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Aestheticism

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Aesthetic Space

Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...

EPFL2017

Aesthetics – as a dimension of society and a component of spatial theory

Mirza Tursic

The title of this paper suggests three things. First, that society’s issues are multidimensional i.e. society being a multidimensional system in a way that each dimension undergo the totality of society’s. These dimensions hold together social systems of v ...

2016

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of the alternative culture

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The category of “creative city” is far from neutral. Indeed, it can be linked to very contrasted – and even opposed – practices and urban worlds. In order to grasp those differences, we need to take a closer look at what is entailed in the concepts of “cre ...

Urbancreativity.org2014

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of alternative culture

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Based on a research in Lisbon, Geneva and Ljubljana, this paper aim to analyse the uses of the term “alternative” (along its formal and aesthetic registers) in order to tackle the question of the aesthetization of creativity, away from its critical dimensi ...

2014

BIPV Visual Assessment for Architecture Retrofitting

Stephen Wittkopf, Ran Xu

Typical architecture designers convey through vague and qualified notions. With the increasing number of PV installations on buildings, architects are forced to corporate with technicians and engineers in the design processes. However, the communications b ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

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