Filters alter our perception of reality or reshape reality altogether. In a cultural setting for example, media content is purposely or unintentionally processed, resulting in irresponsible filtering. Therefore, our team investigates responsible filtering processes to tackle urgent societal challenges, such as human-machine collaboration and energy management. Our joint expertise enables to bridge the gap between fundamental research and social applications through responsible design. We are designers, social, natural, and computer scientists developing theoretical frameworks advocating fairness at the center of environment, technology and society. Particularly, we employ our frameworks and experimental tools to design the next generation, of materials for thermal insulation and robotic-assisted surgery.
Methodology
An extreme variety of filters seems to form the epistemic center of many processes of our transitional age. Which leads inevitably to the question of whether there is a common concept that underlies this multitude of filtering phenomena. Within the project, we understand filtering as a scalable environing technique that differentiates and maintains symbolic and material environments alike. Because of its scalability, human as well as non-human actors can interact with filtering techniques to create environments. Filtering is an activity that matters in a twofold way: It is a material process that is fundamentally important for the actors because it involves symbolic activities at the same time. Starting from this basic concept, we analyze different properties of filtering techniques and engage in a research
Filtering team members discussing human-machine collaboration at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow. Foto: Mario Cypko
Samples of Flax Fiber Bundles as a precursor for Architectural Yarns, adapted by Node Berlin/Oslo. Copyright: Maxie Schneider, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, weißensee school of art and design, Matters of Activity
Prototyping Anholonomy. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Borneo Summer School 2023, Photo: Gary Loh Chee Wyai. Copyright: Jürgen Sieck/HTW Berlin
Design NODE Oslo Berlin. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Subprojects
Ever Given, 2021. Copyright: Suez Canal Authority
Vorketzin, 2019. Photo: Jonas Stuck
Raue Reihe II. Copyright: De Gruyter
Anna Schaeffner, Soft Collision at Ars Electronica 2024. Copyright: vog.photo / Ars Electronica Flickr
Bi-Leaf - Morphology of a Movement, Antonia Dönitz, Master Thesis Textile and Material Design, 2024. Image Copyright: Antonia Dönitz / weißensee school of art and design
Concorde Lobster Dinner, 1978. Copyright: Air France.
Publication »Raue Reihe«, edited by Horst Bredekamp with a first issue by Regine Hengge on »The Essential Role of Microbes in Planetary Metabolism«. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Skylab Food Tray, December 30, 1971. Copyright: NASA S72-15409
Key Visual, MoA Design Research Studio, 2024. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Intro, Excursion Filtering Oranienburg, 2023. Foto: Sybille Neumeyer.
Keyvisual Coding IxD
MoA Design Research Studio »DeLIGHTful«, 2023/2024. Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin
Open Space Event, 9 November 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Samples of Flax Fiber Bundles as a precursor for Architectural Yarns, adapted by Node Berlin/Oslo. Copyright: Maxie Schneider, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, weißensee school of art and design, Matters of Activity
Copyright: Waxmann Verlag
Entrada da Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa. Copyright: WikiCommons, Manuelvbotelho, CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Prototyping Anholonomy. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Landscape at Maralinga site (South Australia). Copyright: Wayne England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Layout: Pilar Cebey. Photo: Javier Deyheralde
Brochures, doctoral presentations 2023. Layout: Ada Favaron. Project coordination: Franziska Wegener
As part of the performance »Tender Absence«, Siegfried Saerberg sits on a bench amidst deforested trees. Copyright: Disabled Landscapes
Copyright: Mina Mahouti
Poster Lecture Series, May–June 2023. Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin
Borneo Summer School 2023, Photo: Gary Loh Chee Wyai. Copyright: Jürgen Sieck/HTW Berlin
Design of soft robots. Research on form, its deformation and possible function. Copyright: Anna Schaeffner
FiBB 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Keyvisual Exhibition »Zur Nachahmung empfohlen«, Berlin, Uferhallen Wedding May to June 2023. Copyright: Jennifer Allora und Guillermo Calzadilla, from »Under Discussion«, 2004/2005, courtesy the artists, adapted by anschlaege.de
Driving the Human Book Launch at Matters of Activity, 10 May 2023. Copyright: Camille Blake / Driving the Human
Copyright: Mina Mahouti
Position.en. Copyright: Anna Kubelík
Design Impact Conference 2023, Image: Superwood by Sofia Soudi, Jana Grewe. Copyright: DesignFarmBerlin
Visual »Tracing Tainted Environments«, 2023. Copyright: Thomas Ness
Anna Schäffner. Photo: Michelle Mantel
Teaser Coding IxD (7), Let’s Get: Physical, 2023.
Coding IxD 7, Invitation Flyer, 2023. Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin
MoA Diagram: Workshop Research Modules for the Creation, Cognition and Perception of Matter. Copyright: Franziska Wegener
Rain-sheltered pathway at the University of Technology Sarawak, Sibu, 2022, Photo: Christian Kassung. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Design NODE Oslo Berlin. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Annual Conference »Deep Material Futures« at silent green, November 2022. Copyright: Michelle Mantel
Panel »Interdeterminacy and Liveliness« at MoA Annual Conference »Tipping Points« 2021. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Poster PhD presentations 2022. Layout: Ada Favaron
Master Students and Visitors at the »Growing Sensecapes« event in the Humboldt Lab. Photo: Carmen Gloria Cuello Quintana.
Flyer Open House 2022. Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin.
Cube of Physics, Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Copyright: studio gid
Portrait Konrad Polthier. Credits: Konrad Polthier
KonsOasis. Copyright: An Guoliu
Herausforderungen der Industriekultur. Copyright: Karsten Feucht
Joining Perspectives on Haptics - Design Workshop Filtering 2022. Foto: Felix Rasehorn
From left to right:
KIM | Milda Benjes, Nik Naumov, Aljoscha Peters, Alexia von Salomon
Doc-U | Anton Wille, Jonathan Rex, Una Preuß, Yiawen Yao
Discus | Antonios Hazim, Johannes Schmidtner
Bubble+ | Sarah Leicher, Ran Zhang, Alpaslan Inceismail
Cookie.Jar | Luis Günther, Benny Christian Henning, Meret Sonnenschein
CO2NLINE | Julia Mellert, Simon Sasse, Youran Song
Copyright: weißensee school of art and design berlin
»Digital:Sovereignity«. Copyright: Project Coding IXD
STEM on a mission: medical informatics. Copyright: MINT Magie (Familie Redlich for Bundesministerium for Education & Research)
Poster Online Lecture Series »Talking Matters«, Copyright: Lucius Fekonja, Bastian Beyer, Iva Rešetar, adapted by NODE Berlin
Tipping Points. Copyright: Josef Luis Pelz & NODE Berlin Oslo
Poster »Filtering Legacies«. Copyright: Sandia National Laboratories, Michel Brill, 1993 & NODE Berlin
Visual Recording Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation 2021. Copyright: Lorna Schütte for »Wissenschaft im Dialog«
Poster Online Lecture Series »Talking Matters«, Copyright: Cécile Bidan and Salif Sawadogo, adapted by NODE Berlin
Flyer of Exhibition »Code & Materiality in Art and Culture«. Copyright: University of Applied Sciences Berlin
WEON prototype. Copyright: Netta Gigi, Harrison Tan, Fu Yitao, Jehyun Kim
Poster Online Lecture Series »Talking Matters«, Copyright: Lucius Fekonja, Bastian Beyer, Iva Rešetar, adapted by NODE Berlin
All 7 Berlin Clusters of Excellence are represented with a film at the foyer at Humboldt Lab. Copyright: Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? Kick-Off event »MitWissenschaft/ WeSearch«, Humboldt Forum Berlin, 29 April 2021. Copyright: Humbolt Forum
Fermentation toolkit. Copyright: Bastian Beyer
Vivian Tamm, Smart Organic Light Objects (SOLO). Copyright: Vivian Tamm / weißensee school of art and design berlin
Ran Zhang, Design Sprint: Haptic Vision, 2020. Copyright: Ran Zhang
Poster Shelf Live. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Key Visual MoA Annual Conference. Copyright: Matters of Activity
Exploring Fitering. Copyright: Veronika Aumann, Thomas Ness
Copyright: weissensee school of art and design berlin
Copyright: Julien Letellier
Copyright: »Matters of Activity«
Images from slide collections, 1970s. Top: molecular models of retinal; center left: bleached purple membrane in cuvette; center right: chemically modified preparations of purple membrane in centrifuge tubes; bottom left: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 1974 (Copyright: www.luftbild-bertram.de); bottom right: electron micrograph of cell surface. By courtesy of D. Oesterhelt, Martinsried
Cacao Cloud by Clemens Winkler. Copyright: Michelle Mantel
Clemens Winkler is presenting his »Wolkenkammer« during the project presentation of »Object Space Agency«. Copyright: Franziska Wegener.
