Life Sciences

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• The students are introduced to current discourses and developments in the field of so-called biosciences. This area deals roughly with the structures of living beings and their interaction and includes different disciplines such as biology, biotechnology, psychology or artificial intelligence research.
• How will technological achievements change our understanding of ecology and art, nature and culture in the future?
• Debate of theories of New Materialism
• New perspectives on matter and performativity
• The role of visualizations and illustrations in the sciences

• Using exemplary projects, the students learn what interactions can develop between design and science.
• The students know ways to contextualize the imparted knowledge and to reflect it in their own design practice.
• They can position yourself on the outlined developments and identify addressable issues through design.

Lecture / discussion / practical research exercises / reading & self-study

Creative debate, presentation, written documentation and reflection work

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• Barad, Karen (2015): Verschränkungen. Berlin: Merve.
• Haraway, Donna (2018): Unruhig bleiben. Die Verwandtschaft der Arten im Chthuluzän. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
• Hoppe, Katharina (2021): Neue Materialismen zur Einführung. Junius Verlag.
• Goll, Tobias (2014): Critical Matter. Diskussionen eines neuen Materialismus. Münster: Edition assemblage.
• Callard, Felicity; Fitzgerald, Des; SpringerLink (Online service) (2015): Rethinking interdisciplinarity across the social sciences and neurosciences. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407962
• Dandekar, Thomas: Kunz, Meik; SpringerLink (Online service) (2021): Bioinformatik: Ein einführendes Lehrbuch. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.

Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance and asynchronous learning units