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851-0106-02L 2 Credits DS D-GESS

Plastic and Plasticity in Science, Art, and Technology

Plastik und Plastizität in Wissenschaft, Technik und Kunst

Does not take place this semester.
VVZ CR n/a

Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:28:36

Abstract

Already Pygmalion dreamt of creating, with the help of the plastic arts, living bodies. But only around 1900 – just when synthetic plastics was invented – scientists discovered the grounds of the plasticity of living things. We follows the history of the idea of the plastic from antiquity up to the present, in which plastic is a technical as well as a biological concept.

General Information

Language
German
Levels
DS

Examination

Type
graded semester performance

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
seminar Plastik und Plastizität in Wissenschaft, Technik und Kunst
Does not take place this semester.
No time listed 2 h weekly

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