ELIA is delighted to announce the conference Economies of Aesthetics, that will take place the 18–20 June 2015 in Basel, Switzerland in collaboration with the FHNW Academy of Art and Design and in conjunction with ART BASEL.

The conference will provoke new ways of thinking and observing the actual cultural, societal, political and economical processes, and provides a space for thinking in potentialities through a multidisciplinary view: the possible focuses on catalyzing urban change, the profitable conducts an analysis of a reloaded economic value system, the sensible explores an antifragile society, the desirable discusses architectures of meaning.