DigiFREN - research data

The DigiFREN project undertakes a comparative study of the digital aestheticisation of changing sensitive environments in Europe. The historical and ethnographic research conducted within the project aims to elucidate the ways in which digital media and technologies are transforming human-environment relations in their sensory, affective, discursive and practical manifestations and dimensions. Digital aestheticization, as a multifaceted and negotiated process, remains in a dialectical tension between the concrete experience of the environment and surroundings and more universal views and perceptions of them.
As part of the project, each of the research teams has selected sites that reflect the cultural, social and environmental diversity of Europe. In the case of Poland, the Oder Valley in Lower Silesia; Slovenia, the alpine valleys of Solčavsko and Bohinj; Croatia, the Adriatic coast of Telašćica and Paklenica; Finland, the Finnish peat bogs of Sodankylä and Lieksa; and Norway, the Sørmarka urban forest in Stavanger. We are interested in the similarities and connections, but also in the contrasting processes and phenomena within which digital aesthetics articulate themselves in relation to the specified sites and their surroundings.