Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life

Lisa Giombini is Research Fellow in Aesthetics at Roma Tre University, Italy.Adrián Kvokacka is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Presov University, Slovakia.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Rethinking Roots, Imagining Futures, Lisa Giombini (Roma Tre University, Italy) and Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia)Part I: Foundations1. Prosaics: Theory of Everyday Sensitivity as Baumgarten’s Aesthetica Practica, Katya Mandoki (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México)2. Kant and the Place of Everyday Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgement, Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia)3. Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ and the Extra-ordinary in Everyday Aesthetics, Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University, USA)4. The Aesthetics of Popular Culture as Everyday Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Max Ryynänen (Aalto University, Finland)5. Whose Everyday? On the Cultural Aesthetics of Everyday Life, Arnold Berleant (Long Island University, USA)6. Can we Design Familiarity?, Gioia Laura Iannilli (Alma Mater University of Bologna, Italy)7. Predictability, Improvisation and the Everyday, Adam Andrzejewski (Warsaw University, Poland)Part II: Applications8. Rethinking the Urban Sublime, Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto University, Finland), Brit Strandhagen (NTNU, Norway) and Matti Tainio (University of Lapland, Finland)9. The Use and Usefulness of Unused Spaces: Neglected urban environment in changing perspectives, Zoltán György Somhegyi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)10. Tornadoes and the Poietics of Nature, Madalina Diaconu11. Stones – Our Distant Cousins, Wolfgang Welsch (Universität Jena, Germany)12. Aesthetics of Behaviour, Elisabetta Di Stefano (University of Palermo, Italy)13. Aesthetics of Doing House Chores: Working in and with the World, Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)14. Care in Conservation Ethics, Lisa Giombini (Roma Tre University, Italy)Index

Highly recommended reading. This collection shows the variety of issues that can be discussed under the umbrella of everyday aesthetics – starting from stones and ending in storms, from house chores via social behavior to popular culture and design objects. The essays contribute to the crucial issue of the nature of the everyday itself.