This is the programme of the IIAA’s XV international summer congress Scoping Sustainable Aesthetics – Rethinking Nature, Man-Made Environment. Please note that the programme is still subject to change.
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