A Matter of Beauty. Material Ecologies within the Planetary Boundaries.

Beskrivelse

The forming arts may be understood as material practices where biophysical capital is extracted from nature and formed to serve a specific program. However, on a bounded planet, material resources are limited, and the safe operating space of six out of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed. As both technological improvements, reduction of environmental impacts as well as sufficiency measures are required in a sustainable development, the climate, resource and biodiversity crisis are primarily an aesthetic question. This lecture will argue that instead of understanding the concept of aesthetics as a subjective value judgement, aesthetics should be perceived as a sense-making event that takes place through bodily interaction, sensory experience and affective involvement. As such, beauty may be one way to invite ecological attentiveness, resource awareness and environmental protection.

Periode	22 jan. 2024
Sted for afholdelse	Konstfack, Sverige
Grad af anerkendelse	International