Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Master InterMedia
Type of degree:FH Master´s Degree Programme
 Part-time
 Winter Semester 2024
  

Course unit titlePolitical and Social Theory
Course unit code025322033010
Language of instructionGerman
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2024
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2024
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)Second Cycle (Master)
Number of ECTS credits allocated3
Name of lecturer(s)Martin SCHWEIGHOFER


Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course content
  • Interactions between cultural, economic, technical, social and ethical developments
  • Problem-solving skills achieved through communication design

 

 

Learning outcomes

The students are able to

  • follow current discourse on political and social theory and recognise corresponding links with design questions.
  • recognise and analyse design strategies in this field.
  • discuss their projects’ reference to social questions.

The students are familiar with

  • theories of the interplay between politics and design.
  • the role of design in different social problems, developments or crises.
  • methods for analysing communication strategies.
  • They are aware of social utopias.

 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures with discussions

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentation

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading
  • Deleuze, Gilles: Was ist ein Dispositiv? [frz. 1989], in: Schizophrenie und Gesellschaft. Texte und Gespräche von 1975 bis 1995, hg. Daniel Lapoujade, übers. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2005, S. 322–331.
  • Ganahl, Simon u. a.: Campus Medius, URL: campusmedius.net
  • Latour, Bruno: Eine neue Soziologie für eine neue Gesellschaft. Einführung in die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, übers. Gustav
  • Roßler, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2010 [engl. 2005].
  • Perec, Georges: Denken/Ordnen, übers. Eugen Helmlé, Zürich/Berlin: diaphanes 2015 [frz. 1985].
  • Todd Presner, David Shepard, Yoh Kawano: HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2014.
  • Annette Miae Kim: Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City, Chicago: University Press 2015.
  • Waldenfels, Bernhard: Sozialität und Alterität. Modi sozialer Erfahrung, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face course with compulsory attendance

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