ABSTRACT

This brief presentation has led us to see the complexity and intricacy of what is called upon as environmental. It has a major link to site-specific situations and reminds one of the importance of places, being aware though of the lure of the local (Lippard, 1973). Modern science has objectified knowledge, relegating arts and humanities on the side of subjective productions. In this context, the question of nature, which is to be defined in terms of its material and conceptual production requires reconfiguring aesthetic relationships in active terms, not as liabilities associated to a contemplative state. The aesthetics of Baumgarten, subversive in his time, contest logic, this higher faculty of knowledge, to promote sensitivity, but also the capacity to live beautifully.1