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| Previous course: C8501 |
| Offered by:
Department of Technology and Social Sciences
(ITS) |
| No credit points with: C8501 |
| Prerequisite: C8660/61.85141/42 |
| Recommended semester:
4th -7th semester |
| Limitation: Max. 50 |
| Examination:
Evaluation of report(s)
(13 point scale
) |
| Contact person: |
Peter Olsen, ITS, Building 322, Tel. +45 4525 6050 |
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| Aim: To give the students a cultural and historical knowledge about models, ideals or utopias about society, technology and nature since the industrial revolution. This knowledge includes aspects of the material/societal basis of the models. The course aims at qualifying the student to imagine and develop different pictures of the future relations between technology, nature and society, |
| Contents: Paradigms and models influencing industrialized societies up till now. An overview of individual-oriented respectively collective-oriented utopias - and their material basis. Moreover an introduction is given regarding different views in the wellfarestate in this century - and different views on the relation between society and environment. The students learn to use different methods in order to develop and evaluate alternative models of the future. |
