Imagination and the Science-Based Aesthetic Appreciation of Unscenic Nature

Fudge, Robert

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“…Education is a factor found to influence landscape preferences (Strumse, 1996;van den Berg et al, 1998), and scientific knowledge is thought to affect the aesthetic appreciation of nature (Fudge, 2001;Gobster, 1999;Matthews, 2002). The students in this study come from different study programs, although the majority of them were taking courses in landscape ecology or other landscape related themes.…”

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Indicators of visual scale as predictors of landscape preference; a comparison between groups

Tveit

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

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Indicators of visual scale as predictors of landscape preference; a comparison between groups

Tveit

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Our imagination is thus triggered and enriched by information, scientific and/or other, and this then allows us to have a more complete and stronger aesthetic experience of the landscape. Again, there is no tension between a subjective 'imagination approach' of the aesthetic appreciation of landscapes and a more objective 'science-based approach' -on the contrary, the latter completes and enriches the former (contra Brady (1998), see Fudge (2001) for a discussion).…”

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Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes

Benovsky

2015

J Value Inquiry

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Abstract:In this article, I want to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences of landscapes. I offer an understanding of aesthetic appreciation of landscapes based on a notion of a landscape where landscapes are perspectival observerdependent entities, where the 'creator' of the landscape necessarily happens to be the same person as the spectator, and where her scientific (and other) knowledge and beliefs matter for the appreciation to be complete. I explore the idea that appreciating a landscape in this sense has quite a lot in common with taking and appreciating a photograph. On our way, we will see how imagination plays a crucial role in the story.

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“…There are in fact numerous "other nets woven by human culture in its many forms -nets woven not only by art, but also by literature, folklore, religion, and myth" (Carlson 2000a: 7-9; cf. also Brady 1998;Fudge 2001) -an Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at 12:04 08 June 2016 admission of the complexity of the cognitive or mental frames or schemaseven world views -by which people interpret the sensorial and affective experiences they have when engaging with nature.…”

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Engaging with Nature

Swanepoel¹

2007

Journal of Literary Studies

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The environmental disasters we experience today necessitate drastic measures to ensure sustainable development of our natural resources. Changing people's attitudes towards the environment is often seen as one such strategy to effect positive changes. Designing effective strategies to do so requires, however, basic insight into the myriad variables that motivate people's positive and negative behaviours towards nature -an area in which very little basic theory-driven empirical research has been forthcoming.This article explores some of the variables that effect people's attitudes towards nature, more specifically the way in which an aesthetic engagement with nature motivates positive attitudes, which in turn could lead to positive behaviours towards nature. The reductionist character of the psychopathological model of the variables that affect humans' interactions with nature is discussed in Section 2.1. In contrast to this psychopathological model, Sections 2.2 to 2.4 focus on the variables, from the rational to the totally irrational, which could foster positive attitudes and behaviours towards nature. Section 3 presents a case study from the sixteenth century, that remarkable period between the Middle Ages and the Scientific Revolution, when the learned and lay engagement with nature was characterised by curiosity, wonders and amazement. The case study of Adriaen Coenen and his engagement with nature underscores the complexity, diversity, often incongruity, but also "pathology" which can characterise the engagement of individuals with their environments, and which has to be accounted for in a theory of human-environment interaction. OpsommingDie natuurrampe wat ons in ons hedendaagse wêreld ervaar noodsaak ingrypende maatreëls om volhoubare ontwikkeling van ons natuurlike hulpbronne te verseker. Om mense se houdings teenoor die omgewing te verander word dikwels gesien as een van die strategieë wat aangewend kan word om positiewe veranderings teweeg te bring. Die ontwerp van effektiewe strategieë vir hierdie doel verg egter basiese insig in die menigte veranderlikes wat mense se positiewe en negatiewe gedrag teenoor die natuur motiveer -'n gebied waar min basiese teoriegedrewe empiriese navorsing al onderneem is. Hierdie artikel stel ondersoek in na sommige van die veranderlikes wat mense se houdings teenoor die natuur beïnvloed, en in die besonder hoe positiewe houdings aangekweek kan word deur mense te motiveer om esteties met die natuur om te gaan, wat dan weer kan lei tot positiewe gedrag teenoor die natuur. Die reduksionistiese aard van die psigopatologiese model van die veranderlikes wat die mens se omgang met die natuur beïnvloed word in Afdeling 2.1 bespreek. In teëstelling met hierdie psigopatologiese model, fokus Afdelings 2.2 tot 2.4 op die talle veranderlikes -van die rasionele tot die geheel en al irrasionele -wat positiewe houdings en gedrag teenoor die natuur kan bevorder. Afdeling 3 bied 'n gevallestudie aan uit die sestiende eeu, daardie merkwaardige 1.Research for this article was undertaken w...

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Imagination and the Science-Based Aesthetic Appreciation of Unscenic Nature

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Indicators of visual scale as predictors of landscape preference; a comparison between groups

Indicators of visual scale as predictors of landscape preference; a comparison between groups

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