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Designing matter denotes the definition of the form and the materiality of the component elements in a material in order achieve a specific functionality. This process allows to utilize and enhance the inherent properties of a given material and ultimately to generate new ones. Codes – either analogue or digital – are used to implement the design of the material by means of a systematization of its form-function interrelationship. The lecture will present the outcome of two MoA Design Research Studios and give an outlook to future work in teaching research and research through teaching.

Karola Dierichs holds the professorship »Material and Code« as part of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« (MoA) and is a scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Previously, she has been a research associate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) within the Cluster of Excellence »Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture« (IntCDC). More

Professor Hugues Duffau is a French neurosurgeon who has dedicated his research to the concept of neuroplasticity, which he has been deploying for the past twenty-five years in his practice of awake surgery. He has a unique ability to »see right« with minimal medical imagery in the operating room, and his results are among the best in the world. Yet his theses and his modus operandi are still largely misunderstood. In January 2023, he asked a group of young artists and designers to help him put into images his knowledge of the mechanisms of brain plasticity. We will talk about this experience and how drawing and images can contribute to the elaboration of scientific knowledge.

Patricia Ribault is a Professor of Performative Design Research at the weißensee school of art and design berlin since 2020 and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is also a lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She began her career by studying applied arts and ceramics in Paris and by learning glass blowing in England and Murano. Her research focuses on the body, gesture, work, technique, art, industry, and design, and, more recently, on interspecific relations and posthumanist studies. Most recent publication: Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making (ed.), Birkhaüser 2022. More