Post-Anthropocentric Design

The RVW ‘Design in Social and Political Context’ introduces students across the design disciplines to international, leading ideas and voices in the field of anthropology, curation, design writing, design history and practice exploring design in contemporary context through lectures delivered via Zoom. 

The focus of the SS 2024 lecture series is design in post-anthropocentric context. Design practitioners are confronted with global issues such as climate change and societal transformations that call traditional ways of working and knowing into question. For this series we are going to look at the more-than-human turn in design and how it brings about new practices, ethics, forms of governance and questions for designers.

The speaker series forms the foundation of Q&A discussion, and the potential reflection on students’ own projects in relation to the emerging ideas. 

The course is presented in English. The assignment can be submitted in either English or German.

For successful completion of this course the following requirements apply:

• regular, punctual attendance (minimum 4 out of 5 sessions, 50% of grade)
• active participation in the Q&A sessions following the guest lectures (20% of grade)
• an essay (+/- 1000 words) in the form of an exploratory think-piece of reflections on the students’ own practice in relation to the guest lectures (30% of grade) – we cannot accept work generated by AI unless indicated; references in footnotes are required (https://www.scribbr.de/chicago-zitierweise/literaturverzeichnis-chicago-style/)
• deadline: 20 May 2024, late submissions cannot be considered for assessment!

As this course is co-taught students need to also register with 

Alison J. Clarke
Ringvorlesung mit Workshop (RVW), 1.5 ECTS, 1.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S04976

to get the full 3.0 ECTS.

Please mind the different times of the sessions due to geographical locations of our guest speakers.