Aesthetics, that is, the fundamental artistic questions of sensory perception (aisthesis) on the one hand and of design/articulation and the semantics, ideologies, and knowledge conveyed by them on the other, is traditionally conceived from a modern human perspective.
Our focus on techno-ecological, decolonial, and queer-feminist theories and methods leads us to fundamentally rethink ways out of anthropocentric and Eurocentric approaches and to consider non-human beings as sensing, creative, and meaning-making entities. How does this influence our research methods? What narrative perspectives and modes of narration are generated? And how could a non-human or more-than-human aesthetic be formulated?
Projects
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Contact
Dr. Yvonne Volkart
Head of Research IAGN
- Phone
- +41 61 228 40 77 (Central office)
- yvonne.volkart@fhnw.ch