Ecological Aesthetics Research Articles

Deep learning-based aquatic plant recognition technique and natural ecological aesthetics conservation

Aquatic plants play a crucial role in the construction and maintenance of ecological systems in landscaping, contributing significantly to the enhancement and preservation of garden ecosystems. Monitoring the growth and population structure of aquatic plants enables the assessment of nutrient enrichment and water quality pollution in water bodies, serving as a basis for water quality improvement and protection. However, the lack of efficient automated monitoring technologies limits the efficiency of monitoring and fails to meet the demands of extensive and long-term monitoring. Deep learning techniques offer a promising solution for processing and analyzing aquatic plant monitoring data. By training deep learning models, automation and analysis of aquatic plant monitoring data can be achieved, thereby enhancing data processing efficiency and accuracy. In this study, aquatic plant image data were obtained through the internet to construct a dataset for aquatic plant recognition. We improved the DenseNet169 model to construct the EFL-DenseNet model. After initial training on the ImageNet dataset, transfer learning was applied to adapt the model to the self-built aquatic plant recognition dataset. The final model achieved an accuracy of 91.52%, demonstrating significant advantages over other models.

Practice of Ecological Aesthetics in Green Production of Bimetallic Carbide Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Integrating Technological Development with Ecological Protection

This work summarizes the disciplinary connotation of ecological aesthetics, discusses the social and philosophical background of the origination of ecological aesthetics, and applies ecological aesthetics to the research on the production processes of catalytic materials. It is found that compared with conventional chemical processes, catalytic materials synthesized using green chemical processes that conform to ecological aesthetics have advantages in raw material cost, energy consumption, environmental protection, operational complexity, and product performance. Based on this, it is proposed that, as green chemical processes develop to a certain extent, they will unify anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and meet both human needs and ecological protection requirements. The mentioned green chemical processes adopt biomass lotus leaf stems as a carbon source to produce non-noble metal bimetallic carbide (C19Cr7Mo24)-based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Its initial half-wave potential (E1/2) for catalyzing ORR in an alkaline medium is 0.903 V, the E1/2 retention rate after 50,000 cycles is 98.9%, and its peak power density in H2/O2 fuel cell reaches 1.47 W cm−2, making it one of the most active non-noble metal catalysts for ORR reported so far; its stability is unparalleled.

Происхождение современной китайской экологической эстетики из процессуального понимания природы А.Н. Уайтхеда, марксистской диалектики и концептуальных позиций традиционной китайской философии

Environmental aesthetics, or aesthetics of environment represents one of the most recent in constitution and one of the most dynamic subdisciplines of contemporary aesthetic discourse. Chinese ecological aesthetics has become a complex and original set of ideas, which is of great importance for other cultures, including Russian, due to the scale of environmental problems that China has recently faced in connection with economic growth, as well as the applicability of ways to solve them in Russian conditions. For these reasons, the author of this article offers a historical and theoretical analysis of the content of the concepts of modern Chinese ecological aesthetics, developed on the basis of A.N. Whitehead's theory of procedural understanding of nature, Marxist dialectics and traditional Chinese philosophy.

Exploring the Desert Culture of the Ancient Silk Road Under the Threshold of Ecological Aesthetics

Exploring the Desert Culture of the Ancient Silk Road Under the Threshold of Ecological Aesthetics

Nature on our doorstep: How do residents perceive urban parks vs. biodiverse areas?

The role of nature in enhancing urban well-being is well-established, but perceived naturalness may not always align with scientific definitions. Our study aimed to investigate whether areas selected for nature-related activities demonstrate increased biodiversity, offer diverse experiences, and integrate both social and ecological perspectives. We aimed to bridge the gap between perceived naturalness and objective ecological richness. Integrating social and environmental parameters, we considered both objective indicators, such as the presence of rare species, and subjective perspectives. Extensive geotagged surveys among 401 working-age Warsaw residents, coupled with field analyses, and biodiversity data collected for the scale of the whole city, allowed to juxtapose human perception with tangible ecological indicators. Our results revealed that only 14% of the locations identified by respondents as natural were associated with high biological diversity. In contrast, over 30% were in areas with low biological diversity, lacking rare species. Factors like presence of natural and semi-natural vegetation types, distance from buildings, population density, presence of water, noise, and extreme temperatures were found to be significant. We distinguished four types of natural areas: close to home, open grassland, high naturalness, and forested, reflecting different preferences and alternative choices when high-quality natural areas are not nearby. Most notably, urban parks emerged as key locations for nature contact, even though objective measures of biodiversity were often low. This underscores the need for a comprehensive understanding of how urban residents interact with and value natural spaces, bridging the gap between subjective experiences and objective ecological richness within the city's green areas. Our study highlights the complex interplay between the physical properties of urban green spaces, individual perceptions, and the ecological aesthetics influencing these interactions. In particular, the concept of perceived naturalness emerges as a critical factor, often contrasting with objective, quantifiable naturalness, and necessitating a nuanced approach in urban planning and public health contexts to cater to diverse needs and preferences of city dwellers.

