From Theoretical to Applied Environmental Aesthetics: Academic Aesthetics Meets Real-World Demands

Abstract

I see two important turning points in environmental aesthetics. In a definitive article, ‘Contemporary aesthetics and the neglect of natural beauty’, R.W. Hepburn in 1966 laid out the field and its tasks; Harold Osborne demonstrated the problem of externality and its solution in his 1979 paper ‘An intellectual crisis in aesthetics’. Within this framework, a dynamic and innovative field of research has developed and grown, the future of which lies in the interaction between theory and practice and co-operation between the various parties involved.

Keywords

Applied aesthetics everyday aesthetics practical aesthetics metacriticism nature-writing

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