Design + Crisis – Pluriversal Pathways to a Post-Anthropocene

Design + Crisis – Pluriversal Pathways to a Post-Anthropocene
Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen & Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi



Dates: 24.-28.07.2023, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by email by the 01.06.2023 with your name, field of study and matriculation no. to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Details

English / 4 SWS

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. 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

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