News Archive
October 17-19, 2024, I was an invited speaker for the Third International Conference on Beauty and Change in Turin, Italy.
October 2-4, 2024, I gave a talk at the Philosophy of The City International Conference in Madrid, Spain. In it, I will be following up on last year’s presentation on the inter- and transdisciplinary “Research Platform Neurourbanism” and discuss the role of philosophy of mind and aesthetics within a cognitive science approach to architecture, urban living, and cities.
September 20-22, 2024, I was an invited guest at the EVALabs (Empirical Visual Aesthetics Labs) Symposium in Vienna, Austria. There will be two panels and accompanying discussions, on “Empirical Aesthetics –The State of the Art, panels and discussion” and “Empirical Aesthetics – The Future, panels and discussion” respectively.
August. 2024, I submitted a paper on Aesthetic Emotions as Epistemic Emotions to The Journal of Philosophy of Emotion. Find the abstract here and reach out if you want a pre-print.
August 1-8, I gave a talk on "Aesthetic Emotions as an Enactive Category" at the “Enactive Aesthetics” panel at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, Italy.
June, 2024, Preprint of a study on the impact of a street-level gallery on well-being is out since July 2024.
June, 2024,Preprint of our network and latent class analysis on three art shows at the Albertina, Vienna.
June, 2024,Preprint of a scoping review on art and mental health and wellbeing.
June 24, 2024, the ART*IS group will meet in Belgrade to work om policy recommendations for Museum art, recommendations. Link for the minutes available here.
June 23, 2024 the ART*IS group will meet in Belgrade to work om policy recommendations for art in urban settings. Please find our prelimary recommendations on WP 3 three here. Link for the minutes available here.
June 17, 2024,I gave e a German lecture on Your Emotional City! in Mainz, Germany: “Deine Emotionale Stadt! Auf dem Weg zu einer Philosophie der Neurourbanistik”.
June 3-5, 2024, I presented research on architecture and neurourbanism on a panel on “Emotion and Place” that I put together with John Sutton at the “Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities” conference in Catania; see Workshops and Talks for more info soon (03/2024). Giovanna Colombetti kindly agreed to comment on our papers and we will have a great line-up of speakers (incl. Lynn Tribble, Sanne Lehtinnen, etc.; more soon).
June 10, 2024, I gave a lecture as part if the Healing Arts lecture series at the UdK Berlin.
June 14, 2024, I gave a lecture on “Wonder As an Aesthetic Emotion” in Antwerp Belgium as part of a Symposium on Wonder.