The Ecological Design of Marine Urban Green Space Plant Landscaping Based on the Concept of Sustainability.

With global climate change and accelerating urbanization, marine cities face unique environmental challenges. Ecological landscape creation is a form of design planning guided by the disciplines of landscape ecology and ecological aesthetics in the process of urban planning and construction. It seeks a design that can maintain the virtuous cycle of the ecosystem and at the same time maintain the spatial equilibrium of the dynamic development of urban landscapes, so as to make them have good ecological functions and corridor functions. The aim of this study is to explore the ecological design methods of plant landscaping in marine urban green spaces under the concept of sustainability. We first reviewed the concept of sustainable development and its application to urban green space design, especially the special requirements in the marine urban environment. This research focuses on how to select plant species that are adapted to the marine climate and how to promote biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services, and improve the quality of life of urban residents through eco-design approaches. Through the analysis of a number of domestic and international cases of green spaces in marine cities, we found that effective eco-design is not only about choosing the right plant species but also includes the rational management of water resources, soil protection, and ecosystem restoration, among other aspects. This study also points out that public participation and interdisciplinary cooperation play a crucial role in the ecological design process. Finally, this paper carries out a specific analysis of the landscape model landscape evaluation system for the ecological design of plant landscaping in marine urban green spaces and experimentally verifies that, compared with other styles, the experience of the European-style landscape is good overall. However, the view openness rating of the European style landscape is only about 0.42, and the best plant landscaping is the mixed mode of alkali poncho and salt poncho. This study aims to provide a practical reference and guidance for urban planners, landscape architects, and environmentalists.

Analysis of Chinese Contemporary Theme Dance from the Perspective of Ecological Aesthetics

Ms. Yang Liping is a famous dancer and a national first-class actress. She is famous for peacock dance and known as "Peacock Princess". Ms. Yang Liping has many outstanding representative works, such as female solo dance "Spirit of the Bird", dance drama "Yunnan Image" and so on. Among them, the dance "Spirit of the Bird" won the gold medal of Chinese classic dance works in the 20th century. This article mainly analyzes the form and content of the dance "Spirit of the Bird" from the perspective of ecological aesthetics.

Rural Revitalization Design Driven by Ecological Aesthetic Education and Art Healing

In recent years, the policy of promoting rural revitalization has been deepening, and the rural economy has achieved certain development. However, cultural support is indispensable for the realization of high-quality rural development. The source of art is often buried in the land, and the vitality of the land cannot be separated from the nourishment of art. In this paper, we take the case of Da Yuan Community in Yong Zhou City, Hunan Province, as an example, and adopt the case study method to explain how to use the combination of art and natural environment to promote psychological health and emotional development of individuals as well as social harmony based on the ecological aesthetics education and art healing. Eco-beauty education and art healing can not only make the rural culture grow with vitality and richness but more importantly, art is deeply integrated with the countryside, which positively impacts the overall growth of left-behind children.

Locating Empire and Capitalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times

Amitav Ghosh entitles the opening section of his nonfiction on climate change The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017) as “Stories.” Here, Ghosh highlights the significance of stories and storytelling practices in re-imagining our age of global warming and climate change. He displays how stories function as stimuli for the resurgence of our imaginative power to re-cognize the “unthinkable”, the non-human world and the intricate relations between humans, nonhumans and the natural environment. Drawing upon the insightful studies of the ecological aesthetics of stories and storytelling in the age of Anthropocene, the paper discusses how environmental storytelling as part of indigenous orality is reinvented by Ghosh in his latest fiction The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times (2022) which tends to look at the Anthropocene through the prism of empire and capitalism.

