LIVING WITH URBAN EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES

• Authors: Lehtinen Sanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

New and complex technologies are exceedingly present and in widespread use in contemporary cities globally. The urban lifeworld is saturated with various applications of information and computing technologies, but also more rudimentary forms of technology construct and create the urban everyday life as we know it. Many forms of urban technologies are perceived first through their everyday aesthetic qualities: how they look, feel, sound, or are otherwise encountered within the streetscape. Philosophical aesthetics, however, has tended to overlook everyday technologies as a topic, often due to unquestioned ideas of how a city should ideally look and feel. Thus, a more realistic approach to contemporary cities is needed, in which the deep-seated role of technologies is recognized and the experiences related to their entangled uses become acknowledged. This paper brings together recent developments in urban aesthetics with some of the core ideas of post-phenomenological approaches to new urban technologies.

Keywords

EN

URBAN AESTHETICS; TECHNOLOGY; URBAN EVERYDAY; EVERYDAY AESTHETICS

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 81 – 89

Contributors

author

Lehtinen Sanna

• Transdisciplinary Arts Studies (TAS), School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto ARTS), Aalto University, Otaniementie 14, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland