Digital Fellows at the Cluster

The Digital Fellows was a funding format of the Cluster, which was intended to give projects the opportunity to obtain additional expertise and experience. Funding was provided for measures, programs, and activities that supported the individual academic and professional qualifications and goals of the applicants and ideally also strengthen a culture of equal opportunity and diversity within the Cluster.

Overview Digital Fellows

Dimitra Almpani-Lekka Object Space Agency

Dimitra Almpani-Lekka is an Architect (Dipl. Arch. Eng.) who graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For the last few years she has been working in the field of Landscape Architecture with a focus on public space. She is member of the Berlin-based SciArt Collective MY-CO-X that experiments with the use of mycelium-based composite materials in the architectural context. She explores architectural structures as potential active, integrated parts of their environment and its metabolic processes. She is particularly interested in water transformations through the built environment with the aim of promoting multispecies symbioses, as well as the restoration of the natural environment and local biodiversity. For the above she is inspired by different species of the microcosm and the mechanisms that define their unique functions and properties.

Silvia Casarotto Cutting

Rodrigo Martin Iglesias Object Space AgencyRodrigo Martin Iglesias is an Alternative Futurist, Strategic Thinker, Fictional Designer, Caring Father, Vocational Teacher, Restless Researcher and Wandering Writer. He is an Argentine Architect and PhD in Design from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Chair of Architecture Theory and History at UBA and UNLaM, Head Professor of Futures Design (UBA), Director of the Open Design Master Program (UBA - Humboldt Universität), Coordinator of the Design Research Laboratory (+ID Lab, FADU, UBA), Director of the research projects »Visualization and Design of Futures. Beyond Strategic Foresight and Speculative Design« and »Hybrid reality to collectivize alternative future scenarios«, Co-founder and Chief Strategist of NextFutures, Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Xenofuturës Collective Network.

Heidi Jalkh Material Form Function

Heidi Jalkh is an Experimental Designer trained in Industrial Design. She is a specialist in logic and technique of form and holds a master in interdisciplinary research from OpenDesign, a joint program from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Since 2010 she serves as a teacher at UBA, FADU and from 2020 at Universidad Austral. In 2018 she founded the interdisciplinary research group »Sistemas materiales«. Her professional practice as a designer is the product of many interests she pursues passionately: craft, bio-inspired material fabrication, and interdisciplinary research. Heidi sees materials as a creative trigger. She is interested in making significant connections between the fields of biology, design, and engineering with the aim of achieving a higher level of integration between Form, behavior and material.

Amira Möding Filtering

Amira is pursuing her PhD on the Intellectual History of ‘Big Data’ at the University of Cambridge. She holds a BA from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Cultural Studies and Philosophy and a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge in Intellectual History and Political Thought. She has worked as a student assistant at the chair of Rahel Jaeggi. Her research interests are focused on the epistemology of ‘Big Data,’ and its normative implications. She has previously focused on the history and philosophy of law and post-colonial theory and has organised conferences with Prof Brenna Bhandar and Dr Eva von Redecker. As a digital fellow of the Cluster of Excellence, Amira is focused on the normative implication of filters and power scapes.

Mario Rosanova Cutting

Nataliya Shakhovska Filtering

Nataliya Shakhovska received her master's degree in decision support systems, PhD’s degree in uncertainty modeling in datawarehouses and ScD’s degree in dataspace organization. Currently she is the head of artificial intelligence department, Lviv Polytechnic National University. With more than 20 years of experience in Big data preprocessing and processing for social and industrial sectors, database and datawarehouse integration, machine learning and deep learning, she is the leader of more than 10 projects related to AI and data processing. She is member of Artificial Neural Network Society, Ukrainian Chapter. Nataliya is author of more than 250 publications. 3 patents are related to text mining and semistructural data processing. She has awards of Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science.