Winter 2024, CairoLab
Visual philosophy Lab
Course details
- Cycle
- Winter 2024, Cairo
- Length
- 7 sessions
- Format
- In person
- Taught in
- English
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About the course
Let’s turn the introspective power of philosophy into art!
Visual philosophy is an experimental concept of crossover between philosophy reflection and artistic production. This class invites you to join a collective talk about basic philosophy notions. We will study the foundations of each philosophical notion, discuss it, and find in which ways they apply to our individual and collective realities. The goal is then to transfer our understanding of it into colors, shapes and textures. It is a class about building a bridge from your unique thought structure to your unique way to visualize the logic you just built while thinking. This class requires no technical skills at all, only the desire to explore the within, get inspired and inspire.
Who teaches it
Isaona holds a Master’s degree in Political Theory from the University of Amsterdam and has been mainly working as a teacher both in secondary and in higher education. She has always been interested in philosophy and spirituality talks, as well as she enjoys guiding and facilitating group discussions. She has been practicing horizontal teaching methods that value the fun and self-discovery aspects of philosophy. By experimenting philosophical artistic crossovers she calls visual philosophy, she lately explores the endless potential of visual arts inspired by philo concepts.
From the fellow Format: 8 sessions of 2h30 class, each class divided in three parts: discussion, production, sharing time.
Course flow
Sessions without a date
Introducing ourselves... but who is your self?
- Being and nothingness, on the concept of authenticity and bad faithReference suggestion (text): by Sartre (1943)
- Inside outReference suggestion (movie): Pixar Animation Studios
Examinating the meaning of counsciousness
Are my senses shaping my counsciousness? My thoughts, my emotions? Is it a feeling?
- The wax example from Meditation IIReference suggestion (text): by René Descartes (1641)
Are desires an endless race after satisfaction?
Would you wake up and move everyday if you had no desire to satisfy?
- The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, on the liberation power of contemplationReference suggestion (text): by Arthur Schopenhauer (1818)
- Requiem for a dreamReference suggestion (movie)
Have you ever experienced life synchronicities?
- Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24Reference suggestion (YouTube video)
Unique, pure, infinite, unconditionnal or rational... what is happening when you love? what is happening when you’re loved?
- The myth of the Androgynous from Banquet, on the origin of loveReference suggestion (text): by Plato (-IVth century)
- Ethics, part III, on love and joyReference suggestion (text): by Spinoza (1677)
Retrospection time
Looking back, thinking the creative process
Collective choice of a topic to tackle
In class
- ExerciseCollective artistic production
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