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‘Aesthetic strategies for engaging with environmental governance’ – written with <\/span>@ksobecka<\/a><\/span>. Aesthetic strategies can engage environmental governance to build alternative worlds. <\/span>http:\/\/<\/span>oro.open.ac.uk\/80368\/<\/a> – in Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies <\/span>#STS<\/a><\/span> #sciart<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The sciences and commercial entities are increasingly engaging with artists to harness aesthetics, creativity and interdisciplinarity. The effect of these collaborations has mostly been to promote public engagement with science and commercial innovation. Yet, it is unclear how such arrangements work, what impact aesthetic approaches have, and whether they are appropriate ways for artists to engage with other disciplines. This text analyses two case studies of aesthetic strategies of \u2018mirroring\u2019 and \u2018friction synthesis\u2019 as deployed within institutional environmental governance processes. The text argues that aesthetic strategies can highlight blind spots in environmental governance and do this without creating oppositional critique. Instead, aesthetics strategies can engage with existing governance processes and build alternative worlds within them.<\/p>\n