Aesthetics of Care with Ecology in Technological education is a 36 month Erasmus+ KA220- HED Cooperation partnership in higher education that seeks to develop new ways of incorporating sustainability in technological education.

Context

The project began with the realisation that there is an urgent need for 21^st century education to develop new ways to address the complex entangled problems of climate crisis and its relation to technological development. In order to tackle these problems transdisciplinary approaches are needed to reformulate relations between the arts, humanities, and sciences to develop approaches that span disciplines in order to prepare a new generation of students for the challenges of building the innovative, sustainable and circular economy of the 21st century.

Project Aims

The project’s objective is to develop a framework that incorporates an Aesthetics of Care into curricula, providing teachers and students with wide ranging transdisciplinary contexts, and toolkits that privilege questions of care in technological education. This Aesthetics of Care framework will be deployed as a modular toolkit for use in a variety of pedagogical settings. This approach has the ambition of providing students with the transformative set of skills and competences needed to redefine sustainable technological development for the 21st century.

Aesthetics of Care

An Aesthetics of Care means that concrete ways of caring for one-another, for human societies, and the environment are encoded in how we design, build, interact with, employ, or aestheticise technology. So that future technologists have concrete ethical contexts to address, and tackle, societal and ecological affairs.