Polyaesthetics

Polyaesthetics or polyaesthetic education (from ancient Greek πολυ (poly) for much and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis) for perception) is an art education concept that emerged in Hamburg in the course of the 68er-Bewegung in the 20th century. thumb|Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, Hamburg, 1970

== Concept == In terms of the history of ideas, the term polyaesthetics comes from Natias Neutert, whom the dean Hans Weckerle appointed as a lecturer at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg in 1970. His inaugural lecture there was a plea for the establishment of a new art education subject that would transcend the boundaries of previous conceptions of aesthetics. While Neutert's art education 'building blocks' are outlined as a "free play of ideas" in essayistic form, the art educator Wolfgang Roscher and his colleagues have the merit of having developed them into a pragmatic concept of an aesthetic multimedia education.