WiGiP Workshop Series/Vortragsreihe
Practical Applications of Japanese Philosophy to
Real-World Problems
Since the world today is in poor condition, from environment and climate to frightening geopolitics, it’s reasonable to ask practitioners of intercultural philosophy for advice on improving our situation. In this context we propose a series of three workshops on practical applications of Japanese philosophy to real-world problems, drawing on figures like Kūkai and Dōgen from the mediaeval Buddhist tradition, twentieth-century thinkers such as Nishida, Miki, Tōsaka, Kuki, Watsuji, and Nishitani, as well as contemporary Japanese philosophers.
Da sich die Welt heute in einem schlechten Zustand befindet, angefangen bei der Umwelt und dem Klima bis hin zu beängstigenden geopolitischen Entwicklungen, ist es sinnvoll, Praktiker der interkulturellen Philosophie um Rat zu fragen, wie wir unsere Situation verbessern können. In diesem Zusammenhang schlagen wir eine Reihe von drei Workshops über die praktische Anwendung japanischer Philosophie auf reale Probleme vor. Dabei stützen wir uns auf Persönlichkeiten wie Kūkai und Dōgen aus der mittelalterlichen buddhistischen Tradition, aber auch auf Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts wie Nishida, Miki, Tōsaka, Kuki, Watsuji und Nishitani sowie auf zeitgenössische japanische Philosophen.
Organisation:
Drin. Bianca Boteva-Richter, externe Lektorin am Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Vorstandsmitglied der WiGiP und AIPPh, Gründungsmitglied von EIFI.
Dr. Fabian Völker, Univ.-Assistent, post doc am Institut für Interkulturelle Religionsphilosophie, Kath.-Theol. Fakultät, Universität Wien.
Prof. Graham Parkes, Professorial Research Fellow am Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Prof. em. der University of Hawaii.
bitte um Anmeldung/please register unter: (bianca.boteva-richter@univie.ac.at
Session 1: Truth/Wahrheit – Dr. Fabian Völker
► Mi/We, 22.04.2026, 18:30 (6:30 pm CET), in hybrid, Venue: IWK, Berggasse 17, 1090 Wien and online via zoom, (the language of the workshop will depend on the participants)
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Session 2: Migration – Dr. Bianca Boteva-Richter
► Mi/We, 06.05.2026, 18:30 (6:30 pm CET), in hybrid, Venue: IWK, Berggasse 17, 1090 Wien and online via zoom, (the language of the workshop will depend on the participants)
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Session 3: Information Technologies – Prof. Graham Parkes
► Mi/We, 20.05.2026, 18:30 (6:30 pm CET), online via zoom, in English
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Diese Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit dem IWK statt und wird von der Kulturabteilung (MA 7) der Stadt Wien gefördert.
10th Vienna Forum for Intercultural Philosophy
Everyday Aesthetics and Everydayness from an Intercultural Perspective
27 February – 1 March 2026
Otto Mauer Zentrum, Währingerstraße 2-4, 1090 Vienna
Friday, 27 February 2026
9:15–9:30 Conference opening
9:30–10:30 Keynote Yuriko Saito: Aesthetic Challenges to Consumerism: Learning from Japanese Folk Beliefs and Practices
10:30–10:40 Break
10:40–11.20 Bianca Boteva-Richter: The Perfection of Imperfection, or Another Idea of Beauty — Some Reflections on Japanese Everyday Aesthetics
11:20–12:00 Francesca Greco: From the Tea House to Your House. The Circular Relationality of Aesthetic and Everydayness
12:00–12:15 Break
12:15–12:55 Paulus Kaufmann: Situational Japanese Aesthetics
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:10 Maddalena Borsato: What Aesthetics for the Shokunin’s Practice?
15:10–15:50 Anna Zschauer: The Janus-faced Japanese Everyday Aesthetic, or: Does It Work When It’s a Brand?
15:50–16:05 Break
16:05–16:45 Lorenzo Marinucci: Kawaii and Phenomenology
16:45–17:25 Dario Vuger: On Beauty of Infrastructures: Simondonean Aesthetics and the Japanese Everyday
Saturday, 28 February 2026
9:30–10:30 Keynote Arto Haapala: Aesthetics of the Ordinary and the Everyday
10:30–10:40 Break
10:40–11:20 Leo Marko: A Faint Frame: The Aesthetics of Swedish Fika and the Question of Its Uniqueness
11:20–12:00 Lenka Lee: The Aesthetics of Attentiveness: Central European Beekeeping and Interspecies Relations
12:00–12:15 Break
12:15–12:55 Rosa Fernández Gómez: Playfully Engaging the Everyday: The Rasa of Life in Kashmir Shaivism
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:10 Elisabetta Di Stefano: Frugality and Humility: Categories of Measure for an Intercultural Everyday Aesthetics
15:10–15:50 Nicola Ramazzotto: Beyond Pleasure: Pain and the Transformation of Everyday Aesthetics
15:50 – 16:05 Break
16:05–16:45 Mao Matsuyama: Comparative Study of Aesthetic Care Theory and Salutogenesis: The Entanglement of Aesthetic and Ethical Values in Everyday Life
16:55–18:35 Washington Morales-Maciel, Marcos Rostan Davyt: Imagining Use: Experiential Knowledge and Cultural Frameworks in Everyday Design Aesthetics
Sunday, 1 March 2026
9:30–10:10 Matti Tainio: From Specified Aesthetics of Everyday Life and Art towards a General Aesthetics. An Inquiry at the Boundaries of Art and Non-Art
10:10–10:50 Sara Borriello: Weather, Atmospheres, and Everyday Life: Towards an Integrated Framework for Aesthetic Inquiry
10:50–11:05 Break
11:05–11:45 Marcos Rostan Davyt, Nahuel Roel Aspée: The Everyday and the Exceptional: Two Environmental Controversies in Uruguay
11:45–12:00 Final discussion