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This paper discusses the artistic value of “community-engaged art project” from the
perspective of environmental aesthetics. Community-engaged art project refers to art
projects that take place in a specific region for revitalization and other similar purposes.
I evaluate the artistic value of it in terms of creating a chain of discovery of the aesthetic
value of a place by various subjects. Section 1 examines Vid Simoniti’s “pragmatic view”
of the artistic value of socially engaged art (SEA). Section 2 points out two problems
that arise when applying the practical view of local art. The first is the ambiguity of
community revitalization as a social purpose, and the second is that the view overlooks
that art is an act of making something. Section 3 interprets previous research on
creative placemaking and site-specificity from the perspective of environmental
aesthetics and argues that local art creates a chain of discovery of the aesthetic value
of a place at the initial stage of revitalization. Section 4 explains what exactly a chain of
discovery of the aesthetic value of a place means, referring to the case of the Oku-noto
triennale.