Bacterial cellulose curtain. Experiments: Bastian Beyer and Iva Rešetar (design), Skander Hathroubi (microbiology). Photo: Bastian Beyer, adapted by Ada Favaron. Project coordination: Elisabeth Obermeier & Franziska Wegener
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Cypko, M. A., Timmermann, L., Sauer, I. M., Müller-Birn, C. 2022. »Towards Human-Robotic Collaboration: Observing Teamwork of Experienced Surgeons in Robotic-Assisted Surgery.« In Mensch und Computer 2022 (MuC '22), September 4–7, 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, New York: ACM.
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Löffler, P. 2021. »Colonizing the Ocean: Coral Reef Histories in the Anthropocene.« In Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times. A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene, edited by Gál, R. P., Löffler, P. Lüneburg: meson press, 185-213.
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Glinka, K., Fischer, P. T., Müller-Birn, C., Krohn, S. 2020. »Investigating Modes of Activity and Guidance for Mediating Museum Exhibits in Mixed Reality.« In Kultur und Informatik: Extended Reality, edited by Israel, J. H., Kassung, C., Sieck, J. Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 231-255.
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Stock, Robert. 2024. »Blindness, Acoustic Environing and Sensing Technologies (ca. 1950-1980).« In Media and Disability - Part I, special issue. PuntOorg International Journal, 9 (1): 5-30.
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Fabozzi, F. G., Severin, N., Rabe, J. P., Hecht, S. 2023. »Room Temperature On-Surface Synthesis of a Vinylene-Linked Single Layer Covalent Organic Framework.« Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Niu, W., Fu, Y., Serra, G., Liu, K., Droste, J., Lee, Y., Ling, Z., Xu, F., Cojal González, J. D., Lucotti, A., Rabe, J. P., Hansen, M. R., Pisula, W., Blom, P. W. M., Palma, C., Tommasini, M., Mai, Y., Ma, J., Feng, X. 2023. »Bottom‐up Solution Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons with Precisely Engineered Nanopores.« Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
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Lin, H., Habibova, L., Rauf, A., Cojal González, J. D., Severin, N., Kirstein, S., Sokolov, I. M., Rabe, J. P. 2022. »At least 10-fold higher lubricity of molecularly thin D2O vs H2O films at single-layer graphene–mica interfaces.« Nano Letters, 22 (19): 7761-7767.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01425
Queisner, M., Pogorzhelskiy, M., Remde, C., Pratschke, J., Sauer, I. M. 2022. »VolumetricOR: A New Approach to Simulate Surgical Interventions in Virtual Reality for Training and Education.« Surgical Innovation, 29 (3): 406-415.
https://doi.org/10.1177/15533506211054240
Rezania, B., Valencia, A. M., Cojal González, J. D., Severin, N., Cocchi, C., Rabe, J. P. 2022. »Interfacial Electric Fields Acting on Molecules at Solid Interfaces.« The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126 (13): 6028-6035.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00122
Stock, R. 2022. »Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems.« Mobilities, 18 (1): 132-147.
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Stock, R. 2022. »Mobilität und Tuning-Prozesse. Zur Reorganisation materiell-sensorischer Praktiken blinder Fußgänger:innen durch digitale Medien.« Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, 2022: 25-50.
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Cubasch, A. J., Engelmann, V., Kassung, C. 2021. »Theorie des Filterns. Zur Programmatik eines Experimentalsystems.« preprint.
