Dates:
24.07-28.07.2023, 10:00-17:00
Introduction: 24.07.2023 at 10:00
Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost (Design Research Lab)
Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen (TU/UdK)
Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi (TU/UdK)
Teaching assistance: Ines Weigand +
Athena Grandis
Language:
English
Format: This course will take place in person in the Berlin Open Lab at Einsteinufer 43.
UdK Berlin + TU Berlin / 3 SWS / 3 CP / UdK master students can gain credits for this class in the framework of the module „Designmethoden“ or over the Studium Generale.
Required knowledge: No specific previous knowledge is required.
Registration
Please register by email beforehand with your name, field of study and matriculation number to and . The maximum number of participants is 5.
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.
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/New Delhi: 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
– Chukwudi Eze, E. (Eds.) (1997): Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell
