The Power of Everyday Aesthetics in World-Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic

This chapter argues for the importance of cultivating aesthetic literacy and vigilance, as well as practicing aesthetic expressions of moral virtues. In light of the considerable power of the aesthetic to affect, sometimes determine, people’s choices, decisions, and actions in daily life, everyday aesthetics discourse has a social responsibility to guide its power toward enriching personal life, facilitating respectful and satisfying interpersonal relationships, creating a civil and humane society, and ensuring the sustainable future. As an aesthetics discourse, its distinct domain unencumbered by these life concerns needs to be protected. At the same time, denying or ignoring the connection with them decontextualizes and marginalizes aesthetics. Aesthetics is an indispensable instrument for assessing and improving the quality of life and the state of the world, and it behooves everyday aesthetics discourse to reclaim its rightful place and to actively engage with the world-making project.

Consequences of Everyday Aesthetics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indigenous Plants ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The World ◽  
Ongoing Project

Despite the charge of triviality and insignificance, everyday aesthetics has a surprisingly powerful impact on the quality of life and the state of the world, for better or worse. From popular attraction to certain natural creatures, landscapes, and fashionable consumer goods to rejection of ‘inglorious’ fresh produce and landscaping with indigenous plants, this power of everyday aesthetics leads to environmental consequences, promotes nationalism, and exacerbates rampant consumerism. Aesthetics is also a vehicle through which to express moral virtues or lack thereof, such as respect, thoughtfulness, and care toward the other, whether it be an object or a human being. By exploring these examples, this chapter demonstrates how everyday aesthetics makes a significant contribution to humanity’s collective, cumulative, and ongoing project of world-making.

scholarly journals Everyday aesthetics and world-making

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The World ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Collective Enterprise

The project of world-making is carried out not only by professional world-makers, such as designers, architects, and manufacturers. We are all participants in this project through various decisions and judgments we make in our everyday life. Aesthetics has a surprisingly significant role to play in this regard, though not sufficiently recognized by ourselves or aestheticians. This paper first illustrates how our seemingly innocuous and trivial everyday aesthetic considerations have serious consequences which determine the quality of life and the state of the world, for better or worse. This power of the aesthetic should be harnessed to direct our cumulative and collective enterprise toward better world-making. Against objections to introducing a normative dimension to everyday aesthetics, I argue for the necessity of doing so and draw an analogy between everyday aesthetics and art-centered aesthetics which has dominated modern Western aesthetics discourse.

scholarly journals Smart cities in collaboration with the internet of things

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Ricardo Alirio González Bustamante ◽  
Roberto Ferro Escobar ◽  
Harold Vacca González
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The use of the Internet has Reached a point in the world in Which it has Become essential in everyday life, the need to Have information at hand in the shortest possible time has generated a technological revolution That incurs the constant connection to this tool, from our Personal life to the same objects That we use in daily life, creating a need to check what surrounds us to Improve our quality of life, reason for the birth of the Internet of Things (IoT, for acronym in English), as well as the convergence of our environment through the creation with Technology of smart cities (Smart City in English). In view of the above, this article addresses concepts about the future of smart cities in collaboration with the Internet of things, the advantages and Disadvantages of these, their comparison, reception, adaptability.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Green Marketing and an Example from the World: Tchibo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
İsmail Erkan Çelik ◽  
Öznur Akman ◽  
Ayben Ceyhan ◽  
Vedat Akman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Green Marketing ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World

Companies are expected to seek solutions towards global environmental problems threatening the quality of life in the world today and the society which they are a part have expectations towards it. As a result, they need to behave in a way responsible for the environment as a member of the society and give density to social activities integrating awareness to green marketing and sustainability. They need to develop community awareness both economic and social wise. In this study, along with developing social responsibility and sustainability issues and green marketing to be discussed will be presented with related example from Tchibo.

scholarly journals A 100 años de la Bauhaus

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (135) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Mansur Garda
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Made In

The phases through which the Bauhaus School passed are narrated chronologically, the aesthetic principles proposed by some of its representatives and the transformations they made in our way of living, in order to consider its contribution to our daily life. The ideas of its founder to enhance the quality of life of citizens through architectural and furniture design are emphasized.

Aesthetics of the Familiar

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Household Chores ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Aesthetic

Everyday aesthetics was recently proposed as a challenge to the contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics discourse dominated by the discussion of art and beauty. This book responds to the subsequent controversies regarding the nature, boundary, and status of everyday aesthetics and argues for its legitimacy. Specifically, its discussion highlights the multifaceted aesthetic dimensions of everyday life that are not fully accounted for by the commonly held account of defamiliarizing the familiar. Instead, the appreciation of the familiar as familiar, negative aesthetics, and the experience of doing things are all included as being worthy of investigation. These diverse ways in which aesthetics is involved in everyday life are explored through conceptual analysis as well as by application of specific examples from art, environment, and household chores. The significance of everyday aesthetics is also multi-layered. This book emphasizes the consequences of everyday aesthetics beyond the generally recognized value of enriching one’s life experiences and sharpening one’s attentiveness and sensibility. Many examples, ranging from consumer aesthetics and nationalist aesthetics to environmental aesthetics and cultivation of moral virtues, demonstrate that the power of aesthetics in everyday life is considerable, affecting and ultimately determining the quality of life and the state of the world, for better or worse. In light of this power of the aesthetic, everyday aesthetics has a social responsibility to encourage cultivation of aesthetic literacy and vigilance against aesthetic manipulation. Ultimately, everyday aesthetics can be an effective instrument for directing humanity’s collective and cumulative world-making project for the betterment of all its inhabitants.

Correction of functional constipation in patients with limited mobility after stroke

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
M. S. Turchina ◽  
M. V. Bukreeva ◽  
L. Yu. Korolyova ◽  
Zh. E. Annenkova ◽  
L. G. Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Constipation ◽  
Functional Constipation ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Complete Restoration ◽  
The World

Currently, the problem of early rehabilitation of stroke patients is important, since in terms of the prevalence of cerebrovascular diseases and disability after suffering a stroke, Russia is one of the first places in the world. The complex of medical rehabilitation of such patients should provide for the early and most complete restoration of all body functions, patient education for lost skills, re-socialization of the patient and improvement of the quality of life. One of the factors contributing to a significant reduction in the quality of life after a stroke is the development of chronic constipation. The article reflects the modern methods of correction of chronic constipation in patients with limited mobility.

Effect of Fluoride Mouthwash in Iranian Schools: Treatment or Exacerbation of the Disease

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Karimi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Oral Hygiene ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Tooth Decay ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The World

Dental and oral health is an important part that plays a significant role in the quality of life of people in our society, especially children, but due to insufficient attention, tooth decay in the world is increasing every year. Promoting oral hygiene requires the people's easy access to primary oral health care and the use of these services should be classified.

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