SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland

Faculty of Design / School of Form

PhD Monika Rosinska & Msc. arch Jolanda Starzak

Homework 1:

Gravity

Water

Light

Wind

Homework 2:

Walking workshops

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“Project of Philosophical Objects“

Conception, Design, Responsibility for the research flow and the Exhibition’s organization:

Professor Elena Theodoropoulou

The project refers to the organization of an expository event by the students, which will consist of the presentation of their ideas/works regarding the creation/construction/invention of new objects or the selection or the transformation of already existing objects, which will be defined/highlighted/questioned as “philosophical objects”.

The concept of “Philosophical Objects” is coined and grounded in the following texts by Elena Theodoropoulou:

• Théodoropoulou, E., ««En crevant la peau des choses»: les ‘objets philosophiques’. Prooimion à un projet”», in: Theodoropoulou E. (dir.), Proceedings of the 1^rst International Biennale of Practical Philosophy. Philosophy in praxis. The philosophical gesture: political, ethical, educational, artistic engagements, Rhodes: L.R.P.Ph., 2019, pp. 530-567.

• Theodoropoulou, E., ««Philosophical Objects»: meta-[reading] notes for a project: Μovements, Ob-Gestures, Tones», in: Theodoropoulou, E. (dir.), Proceedings of the 1^rst International online Pre-Biennale of Practical Philosophy, 9-10 Mai 2020, Rhodes: L.R.P.Ph., 2021, pp. 259-296.

• Theodoropoulou, E., «The “Philosophical Objects” Project: Practical Philosophy Through Experimental Research Pathways», STUDIA UBB. PHILOSOPHIA, 70 (1), 2025, pp. 83-104.

• Theodoropoulou, E., “Practical Philosophy & “Philosophical Objects”. From experimentation to experience”, Greek Philosophical Journal, 122 (2024), pp. 109-226 [in Greek]

It concerns a pedagogic-initiatory/research plan, with ultimate aim a certain awareness of the participants of recognizing and defining the philosophical element. The research query this project refers to is double and regards the definition, on the one hand of the concept of object and on the other hand of its philosophical quality or else of the possibility and the ways of an object to be defined/understood as philosophical, but also of the possibility of the philosophical to be connected to the concept and the ways of the object. This project embodies, as its main dimension, the recording of the students’ research journey from conception to examination, from reflecting and exchanging remarks within the group to planning and from realization of objects to presentation/exposure. During this process, the relationship between philosophy and the concept of construction, of representation and performance is stressed and researched up to a point, thus connecting this project with forms of art and speech. Neither the aim of the exposition of “objects” prejudices nor the final exposition of objects validates an affirmative outlook on the initial queries.

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