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Objects
Design in this section is meant as something object-oriented, also being understood as a tool for representing cultures and as a carrier of functional, symbolic, narrative, experiential values. These values, at the core of the conference, can be explored starting from a single object used as a case study. The industrial object can also be investigated in relation to the artistic object, while carrying out a reflection on the aesthetic categories that go beyond the traditional useful-beautiful couplet.
Chairs
Elisabetta Di Stefano
University of Palermo
Associate Professor of Aesthetics. She is member of various aesthetics scientific societies. Her research focuses on three fields: the theory of the arts in the Renaissance; the ornament theory; the aesthetics of everyday life with special reference to architecture and design.
Rita Messori
University of Parma
Associate Professor of Aesthetics. Her interests concern the link between aesthetics and the poetic-rhetoric tradition, and landscape aesthetics. She has widely published in Italian and French.
Keynote Speakers
Andrea Mecacci
University of Florence
Andrea Mecacci
University of Florence
Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. His current research focuses on the aestheticization of contemporary world. His studies concentrate on some operative and conceptual categories specific to this process: pop, postmodernism, kitsch.
Jane Forsey
University of Winnipeg
She is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Design, co-editor of On Taste and On the Ugly: Aesthetic Exchanges, as well as author of numerous articles in philosophical aesthetics. She is currently working on a new monograph about the nature of aesthetic experience.
