Syntopia. Copyright: Jihae Lee, weißensee school of art and design berlin
Final Review of MoA Design Research Studio
We hereby cordially invite you to the final review of the MoA Design Research Studio »Syntopia—Harvesting the Forest«, which will take place on Tuesday, July 18th, in Room 2.03 at weißensee school of art and design berlin. The studio led by Cluster Professor Karola Dierichs, investigated how materials collected in the forest can be formed into architectural structures. Such materials can for example be branches, leaves, moss, bark, grass, or even earth.
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Minimal Machines 2
Hygroscopic Hemp
The MoA Design Research Studio »Minimal Machines 2« investigated functional applications for the shape-change of hemp-rope under variant ambient humidity conditions. Hemp is a biogenic plant-based material. It displays hygrophilic behaviour meaning that it absorbs water from the environment and consequently changes shape.
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Final Presentation »The Tone of Things«. Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin
Final Presentation of the Interdisciplinary Semester Project (eLAB)
In the interaction with our environment, all senses play together shaping this experience. In addition to visual and tactile qualities, physical things also have a sound inherent in their material and form, which can be experienced in the process of interacting with them. Objects of the technosphere often use sound only in a very primitive form to convey information. In this project, we explored the auditive space in order to enrich everyday objects and situations through consciously designed sound experiences. The goal of the studio project, finally presented on February 16th, 3.00 pm was to create an interaction or an object that exemplifies this new quality and thus establishes the »tone« as a dimension to be designed.
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Poster »MoA talk« with Claudia Blümle. Detail from Marie Lund: Stills, 2013, sun-faded curtain mounted on stretcher frame, 120 × 200 × 5 cm.
MoA Talk by Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle
The interdisciplinary lecture series MoA Talks was continued on November 7th, with a talk by Claudia Blümle, Professor of History and Theory of Form at the Institute of Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In the tension between visibility and theory, the talk »Öffnen und Schließen. Zur Medialität des Vorhangs in der zeitgenössischen Kunst« focused on the production of visual form, its pictorial techniques and materiality, as well as on the cultural and medial conditionality of the perception of art. The talk was hold in German.
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Minimal Machines 2 – Hygroscopic Hemp. Copyright: Nuri Kang / weißensee school of art and design berlin, Image: Karola Dierichs / weißensee school of art and design berlin, Matters of Activity.
Final Presentation of MoA Design Research Studio
Please join us for the final review of the MoA Design Research Studio »Minimal Machines 2 – Hygroscopic Hemp«. We will meet live from 03.00 till 04.00 pm on 5 July 2022 in room A 2.06 at weißensee school of art and design berlin. The MoA Design Research Studio »Minimal Machines 2« investigates functional applications for the shape-change of hemp-rope under variant ambient humidity conditions.
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