Science Matters: Scientific and Artistic Research

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Science Matters: Scientific and Artistic Research is a cross-disciplinary course that brings together students from different levels (Bachelor, Master, PhD) into collaboration with international peers from the life sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. The course uses Artistic Research (ATR) as a bridging method across disciplines. ATR is a rapidly evolving field of inquiry that explores materials, situations, and forms in both experimental and practical ways. Students will form a simulated research group and use ATR methods to: - Create "knowledge maps" of their own sub-fields (e.g., genetics, epigenetics, European ethnography)- - Collaboratively develop speculative interdisciplinary maps of future knowledge - Work through guided impulses, peer teaching, and shared exploration of fundamental assumptions—epistemic, axiological, and ontological Mapping in this course functions as both a method of producing knowledge and a form of representing it. The resulting maps may be included in a collective publication titled Book as Research Exhibition. The course is open to all Circle U. students and includes multilingual exchanges in German, French, and English.

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