Event | Interim Presentation On Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 the Interim Presentations of the interdisciplinary semester project »entity:city« will take place at the Cluster. The five interdisciplinary teams of students of Computer Science (FU Berlin) and Product Design (KH Berlin Weißensee) will present their concepts more

Event | Workshop The Workshop »Animal Materialities« organised by Lisa Onaga & Laurence Douny takes place at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Dec 5-6, 2019. The workshop examines the range of components of animal bodies used and transformed over time by animals, and humans. more

WORKSHOP In cooperation with the International Design Centre e.V. and the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, AURORA School for ARtists (HTW) is holding a one-day workshop on Augmented Reality for Designers on Dezember 12, 2019. more

Workshop »Brain Roads« is an interdisciplinary French-German project for visualization and interactive exploration of the brain. It brings together graphic & digital designers from Esad de Reims, engineers from Télécom SudParis, and researchers in Neurosurgery and Social Sciences from the Cluster »Matters of Activity« and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Its ambition is to develop visual representations and interactive tools for exploring the white matter of the human brain. more

INTERNAL EVENT From November 1st to 3rd »Matters of Activity« organised the first internal annual Retreat. Around 75 researchers met at the Landgut Stober near Nauen to discuss work in the projects and deepen relevant Cluster topics in »Deep Downs«. Table tennis, »Walk & Talk« and dinner events gave members the opportunity to get to know each other better in a more relaxed atmosphere.   more

Publication Including contributions among others from: Florian Sprenger, Anna Echterhölter, Stefan Rieger, Laura Moisi, Tobias Eichinger, Patricia Ribault, Antonio Lucci, MoA member Martin Müller und Thomas Macho.
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Jobs The project Symbolic Material is looking for student assistant in the field of Humanities. more

News Since 2007, International Open Access Week is celebrated at hundreds of events around the globe. This year publishers, librarians, researchers, and institutions have discussed and organized events around the theme: »Open for whom? Equity in Open Knowledge«. With its own Open Science Statement »Matters of Activity« supports its members in opening up their research more

PARTNER EVENT On November 28th, 2019 the »Design Impact Conference« by DesignFarm will take place in weissensee school of art and design berlin. One of the Speakers, Anouk Hoffmeister, has been doing her research on collaborative tools for several years within the Cluster of Excellence »Image. Knowledge. Gestaltung«. more

Event Under the title »MoA Talks«, the interdisciplinary lecture series continues on November 19th at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin more

Event The Weaving-Project continues its series »Weaving in Different Disciplines« on November 7th, 2019 with Dr. Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Project Leader of the ERC group PENELOPE at Deutsches Museum Munich. more

Event »MoA Talks« is an interdisciplinary lecture series of the Cluster »Matters of Activity« running at weißensee school of art and design berlin. The lectures present different scientific positions from the Cluster. The first invited speaker in the winter semester 2019/2020 is Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Peter Fratzl. more

Event The practice project »Coding IxD« (Informatik x Design) for students takes place for the fifth time in a row at the Cluster of Excellence, this year under the term »Entity:City«. The course offer is a cooperation of the working group Human-Centered Computing headed by Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn (FU-Berlin) and the product Design Department headed by Prof. Carola Zwick (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee). Computer Scientists and Product Designers are trained together in interdisciplinary teams. more

Publication Nyakatura, J. A., Baumgarten, R., Baum, D., Stark, H., Youlatos, D. 2019. »Muscle internal structure revealed by contrast-enhanced μCT and fibre recognition: The hindlimb extensors of an arboreal and a fossorial squirrel.« Mammalian Biology 99: 71-80. more

Event On Monday, 21.10, the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques ceremoniously opened its new location in the newly restored Gerlachbau and presented its new permanent exhibition »Flechtwerk der Dinge. Sammlungsschaufenster der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«.   more

News | Achievements Stefan Zieme was awarded the 2019 Adler-Mansfield Prize for his paper »Adam Elsheimer and the Renaissance Night Sky«, presented at the 14th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshops, 19-22 June 2019, at the University of Notre Dame. more

Publication Tomasello, R., Kim, C., Dreyer, F. R., Grisoni, L., Pulvermuller, F. 2019. »Neurophysiological evidence for rapid processing of verbal and gestural information in understanding communicative actions.« Scientific Reports 9 (1): 16285.     more

Projects The project »Cutting« deals with the technique of forming, changing and opening surfaces and bodies – cutting. Here, researchers from Art History, Computer Science, Biology, Neurosurgery, Linguistics and Brain Research, Physics, Design and Interaction Design jointly research a new perspective on material and data through cutting. more

Projects In »Object Space Agency«, the researchers of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« are gathered to examine the affectivity of active Materials in the sphere of objects, persons and architectural structures. Material objects appear to be temporally and spatially at once stable and changeable. more

Projects The research group of the project »Material Form Function« deals with the relationship between material, form and function in order to generate new design principles and insights for the Materials Sciences and Humanities. more

Projects The project combines expertise from the fields of Anthropology, Cultural History and Theory, Literary Studies, Biology, Design/ Architecture, Material Sciences and Mathematics. The researchers investigate resources, practices and forms of weaving, focusing on the activity that is structurally anchored in the materials and as a process. more

Projects The project »Filtering« investigates filters using historical, experimental and computational approaches. What information, for example, can be enhanced by new filter techniques? more

Projects In the project »Symbolic Material« researchers from various disciplines investigate the material foundations of symbolic processes in interaction with the symbolic dimension of materials. more