Theorie und Geschichte des Design 2

Anna Nagele
Design, Theory and History of Design
2025S, Proseminar (PS), 3.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S05604

Description

 Design-topias: Design for the Pluriverse

In a time characterised by multiple intersecting crises – what tools do we hold as designers to build better futures, meeting needs that are not being met, even exacerbated, by the market? Through this proseminar we aim to conceive design-strategies that make small contributions to enacting alternative presents in our own design-topias. We are going to explore design as world-making through the lens of critical posthumanism. Critical posthumanism as described by theorists such as Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway is becoming increasingly popular in the field of design. Examples from theory, art, design and activism that conceive of the human different to the humanist ideal will inform our discussion. We explore human’s relationship with the non-human (natural and technological), considering how to navigate entangled ecosystems. Rather than dreaming up a future utopia we are going to approach design as a future praxis for the ‘healing of the web of life’, as suggested by the anthropologist Arturo Escobar.

Examination Modalities

For successful completion of this proseminar the following requirements apply:

  • Regular, punctual attendance (min. 80% of all sessions) and active participation in discussion and workshops with considered comments and questions to texts and topics (30% of grade)
  • Interactive presentation of an approach towards a design-topia for the student’s own practice (30% of grade)
  • A designed page (portrait or landscape) of a personal design-manifesto - deadline: 11 June - and a theoretically-backed self-reflextion (1000 words +/-10%) + references - deadline 30 June (40% of grade)

Comments

Language: German

Dates

14 May 2025, 10:00–13:00 Seminar Room 26
21 May 2025, 10:00–13:00 Seminar Room 26
28 May 2025, 10:00–13:00 Seminar Room 26
04 June 2025, 10:00–13:00 Seminar Room 5
11 June 2025, 10:00–13:00 Conference Room 4
18 June 2025, 10:00–17:00 Seminar Room 34

Course Enrolment

From 03 February 2025, 09:00
Via online registration

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Industrial Design (2. Section): Design in Context: Theory and Design History 580/202.11

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Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02

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