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Building Blocks – A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions, and Dispositions

Jose Muñoz Alvis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:8th Dec '21

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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.

ISBN: 9783837647815

Dimensions: 226mm x 147mm x 15mm

Weight: 666g

330 pages