Scheer

What do typical visualizers experience? How do hyperphantasics experience visual imagery?

For her master’s thesis, Melanie Scheer conducted a series of small experiments and workshops to examine the visual imagination spectrum from a designer’s perspective. She conducted several small experiments and workshops to achieve this goal. Her research focused on finding new ways to discuss and depict mental images and examining their role in the design process. The result was a new way to visualize the invisible.

In this presentation, designer Melanie Scheer joins Aphantasia Network to present a new way to visualize the visual imagination spectrum.

Melanie Scheer is a freelance designer from Germany. After studying design in the Bauhaus city of Dessau, she went on to pursue her Master’s degree in Mainz, Germany, where she started examining mental images and their relevance for the design practice. Scheer joins the Aphantaisa Network to present her design research.

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