Quite a few years back, I began to put pen to paper on what would be the first notes and records of what eventually became the theory of the Aesthetic Sense of Nature. In 2014, I formulated the difference between the built and grown environment with the Empowerment of Aesthetics Exhibition in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. When referring to the grown environment, I refer to all the living matter that isn’t controlled and maintained in a particular form or condition. The view of the designed world, the aesthetic sense of nature, and the grown environment as complementary has since formed the foundation for my activities. What began ten years ago is now compiled in this text. A text that gathers my reflections on, among other things, Kant’s philosophy, and thoughts on the beautiful, the sublime, and humanity’s capability of being affected, even change, through interactions with our surroundings. Most notably nature and its phenomena. Hannah Arendt’s view on the sense of
