Culture opens up worlds

Course: Children decode messages

Arts as forms of communication in designed environments

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 8

Orientation

Anthropocene

Focus

Culture opens up worlds

Aim

Passed down through language and images, cultural codes transmit world views and identities. Recognising the arts as code systems, reflecting on them critically and using them creatively is possible on the basis of basic scientific and didactic knowledge of aesthetic coding and decoding strategies. The encoding and decoding of messages, taking into account their (cultural, historical, spatial, ecological, media, etc.) contexts, enables transformative learning processes in the creative-artistic examination of the field of tension between man/environment or nature/culture in art and everyday culture, which promote the formation of ideas and sensitise students to the aesthetic design of living environments.

Content

• The arts as code systems with their respective possibilities and limitations
• Metaphors, symbols, narratives in their cultural embedding and communicative function in educational contexts
• Perception, reflection and application of aesthetic coding and decoding strategies
• Cultural and media pedagogical concepts for language-sensitive teaching, also in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity
• Didactic models for co-operative forms of learning, self-directed learning, project teaching, learning scenarios with the aim of aesthetic coding and decoding.