Aesthetic Perspectives on Urban Technologies: Conceptualizing and Evaluating the Technology-Driven Changes in the Urban Everyday Experience

Abstract

The pervasiveness of technology has changed the way urban everyday is structured and experienced. An understanding of the deep impact of this development on everyday experience and its foundational aesthetic components is necessary in order to determine how skills and capacities can be improved in coping with such change, as well as managing it. Urban technology solutions -how they are defined, applied and used -are changing the sphere of everyday experience for urban dwellers. Philosophical and applied approaches to urban aesthetics offer perspectives on understanding technologically mediated sensory experiences within the urban realm. This chapter shows how new urban technologies act as an agent of change within the familiar urban environment. We outline how the perspective of philosophical aesthetics can be used to understand urban technologies and their role in the constitution of everyday urban lifeworlds.

SIGraDi 2022. Critical Appropriations

“…Os autores observam que as tecnologias contemporâneas alteram consideravelmente como uma cidade é vivenciada diretamente, mas também, os hábitos e atividades diárias. Assim, tais alterações vão além das consequências mais imediatas de como uma cidade é percebida, e consequentemente o patrimônio também, visto que as tecnologias direcionam e fixam a atenção sobre certas características, afetando assim as experiências no meio urbano (Lehtinen & Vihanninjoki, 2021). Conforme Wiegel (2010), não é possível simplesmente ignorar ou evitar a influência da tecnologia, visto que os humanos estão inextricavelmente ligados a ela.…”