Cultivating Aesthetic Sensibility for Sustainability

Autor: Noora-Helena P Korpelainen
Přispěvatelé: Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: University of Helsinki
ESPES, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 165-182 (2021)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5866518
Popis: Our aesthetic practices, by which we aim for better well-being, are intertwined with fostering sustainability. This article focuses on Yuriko Saito’s aesthetics of sustainability, an idea denoting a new kind of aesthetic sensibility informed by and featuring both environmental and cultural sustainability. Saito’s idea is based on our aesthetic relationship with everyday experiences. In this article, I defend the idea, on the one hand, by considering the immanence of change as a sense of contemporary everydayness and, on the other hand, by regarding mindfulness as a practice. Situating the discussion in the European context emphasises the aesthetics of sustainability as asustainability transformation, that is, an ongoing societal change powered by the continuous cultivation of aesthetic sensibility.
Databáze: OpenAIRE