The sustainability reward : what does it take to undo climate ethical decisions in everyday life?
Prieto de La Fuente, Paulina LU and Kopljar, Sandra LU
(2021)
International Summer Conference, Aesthetics in the Age of Environmental Crises.
- Abstract
- Today many of us strive to live as climate-friendly lives as possible, we stay informed with the ways that we can contribute and then try to alter our everyday habits accordingly. We often have an idea of what the best choice of transportation would be or that we should reduce our consumption in order to decrease our personal carbon footprint. Even with the best intentions our everyday-related decisions sometimes develop differently from the way they were planned. What is it, in terms of aesthetic configurations, that is needed in order to uphold a sustainable lifestyle and what are possible obstacles? How do these configurations materialize themselves and affect our appreciation of the built environment? Focusing on everyday life and the... (More)
- Today many of us strive to live as climate-friendly lives as possible, we stay informed with the ways that we can contribute and then try to alter our everyday habits accordingly. We often have an idea of what the best choice of transportation would be or that we should reduce our consumption in order to decrease our personal carbon footprint. Even with the best intentions our everyday-related decisions sometimes develop differently from the way they were planned. What is it, in terms of aesthetic configurations, that is needed in order to uphold a sustainable lifestyle and what are possible obstacles? How do these configurations materialize themselves and affect our appreciation of the built environment? Focusing on everyday life and the built environment this paper addresses what happens when our intentions are not aligned with our actions, and aims to examine when and where that happens through a mapping study carried out in a suburban area in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden. Respondents were asked to record their daily transportation routes in preprinted maps during a week, and also to answer a questionnaire with questions about the relation between the built environment and daily transportation. The study shows that things get in the way. There might be disruptions in railway traffic that might lead us to choose the car instead of the train. It may be difficult to synchronize different modes of transportation, or we are steered by personal economic motives. Many times, it is the built environment that will not meet the requirements for our desired lifestyle change. Perhaps there is no bike lane and the road is too unsafe to use. It might also be an aesthetic preference that tilts the scales, perhaps one activity offers a nice environment whilst another one presents an undesirable context. (Less)
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- author
- Prieto de La Fuente, Paulina
LU
and Kopljar, Sandra
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-06-03
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- conference name
- International Summer Conference, Aesthetics in the Age of Environmental Crises.
- conference location
- Lahti, Finland
- conference dates
- 2021-06-03 - 2021-06-05
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 671112b4-a828-4792-bb0e-8c52f16bf96c
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