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Müller-Birn, C., Glinka, K., Sörries, P., Tebbe, M., Michl, S. 2021. »Situated Case Studies for a Human-Centered Design of Explanation User Interfaces.« arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15462.
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Rauf, A., Cojal González, J. D., Balkan, A., Severin, N., Sokolov, I. M., Rabe, J. P. 2021. »Shaping surfaces and interfaces of 2D materials on mica with intercalating water and ethanol.« In Findenegg Memorial Issue, special issue. Molecular Physics, 119: 15-16.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2021.1947534
Benjamin, J. J., Kinkeldey, C., Müller-Birn, C. 2020. »Participatory Design of a Machine Learning Driven Visualization System for Non-Technical Stakeholders.« Mensch und Computer 2020-Workshopband.
https://dl.gi.de/bitstream/handle/20.500.12116/33538/muc2020-ws-287.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C., Razniewski, S. 2020. »Examining the Impact of Algorithm Awareness on Wikidata's Recommender System Recoin.«
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.09049.pdf
Faghani, A., Gholami, M. F., Trunk, M., Müller, J., Pachfule, P., Vogl, S., Donskyi, I., Li, M., Nickl, P., Shao, J., Huang, M. R. S., Unger, W. E. S., Arenal, R., Koch, C. T., Paulus, B., Rabe, J. P., Thomas, A., Haag, R., Adeli, M. 2020. »Metal-Assisted and Solvent-Mediated Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Triazine Structures on Gram Scale.« Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (30): 12976-12986.
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c02399
Lin, H., Cojal González, J. D., Severin, N., Sokolov, I. M., Rabe, J. P. 2020. »Reversible Switching of Charge Transfer at the Graphene–Mica Interface with Intercalating Molecules.« Support. Info at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c04144. ACS Nano, 14 (9): 11594-11604.
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Löffler, P., Perraudin, L., Schneider, B., Yusoff, K., Gabrys, J. 2020. »Dinge anders machen. Ein Gespräch über feministische Anthropozän-Kritik, Dekolonisierung der Geologie und «sensing» in Medien-Umwelten.« In Zirkulation, special issue. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 23 (2): 138-152.
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Palma, C.-A. 2020. »Topological Dynamic Matter.« The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12 (1): 454-462.
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Skrodzki, M., Zimmermann, E., Polthier, K. 2020. »Variational shape approximation of point set surfaces.« Computer Aided Geometric Design, 80: Article 101875.
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Bonnici, A., Akman, A., Calleja, G., Camilleri, K. P., Fehling, P., Ferreira, A., Hermuth, F., Israel, J. H., Landwehr, T., Liu, J., Padfield, N. M. J., Sezgin, T. M., Rosin, P. L. 2019. »Sketch-based interaction and modeling: where do we stand?« Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 33 (4): 370-388.
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Cojal González, J. D., Li, J., Stöhr, M., Kivala, M., Palma, C.-A., Rabe, J. P. 2019. »Edge Phonon Excitations in a Chiral Self-Assembled Supramolecular Nanoribbon.« The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10 (19): 5830-5835.
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Farda-Sarbas, M., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Wikidata from a Research Perspective – A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata.« 11.
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Lauster, D., Reiter-Scherer, V., Cuellar Camacho, L. J., Bhatia, S., Rabe, J. P., Haag, R., Herrmann, A. 2019. »Hooking on Viral Glycoproteins with Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy to Study Single and Multiple Bond Formations.« Biophysical Journal, 116 (3): 428a.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.2305
Mackeprang, M., Khiat, A., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Leveraging General Knowledge Graphs in Crowd-powered Innovation.«
https://dc2s2.github.io/2019/papers/dc2s2-mackeprang.pdf
Mackeprang, M., Müller-Birn, C., Stauss, M. T. 2019. »Discovering the Sweet Spot of Human-Computer Configurations: A Case Study in Information Extraction.« Article 195, Issue ed. by Nichols, J. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3 (CSCW): 1-30.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3359297
Reiter-Scherer, V., Cuellar-Camacho, J. L., Bhatia, S., Haag, R., Herrmann, A., Lauster, D., Rabe, J. P. 2019. »Force Spectroscopy Shows Dynamic Binding of Influenza Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase to Sialic Acid.« Biophysical Journal, 116 (6): 1037-1048.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.01.041
Vaseva, L., Müller-Birn, C. 2020. »You Shall Not Publish: Edit Filters on English Wikipedia.« OpenSym 2020: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM, 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3412569.3412580
Benjamin, J. J., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Materializing Interpretability: Exploring Meaning in Algorithmic Systems.« In Companion Publication of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (DIS '19 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. New York: ACM, 123-127.
