Ocean - Matters of Activity

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Rasa Weber spricht bei »Humano Biotop II« im Roten Salon

Material Form Function | Science Communication | Ocean Am 13. Dezember spricht Rasa Weber im Rahmen der Veranstaltung »Humano Biotop II« im Roten Salon der Volksbühne. Die Reihe wird präsentiert vom Künstlerinnenkollektiv POEM (Despoten der Migration) und nähert sich posthumanistischen Körpern, ekstatischen Futuritäten und der Zukunft des Sex...

Design of soft robots. Research on form, its deformation and possible function. Copyright: Anna Schaeffner

Symbiosis

Cluster Members Anna Schaeffner and Rasa Weber Presented at Major Event on the Global Electronic Art Scene ISEA2023

Filtering | Material Form Function | Robotics | Doctoral Program | Ocean | More-Than-Human On May 17th and 18th Cluster Members Anna Schaeffner and Rasa Weber Presented at a major event on the global electronic art scene, that aims to strengthen the dialog between artists, researchers, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs from the cultural and creative industries who participate in the advances of research and creation. Anna Schaffner gave an artist talk »For a Design of Deformation« and Rasa Weber presented her paper »A Sympoietic Ocean. Design Research with/in the Marine Holobiont«. more

Poster PhD presentations 2022. Layout: Ada Favaron

Scaling Matters: From the Lab to the Field

Doctoral Presentations at the MoA Retreat 2022

Weaving | Filtering | Cutting | Material Form Function | Object Space Agency | Doctoral Program | Climate | Haptics | More-Than-Human | Ocean | Robotics | Textiles | Tree Bark | Wild Silk | XR | Water | Science Communication The 2022 presentation of the Doctoral Program »Matters of Activity« at the MoA Retreat in September at Landgut Stober was both a review and an outlook of the doctoral research conducted at the Cluster between 2020 and 2022. Under the title »Scaling Matters: From the Lab to the Field, «Pre-Doctoral Researchers at varying stages of their research — from the very beginning to the final phase of their theses — presented their heterogeneous work whilst continuing to negotiate common themes, methods, questions and tools. The format combined talks and an exhibition and invited MoA Members to engage individually with the presentation and a selection of their research objects. Thanks to everyone involved for making possible this all-around successful event. Enjoy some visual impressions of the exhibition, as well as the talks and have a look at the booklet. more

Michaela Büsse, Coastal Replenishment by Ahrenshoop, Baltic Sea. Copyright: Michaela Büsse

Materializing Futurity

Sand | Ocean »Materializing Futurity« investigates the ambiguous relationship between design and planning tools, environments and matter in reimagining and renaturating polluted landscapes. more

»Kiki Prototype«. Design: Rasa Weber, rasaweber.com. PhD Project: «SymbiOcean». Location: STARESO - Calvi (FR). Diver: Noémie Chabrier. Installation team, assistance and monitoring: Arnaud Boulenger, Sandra Bracun, Noemi Chabrier, Mélodie Chapat, Sylvain Coudray, Stéphane Jamme, Leonie John, Teal Jordan, Michael Karle, Mathieu Kelhetter (design intern), Michaela Roger, Bram van der Schoot, Kelly Stiver, Anja Wegner, Lena Wesenberg, Aubin Woehrel. Date: June 2023. SNF research project: «Interfacing the Ocean». Hosting University: Zurich University of the Arts & University of Art and Design Linz. Photo: Stéphane Jamme @stepp_aquanaute.

SymbiOcean

PhD Project Rasa Weber

Doctoral Program | Ocean | More-Than-Human The practice-based design research project «SymbiOcean» explores cultivating marine habitats with/in other-than-human marine environments as a form of «Sympoïetic Design». Inspired by the process of ocean mineral accretion by electrolysis for the construction of artificial reefs developed by Wolf Hilbertz and Thomas Goreau under the name Biorock (1970), the project brings together design, anthropology and marine biology to develop a new approach to the creation of artificial reefs. more