CULTIVATING AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY

• Authors: Korpelainen Noora-Helena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Our aesthetic practices, by which we aim for better well-being, are intertwined with fostering sustainability. This article focuses on Yuriko Saito’s aesthetics of sustainability, an idea denoting a new kind of aesthetic sensibility informed by and featuring both environmental and cultural sustainability. Saito’s idea is based on our aesthetic relationship with everyday experiences. In this article, I defend the idea, on the one hand, by considering the immanence of change as a sense of contemporary everydayness and, on the other hand, by regarding mindfulness as a practice. Situating the discussion in the European context emphasises the aesthetics of sustainability as a sustainability transformation, that is, an ongoing societal change powered by the continuous cultivation of aesthetic sensibility.

Keywords

EN

CULTIVATION; AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY; MINDFULNESS; SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 165 – 182

Contributors

author

Korpelainen Noora-Helena

• University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Helsinki, Finland

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866518