A Social Study of the Dynamism of Infrastructural Esthetics
Project/Area Number |
18K00250
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
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Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
Principal Investigator |
Fukushima Masato 東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 教授 (10202285)
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Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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Keywords | インフラストラクチャ / 審美性 / 美学 / 科学技術社会学 / STS / 景観 / 美術史 / テクノロジー研究 / 科学社会学 / 市場 / 絵画史 / 都市計画 / アート / パリンプセスト / デューイ美学 / 公衆 / 視覚芸術 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In constrast with the ongoing research on the sociological aspects of infrastructure, the dynamism of its aesthetic aspects have been poorly explored thus far. This research project has paid detailed attention to the multiple meanings of its visibility/invisibility from the perspective of STS that has only focused on its functinoality. Functionally invisible infrastructure may be physically visible, and this characteristic may give rise to aesthetic issues, especially in the context of urban landscape that is now a hot topic among landscape researchers. This research taps into the formation of infrastructure-based urban landscape as an intriguing case of what I call infrastructural aesthetics, where artists, engineers, and the public have been intrinsically entangled, along with the rather sporadic public controversies on the issue of the aesthetic value of landscape, represented by the controversy concering with utility poles and wires in public.
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
インフラの機能面への研究に比べ、その審美的側面(景観の一部を構成するという意味)に関する研究は乏しく、従来インフラ研究者と都市景観研究者ば連携が不足していた。本研究は、こうしたインフラ景観の社会学的、審美的側面の複雑さを、それが住民によって意識される多様な文脈を中心に詳細な理論的、実践的分析を行っており、こうした側面が景観研究のみならず、それに関連したアート等でも重要になってくると思われる。
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