Description
Secularization is a process that is traditionally paralleled with the processes of modernization and urbanization. I want to suggest that another process, or to be more precise, a set of processes that we may call aestheticization can also be related to the previous processes and in a significant - even if partial, complex and problematic - way to secularization in contemporary cities. My suggestion is fostered on the cultural and spiritual tension between a disenchanted experience of the world opened up by the aforementioned processes of modernization and secularization and the attempts at re-enchanting the modern and urban experience of the world through art and other modalities of contemporary aesthetic experience. The manifestations of these processes are more evident in the social and cultural practices of urbanites but can eventually have an impact on the physical, structural and sensorial aspects of cities as built and dynamic environments.| Period | 8 Mar 2024 |
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| Event title | Multidisciplinary SSAB-Workshop: "Secularising/secularised Cities”: (EUTOPIA Event) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Brussels, BelgiumShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Secularisation
- urban experience
- Aesthetics
- urban aesthetics