Artifacts studies

Teacher : Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet

This course for master's students from Master Editorial policy - Design and Politics of the Multiple and Situated Practices Workshop supports the multidisciplinary workshop.

The Artifact Studies course begins by looking at how modes of organization, protocols, layouts, architectural edifices, technical objects, urban planning, legal texts, philosophical or legal categories... in short, multiple types of fabrication - act on social reality, transforming us, making us do things, inducing possibilities of action and/or restricting our possibilities of action, enabling and forbidding, preventing, changing us. - in short, multiple kinds of fabrications - act on social reality, transform us, make us do things, induce possibilities of action and/or restrict our possibilities of action, allow and forbid, prevent, change us..., secondly, to the way these devices produce imaginaries in specific socio-cultural contexts, and thirdly to the way all this contributes to the emergence, transformation or destruction of certain kinds of knowledge. The course draws on various approaches from postcolonial, visual and cultural studies, phenomenology and object-oriented socio-anthropology.