Análisis del papel de la estética en la educación ambiental en la exposición Biofilia del Instituto Humboldt

Abstract

Qualitative research that seeks to identify the role of aesthetics in the exhibition held by the Humboldt Foundation at the Universidad de los Andes, which features an exhibition on environmental care and protection. In the course of the research, we identified authors such as Immanuel Kant, Timothy Morton, and Paul Ardenne, who have a concept of aesthetics and its relationship with the individual who observes it and the observer's sensitivity to the work and its space. Visits are conducted around the exhibition, awaiting reactions and comments about the exhibition. Interviews are proposed, which allow us to identify the experience of this space as an element that raises awareness in the visitor. Not only is the aesthetic arrangement of the elements striking, but also the encounter that occurs between what is observed and the intrinsic nature of each visitor. Finally, we reach a conclusion very close to Kant's approach in his book Critique of Judgment from 1961: aesthetics is what develops through our experiences, which is why we can determine whether something is ultimately to our liking or whether we reject it for some particularity.