"Trousse du Naufragé". A Toolkit for Found Philosophical Toys

Lecture | Vortrag
Konferenz | conference "Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives", Bauhaus-Universtät Weimar & Online, July 21-22, 2023 | 21./22.07.2023

Philosophical toys are objects that enable us to understand processes, functions, relations and effects. In contrast to models – that are designed for quite similar purposes, but with the focus on visualization and objectification – philosophical toys are more closely related to processes of active research, experiment and knowledge production. Rather than being products, they are instruments of imagination, insight and invention – tools for thinking by doing, for a synthesis of theory and/as practice, and of practice and/as theory.

There are considerably many ways to conceive, construct, create philosophical toys, to transfer them from metaverse(s) to thingiverse(s) – and back again. However, for this time let me invite you to a cruise on the planks of Dr. Faustroll's copper boat, and to collect some of these very special non-machines in order to toy with them on our playground of perspectives.

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