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Renewing Aesthetics: From Art to Everyday Life
Objectives - 2014
RS1 Everyday aesthetics and contemporary art: renewing concepts and methodsr
- O.7: To develop new concepts and research areas of everyday aesthetics drawing on Heidegger’s concepts.
- 7.1 Theory building: a new theoretical framework for the aesthetics of everyday life - working, dwelling, communicating, and socializing, drawing on Heidegger’s thinking on the everyday life.
RS2 Application: Aesthetic social situations and techniques of the self: body and fashion
- O.8: Developing a theoretical model of the aesthetic social situations.
- 8.1 Theory-building: a new theoretical framework for assessing the everyday “aesthetic social situations”.
RS3 Application of aesthetic theories to cultural policy and to arts management
- O.9: To formulate a set of coherent, consistent, and justifiable principles within the framework of aesthetics/aesthetic knowing for application to management and public policy processes, in order to improve the methods and practices in these areas of application.
- 9.1 Investigate the body of theories that incorporate principles of aesthetics /aesthetic knowing applied to management and public policy processes including the linkages among these theories and other areas of inquiry, with the purpose to identify existing concepts and methods while formulating new frameworks. Completion of this research action will include studying aesthetic-based theories and methodologies with analysis of new ways of thinking and knowing, specifically:
- Analysis/ definition/differentiation of the concept of “aesthetic knowing” vs. knowing in science, and the concept of “technology”; these are identified as a key focus in this phase;
- Analysis of the role of figurative/metaphorical structures of thought in management/policy processes;
- Delineation and analysis of the operations of the aesthetic/aesthetic experience in “everyday aesthetics”, and the role of aesthetics in motivating individuals.
Intermediary Milestones: Identifying limitations of positivist methods and conceptualization; concretization of aesthetic principles for application and testing.
- 9.2 Draft concrete applications for principles of aesthetics/ aesthetic knowing in areas of action and practice. In order to benefit from the concepts and methods studies in the first action of this project, researchers will design applications directed at improvement in management and policy processes. The draft will, in effect, operate as a kind of hypothesis to be tested in Year 3 for refinement and implementation.
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