In seiner Funktionalität auf die Lehre in gestalterischen Studiengängen zugeschnitten... Schnittstelle für die moderne Lehre
In seiner Funktionalität auf die Lehre in gestalterischen Studiengängen zugeschnitten... Schnittstelle für die moderne Lehre
Praxis
Theorie und Praxis Materieller Kulturen: Design und Nachhaltigkeit
This module addresses the critical challenges to global sustainability brought about by human political and economic activity at an unprecedented pace and scale, and how these are underpinned by unequal structures of power and the violence of historical and contemporary cultural relations with both human and non-human others. Key concepts such as the Anthropocene, the Great Acceleration, and Planetary Boundaries are introduced, as well as critical analyses by political, philosophical and feminist thinkers who propose alternatives such as the Capitalocene and the Plantationocene. After the global transformations brought about by industrialisation, colonialism, globalisation and the rise of mass consumption, students are encouraged to consider what 'sustainability' means to different people in different contexts, and will explore contemporary approaches to social and environmental sustainability at different scales and in different cultures. Examples include the circular economy, the bioeconomy, bioregionalism and local material ecologies, the commons, regenerative economics, and the degrowth movement. …
Praxis
Theorie und Methoden in der Materialkulturforschung: eine Einführung
This module is grounded in anthropological approaches to studying material cultures. Understanding how we engage with the material world is fundamental to understanding human cultures across time and space - for example, how we make meaning through making with the material, and how we construct our social worlds through living with things. Whether focusing on historical, cross-cultural, contemporary or speculative material cultures, these approaches develop holistic, contextual and nuanced views of the dynamic relationship between the material and the social in human life.The study of material cultures allows for a deeper appreciation of the complexity and diversity of lived human experience in different time periods and different geographical places.
The module introduces key theories in material culture studies through examples that highlight how processes of growing, shaping, extracting, making, adapting, buying, exchanging and disposing of material things in different cultures enable cultural meaning to be both embedded in, and (re)generated through, …