Toxic Legacies. Copyright: Leila Wallisser
Leila Wallisser Awarded With German Design Graduates' 1st Prize
Leila Wallisser has been awarded the First Prize of the German Design Graduate (GDG) Committee 2023 in the category »Sustainability and Circularity« for her Master’s Thesis »Toxic Legacies« conducted at weißensee school of art and design berlin, supervised by »Matters of Activity« members Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karola Dierichs and Prof. Dr. Lucy Norris. »Toxic Legacies« is an innovative design project that delves into the world of recycling, shedding light on how the concept of recycling can tend to justify the production of waste in a consumer-based system.
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Landscape at Maralinga site (South Australia). Copyright: Wayne England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Stock will Give a Lecture on 30 August at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society
On August 30th, 2023, Cluster Professor Robert Stock will give a talk about Australia's nuclear contamination from a critical disability studies' perspective. In his contribution at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographic Society, Robert will focus on Yami Lester, a blind aboriginal activist engaged in social change and political intervention in the settler society of Australia. The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference is taking place in London at the Society and Imperial College London, and online from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September 2023, prior registration is needed.
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Visual »Tracing Tainted Environments«, 2023. Copyright: Thomas Ness
Workshop about Information Physicalization of Nuclear Cultural Heritage
The three-day-workshop »Tracing tainted environments: Legacies of Oranienburg« from March 14th-16th, 2023, explores different approaches to the historical legacies of the industrial site of Oranienburg in the north of Berlin. In different settings we are questioning adequate tools by joining various disciplinary perspectives on dealing with data and environmental pollution: human-computer interaction, design, history, and cultural and political studies. The industrial site of Oranienburg with its multi-layered historical legacies will be taken as a field of research and experimentation, thus providing a concrete setting for the workshop questions. In experimental series, talks and excursions, the three-day workshop explores the different dimensions of information in the context of non-tangible traces and summarizes them in design concepts.
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