The roof top at my work place in times of COVID lockdown
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‚In the very first picture my attention was drawn to the ‘Renaissance’ hotel signage and I began to wonder whether our current challenges will prompt its own kind of ‘rebirth’ in terms of how we think teaching and learning, for instance in the way come to see online learning as part of everyday education, rather than ‘other’ to the activities that traditionally take place within the physical campus.‘
You know, we usually mocked the Renaissance Hotel because it is so ugly. Nothing of the beauty of Italian architechture of the Renaissance era. But yes, its quite fascinating how such objects, like that building, stand in a new light when the context changes. And how they become themselves another message. As to Renaissance for us in the crisis, I really hope so. I truly hope that we do not return to the consumerist attitude from before, and I am sure that some of ‚my‘ educators will adapt new ways in their teaching. Others want to return to the old, but I think they will also change some of their approaches.
About the abandoned jacket: When I was on that roof that day I felt the presence of those very few people somewhere. It was as if they would hide. I thought of that jacket that it should remind me of the presence of someone I can’t see at the moment. It’s the presence of absence, in some way.
And then by the way, the door in that strange corridor with the word ‚Deppenhaus‘, actually it should be Treppenhaus (=staircase), but someone painted over the ‚Tr‘ and turned it into ‚Deppenhaus‘. A ‚Depp‘ in German means ‚fool‘. It has become the entrance to the ‚house of fools‘. -
Fascinating photos, Miriam, thanks for sharing them.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with JG Ballard but these images could easily accompany some of his post-apocalyptic writing!
If at some point in the future you choose to study the Education and Digital Cultures course (within the Digital Education programme) we spend a bit of time working with visual artefacts and analysing images. Looking through your different photographs, I’m wondering how we might use them as a way of exploring the relationship between education and technology? In the very first picture my attention was drawn to the ‚Renaissance‘ hotel signage and I began to wonder whether our current challenges will prompt its own kind of ‚rebirth‘ in terms of how we think teaching and learning, for instance in the way come to see online learning as part of everyday education, rather than ‚other‘ to the activities that traditionally take place within the physical campus.
And then further down there’s a photograph of a lone chair with an abandoned jacket – I wonder whether we could use this image in some way to make meaning of our current situation? Fascinating!
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