Ecological Aesthetics

Ecological Aesthetics

A Music Teaching Model Combining Deep Learning in the Perspective of Ecological Aesthetic Education: The Integration of Traditional Music Culture

Abstract In the contemporary educational environment, the protection and inheritance of traditional music culture faces challenges. The current diverse needs of music education urgently require innovative teaching models to integrate traditional music culture and enhance students’ aesthetic and cultural literacy. The eco-beauty perspective provides a new educational idea that emphasizes the harmonious coexistence with nature and promotes all-around development of students. Combining traditional music culture and modern education technology effectively can be achieved by combining deep learning technology and new paths in music education. This study explores the music teaching model that integrates traditional music culture with deep learning technology, under the perspective of ecological aesthetic education. The study utilizes a mixed methodology, combines quantitative and qualitative Analysis, and compares the experimental design to verify the effectiveness of the teaching model. In this paper, implementing the music teaching model under the perspective of ecological aesthetic education has improved students’ performance in music perception ability, music emotion expression, music composition and performance, and music knowledge theory. The average increase in music perception ability of the experimental class students is 5.18 points, and the average increase in music composition and performance ability is 11.57 points, showing the impact of this teaching mode on the overall improvement of students’ music ability. In this paper, the music teaching mode combining deep learning under the perspective of ecological aesthetic education can effectively integrate traditional music culture, promote the improvement of students’ music literacy, and provide a new teaching strategy for the inheritance and development of traditional music culture.

The Garden City: Infrastructure, spatial politics and resistance behind the nation‐building mode of “tropicality” in Singapore

Abstract“Tropicality” has historically been used as an epistemological tool by colonial settlers and thereafter local rulers to naturalize and espouse Western rationality and modernity. Singapore is no exception to this lingering Western framing, which continues to define state narratives of success and heritage. “Tropicality” as a hegemonic force manifests in infrastructures of large physical networks, institutionalized knowledges, and media representations. This paper dissects three chronological dominant modes of “tropicality”—the colonial, the nation‐building, and the contemporary neoliberal mode—alongside their corresponding subaltern lived worlds that speak of an alternative “tropicality” often unnoticed (Figure 1). These diametric strands are studied through hegemonic infrastructure and everyday acts that resist, appropriate, or hybridize these power‐laden spaces. A heterogenous methodology was adopted, capturing the epistemologies and metis employed in dominant and alternative tropicalities, respectively. Maps, charts, and archives are used to study the former; ethnographic observation, family memory, and affective experiences elucidate the latter. In this paper, I focus on the nation‐building mode of “tropicality”, which shaped Singapore's rapid urbanization in the 1960s. Modernist public housing schemes borrowed from the Tropical Architecture movement are situated within a larger infrastructural field that de‐skilled, cleansed, and civilized an “unruly” population, conflating natural and social order. However, these attempts at creating modern subjects were thwarted by everyday resistance performed at a critical mass, in which displaced populations tapped upon past metis, habitus, and ecological aesthetics to appropriate alienating modern infrastructure. Through these ad hoc infrastructural reconfigurations, a hybrid modern “tropicality” was negotiated. It is through deprivileging infrastructures of “tropicality” and drawing out alternative “infra‐structures” of multiple, lived tropical worlds that we may move toward post‐tropicality—a mentality built on an expanded understanding of how our modern environment is and has been shaped equally by dominant, neocolonial forces and also forsaken memories, practices, and everyday acts of resistance, which hold the key to alternative futures beyond the limited scope delineated by our inherited “tropical modernity”.

Rural vegetation characteristics and biodiversity conservation strategies in the Yangtze river delta urban agglomeration

<p>The integrated green development of the Yangtze River Delta is a long-term major strategy. The rural ecological status is the basis for the healthy development of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. This study focuses on the expansion of demand for rural vegetation biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service functions in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. A total of 256 plant communities in 28 villages were investigated, and the composition of family, genera and species and life forms were analyzed respectively; through clustering, 47 community types and 8 vegetation types were divided, and the composition and distribution characteristics of plant community were analyzed; and then it analyzed the species biodiversity and compared the characteristics of rural transformation in the Yangtze River Delta with the vegetation characteristics of urban areas and natural areas. Finally, specific countermeasures for biodiversity conservation and reconstruction of the Yangtze River Delta rural vegetation was proposed in terms of species protection, habitat maintenance, plant community conservation, and ecological aesthetics guidance.</p>

