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By HAIR (Hollie, Ramona, Annie) Group building On the end of the second week we had the task to build groups. For this we took a sheet of paper and wrote a question regarding ecologies and the text «The three ecologies» by Félix Guattari, which defines the semester topic, down. We then tried to organize them and based on similar questions the groups were built. One question was «Can new technology face the problems we are facing nowadays?». Next to that we had «natural?» on one sheet, which asked about the definition of nature. If concrete is made of ingredients that originate from nature, can a building be considerate a part of nature? If humans are the children of nature, are cyborgs just the grandkids? But our group found the questions «why does orgasm sound like organism?» was the most amusing and interesting one. Brainstorming We started off with some brainstorming, because we wanted to open ourselves up again. During the process we still found ourselves discussing a lot about the differences between technology and …
Mathis Neuhaus