PROGRAMME

This is the programme of the IIAA’s XV international summer congress Scoping Sustainable Aesthetics – Rethinking Nature, Man-Made Environment.

The programme of the parallel sessions is here.

You can find The IIAA XV Conference Booklet here.

The following general timetable is intended to give an idea of the duration and arrangement of the conference’s main programme. The general timetable of the conference:

Monday, June 12, 12:00–18:00
Tuesday, June 13, 09:00–18:00
Wednesday, June 14, 09:00–15:00

All times in the programme are in East European Summer Time (Helsinki, EEST, UTC +3).

MONDAY, June 12

12:00–13:00 Lunch

13:00–13:30 Opening Words (streamed online)
Arto Haapala (IIAA), Minna-Maija Salomaa (UCLahti)

13:30–14:30 ONLINE KEYNOTE (streamed online)
Roberta Dreon (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
Sensibility and Interest: Toward a Sustainable Attitude
Chair: Arto Haapala

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break

15:00–16:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 1: Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
Session 2: Rethinking Tradition

16:00–16:15 Break

16:15–17:45 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session 3: Varieties of Sustainability in the Relationship between Art and Nature
Session 4: Cultural Ecosystem Services – a Research and Policy Concept for Sustaining the Aesthetic in Nature

17:45–18:00 Closing of the Day

19:00 The City of Lahti Reception

TUESDAY, June 13

9:15–10:15 Parallel Sessions
Session 5: New Insights
Session 6: Art & Aesthetics

10:15–10:30 Coffee Break

10:30–12:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 7: Body & Presence (online session)
Session 8: Art & Aesthetics

12:00–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–14:30 KEYNOTE (streamed online)
Henry Dicks (University Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Biomimicry and Sustainable Aesthetics
Chair: Mateusz Salwa

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break

15:00–16:30 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session 9: The Aesthetics of Demolition
Session 10: Re-Thinking “Nature’s Call”: Aesthetic Intra-Actions Between In/Continence, Human-Made Synthetic and Organic Material, and Society

16:30–16:45 Closing of the Day

WEDNESDAY, June 14

9:15–10:15 Parallel Sessions
Session 11: Rethinking Tradition
Session 12: Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice

10:15–10:30 Coffee Break

10:30–12:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 13: Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
Session 14: Rethinking Tradition

12:00–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–14:30 KEYNOTE (streamed online)
Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto University)
Aesthetic Sustainability in Urban Environments
Chair: Virpi Kaukio

14:30–14:45 Conference Closing (streamed online)
Mateusz Salwa (conference committee)

14:45–15:00 Coffee