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More and more, the “four walls” of people’s own homes – if they have homes – are becoming projection surfaces for societal developments as well as literary and artistic production: fears of downward social mobility in light of exploding rent prices, increased interest in interiors during lockdown coinciding with proliferating tedium for parents and children plagued by homeschooling, the relationship between people and pets or between people and their surrounding materiality, the cocooning boom, etc.
During the summer semester of 2022, researchers at KWI will explore these and other phenomena related to dwelling, seeking shelter and home design – between business models and the formation of taste – from cultural studies perspectives.
Various formats will include invited guests and events devoted to the topic. All events can be found on the KWI website. From May to July, the KWI Blog will also publish two blog series on “Dwelling“ and “My Corner“.
ORGANISER
The series is organised by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI).
About the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI):
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research centre following the tradition of international Institutes for Advanced Study. In its role as an inter-university institution connecting the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Technological University Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the institute works together with researchers and scientists from its neighbouring universities as well as other partners from the federal state NRW and places in- and outside of Germany. Within the Ruhr area, the KWI is a place to share and discuss the questions and results of ambitious research with interested parties from the city and the greater region. Currently, work at the KWI focusses on the following areas: “cultural studies of science and science policy making”, “sociology of literature and culture”, “science communication”, and a “teaching lab”. Projects in the established research field “culture of communication”, as well as individual projects, will be continued.
https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltungsformate/wohnen-dwelling/ Event series on the KWI website
Special Focus Dwelling
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