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Farda-Sarbas, M., Zhu, H., Nest, M. F., Müller-Birn, C. 2019. »Approving automation: Analyzing Requests for Permissions of Bots in Wikidata.« In The 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym ’19), August 20–22, 2019, Skövde, Sweden. New York: ACM, 1-10.
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Skrodzki, M., Zimmermann, E., Polthier, K. 2019. »Variational Shape Approximation of Point Set Surfaces.« Presented at the International Geometry Summit (IGS), Vancouver, Canada, 17-21 June 2019. 54-57.
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023. Report (2019–2022).
Zwick, C. (supervisor), Ness, T. (supervisor), Groll, F. (supervisor), Wiesener, H. (exhibition) 2020. Smart Organic Light Objects. Design Project. weißensee academy of art and design berlin. 1 April 2020 - 27 July 2020, Virtual.
https://kh-berlin.de/projekt-detail/Project/detail/smart-organic-light-objects-auf-messe-greenhouse-3309.html
Stock, Robert. Acoustic Ecologies: Electronic travel aids for the blind as filtering technologies (ca. 1950-1970). Panel Presentation at the Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics, SESSION 2.2.4. MULTI- AND CROSSMODAL PERCEPTION I. Montreal, CA. Concordia University. Hybrid. 4 May 2023.
https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/ucs3/en/ucs-iv
Bauer, F., Kim, Y., Letellier, J. Three Attempts at Human and Non-Human Agencies. Talk at the Brown Bag Brunch. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 15 June 2021.
Beyer, B., Cubasch, A., Fratzl, P., Hengge, R., Mareis, C., Perraudin, L., Sauer, C., Schäffner, W., for the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«. Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials. Panel Presentation at the »Can Bacteria Spin a Yarn? We Need a New Culture of Materials«, Humboldt Forum Berlin. Hybrid. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/science-humanities/do-bacteria-spin-a-yarn-20472/
Cojal Gonzalez, J. D. Topological transport in asymmetric molecular architectures. Talk at the Brown Bag Brunch, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 2 March 2021.
Cubasch, A. J., Perraudin, L. Filtering. Talk at the »MitWissenschaft - Spinnen die, die Bakterien?«, Humboldt Forum Berlin. Virtual. 29 April 2021.
https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/wissenschaft/spinnen-die-bakterien-14206/
Cubasch, A. J. Freeze Dried Futures: NASA's Quest for Edible Spin Offs in Rural Texas. Panel Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Food History and Food Studies, Food Futures: Histories of Anticipation, Technology, and Culinary Imaginaries of Future Foodstuffs. Univesité de Tours and Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours. Virtual. 2 June 2021.
https://iehca-internationalconference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/26.pdf
Cubasch, A. J. From Space to Home: NASA's spin-off projects to establish space food on American dining tables in the 1970s. Talk at the Dissertant/innen-Tagung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte 2021, Universität Salzburg, ASEH Environmental History Week 2021. Virtual. 20 April 2021.
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-96233
Razghandi, K. Rethinking Filter: an Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Typology and Concept of Filter. Talk at the Workshop »Filtering Legacies – Filtering Wasted Environments«. Related publication: Razghandi, K. and Yaghmaei E. 2020. »Rethinking Filter: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Typology and Concept of Filter, Towards an Active Filter Model.«, Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7284. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin. Hybrid. 12 November 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/6577/filtering-legacies-filtering-wasted-environments
Highlighted by https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7284.
Cubasch, A. Of Bacon Squares and Spoon-Bowl-Packs – Or How to Dine in Zero-g. Talk at the Brown Bag Brunch, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 1 December 2020.
