Regenerative Aesthetics [ASSOC] (B-LUCA-K34360)

6 ECTSEnglish24 First termFirst term
Mühleis Volkmar (coordinator) |  Mühleis Volkmar |  N.
LUCA POC GRADUATE (OC grafisch ontwerp, textielontwerp, vrije kunsten Gent)

Aims

This course unit can also be taken by other students of the Association KU Leuven. 
Students of other higher education institutions will have to register as a LUCA Interuniversity Student. More information.
NOTE: This course has limitations on the number of participants!
Three places have been reserved for students of the Faculty of Architecture. They are assigned based on the elective choice as organized by the Faculty of Architecture itself.
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The student is capable of reading and discussing whole philosophical books, with the attitude of continuous self-study and critical awareness regarding the fields of both philosophy and fine arts (knowledge, skill).

The student can do presentations on philosophical questions, enriched by own research on texts and artworks (skill).

The student links this theoretical input to his/her/their own artistic practice in the period of his/her/their master's course (skill, attitude).

 

This seminar aims to realise these OLR 's: 

1. Having an artistic and autonomous attitude enabling the continual development of a (personal) art practice.

2. Taking up final responsibility in designing and/or realizing a personal artistic project.

3. Understanding the essence of a personal artistic development and communicating with a critical audience in a clear and well-advised manner.

4. Setting up and conducting independent research in view of the development of an artistic practice.

6. Being able to take up and defend a critical position as regards relevant societal, cultural, artistic and international developments.

 

Previous knowledge

The student has followed an introduction to philosophy in general and to philosophy of art in particular.  

Corequisite: the student must have followed all Bachelor’s degree courses before or must take up remaining courses of the Bachelor’s degree simultaneously with the master’s seminar.

Identical courses

This course is identical to the following courses:
K34296 : Master's Seminar: Philosophy of Art I (No longer offered this academic year)

Is included in these courses of study

Activities

6 ects. Regenerative Aesthetics [ASSOC] (B-LUCA-K51271)

6 ECTSEnglishFormat: Lecture-assignment24 First termFirst term
Mühleis Volkmar |  N.
LUCA POC GRADUATE (OC grafisch ontwerp, textielontwerp, vrije kunsten Gent)

Content

Regenerative Aesthetics is a term used by art theoretician Roger Marx at the beginning of the 20th century and further developed by contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière, in the context of his thinking on emancipation. We will explore this term and its practical and theoretical implications regarding the horizon of the Anthropocene – the ecological phenomenon that nature is fundamentally touched by humans, most prominent in climate change. Therefore, we will study the understanding of Regenerative Aesthetics by Marx and Rancière and compare it with expanding interpretations of philosophers like Bernhard Waldenfels and François Jullien, sustainability researcher Fred Luks or economist Thomas Piketty. The aim of this research seminar is two-folded: on the one hand a theoretical study of conceptual conditions of Regenerative Aesthetics, on the other hand practical research in exploring artistic ways to work with it, to perform it. At the end of the seminar the students have insights in the concept of Regenerative Aesthetics, examples of testcases how to deal with it and an understanding of methodological options to counterbalance theory and practice in research.

Keywords: Regeneration, Aesthetics, Anthropocene, Nature, Culture  

  

Course material

Jacques Rancière, Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art, New York: Verso, 2019

Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen and John R. McNeill, "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?", Ambio Vol. 36, No. 8, December 2007

Sue Spaid, Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017, Sittard: De Domijnen Hegendaagse Kunst, 2017

- Patricia Johanson's Environmental Remedies: Connecting Soil to Water, Millersville: Millersville University, 2016

- Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 2012

Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology, Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 2020

 

Format: more information

The working methods are presentations and discussions, online in case of pandemical measures.

 

 

 

Evaluation

Regenerative Aesthetics [ASSOC] (B-LUCA-K74360)

Type : Partial or continuous assessment with (final) exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Practical exam, Paper/Project, Process evaluation
Type of questions : Open questions
Learning material : Course material

Explanation

AssessmentGrading scale
TOTAL1-20/20 scale

The following four aspects are part of the evaluation:

- the student is making a journal in association with the lessons;

- the student is doing practical research on the notion of regenerative aesthetics;

- the student is giving a presentation on aspects of regenerative aesthetics;

- the student is writing a paper (10 full written pages) as a reflection on regenerative aesthetics in general, regarding the practical and theoretical research their did.

These four aspects together generate the result of the evaluation. 

(If there are any changes in the evaluation modalities due to the corona measures, the students will be informed via Toledo.)

Information about retaking exams

The rules for exam and re-exam are the same.