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14:30 Christina Clausen LOEWE Research Cluster “Architectures of Order”
Introduction: On model didactics
Looking at architectural models that were produced to prove or provoke ideas or define canons, this session asks questions about the material production of knowledge through models and analyzes the implied values and projections that models were (and still are) asked to transport.
Be it a training model in digital space, the plaster casts of famous classic forms or the archaeological reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon, models inform and mold what makes (and breaks) “architecture” as a discipline.
14:45 Kelly Joan Whitmer Sewanee: The University of the South
Games, models and projects in pedagogical praxis, c. 1650 – 1750
Widely valued for their ability to support strategic thinking, collaboration and to create opportunities for young people to “try out” particular tools, games held (and still hold) enormous pedagogical potential. Although aware of their ability to damage children through addiction or distraction, early modern con- temporaries generally embraced games – and the models, tools and materials needed to play them – as media that were uniquely situated on a threshold between present day reality and future possibility. These media created opportunities for young players as learners to “project” or to simulate future real-life scenarios, thereby validating acts of risk-taking and efforts to more usefully apply or direct the imagination. In this paper, I consider re- lationships between models as pedagogical tools and the forms of mimicry or role-playing activities that several early modern pedagogues envisioned these versatile tools were capable of fostering. I also pay special attention to the role of models and modeling practices in the “Oeconomic” games and projects of early promoters of political economy in the German states – and beyond.
14:30 – 16:10
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Christina Clausen studied art history and german literature in Marburg, Padua and Berlin. After completing her master's degree at the Humboldt University in 2014, she was a re- search assistant in Hildesheim. Since 2020 she is a doctoral researcher at the LOEWE Research Cluster “Architectures of Order Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowl- edge”. In her PhD project she analyzes the visualization of medieval architecture in models, paintings and museum dis- plays in the 19th century.
Kelly J. Whitmer is Associate Professor of History at Sewa- nee: The University of the South. Her first book, The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community appeared in 2015 (Uni- versity of Chicago Press). She recently spent two years at the University of Göttingen completing a new book about youth, science and pedagogy thanks to the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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