Democratization of the Senses – Senses of Democracy: Emancipation as Experience of Equality in Hierarchical Otherwise Sensorial Spaces
Date: 04.04.2025 - 06.04.2025
Conference / symposium
Format: onsite
Location: Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
Event Fee: Free
Organizer(s):
University of Marburg
An International and Transdisciplinary Conference organized by the Chair of Psychology of Movement and the Department of Critical Studies in Culture and History , April 4 - 6, 2025 at the University of Marburg Concepts of radical democracy increasingly focus on the inclusion of the sensual and aesthetic dimension in democratic processes. The conference addresses the need to think democratic processes from a holistic perspective and investigates for the sensual-somatic dimension of democratic participation. If democracy has a sensual dimension, then the latter cannot be imagined without the democratization of the senses in the (albeit still visually dominated) public space. A pluralistic view of the use of the senses is thus urgently required to create experiences of equality, just as the perception of different cultural and social constructions of meaning is allowed only by democracy itself. How can spaces be organized in terms of a sensorial/sensual and performative understanding of democracy that encompasses a potential of political emancipation?
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