Essays on Aesthetics

In what is often referred to as the ‘ecological era’, the 21st century is faced with the prevailing need for a transformed relationship between humans and their biophysical habitat, including all other non-human actors. In the face of increased ecological awareness, landscape architecture as a…

Nostalgia is infamously subjective, making it difficult to find a single visual and auditory stimulant that affects the mass audience, however, this essay will explore variations of nostalgia and the chosen text’s similarities and differences in order to discover the most successful use of nostalgia…

Even though aesthetic judgments are as old as art, a reliable guideline on how to make any work (painting, desk, car, mobile phone) as aesthetically pleasing as possible does not exist. This is due to the fact that people’s tastes in such matters change in…

When it comes to aesthetic functionalism, the value is decided completely by its practical function. (Hansson, “Aesthetic Functionalism). The functionalists would believe aesthetic value can be reduced to functionality. There are indeed discussions that in contrast, proponents of pure formalism have argued that function and…