Mapping an Aesthetics of Care

PR21 Mapping Aesthetics in Technological Education began with a systematic mapping and inventory of the role of aesthetics in technological project-based education. The aim to set the scene by identifying and analysing current practices and challenges alongside emerging theoretical positions,

Through a process of testing against real world scenarios this work package produced a systematic mapping and inventory of the role of aesthetics in technological education, in order to summarise this complex topic in an accessible fashion. We present here a number of short reviews of key texts by consortium members. These texts establish a number of positions and voices that influenced Aesthico’s development. The reviews consider the texts in the light of the the project’s development and inform the main intellectual outputs of the project. The reviews are broadly categorized as follows:


Art & Aesthetics

Arnheim, R (1974) University of California Press

Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government

Bennert et al. (2017) Duke University Press
Boylan, A (2020) MIT Press
Danto A (2006) Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics, Wiley Blackwell
DeSilvey, C (2017) Journal of Material Culture
DeSilvey, C (2017) University of Minnesota Press
Devine, K (2019) MIT Press

Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics

Groves, C (2014) Palgreave MacMillan
Jackson, SJ., (2014) MIT Press
Luiridas, P (2020) MIT Press
Milligan, C. & Wile (2010) SAGE
Morse, N (2010) Routledge
Ponce de León, J. (2021) Duke University Press
Möbius, K, (1908) Fischer
Stanley Robinson, K. (1992-1996) Random House
Rice, P (2017) Batsford
Saito, Y ( 2016) Oxford University Press
Saito, Y ( 2022) Bloomsbury Academic
Thompson, J (2015) Taylor & Francis

Weibel, P & Fruk, L (2013) MIT Press

Manovich, L. and Emanuele A. (2024)

Architecture & Urban Design

Cuff, D (2023) MIT Press
De Botton, A (2006) Pantheon Books
Lehtinen, S (2020) Peter Lang
Nia,H, Atún,, R (2021) Khulna University Studies
Leach, N (1999) MIT Press
Schumacher, E. ( 1973) Blond and Briggs
Spaeth, A (2019) eCAADe, SIGraDi
Steiner, R. (1998) Anthroposophic Press
Ståhlberg-Aalto, F. (2019) Aalto ARTD Books
Thompson, I. (2005) Taylor & Francis Group
Winters, E. (2007) Continuum International Publishing Group

Aesthetics & Technology

Citton, Y (2017) Polity Press
Hui, Y (2021) University of Minnesota Press
Munster, A (2013) MIT Press
Sennett, R. (2008)Yale University Press
Steyerl, H ( 2012) Sternberg Press

Aesthetics & Engineering

Amo, A et al (2010) Revista de Obras Públicas
Chinchilla, I (2020)Los libros de la
Catarata
Manterola, J. (2010)Laetoli Editorial
Petroski, H. (2023) Vintage
Dong, L. at al (2019) Circular Economy and Sustainability

Philosophy of Technology

Groys, B.. (2022) Verso Books
Heidegger, M.. (2000) Vittorio Klostermann

Philosophische Anthropologie

Kamleh, W. (1972) Bibliographisches Institut

Stiegler, B. (2010) Stanford University Press