Building Blocks : : A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions and Dispositions / / Jose Muñoz Alvis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• VerfasserIn: Muñoz Alvis, Jose,
• Author: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 207
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 From Crystallography to Pedagogy --; 3 Play, Building and Gestalten --; 4 The Languages of Functionalized Blocks --; 5 The Shaping of Modularity --; 6 Conclusions --; Acknowledgements --; Bibliography --; List of Figures
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839447819; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839447819?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jose Muñoz Alvis.

Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's »gifts« to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component.