The city’s new underground rail stations are also impressive public spaces, showing how infrastructure can go well beyond the functional bare minimum.
Articles on Aesthetics
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The term’s contradictory uses signal deeper worries about cultural fragmenting and algorithmic-induced flattening.
The purportedly unique and local feel of coffee shops has instead been homogenized into a singular, palatable aesthetic.
The ‘frugal chic’ fashion trend revives our wartime-era mindset. But will it help fix our waste crisis?
Uniquely colored flowers with big blooms might make for an aesthetically pleasing garden, but they can be unhelpful to pollinators. Careful consideration can help you plan a colorful and eco-friendly garden.
How technology has changed how we craft our digital selves is explored in this exhibition.
In a world where algorithms increasingly shape everyday life, many works of art are beginning to reflect how intertwined we’ve become with computational systems.
We locate beautiful items quicker than less appealing ones.
‘Wabi’ and ‘sabi’ are Japanese words with long histories, but they are rarely used together in the way Western designers have come to use the term.
Camera rolls reveal how photography is transforming in the smartphone era.
Maybe you can’t have a designer kitchen. But you can still beautify your bulk food storage.
People may think that green spaces often hide criminals. On the contrary, there is evidence they contribute to reducing crime.
The classical tradition has long excluded anyone who wasn’t white. But a succession of Black female artists have attempted to broaden these ossified boundaries.
A woman’s right to use fillers and have plastic surgery was a topic of discussion on the show after a male contestant alluded that he found women who used such enhancements ‘fake’.
Pristine and beautiful or black and dirty? As bushfires become more frequent and we look to Indigenous fire control practices, it is time to reconsider our attitudes to burnt earth.
Pastel colours and serif fonts: is Annastacia Palaszczuk trying to be an Instagram influencer?
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Design bloggers have long had creeping suspicion of a more monolithic web, so a team of researchers decided to analyze the aesthetics of nearly 10,000 websites.
From Chile to Lebanon and Iraq to Hong Kong, the same masks have become a common language to register dissent.
An algorithm named AICAN has been ‘taught’ the entire canon of Western art history – and now produces, titles and sells works of its own.
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Professor of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of International Politics at Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University
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Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University for Science and Technology
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Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford
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Professor of Metaphysics , Durham University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Associate Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Materials Science Institute and Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Japanese, University of Washington
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Reader in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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