Date/Time
February 24, 2025 - February 28, 2025
All Day

Deeply entangled in a crisis of the Anthropocene, the need to radically reassemble relationships of ecologies and technologies is more vital than ever – to rethink 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 cuss 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.

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.

Lecturers: 
Prof. Dr. Michelle Christensen + Dr. Florian Conradi
Teaching Assistance: Ines Weigand, Selenay Kiray + Sidar Torunlu