Design + Crisis – Pluriversal Pathways to a Post-Anthropocene (LV / Seminar)

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

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

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

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

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