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