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Samples from the CONQ project, 2024. Copyright: Angie Dub and Heidi Jalkh, adapted by MoA
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Dear Friends of »Matters of Activity«,
During an eventful fall, we are particularly looking forward to this year's Berlin Science Week, to which Matters of Activity is contributing in several events: On November 1st, in partnership with Bauhaus Earth and Experimental, we will be hosting the workshop »In a Seashell« at the Museum für Naturkunde. Starting from Angie Dub's and Heidi Jalkh's CONQ project, we will explore how marine-based industries and construction can be connected for a more sustainable architecture. The event is already fully booked! Another highlight will be the Science Slam of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence on November 7th. Finally, we are delighted that José Ignacio Hernández Lobato will lead through the exhibition and experiments at »Bakteriopolis«, a traveling exhibition that will stop in Berlin.
But before that, we will be happy to see as many of you as possible at the »Planetary Design« conference this week, organized by Claudia Mareis.
Happy reading!
Antje Nestler & Carolin Ott
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Which Pasts are Valued and Why? |
New Lecture Series Kicks Off on 22 October |
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22.10.2024–28.1.2025
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Object Space Agency | Weaving | Teaching Which pasts are valued and why? How has this changed historically and in what ways is it changing today? What gets to count as heritage and in what broader global and local transformations is this entangled? How can heritage be proactively changed to help address pressing social, political, and environmental problems, including those of decolonization, cultural conflict, and climate crisis? And how do the arts, humanities, and social sciences need to be done differently to comprehend and enable the potential of such transformations? The new lecture series, organized by »inherit. heritage in transformation«, kicks off on October 22nd with an introduction by MoA member Sharon Macdonald and Eva Ehninger, directors of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg.
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Working Matter |
Tagung in Weimar nimmt Aktivitätsmodelle und Geschichte der Arbeit in den Blick |
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Gestaltung Nic Möckel. Copyright: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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25.10.2024–26.10.2024
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Spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren, u.a. durch Arbeiten von Manuel De Landa, Donna Haraway oder Bruno Latour initiiert, ist in geistes-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Zusammenhängen immer öfter von ›Aktanten‹, ›tätigen Dingen‹, ›aktiver Materie‹ oder ›verteilter Handlungsmacht‹ die Rede. Aktuelle Debatten stellen demnach vor allem die Instanzen, Zuschreibungen oder Legitimationen von Handlungsträgerschaft in den Mittelpunkt. Die von Clustermitglied Christof Windgätter und Gottfried Schnödl an der Bauhaus-Universität geplante Tagung möchte versuchen, ihren Blick auf die Modelle des Aktivischen zu richten. Die Frage nach Akteuren soll nachgeordnet werden. Anstelle eines ›Wer?‹ oder ›Was?‹ würden wir das ›Wie?‹ der Handlungen (ihre Diskursordnungen, ihre Dispositionen, ihre Modalitäten, ihre Operationalitäten) in den Fokus rücken. ↗ more
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Figures, Narratives, and Politics of DIY in Modern European Media Culture |
MoA Members Contribute to Conference Organized by ExC Temporal Communities |
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Left: Patricia Ribault, Right: Karin Krauthausen |
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7.11.2024–8.11.2024
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Weaving | Cutting | Material Form Function »If you want a thing done well, do it yourself«: Figures, Narratives, and Politics of DIY in Modern European Media Culture - this is the title of the conference, organized by Michael Bies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin), Michael Gamper and Alix Ricau for the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities« on November 7th and 8th, 2024. Cluster member Patricia Ribault (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) will contribute with a talk entitled »To Make, or Not to Make, That Is the Question« and Karin Krauthausen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) with a talk about »The Hut as Improvised Structure and Border Experience«.
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Morphing Structural Materials – From Biology to Physics to Architecture |
Advanced Course at International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine, September 2025 – Register Now! |
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Inverse problem for fabrication: From a 3D model a deposition plan is optimized for a 3D printed plate, such that once dipped into water the plate deforms into the target shape. This is achieved by optimizing the shape of the plate and the orientation of the plastic deposition trajectories. Copyright: Thibault Tricard, Vincent Tavernier, David Jourdan, Cédric Zanni, Jonàs Martínez, Pierre-Alexandre Hugron, Fabrice Neyret, Camille Schreck, Sylvain Lefebvre
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1.9.2025–5.9.2025
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Material Form Function | Biodesign | Prototype / Model | Teaching Matter is rarely completely static: often matter can morph. This is true for all living systems that grow, adapt, and change shape. Indeed, cells divide, leaves and fungi grow, octopuses transform, and wings reshape to control flight. But it is also true that bread rises and that pasta swells. While morphing is omnipresent in the living, it is not confined to it. Harnessing morphing capacities has many potential applications, from machines and robots to architecture. The goal of this course with lectures by MoA members Peter Fratzl and Karola Dierichs, is to review the current and fast-growing knowledge about structural materials that change shape or develop spontaneous internal stresses that improve their properties.
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