Date/Time
Date(s): 06. December – 07. December
10:00 - 17:00

Location
Roskilde University and University of Copenhagen

Categories

• Conferences & Workshops

Conference program ON BEAUTY

6th of December 2018

Venue: Roskilde University, Auditorium 46.0

10.00-10.30

Welcome and introduction: Natural Beauty, So Far, So Near

Anne Elisabeth Sejten, Roskilde University, Denmark

BEAUTY AND DESIGN

CHAIR: HENRIK REEH, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

10.30-11.15

Jane Forsey, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Functional Style, or the Beauty of Design

11.15-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.00

Mads Nygaard Folkmann, University of Southern Denmark

Not Only Beautiful. Aesthetic Categories in Design

12.00-12.30

Fàtima Pombo, University of Aveiro, Portugal

On Beauty, Design History and the Prosaic Relevance of Purpose

12.30–13.30

Lunch

Department of Communication and Arts, seminar room 43.2-29

13.30-14.00

Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Roskilde University

The Beauty of Theory

14.00-14.30

Carsten Friberg, Aalborg University

Aesthetics and Design. A Refuge for Beauty

14.30-14.45

Coffee break

BEAUTY AND ART

CHAIR: FALK HEINRICH, AALBORG UNIVERSITY

14.45-15.15

Carole Talon-Hugon, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Title TBD

15.15-15.45

Else Marie Bukdahl, Aalborg University

The aesthetic challenges in the field of sustainability – The relation of art, architectural design and sustainability in Michel Singer’s projects.

15.45-16.15

Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, University of Milan

From Beauty to Emotions. Du Bos and the emotionalistic theory of enjoyment

19.30

Conference Dinner

Restaurant Aamann’s Etablissement, Øster Farimagsgade 12, Copenhagen Ø

7th of December 2018

Venue: University of Copenhagen

BEAUTY AND BODY

CHAIR: ESTHER OLUFFA PEDERSEN, ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY

10.00-10.45

Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University

Title TBD

10.45-11.30

Max Ryynänen, Aalto University, Finland

Cute, Ugly and Beautiful Kitsch

11.30-11.45

Coffee break

11.45-12.15

Falk Heinrich, Aalborg University

How Can There Be Beauty in Participatory Art?

12.15-13.15

Lunch

BEAUTY AND ART

CHAIR: ANNE ELISABETH SEJTEN

13.15-13.45

Danielle Lories, University of Louvain, Belgium

Beautiful and the Aesthetic : a Lesson of the Eighteenth Century

13.45-14.15

Salvador Rubio Marco; University of Murcia, Spain

Reflecting on Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value : the Value of Beauty, Beauty and Simplicity

14.15- 14.30

Coffee break

BEAUTY, MEDIA AND EVERYDAY LIFE

CHAIR: MADS NYGAARD FOLKMANN, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

14.30-15.00

Claudio Rozzoni, New University of Lisbon

The Beauty of the Everyday: Baudelaire’s Legacy in Jeff Wall

15.00-15.30

Henrik Reeh, University of Copenhagen

Fragile City Images: with Georg Simmel in Rome

15.30-16.00

Ulrik Schmidt, Roskilde University

Beyond Beauty: Aestheticization of Media as Environments

16.00

Farewell reception and discussions about future collaboration