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A Social Study of the Dynamism of Infrastructural Esthetics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00250
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
Research InstitutionThe 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)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
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)
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.

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。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Noise in the landscape: Disputing the visibility of mundane technological objects2021

    • Author(s)
      Fukushima Masato
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Material Culture

      Volume: 24(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 64-84

    • DOI

      10.1177/1359183520970603

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Before Laboratory Life: Perry, Sullivan and the missed encounter between psychoanalysis and STS2020

    • Author(s)
      Fukushima Masato
    • Journal Title

      BioSocieties

      Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Pages: 271-293

    • DOI

      10.1057/s41292-019-00157-5

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report 2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Regimes on newness: an essay of comparative physiognomy2019

    • Author(s)
      Masato FUKUSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Interface Critique

      Volume: 2 Pages: 105-122

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Multiple Personae in Contemporary Art2019

    • Author(s)
      Masato FUKUSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Art against Art

      Volume: 6 Pages: 26-31

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 遥かなる未来を語ること2019

    • Author(s)
      福島真人
    • Journal Title

      シノドス

      Volume: 2019.06.26 Pages: 1-7

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Minoru Nomata: the allure of polychromatic topology2021

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Total Pages
      10
    • Publisher
      White Cube
    • ISBN
      9781910844496
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 科学技術社会学(STS)ワードマップ2021

    • Author(s)
      日比野愛子、鈴木舞、福島真人(編)
    • Total Pages
      200
    • Publisher
      新曜社
    • ISBN
      9784788517325
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] LABORATORIUM PHANTASMATUM: Laboratory of Specters2020

    • Author(s)
      Masato FUKUSHIMA
    • Total Pages
      64
    • Publisher
      Mori Art Museum
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The nano-aesthetics of everyday life2020

    • Author(s)
      Masato FUKUSHIMA
    • Total Pages
      168
    • Publisher
      torch press
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 予測がつくる社会ー「科学の言葉」の使われ方2019

    • Author(s)
      山口富子、福島真人(編)
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • ISBN
      9784130561204
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report 2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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