A <i>Rasa</i> Sensibility for Ecological Aesthetics as a Challenge to the Anthropocene

A <i>Rasa</i> Sensibility for Ecological Aesthetics as a Challenge to the Anthropocene

The natural focus: Combining deep learning and eye-tracking to understand public perceptions of urban ecosystem aesthetics

Public perceptions of ecological aesthetics are a crucial component in evaluations of the quality of urban green spaces (UGSs) and in guiding urban planning, design and renewal practices. In this paper, we propose a novel methodological framework that combines deep learning and eye-tracking to investigate the relationships between landscape elements, features, visual focus and public ecosystem aesthetic perceptions of UGSs. Our Public Ecosystem Aesthetic Perceptions (PEAP) model emphasises interactions between ecosystem quality and landscape aesthetic quality. To validate the model, we conducted a study in Shanghai, China, where we selected 54 representative UGSs for photography, perception surveys, and image processing. The results demonstrated that visual focus acts as a mediator between landscape stimuli (landscape elements and features) and perceptions of ecosystem aesthetics. Notably, we found that natural elements elicited significantly stronger visual focus than artificial elements. Thus, our PEAP approach can enhance understanding of aesthetic qualities of landscapes and ecological qualities of urban ecosystems, enabling creation of more aesthetically pleasing and ecologically sustainable UGSs.

The Beauty of Symbiosis in Bamboo-Weaving Culture: A Case Study of Daoming Bamboo Weaving Culture in Sichuan Province

The symbiosis view in the context of ecological aesthetics is a transgression of the traditional epistemological philosophy view. It breaks through the limitation of anthropocentrism with the dimension of ecological holism and expands the category from the symbiosis between man and nature to the harmonious symbiosis between man and nature, society and individual. As a local folk culture, bamboo weaving not only connects the artisan with true nature but also connects the artisan with society and itself in the form of a carrier of cultural inheritance, revealing the possibility of a symbiotic view.

Teaching Design Model of Bridge Aesthetics Course Facing Ecological Landscape Sustainable Development

In recent years, ecological building of bridges has gradually begun to appear in cities, and this trend is conducive to the sustainable development of urban bridges and an ecological environment, promoting the development of emerging industries around cities and driving the development of the urban economy. Bridges’ ecological aesthetic design cannot be separated from ecological aesthetics, and the relationship between these two factors is complementary and inseparable. This paper focuses on the relationship between the teaching of a bridge aesthetic design course and ecological landscape sustainable development. Based on a visual impression hierarchy deep learning model and a statistical analysis of a questionnaire, including reliability and validity analyses, a teaching model for the design of landscape bridge structure systems was constructed. Landscape bridge structure systems combine the dimensions of function, form, mechanics, and culture, and the teaching design model of landscape bridges must include non-professional students, undergraduate students, graduate students, and graduates working in enterprises. Investigations were performed of the urban block landscape, water environment landscape, urban garden landscape, and landscape bridges within natural mountain landscapes. The results showed that: (1) the influence and role of landscape aesthetics related to the water environment and urban garden landscapes are the most important; (2) in the teaching of a bridge aesthetics course, sustainable ecological development must consider the aesthetic value of landscape bridges while ensuring function and safety; and (3) for students at different learning stages, the focus in terms of bridge aesthetic system elements is different. Both the bridge structural landscape configuration and the ecological aesthetics must be considered together during the teaching of bridge aesthetics design courses. To achieve such a goal, students at different levels must have a good understanding of ecologically sustainable development and bridge aesthetics.

Study on ecological aesthetic wisdom in Hunan ancestral hall architecture based on BIM technology

ABSTRACT On the one hand, ecological aesthetics requires buildings to provide comfortable indoor space environment for human beings; On the other hand, it has a small demand for the environment. In terms of material selection and energy use, it adheres to the principles of reducing use, reusing, recycling and replacing non-renewable resources with renewable resources. In view of the lack of efficient design technology in traditional architecture from the perspective of modernization, the study adopted BIM technology as the main design technology, and designed a design scheme to transform traditional drawings into three-dimensional architectural models according to the need to take into account the aesthetic concept and architectural functionality in the design process of ancestral halls in Hunan. This scheme can overcome the problem of complicated and inefficient design procedures in the process of traditional architectural aesthetic design from the perspective of modern architectural design, combine architectural functionality with traditional aesthetic concepts, and provide a way for the ecological and efficient design of traditional buildings.