Fratzl, P. Natural Active Materials. Talk at the 1st Annual Conference »The Analog in the Digital Age«, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 11 November 2020.
https://www.virtualspace.matters-of-activity.de/annualconference/?id=2
Grote, M, Rabe, J. Membranes as Molecular Machines. A workshop on Active Matter and the Remaking of Life. Talk at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 10 January 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1152/membranes-as-molecular-machines
Kassung, C. Gleich(zeitig)e Bilder. Über die Anfänge und Störungen der Bildtelegraphie. Talk at the Return to Sender: Utopien und Grenzen zirkulierender Bilder. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 1 September 2020.
https://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/symposium-im-live-stream-return-to-sender-utopien-und-grenzen-zirkulierender-bilder/
Le Calvé, M., Beyer, B., Hathroubi, S. Kombucha Lab - through the looking glass. Talk at the Workshop »Shelf Life. Ferment-Activity and Nurturing Materials«, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 10 December 2020.
Le Calvé, M., Cubasch, A. J., Heitger, A. Space Food: Dreams of Eternal Shelf Life in Artificial Environments. Talk at the Workhsop: Shelf Life. Ferment Activity and Nurturing Materials, Transubstantiation (Tales). Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 10 December 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2915/shelf-life-ferment-activity-and-nurturing-materials
Letellier, J. Virtual Reality with High Resolution 3D Models for Research and Education. Talk at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 24 January 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1276/cultural-heritage-documentation-conservation-information
Rabe, J. Matters of Free Energy and a Tesseract. Talk at the 1st Annual Conference »The Analog in the Digital Age«, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 11 November 2020.
https://www.virtualspace.matters-of-activity.de/annualconference/?id=4
Rabe, J. P. Stretching the boundaries of physics, one molecule at a time. Talk at the Nano-Bio-Physics Symposium 2019, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 7 September 2019.
https://cast.itunes.uni-muenchen.de/clips/OR552yNNgi/vod/online.html
Bianchini, S., Ribault P. (moderators), Becker, J., Bredekamp, H., Israel, J. H., Picht, T., Shildrick, M. (guests). »Dissect« – An artificially intelligent robot performing a ritual of purification known as ›skin-cutting‹. Discussion about Marco Donnarumma's ›Amygdala‹. Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École polytechnique, Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Museum of Decorative Arts, Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 November 2022.
https://berlinscienceweek.com/event/dissect/
Cubasch, A. J., Cypko, M. A., Geoghegan, B., Miyazaki, S., Moeding, A., Müller-Birn, C., Stock, R. Automation, Control, and Incompetence. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 1 December 2022 - 2 December 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/7904/automation-control-and-incompetence-socio-technical-ecologies-of-responsible-filtering-in-the-20th-and-21st-century
Bieling, T., Şahinol, M., Wiechern, A.-L., Stock, R. ANN: Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice. The third »Dis/Abilities and Digital Media« Network Meeting with an Interactive Maker Session. Virtual. 16 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/index.php/de/treffen-liste/120-3rd-meeting-access-and-tinkering
Cojal Gonzalez, J. D., Rondomanski, J., Polthier, K. and Palma, C.-A. Can you hear the border of a nanoscopic drum? Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 4 March 2021.
Cubasch, A. J., Weber, H., Winiwarter, V., Quast, R., Engelmann, V. Filtering Legacies – Filtering Wasted Environments. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin. Hybrid. 10 November 2021 - 11 November 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/6577/filtering-legacies-filtering-wasted-environments
Highlighted by H-Soz-Kult, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127916.
Meißner, K., Farina, S. (presenter), Cojal González, J. D. (organisator and moderator). Dance Floor as a Matter-phorical Social and Political Space. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 11 May 2021.
Zwick, C., Ness, T., Groll, F. (supervisors), Wiesener, H. (curators). SOLO – Smart Organic Light Objects Digital Exhibition at »Greenhouse 2021«. Stockholm Furniture Fair, Greenhouse, Stockholm. weißensee school of art and design berlin. Virtual. 10 February 2021 - 11 February 2021.
https://www.greenhousedesign.se/design-school/weissensee-school-of-art-and-design-berlin
Cubasch, A. J., Perraudin, L., Cojal Gonzalez, J., Razghandi, K. How to environ? Epistemic & design perspectives on environments, cultural techniques, and structures. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 13 November 2020.
