This media lesson focuses on content related to the psychological and evolutionary bases of aesthetics and design, and addresses skills related to taking notes from a visually-rich lecture.
Watch this TED talk about the emergence of beautiful design as a natural phenomenon and complete the exercises in the lesson document.
Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.