This is the programme of the IIAA’s XV summer congress’ 14 sessions. You can find the presentation abstracts and conference participants’ bios in the IIAA XV Conference Booklet. All times in the programme are in East European Summer Time (Helsinki, EEST, UTC +3).
Monday, June 12
15:00–16:00
Session 1
Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
Chair: Mateusz Salwa
Corinna Casi: Decolonizing Environmental Discourses within Environmental Ethics: The Case of Natural Values
Luana Poliseli: Aesthetic Features in Knowledge Co-Production for Environmental Conservation and Sustainability
CANCELLED: Jean-Claude Léveque & Dario Padovan: Sustainability between Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics
Session 2
Rethinking tradition
Chair: Arto Haapala
Elena Romagnoli: Hermeneutic Situatedness and Landscape Sustainability
Jay Hetrick: Rethinking Sustainability with Félix Guattari
16:15–17:45
Session 3
Varieties of Sustainability in the Relationship between Art and Nature (Panel)
Chair: Zoltán Somhegyi
Panelists:
Zoltán Somhegyi,
Adrienne Gálosi,
Sándor Sajó,
Endre Szécsényi
Session 4
Cultural Ecosystem Services – a Research and Policy Concept for Sustaining the Aesthetic in Nature (Panel)
Chairs: Karoliina Lummaa & Oleksandra Nenko
Panelists:
Karoliina Lummaa,
Oleksandra Nenko,
Polina Golovátina-Mora,
Minna Santaoja
Tuesday, June 13
09:15–10:15
Session 5
New Insights
Chair: Mateusz Salwa
Alonzo Heino: Loving the Process – Care as a Component of Techne
Stephanie Schuster: Adopting Timefulness: The Transformative Potential of Aesthetic Deep Time Experiences
Session 6
Art & Aesthetics
Chair: Arto Haapala
Laura Fumagalli: Ugliness in Landscapes
Virpi Kaukio: Sustainable use of mires from an aesthetic perspective
CANCELLED: Gesine Schepers: The Beauty of Nature and Ecological Sustainability
10:30–12:00
Session 7
Body & Presence
(Online Session)
Chair: Noora-Helena Korpelainen
Anna Petersson: Urban Cemeteries and the Aesthetics of Care (ONLINE)
Elettra Villani: Including Scars – Environmental Considerations from Theodor W. Adorno’s Thought (ONLINE)
Victoria Mateos de Manuel: Dance Aesthetics: Sensation and Perception of the Verb to Sustain (ONLINE)
Session 8
Art & Aesthetics
Chair: Virpi Kaukio
Matti Tainio: Fair Nights – Artificial Illumination and Sustainability
Anna Schober: Pablo Albarenga’s Seeds of Resistance: A Relational and Horizontal Aesthetics as a Means to Popularize Environmental Issues
Alma Izhaky: Holy Landscapes, Blasted Landscapes: Two Holy Sites in Palestine/Israel in Contemporary Artworks
15:00–16:30
Session 9
The Aesthetics of Demolition
(Panel)
Chairs: Iida Kalakoski & Riina Sirén
Panelists:
Panu Savolainen,
Ella Müller,
Johanna Björkman,
Iida Kalakoski & Riina Sirén
Session 10
Re-Thinking “Nature’s Call”: Aesthetic Intra-Actions Between In/Continence, Human-Made Synthetic and Organic Material, and Society (Panel)
Chair: Riku Laakkonen
Panelists:
Riku Laakkonen,
Tiina Vaittinen,
Timo Uotinen,
Anna-Ilona Rajala
Wednesday, June 14
09:15–10:15
Session 11
Rethinking Tradition
Chair: Mateusz Salwa
Oiva Kuisma: Aesthetic Reconciliation: Some Conceptual and Historical Observations
Noora-Helena Korpelainen: Pragmatist Aesthetics on Experiencing Sustainability
Session 12
Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
Chair: Virpi Kaukio
Mao Matsuyama: The Dream of the Artificial Island: A Case Study on Kobe Port Island and the Expo “Portpia ’81”
Vera Vicenzotti & Sofia Sandqvist:
Sustaining Aesthetics in Landscape Architecture
10:30–12:00
Session 13
Sustainable Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
Chair: Noora-Helena Korpelainen
David Flood: #kalasatama: Discursive Views of the Helsinki Landscape through the Virtual Window
Kirsi Laurén: Sensed and Aestheticized Mire: Moving in a Wet and Submerged Environment
Asmus Trautsch: Aesthetic Considerations for Sustainable Gardens of the Anthropocene
Session 14
Rethinking Tradition
Chair: Arto Haapala
Lorenz Moises J Festin: Rediscovering Kant’s Insight on the Affinity in Beauty of Art and Nature
Saumya Suyal: In Search of an Appropriate Model of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Dealing with the Problem of Dualism
Thomas Nylund: Obstacles to Sustainability-Promoting Aesthetics