Krauthausen, K., Löffler, P. Membranes as Matters of Activity: Mathias Grote & Jürgen Rabe. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 10 January 2020.
Le Calvé, M., Cubasch, A. J., Heitger, A. Shelf Life. Ferment-Activity and Nurturing Materials. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 10 December 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2915/shelf-life-ferment-activity-and-nurturing-materials
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H (curator) Entity: City Exhibition at CityLAB Berlin. weißensee school of art and design berlin. 12 February 2020 - 14 February 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1271/entity-city-exhibition-at-citylab
Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M. im/Perfection, Im/ perfect Figurations in Nature. Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With contributions by Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M., Bublitz, H., Tikka, E., Kassung, C., De Visscher, E., Quinz, E., Schäffner, W., Bruns, C., Wehrli, P., Allen, J., Lang, C. 18 April 2019 - 11 July 2019.
Ness, T., Aumann, V. Exploring Filtering. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 10 August 2019 - 14 August 2019.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2491/exploring-filtering/
Robert Stock. Dis-Ability Environments: Zur Verschränkung von Be_Hinderung und ökologischer Kritik. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 April 2023 - 17 July 2023.
Razghandi, K., Mareis, C., Stock, R., Auger, J., Lockwood, J., Wenig, C., Norris, L., Stark, S., Weber, R., Bühn, S., Clark, J., le Calvé. M. »Frictioned Functionality: Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter«. »Dark Fluidity. An immersive exploration of liquid ontologies in practice along the multispecies material ecologies of the Schwärze river«. MoA's First Interdisciplinary Autumn School., Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 17 October 2022 - 22 October 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/8495/frictioned-functionality-un-designing-un-sustainable-matter
Bauer, F., with guests Kim, Y., Rasehorn, F., Schneider, M., Tebbe, M., Wenig, C., Yang, B., Situated Digital Agencies. Seminar, B.A./M.A. Architecture. Universität der Künste Berlin. 16 April 2021 - 16 July 2021.
https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/architektur/fachgebiete/digitales-und-experimentelles-entwerfen/seminar-situated-digital-agencies/
Cubasch, A. J. Archeologies of the Future. Workshop, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 26 April 2021.
https://kh-berlin.incom.org/workspace/1467/about
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H (exhibition) Entity:City. Practical course, weißensee school of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, cityLAB Berlin. 1 October 2019 - 14 February 2020.
https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://www.codingixd.org/entitycity
Schäffner, Anna. 2023. VOJEXT S+T+ARTS Residency on Robotics. European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Residency.
https://waag.org/en/article/vojext-starts-selected-artist-residences/
Simbeck, K., Sieck, J. (project leaders), Kassung, C., Müller-Birn, C. Since 2021. ViCAR – Visual Communication with Augmented and Virtual Reality in Culture and Health. The African-German research network with HTW Berlin, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Namibia University of Science and Technology, German International University, Cairo, and University of Cape Town. The goal is to connect female researchers from Egypt, Namibia, South Africa, and Germany through publications, workshops, and a joint research agenda.
https://www.htw-berlin.de/forschung/online-forschungskatalog/projekte/projekt/?eid=3088
Müller-Birn, C., Ness, T., Glaser, J. (supervisors), Meier, S. (guest lecturer, City Lab Berlin), Wiesener, H. (exhibition) 2019 - 2020. City LAB Berlin. Entity:City Project cooperation and exhibtion with weißensee aschool of art and design berlin, HCC Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin, cityLAB Berlin.
https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://entitycity.designing-interactions.de/ https://www.codingixd.org/entitycity
Cubasch, A., Kassung, C., Birn-Müller, C., Filtering: Digital Cluster Fellowship. Hosting Amira Möding. from Cambridge University. 1 September 2021 - 28 February 2022.
Cubasch, A. J. 2021 - 2024. DFG-Network: Modern Expeditions: Politics, actors and epistemologies of scientific travel since the nineteenth century. Member.
https://expeditions.hypotheses.org/
Ness, T., Aumann, V. »Exploring Filtering.« 19, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, 5 October 2020.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/2491/exploring-filtering