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In the era of the Anthropocene, our environment is not any more the one it used to be. Nor is our look upon nature because we become aware of how limited the Earth is. Looking at the landscape we realize that what we see is what we are; and that mirror is, sometimes, hard to assume.
In the 60s of the twentieth century, there was already a complaint about the abandonment of the aesthetics of nature by academia. The early aesthetic categories in use since the eighteen century are still suitable for describing the sublime and the picturesque in some National Parks and urban spaces, but are useless for most of our everyday landscapes. The models of the Environmental Aesthetics have opened up new ways of understanding the appreciation of the landscape and provided a valuable framework for research.
Speaker: Esther Valdés, Postdoctoral researcher, Technical School of Architecture, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)