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The Diversification of Environmental Aesthetics and the Rise of Everyday Aesthetics - Theoretical Agendas and Issues of Yuriko Saito's Everyday Aesthetics -

환경미학의 다변화와 일상미학의 부상 - 유리코 사이토의 일상미학 이론의 의제와 쟁점을 중심으로 -

  • Pae, Jeong-Hann (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University)
  • 배정한 (서울대학교 조경.지역시스템공학부 조경학전공)
  • Received : 2023.03.02
  • Accepted : 2023.03.16
  • Published : 2023.04.30

Abstract

This paper explores the recent development of environmental aesthetics and critically examines the main agendas, claims, issues, and implications of everyday aesthetics, which is emerging as an important branch of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics began in the context of cultural change and environmentalism in the 1960s and expanded in the second half of the 20th century with a solid theoretical foundation. At the beginning of the 21st century, it entered a process of diversification of objects and subjects. Having reached academic maturity, environmental aesthetics has expanded into theoretical territory considering the urban environment and the human environment, providing practical coordinates as a discourse for planning and designing urban environments and landscapes. The most notable achievement of environmental aesthetics since the mid-2000s is the establishment of 'everyday aesthetics'. Yuriko Saito, who is leading the research on everyday aesthetics, expanded the objects and scope of aesthetic theory to everyday objects, events, activities, and environments. She excavates the microscopic and sensory aspects of everyday life, which have been overlooked by conventional art-centered aesthetics, through the lens of aesthetics. She reinterprets various layers of phenomena in contemporary urban landscapes and analyzes how the 'power of the aesthetic' hidden in everyday life profoundly affects the quality of life and the state of the world. Saito examines the appreciation of the distinctive characteristics and ambiance inherent in everyday objects and environments and proposes a 'moral-aesthetic judgment' to alert citizens to the environmental, social, and political consequences of everyday aesthetic appreciation and response. This paper identifies the issues and implications of everyday aesthetics as first, the expansion of aesthetics and the ambiguous everyday, second, the moral-aesthetic judgment and the aesthetics of care, and third, urban regeneration landscapes and aesthetic literacy. In particular, the moral virtues of everyday aesthetics that Saito proposes, such as care, thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and respect, provide a critical reference for the practice of contemporary urban regeneration landscapes. The 'aesthetic literacy' is a key concept demonstrating why an environmental aesthetics perspective is necessary to interpret everyday urban environments and landscapes.

이 논문은 다변화하고 있는 환경미학의 최근 전개 양상을 고찰하고, 환경미학의 중요한 갈래로 부상하고 있는 일상미학의 주요 의제와 주장, 쟁점과 의의를 비판적으로 검토한다. 1960년대의 문화 변동과 환경주의를 바탕으로 싹튼 환경미학은 20세기 후반 이론적 기반을 다지며 성장했고, 21세기에 들어서면서 대상과 주제의 다변화 과정에 진입했다. 학문적 성숙기를 맞은 환경미학은 도시를 포함한 인문환경 전반으로 이론적 영토를 확장했으며, 도시 환경과 경관의 계획·설계 담론으로서 실천적 좌표를 제시했다. 특히 2000년대 중반 이후 환경미학의 가장 주목할 성과는 '일상미학'의 성립이라고 할 수 있다. 일상미학 연구를 주도하고 있는 유리코 사이토는 미학 이론의 대상과 범위를 일상의 사물, 사건, 행동, 환경으로 확장한다. 그는 기존의 예술 중심적 미학이 간과해온 일상의 미시적이고 감각적인 국면을 미학의 시선으로 발굴해 현대 도시의 환경과 경관, 공간과 장소에서 벌어지는 현상의 다양한 층위를 새롭게 해석하며, 일상에 숨겨진 '미적인 것의 힘'이 삶의 질과 세상의 상태에 미치는 심대한 영향을 분석한다. 그는 일상의 대상과 환경에 내재한 특유의 성질과 분위기에 대한 감상을 고찰하고, 일상의 미적 감상과 판단이 낳는 환경적, 사회적, 정치적 결과를 경계하기 위해 '도덕적-미적 판단'을 제안한다. 이 논문은 일상미학의 쟁점과 의의를 첫째 미학의 확장과 모호한 일상, 둘째 도덕적-미적 판단과 돌봄의 미학, 셋째 도시 재생 경관과 미학적 문해력으로 파악한다. 특히 사이토가 주장하는 일상미학의 도덕적 덕목, 즉 돌봄, 사려 깊음, 감수성, 존중 등은 동시대 도시재생 경관의 실천에 대한 비평적 준거를 마련해준다. 그가 강조하는 '미학적 문해력'은 일상의 도시 환경과 경관 해석에 환경미학의 관점이 필요한 이유를 입증하는 핵심 개념이다.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2019년 대한민국 교육부와 한국연구재단 인문사회분야 중견연구자지원사업의 지원을 받아 수행한 연구의 성과이다(NRF-2019S1A5A 2A01047194).

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