After successful completion of the course, students are able to grasp the vast transformations that are brought about by the ongoing processes of digitalization within the big picture of Digital Architectonics: they are familiar with basic concepts in classical dialects, rhetorics, and poetics, and they are introduced to contemporary theory discourses around digitalization like digital humanities, gender studies, Xenofeminismus, science and technology studies, platform capitalism, object-orientierted philosophy, speculative or magical realism, or new materiaism.

The lecture "Architecture and Philology" deals with the role of language in today's architecture. This suffers from the increasing flood of images that are largely meaningless (because they are generic and unspecific in what they represent). In contrast, as in the Renaissance, many interesting vernacular colloquialisms emerge on a new technical basis. We follow the idea that architecture is spoken and not drawn, and gives generous space for speaking. It deals with the rhetorical and dialectical figures, as well as literary formats in which the techniques and manners of an era manifest themselves. Furthermore, current discourses such as digital humanities, gender studies, xenofeminism, science and technology studies, platform capitalism, object-oriented philosophy, speculative or magical realism are presented.

Diverse: readings, presentations, lectures, discussions.

Active participation in discussions, written essay.