Design + Crisis – Pluriversal Pathways to a Post-Anthropocene
Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS)
Dates:
28.02.-03.03.2023, 10:00-16:00
06.03.-07.03.2023, 10:00-16:00
Registration:
Please register by email by the 22.02.2023 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de
Participants:
Max. 15 participants
Room:
Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin
Description:
Deeply entangled in a crisis of the Anthropocene, the need to radically reassemble relationships of ecologies and technologies is more vital than ever – to re/think socio-technical practices and re/design modes of convening with our companion species and environments.
Within the framework of this block-seminar, we will discuss critical perspectives on western-centric paradigms of understanding nature and technology, exploring pluriversal approaches to interspecies sustainability. We will explore concepts of beyond-western-centric cosmologies and cosmogonies, speculating on organic technologies and the symbioscene. And drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships (with an open source soft and hard attitude), integrating critical thinking with designing.
*This seminar will be carried out in collaboration with visiting scholar Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, founder of L'Africaine d'Architecture and Woelabs Lomè.
Literature:
– Arturo Escobar (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
– Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro (2004): Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies. Common Knowledge, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2004, pp. 463-484, Duke University Press
– Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Eds.) (1997): Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell
Modules:
• BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich
• MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich
• Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät
• This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective
31319201 FG Open Science
Christensen, Michelle; Conradi, Florian
10:00 - 16:00, Di. 28.02, 01.03.23, 02.03.23, 03.03.23, 06.03.23, 07.03.23
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BlockveranstaltungFachübergreifendes Studium Kultur und TechnikFachübergreifendes Studium Mensch und MaschineFachübergreifendes Studium Ökologie und Technik