Leonard Koren’s Musings of a Curious Aesthete reads like the work of a practiced conversationalist who has spent a lifetime whispering provocations into the ear of design and culture. Part memoir, part aesthetic tract, the book collects short, nimble essays that move from recollection to critique with the lightness of a sketchbook and the stubborn … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Musings of a Curious Aesthete by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts reads less like a conventional monograph and more like an invitation to a practiced, patient conversation — half aphorism, half careful exegesis — with one of the thinnest and most capacious concepts in modern aesthetics. Where so many volumes try to define wabi-sabi by checklist or historical excavation, Koren treats … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers reads less like a conventional treatise and more like a pocket anthology of aesthetic instructions and provocations — a distilled program for seeing differently. Its ambition is modest and precise: to translate a notoriously slippery Japanese sensibility into language useful to makers and thinkers in the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – What Artists Do by Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do reads less like a conventional handbook and more like a pocket philosopher’s lecture delivered in fragments. The book is compact, aphoristic, and intentionally spare — a series of short meditations on the activities, habits, anxieties, and tiny triumphs that make up an artist’s working life. Koren does not attempt a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – What Artists Do by Leonard Koren
The New Renaissance Mindset 