The programme of the IIAA’s XVI international summer congress Experiencing Environments – Human Perspectives in the Changing World can be found from this page in its most updated form.
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:
Tuesday, June 10, 09:30–18:00
Wednesday, June 11, 09:30–18:00
Thursday, June 12, 09:30–15:00
All times in the programme are in East European Summer Time (Helsinki, EEST, UTC +3).
Tuesday, June 10
09:30 Opening Words by Arto Haapala (IIAA) & Minna-Maija Salomaa (UCLahti) (Auditorium 1)
10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE (Auditorium 1)
Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania), online
Spirits of Place – Horror, enchantment, and the eeriness of landscape
Chair: Arto Haapala
11:15-12:15 Parallel Sessions 1 & 2
Session 1, Chair: Harri Mäcklin (Auditorium 1)
Kira Meyer: A methodology for substantiating eudaimonic values – Strengthening German ecophenomenology
Alonzo Heino: Art and Its Ideals – Exploring the Environmental Implications of Mastery, Perfection, and Genius
Session 2, Chair: Matti Tainio (Seminar Room A122)
Anna Talasniemi: Multisensory and embodied aesthetics of sauna
Alessandra Randazzo: Dealing with changing environments through improvised dance practices
CHANGED TIME: 13:45-14:45 Parallel Sessions 3 & 4
Session 3, Chair: Fotini Vassiliou (Auditorium 1)
Julia Rosalinda de Boer: The unity of traditional and everyday aesthetics in Calvin Seerveld’s theory of allusivity
Jonathan Maskit: A Hybrid Differential AestheticsMark Windsor: Collingwood’s Everyday Aesthetics
Session 4, Chair: Noora-Helena Korpelainen (Seminar Room A122)Franlu Vulliermet: Experiencing the Environment: An Indigenous Perspective from the Amazon Rainforest
Anastasia Klug: Aesthetics of waste
Corinna Casi: From ‘Nature’ to ‘Land’: A Multispecies Perspective in a Changing World
15:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions 5 & 6
Session 5, Chair: Alonzo Heino (Auditorium 1)
Jasper van Buuren: Physical Activity and the Experience of Beauty, Value, and Meaning in Nature
Alex Arteaga: Aesthetic sense-making. The aesthetic enaction of environments within unpredictably changing worlds
Session 6, Chair: Harri Mäcklin (Seminar Room A122)
Virpi Kaukio: Paradox of Bansky Museum. The role of the museum in the debate on social change from an aesthetic perspective
Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen: Sketches of Interspecies Cultural Policies – Perspectives from Contemporary Art
16:30-18:00 KEYNOTE (Auditorium 1)
Panel on Arnold Berleant’s Work
Panelists: Fotini Vassiliou, Max Ryynänen, Harri Mäcklin, and Arnold Berleant (online), Chair: Arto Haapala
19:00 The City of Lahti Reception
Wednesday, June 11
09:30-10:30 KEYNOTE (Auditorium 1)
Mădălina Diaconu (University of Vienna)
Living in Tune with the Seasons? Attunement, adjustment, and engagement in the experience of seasonality
Chair: Harri Mäcklin
10:45-12:15 Parallel Sessions 7 & 8
Session 7, Chair: Corinna Casi (Auditorium 1)
Tuulikki Halla: Experiencing the forest – embodied narratives of Finnish forest professionals
Laura Aimo: Feeling Closer To Each Other. An Art-Based Environmental Education from Maria Lai’s “Binding to the Mountain” (1981)
Franlu Vulliermet: Experiencing the Environment: An Indigenous Perspective from the Amazon RainforestKaroliina Lummaa: Witnessing change – sensing agency?
