PhD Courses in Denmark

Exploring New Materialism: Time explores the ideas and concepts of New Materialism and their implications for current theory, criticism and practice in the fields of architecture, design, art, the humanities and social sciences. Thwe course places particular emphasis on materialist perspectives on time and their potential to inform ontological, epistemological, ethical and aesthetic inquiries and to stimulate specific theoretical and empirical investigations of materiality and material artefacts.

How do different temporalities shape and influence the conditions for subjective, social and environmental being? How can we comprehend the material manifestations of – for instance – the past and the future; of slowness, speed and acceleration; of human and nonhuman becoming; of simultaneity, synchrony and their opposites; of global and planetary time; of chronological, repetitive, cyclic and durational time; of time management; of generational, periodical and epochal time; of boredom and overload; of time as capital; of instant time, deep time, endless time and the end of time? Grounded in readings and discussions of key texts by contemporary thinkers on materialism, the course aims to support the integration of ideas and perspectives from, or related to, New Materialism into students’ own research, with particular attention to time and materiality. The course includes a lecture by an invited international speaker.

Dates
12-13 Nov + 26-27 Nov, 2026. 
Four all-day sessions including reading sessions and master class.

ECTS
3

Application deadline:
1 September 2026