Parallel Sessions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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