Watch the presentation on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwaPm57seVY
In 387 B.C., Plato founded the Academy in Athens, which for a thousand years had been the intellectual center of the world. At the entrance to the Academy, there was a sign that said “Let no one inept to geometry come in”.
The presentation deals with the question of how the pursuit of knowledge might include interaction with the other, the practice of collaborative inquiry, within the frame of Plato’s geometry. In this respect, the model of the Planetary Collegium stands in a privileged place, where the right to philosophy is not simply authorized, but actually developed.
With its location in Greece, the birthplace of democracy, the I-Node gives a new value to the Planetary Collegium . However this value has less to do with locality and much more with the catalytic energy, which democracy and philosophy offer towards the liberated dissemination of knowledge at large.
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/ionionode
About
The I-Node of the Planetary Collegium - Plymouth University in Greece
Mission
Within the context of transdisciplinary and syncretism, I-Node promotes the integration of art, science, technology and consciousness research in post-biological culture.
Description
The PhD Programme of the Planetary Collegium of the University of Plymouth on the island of Kefalonia - Greece.
Trans-disciplinary strategies towards art, science, technology, and consciousness research.
General Information
As an integral part of Planetary Collegium, I-Node is concerned with advance inquiry in the transidisciplinary space between the arts, technology and the sciences with consciousness research an integral component of the overall work.
All part-time doctoral research candidates attend three mandatory ten-day face-to-face Composite Sessions each year over a continuous three year period.
Typically, each session involves three days of individual research updates presented for discussion by the group; a three stage critique by all members of the group in respect of each other’s work; individual supervisory tutorials; and a two-day public symposium.
Doctoral candidates are required to submit progress reports to the University of Plymouth Research Committee at regular intervals.
To this end, I-Node implements a total Planetary Collegium’s curriculum be maintaining the academic standards, values and principles of Plymouth University; providing a PhD programme aligned exclusively to Plymouth University’s regulations.
marc garrett