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Life Sciences

Degree programme InterMedia
Subject area Design
Type of degree Bachelor
Full-time
Summer Semester 2025
Course unit title Life Sciences
Course unit code 025218041010
Language of instruction English
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) Compulsory
Teaching hours per week 3
Year of study 2025
Level of the course / module according to the curriculum
Number of ECTS credits allocated 3
Name of lecturer(s) Lukas RINNHOFER
Requirements and Prerequisites

None

Course content
  • 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
Learning outcomes
  • 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.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Assessment methods and criteria

Creative debate, presentation, written documentation and reflection work

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading
  • 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.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

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