Foreword. Aesthetics and ontology in Etienne Souriau

Étienne Souriau was a refined and demanding thinker, with an aristocratic demeanour, far removed from the currents of ideas dominant in his time. A difficult and erudite author, out of tune with the times he lived in, he would seem the least likely candidate to appeal to a hurried and globalised public like that of the twenty-first century. A sophisticated representative of a rationalist positivism, no stranger to the Husserlian canon and not even insensitive to the motivations dear to the gnoseological debate of Cartesian and Kantian matrix (as well as to the major themes of classical metaphysics), Souriau pursues the ideal of a constructive philosophy, capable of understanding – and at the same time favouring – the advancement of the creative process conceived as a set of poetic acts and progressive dynamic operations. In his texts, Souriau is attentive to grasping the correspondences, exchanges and reciprocal transitions between one mode of existence and another, as well as the resonances between the various art forms in the different fields of knowledge, testing an original method that is epistemologically very fruitful.
 The aim of this monographic issue of Aisthesis dedicated to Étienne Souriau is to explore his thought in its multiple aspects, in order to measure its topicality in relation to the themes and problems that characterise contemporary philosophical debate, with particular reference to aesthetics and ontology as well as to the dense network of connections between the two fields. One of the most interesting characteristics of Souriau’s thought that has stood the test of time would appear to be its multifacetedness: the quality of lending itself to being applied even to spheres that are apparently very distant from reflection on art, such as cultural anthropology, political philosophy or morality. It seemed to us that it largely owes its relevance precisely to the intersections between one field of knowledge and another.
 The issue contains twelve contributions on Souriau that explore his main aspects in depth. They range from analyses devoted to the architecture of Souriau’s thought (his general philosophy) in the essays by Dominique Chateau and Filippo Domenicali, which can furnish a useful overall picture of the man, to essays that attempt to focus on the more properly ontological core of this thought, such as those devoted to the arabesque motif (Luigi Azzariti-Fumaroli), the theory of the soul (Sjoerd Van Tuinen) or the multiplicity of worlds (Noëlie Plé). Interspersed between these are contributions that focus more on the comparison between Étienne Souriau’s thought and the philosophers of his time, such as Dufrenne (Maryvonne Saison), or with well-known later philosophers who explicitly referred to him, prolonging his creative impetus, such as Gilles Deleuze (Casey Boyle) and Bruno Latour (Aline Wiame), the true architect of the current Souriau “comeback”. Finally, in addition to essays of a more theoretical nature, there are contributions that attempt to re-evaluate certain aspects of Souriau’s aesthetics, such as the fruitfulness of the cues that can come from his thought for the debate on animal aesthetics (Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis and Andrea Scanziani), or the possible topicality of his theory of forms (Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarie).
 In the “Miscellaneous” section, this issue hosts a number of studies that aim to explore the aesthetic implications of new technologies, the themes of ecological aesthetics, as well as to offer an unusual profile of Baumgarten.

From the perspective of ecological aesthetics, Marx's critical thought and enlightenment of alienation ecological aesthetics

The aesthetic criticism of alienation ecology is Marx's aim in 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. In the Manuscript, Marx took alienated labor as the main line to highlight the beauty of the organic interaction between realistic human's sensibility and inorganic body, revealing that the distortion of the aesthetic relationship between human and nature lies in the accumulation of private property, and further pointing out that only through the return of free and conscious labor and the complete abandonment of private property can the natural body be liberated from the cage of irrational alienation. "Poetically inhabiting" in the communist aesthetic kingdom. Marx's critical thought of ecological aesthetics still inspires us how to become a better aesthetic "class subject": In the direction change of the body, we should change from "body slavery" to "body freedom"; In the transformation of world thought, we should change from "anthropocentrism" to "non-anthropocentrism". In the sublimation of ethical intuition, we should change from "hugging nature tightly" to "alienating nature appropriately". In the construction of survival paradigm, from the ecological "I think" to "the real existence".