David Seamon

Environment-behavior researcher and Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. His research and writings focus on the ways that the natural and built environments contribute to human well-being. Key themes in which Seamon is interested include: Human aspects of design; Place and place-making; The nature of environmental and architectural experience; Environmental and architectural aesthetics; Artistic media as a means for understanding environment, place, and nature; The "phenomenology of nature" developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Phenomenology as a method of inquiry in the human sciences and environment-behavior research.