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What Is Evolutionary Aesthetics? Three Waves
Evolutionary aesthetics (EA) is often associated with the rise of evolutionary psychology, from roughly the 1980s until the 2010s. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the field but rather a middle wave after the first and before the third ...
Onerva Kiianlinna
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Design review aims to improve the quality of urban settings, principally by seeking to influence the design of individual buildings positively during the planning approval stages of development.
Morten Gjerde, Brenda Vale
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Aesthetics of the Environment and Environmental Aesthetics
The thesis underlying this paper is that “the aesthetic” intrinsically possesses an environmental feature (and that therefore this latter should be a feature of aesthetics, too). In order to prove this claim viable I will tackle the implications of a so-called “environmental tension” in aesthetics.
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This article shows how the desire to promote an ecologised aesthetic relationship with the environment, something which has emerged in recent decades through the philosophical movement of environmental aesthetics, raises the question of the historical ...
Serge Briffaud
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Eco-aesthetics offers cultural, socio-economic and environmental benefits for building sustainable green infrastructure systems. However, eco-aesthetics in urban green infrastructure is apparently inadequate in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (
Ayisha Ida Haruna +2 more
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Remarks upon the Aesthetics of the Night Sky
This essay begins with some observations on the main features and availability of the aesthetic experience of the night sky to us. In the second part, the aesthetics of the starry sky is interpreted in terms of time experience, complementing the usual ...
Endre Szécsényi
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Habitual Behaviour and Ecology: Why Aesthetics Matters (Preliminary Notes)
This paper is mainly intended to provide some insights into the relationship between the aesthetic dimension, human practical/habitual knowledge and the environment (broadly understood); more specifically, I shall shed some light on that variety of ...
Mariagrazia Portera
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On the recuperation of postindustrial sites: an aesthetic analysis
Environmental aesthetics has mostly concerned itself not with changing environments, but with appreciating them. While making sense of how we do and ought to appreciate environments, both natural and built, is surely of value, aesthetics’ normative ...
Jonathan Maskit
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Early Theoretical Models for the Aesthetic Analysis of Non-Art Objects
The paper takes interest in some of the conditions that made possible the development of everyday aesthetics in contemporary philosophy. It explains why certain positions in the aesthetics of the 20th century needed countering in order to satisfactorily ...
Cristian Hainic
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This study explores the potential of industrial heritage sites to contribute to a restorative landscape by analysing the perceptions of the industrial workers towards the environmental aesthetics components.
Abantika Mukherjee, Haimanti Banerji
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