Design + Crisis: More-than-Human Technoecologies

Design + Crisis: More-than-Human Technoecologies (Block Seminar / 4 SWS)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen, Dr. Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)

Language: English

Dates: 24.-28.02.2025, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.12.2024 with your name, field of study and matriculation number to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (UdK Berlin / TU 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. While the current conception, production and increasing automation of technology deeply reflects a Western knowledge paradigm deployed globally, there is a multiplicity of ontologies from which the relationship between nature and technology could be conceptualized and embodied.

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. Drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships, designing more-than-human technoecologies that attempt to make the prevailing paradigm tremble (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Literature:

– Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

– Braidotti, R. (2006). ‘Posthuman, All Too Human. Towards a New Process Ontology’, Theory, Culture & Society. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Vol. 23 (7–8), pp. 197–208.

– Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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: More-than-Human Technoecologies (Block Seminar / 4 SWS)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen, Dr. Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)

Language: English

Dates: 24.-28.02.2025, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.12.2024 with your name, field of study and matriculation number to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (UdK Berlin / TU 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. While the current conception, production and increasing automation of technology deeply reflects a Western knowledge paradigm deployed globally, there is a multiplicity of ontologies from which the relationship between nature and technology could be conceptualized and embodied.

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. Drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships, designing more-than-human technoecologies that attempt to make the prevailing paradigm tremble (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Literature:

– Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

– Braidotti, R. (2006). ‘Posthuman, All Too Human. Towards a New Process Ontology’, Theory, Culture & Society. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Vol. 23 (7–8), pp. 197–208.

– Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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: More-than-Human Technoecologies (Block Seminar / 4 SWS)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen, Dr. Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)

Language: English

Dates: 24.-28.02.2025, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.12.2024 with your name, field of study and matriculation number to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (UdK Berlin / TU 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. While the current conception, production and increasing automation of technology deeply reflects a Western knowledge paradigm deployed globally, there is a multiplicity of ontologies from which the relationship between nature and technology could be conceptualized and embodied.

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. Drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships, designing more-than-human technoecologies that attempt to make the prevailing paradigm tremble (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Literature:

– Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

– Braidotti, R. (2006). ‘Posthuman, All Too Human. Towards a New Process Ontology’, Theory, Culture & Society. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Vol. 23 (7–8), pp. 197–208.

– Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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: More-than-Human Technoecologies (Block Seminar / 4 SWS)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen, Dr. Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)

Language: English

Dates: 24.-28.02.2025, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.12.2024 with your name, field of study and matriculation number to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (UdK Berlin / TU 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. While the current conception, production and increasing automation of technology deeply reflects a Western knowledge paradigm deployed globally, there is a multiplicity of ontologies from which the relationship between nature and technology could be conceptualized and embodied.

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. Drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships, designing more-than-human technoecologies that attempt to make the prevailing paradigm tremble (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Literature:

– Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

– Braidotti, R. (2006). ‘Posthuman, All Too Human. Towards a New Process Ontology’, Theory, Culture & Society. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Vol. 23 (7–8), pp. 197–208.

– Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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: More-than-Human Technoecologies (Block Seminar / 4 SWS)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen, Dr. Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)

Language: English

Dates: 24.-28.02.2025, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.12.2024 with your name, field of study and matriculation number to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (UdK Berlin / TU 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. While the current conception, production and increasing automation of technology deeply reflects a Western knowledge paradigm deployed globally, there is a multiplicity of ontologies from which the relationship between nature and technology could be conceptualized and embodied.

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. Drawing on the approaches of speculative design and critical making, we will debate and prototype alternative human-nonhuman relationships, designing more-than-human technoecologies that attempt to make the prevailing paradigm tremble (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Literature:

– Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

– Braidotti, R. (2006). ‘Posthuman, All Too Human. Towards a New Process Ontology’, Theory, Culture & Society. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Vol. 23 (7–8), pp. 197–208.

– Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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