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Building Blocks : A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions and Dispositions / Jose Muñoz Alvis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 207Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837647815
  • 9783839447819
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.1 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1025.3 .M8585 2020
  • LB1025.3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: 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.

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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.

funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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