Paper short abstract:

This paper explores data-production methods (such as psychogeography and the ipad app ‘explain everything’) as multisensorial data-technologies that evoke insights on life with/in education architecture as a posthuman material-semiotic-affective sensorium.

Paper long abstract:

Life with/in/of contemporary education architecture (and the interior decoration, furnishing etc. of education architecture) may theoretically be viewed as a posthuman material-semiotic-affective sensorium: As you cannot 'make people learn' you can motivate their will to learn. Contemporary education architecture (and interior decoration) work beyond cognition while 'hitting' the senses: The (posthuman) sensorium is to enhance the capacity for learning, the 'desire' for learning. Yet, bodies, senses may also be disturbed, exhausted, stressed - and they may as well be energized for other activites than 'learning' as effects of the sensorium. They may become unwanted bodies. Multisensorial data-technologies (such as psychogeography and the ipad app 'explain everything') (re)evoke and explore living effects of the sensorium. The paper will explore the apparatuses of sense production - both that of the sensorium and that of the data-technologies. Furthermore ethico-onto-epistemological (Barad 2007) questions of this posthuman material-semiotic-affective sensorium will be investigated.