04/04/2026
Hello everyone,
I wanted to say hello and share that I will be giving a talk titled: “Toward an Ethics of Beauty: Expressive Arts in Fluid Times.” This is a research study developed from a phenomenological approach. In this sense, my work is situated in dialogue with Edmund Husserl, from whom I take the question of how experience is constituted in consciousness; Martin Heidegger, who expands this horizon by situating existence as being-in-the-world, irreducible to mere interiority; as my work is rooted in art and aesthetics as lived experience, I am deeply influenced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who emphasizes the primacy of embodied perception as prior to consciousness; and finally, I resonate with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, who shifts the focus toward alterity, introducing an ethics of responsibility that emerges in relation to the Other.
From this conceptual framework, I propose an understanding of aesthetic experience not as a mere subjective event, but as a field of intersubjective and communal co-creation. In my research, developed through the practice of expressive arts, I explore the lived experience of being-in-the-world through what I call aesthetic experiences that integrate perception, affect, and meaning. This approach is also informed by contributions from expressive arts therapies and transpersonal perspectives, particularly in the work of Stephen K. Levine, Ellen Levine, Paolo Knill, Fuchs Knill, and Shaun McNiff, who understand artistic creation as a space for transformation, encounter, and the opening of meaning.
From this convergence of knowledge, I argue that human beings bear an aesthetic responsibility: not only the capacity, but the duty to participate in the co-creation of more livable, sensitive, and meaningful worlds. This responsibility calls us to orient our gaze toward horizons of meaning where beauty is not reduced to the ornamental, but is understood as an ethical dimension—accessible through processes of awakening, attention, and continuous transformation.
This proposal will be explored in greater depth during my participation in the Spring Symposium 2026, where I will address the ethical, aesthetic, and communal implications of this perspective.
To register, please follow this link:
https://forms.gle/dSzx6weWaXk4WDL96
It would be wonderful to see you there!
Warm regards