ISBN:
9783839447819
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (316 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Culture & theory volume 207
Series Statement:
Culture & theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2018
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Building Blocks
;
Cultural History
;
Cultural Studies
;
Cultural Techniques
;
Design
;
Education
;
History of Education
;
History of Technology
;
Kindergarten
;
Modularization
;
Technology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
;
Bauklotz
;
Kultur
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Bauklotz
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's »gifts« to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component
DOI:
10.14361/9783839447819
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