Description:
This course explores the research position known as ‘post-phenomenology’ (e.g. research by Don Ihde, Peter-Paul Verbeek, and Robert Rosenberger) and its value for interdisciplinary PhD projects interested in power, design, and the build environment. The course takes point of departure in ongoing research into social exclusion by design, architecture, and mobilities and urban spaces. It invites participants to see their research in the light of key concepts such as ‘multistability, ‘scripts’, ‘human-technology mediation’, ‘technological intentionality’, power, and the ‘politics of artifacts’. This post-phenomenological research agenda offers a deeper understand of how humans are enrolled into systems and spaces of artefacts and technologies, without giving up on the dimensions of human, embodied sensing, and affect. The course presents key theoretical concepts, and the participants will work with how these may become operational tools for empirical analysis in their own PhD projects. The course contains a mix of lectures, workshop assignments, participant presentations, and an optional written assignment at the end. All participants are evaluated based on active participation, and those who opt for the additional written assignment will have this evaluated by a ‘pass/fail’ evaluation.
The goal is for the participants to acquire knowledge about the post-phenomenological research
position and its potential relevance for their PhD projects. To establish competencies to make aninformed analysis of the applicability of post-phenomenological thinking as an empirical and operational position. To be able to skillfully evaluate a research design in the light of post-phenomenology.
Organizer: Ole B. Jensen
Lecturers: Ole B. Jensen, AAU and/or Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Tech) and Lars Botin, AAU
ECTS: 3
Time: 8. - 10. marts 2023
Place:
Zip code:
City: Aalborg
Number of seats: 15
Deadline: 15.2.2023
Important information concerning PhD courses:
We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Ole B. Jensen