Aesthetic praxis

Aesthetic practice refers to specific, creative activities in which aesthetic expression is used as a means of cognition or reflection in both an artistic and a social context.

The purpose of aesthetic practice can be creation, expression, participation, cognition, or transformation. By enabling and highlighting holistic experiences

The Arboretum for Aesthetic Praxis
and Research

The Arboretum for Aesthetic Practice and Re-search is a living laboratory—an experimental space for exploring the interconnections between climate, trees, habitats, culture, and nature.

The Arboretum functions as a liminal zone between culture and nature.

Here, aesthetic practice consists of interacting with the surroundings, revealing the hidden and focusing on what we otherwise overlook. It seeks dialogue with natural science, not as a counterpart, but as a co-player.

Aesthetic research

Aesthetic research refers to
using aesthetic practices to
investigate something for the purposes of knowledge or research.

Aesthetic research uses
aesthetic processes as a method.

Here, it is not only the art that
is the result, but the process itself
that has research value.
This approach can be called
practice-based research or
art-based research.
Overall, the goal is to imagine
future alternatives.

Installation art

For example, through installation art
that synthesizes complex social issues.
It is both analog site-specific
and digital art, including immersive
art installations.
See -Art