The School of Thinking and Feeling The Class of Love

The School of Thinking and Feeling

The Class of Love

2010-11

We are flooded with images, everyday in every way. Advertising including posters, television, magazines, billboards, flyers, signs, ads on shopping carts, ads in public toilet stalls...packaging, movies, videos and an endless sea of images from the internet. We live in a visual world. How do these images translate our understanding of love? What do they say about how media forms and informs our feelings?

The class was asked to submit images of love, one or more images that represents love to them. Check out their responses.

Consider the possibilities, what does love "look like" to you?

Images of Love

Love At First Sight

"43% say No"

"41% say Yes"

"16% say Maybe"

Leuphana | Kate Hollett | I Love You Everywhere | Contact

What is love? How do we (individually and collectively) define love? What shapes our definitions? What part does media play in this definition? How do we communicate “love”? How is science informing love? Social Science... History... Politics... Economics... Anthropology... How does art and culture reflect and inform our ideas of love? And ultimately, how do we communicate love in a world increasingly connected via the internet?

This site is designed as a research platform for the Class of Love - University of Lüneburg-Leuphana, Germany and anyone who wants to contribute to the search for meanings of love and ways to express them.

Kate Hollett

Head of Class

Johanna Gunther

Resident of Love

Interns of Love

Simon

Feyzan

Linda

Egor

Theodora

Leonie

Judith

Matthias

Andrea

Erika

Michael

Corinna

Lisa-Christin

Madlen

Astrid

Severin

Ann-Kathrin

Jasmin

Janick

Sven

Pia

Jelena

Philipp

Lea

Torsten

Sonja

Sharing Love...

The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my wife"). "Love" can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros (cf. Greek words for love), to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that defines friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define,