Co-taught by Virginia Tassinari (TU Delft) and Eduardo Staszowski (Parsons), in collaboration with TU Delft, the 4TU and Parsons, the New School.
Hannah Arendt used the term “dark times” to describe periods of political turmoil and disconnect. In such moments, as we see today, thinking risks becoming passive and action risks becoming thoughtless. This course explores how a critical praxis might emerge by testing ideas through new forms of critique and affirmation.
Rather than treating theory as abstraction and practice as mere making, the course asks how we can move beyond critique to open space for reimagination. Open to 4TU postgraduate candidates across diverse disciplines - spamming from design, sciences, the arts, and social sciences - it offers a collaborative, experimental and international setting for those for those seeking to further question and shape their PhD work in ways that make both their practice and thinking more critical and transformative.
Practical information
Fridays, 16:55 - 15:45
21/1/2026 - 12/5/20226
Online course
Contact person: Virginia Tassinari v.tassinari@tudelft.nl
Submissions
Submissions are open until December 15th, 2026