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Annual Conference

First Annual Conference »Matters of Activity«

The Analog in the Digital Age

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Peter A. Frensch
Greetings from the Vice President for Research of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wolfgang Schäffner
Introduction to the Cluster »Matters of Activity«

Lectures

Claudia Mareis
Truth to Materials: Entangled Histories of Design and Material Politics

Peter Fratzl
Natural Active Materials

Jürgen Rabe
Matters of Free Energy and a Tesseract

Nina Samuel
Passivity Matters! Transience and Conservation Practices. Examples from the 18th Century until Today

Horst Bredekamp
Die materielle Metaphysik des Filzes / The Material Metaphysics of Felt

The Lecture will be held in German, but an English translation will be provided below.

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Bastian Beyer & Iva Rešetar
Soft Fibrous Structures: Spatial Concepts for Cellulose Biofilms

Myfanwy Evans & Regine Hengge
Buckling, Wrinkling and Folding: Microstructure, Active Matter Behaviour and Geometric Modelling of Bacterial Biofilms

Wolfgang Schäffner
Material Energy Information: Towards an Analog Code

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