CALL FOR PAPERS

The World Phenomenology InstituteWilliam S. Smith, Executive President
Jadwiga S. Smith, Co-President of American Division
Daniela Verducci, Co-President of European/Asian Division
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Founder †together withThe Department of Humanities
IULM University, Milan (Italy)
Renato Boccali
Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

INVITE YOU TO
The 66th International Congress of Phenomenology
Milan, Via Carlo Bo 1

October 27-28-29, 2022
(held in a blended mode)

TOPIC:

Eco-Imagination for a Sustainable Future

The World Phenomenology Institute
20 Kenneth Drive - Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324 USAEmail: office@phenomenology.org; verduccidaniela@gmail.com
Website: http://www.phenomenology.org

The aim of the conference is to explore the role of imagination in forming and interpreting our worldin-transformation in view of a sustainable future. The classical phenomenological approach toimagination has focused on the different modes in which we can experience the world and the correlating
modes in which the world can appear to us, so that the imagination was strictly conceived in relation toperception. Furthermore, imagining can be considered as an act of experiencing something as possible,
opening the virtualities that are latently present in the world. This is particularly true if we consider thelife-world and the processes of individualization on the vital level. Using Tymieniecka’s words, theontopoietic spread of the Logos of Life appears caught up in the turmoil of generative progress that
implies a creative imagination that enable the human being to go beyond the simple framework of thelife-world, to surpass himself and open a new form of design thinking. This kind of imagination can bealso defined as eco-imagination, stressing the importance of the “ecological” dimension of imagination
conceived as an ontopoietic creative dynamic, grounded in the human condition within the totality oflife’s spread. The expansion of the human condition is thus based on the eco-imagination that activatescreative virtualities and thus relates to reality in a new way, deepening the productive dynamic of life.
Such an eco-imagination seems therefore to be a useful tool to frame in a new and profitable way ourliving, or rather the relationship that we have with our world-environment. Eco-imagination is thus theprivileged way to the ontopoiesis of life conceived as an eco-phenomenology. A new form ofphenomenology of life arises based on eco-imagination in relation to a more general eco-phenomenology.
It means a new way of considering the development and genesis of life, promoting environmental
sustainability conceived on a large scale.
Contributions that take an interdisciplinary approach are particularly encouraged. All submissions mustspecifically identify phenomenological aspects of the work.
The conference welcomes contributions in different topics of interest, but are not limited to:-Environment imagination-Imagination and eco-phenomenology-Eco-imagination and sustainability

The World Phenomenology Institute
20 Kenneth Drive - Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324 USA
Email: office@phenomenology.org; verduccidaniela@gmail.com
Website: http://www.phenomenology.org

-Imagination in the autopoiesis/ontopoiesis of the living being-

Architecture, urbanism, and eco-imagination-

Virtual realities and eco-imagination-

Eco-systems and media environments-

Anthropocene and eco-imagination-

Elemental imagination-Abstracts due: July 31, 2022
Full papers due: January 27, 2023
Registration Fee: 50.00 Euro
Please note that all participants are expected to be members of the World Phenomenology
Institute. Membership dues are 30.00 Euro per year
Registration fee and membership dues must be paid to the W.P.I. by October 29, 2022 to theaccount no. 67503173, in Daniela Verducci’s name, at Banca Fideuram Spa, Via D. Annibali 112,62100 Macerata (Italy). IBAN: IT13C0329601601000067503173 SWIFT/BIC: FIBKITMM-- Please submit abstracts and full papers to: renato.boccali@yahoo.com
The conference will be held both in person and on-line.

Papers will be considered for publication in the two peer-review books series: Analecta
Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research and Islamic Philosophy andOccidental Phenomenology in Dialogue. Both series are edited by the World Phenomenology
Institute and published by Springer Nature.

The World Phenomenology Institute
20 Kenneth Drive - Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324 USA
Email: office@phenomenology.org; verduccidaniela@gmail.com
Website: http://www.phenomenology.org