Session 8, Chair: Arto Haapala (Seminar Room A122)
Elena Romagnoli: Can we experience landscapes without images? From picturesque to a performative approach
David Flood: Empathy and Landscape
Edda R. H. Waage & Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir: From vision to relation: Developing methods for integrating aesthetic value in land use decision-making
13:15-14:45 Parallel Sessions 9, 10, & 11
Session 9, Chair: Virpi Kaukio (Auditorium 1)
Anne Thompson: Aesthetic Character of Landscape: A Cognitive Account
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar: The Ecological Aesthetics of Unintentional Ponds in Abandoned Construction Sites
Matti Tainio: Encountering artefacts in Natural Environments. Deliberations about the effect of the human infrastructure in “pristine” nature
Session 10, Chair: Harri Mäcklin (Seminar Room A122)
Washington Morales: Aesthetic Arguments in Contemporary Environmental Disputes in Uruguay: Practical Consequences and Theoretical ImplicationsZoltán Somhegyi: Aesthetic Alterations of the Ruined Environment – What Can the History of Artistic Renderings of Natural Disasters Teach Us?
Jussi Pentikäinen: The Harmony of the Senses Expressed in Poetry – The Case of Coleridge’s “Eolian Harp”
Anna-Kaisa Koski: Enchantment of the Ordinary – Aesthetics of The Intangible Experience of Energy in Modern and Contemporary Art
Session 11, Chair: Fotini Vassiliou (Seminar Room A116)
Oiva Kuisma: Great City in the Eyes of a Great Philosopher: Plato’s Judgment of the Aesthetic Glory of Classical Athens
Noora-Helena Korpelainen: Aesthetic Sensibility as a Capability
–A Vehicle to Support When Promoting Socially Just Sustainability Transitions
Johannes Müller-Salo: Urban Stances. Everyday Experiences and Interactions in the City
15:15-16:15 Parallel Sessions 12 & 13
Session 12, Chair: Fotini Vassiliou (Auditorium 1)
Mao Matsuyama: Recognizing Making – Rethinking DIY and Redecoration
Anu Besson: Wandering, finding, making, being
Session 13, Chair: Elena Romagnoli (Seminar Room A122)
Stafford Davis: The Significance of Negative Aesthetics in Dewey’s “Anesthetic” Experience
Laura Fumagalli: Perception, Knowledge, and Climate Change
16:30-18:00 Panel Sessions; Panels 1, 2, & 3
Panel Session 1: Public Space (Auditorium 1)
Chair: Arto Haapala
Panelists: Maiju Suomi, Satu Parjanen & Anne Pässilä, Eeva Aarrevaara et al.
Panel Session 2: Ways of encountering, being and caring in nature (Seminar Room A122)
Chair: Nora Schuurman & Kirsi Laurén
Panelists: Nora Schuurman, Kirsi Laurén & Taru Peltola
Panel Session 3: Experiencing Atmospheres (Seminar Room A116)
Chair: Alberto Voltolini
Panelists: Elisabetta Sacchi, Anja Novak & Alberto Voltolini
Thursday, June 12
10:00-11:00 Sessions 17 & 18
Session 17, Chair: Noora-Helena Korpelainen (Auditorium 1)Riikka Latva-Somppi et al.: Situated Sensing: How different disciplinary backgrounds impact experiencing water environments?
Anish Mishra: Chipko and Ecological Aesthetics: Environmental Movements as Sources of Alternative Epistemologies
Session 18, Chair: Harri Mäcklin (Seminar Room A122)
Maddalena Borsato: Inhabiting Saccarophilic Environments – How Sweetness Shapes Our Everyday
Yujia Song: In touch with Nature
11:15-12:15 Sessions 19 & 20
Session 19, Chair: Arto Haapala (Auditorium 1)
Nin Kirkham: Psychedelic re-enchantment: Psychedelic experiences, the sublime, and the environmental virtues
Valeria Costanza D’Agata: Experiencing the texture of the world: an aesthetic insight on people with neurodiversity
Session 20, Chair: Fotini Vassiliou (Seminar Room A122)
Mami Aota: Aesthetic Experience of the Temporary in Urban Life
Una Thorlaksdottir: Placed experiences and aesthetic understandings
13:30-14:30 KEYNOTE (Auditorium 1)
Ted Toadvine (Pennsylvania State University), ONLINE
The Temporal Sublime: Aesthetic Encounters with Human Extinction
Chair: Fotini Vassiliou
14:30 Conference closing