Building Blocks :: A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions and Dispositions /

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 exp...

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Main Author: Muñoz Alvis, Jose (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 207
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (318 pages)
ISBN:383944781X
9783839447819

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