Category Archives: Guest lectures

20.04.2012 / Karmen Franinovic

Beyond Kinetic Architecture: From Movable Structures To Vibrant Matter

Karmen works on the crossroads between design, architecture, art and science. Her research focuses on new materials, sonic gesture, design methods and enactive experience, resulting in projects ranging from haptic interfaces for stroke rehabilitation to responsive urban installations.  By introducing interactive technologies into architecture and public space, Karmen’s works aim to engage participants/inhabitants/citizens in social interaction and physical exploration of their surroundings. They have been presented at Ircam/Centre Pompidou (Paris), SF Cameraworks (San Francisco), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo(Torino), Bienal Miami + Beach, Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana), Far Eastern Memorial Foundation (Taipei) and others. Continue reading

20.04.2012 / Roman Kirschner

Matter as Substance of Utopia

The lecture will focus on the latencies and potentials of materials and especially on the term of processmatter and the „not-yet-being“ (In-Möglichkeit-Seiendes) developed by Ernst Bloch. Roman Kirschner will show examples of his artistic work in the field of audiovisual scultptural art and dive into the dialogue with matter that was necessary to realize them.  Continue reading

27.03.2012 / Keisuke Toyoda

Dimension, information and material

Noiz architects, founded by Keisuke Toyoda and Jia-Shuan Tsai is a Tokyo based firm that is at the forefront of computational design in Asia. This lecture will present their vision and their most recent projects.

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27.03.2012 16:00 HIL E3

22.11.2011 / Theo Spyropoulos

Behavioral Agency

The lecture will feature recent work developed by the Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) and the experimental design studio Minimaforms examining a behavior-based agenda that engages experimental forms of material and social interaction. Cybernetic and systemic thinking through seminal forms of prototyping and experimentation will situate the work through continued experiments Continue reading

04.11.2011 / Chad McCarthy

Information age buildings

Chad McCarthy was born in New Zealand and studied electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Auckland specialising in Power Electronics. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1997 and worked for NDY and Ove Arup designing Europes first large capacity data centres and completed research work in the simulation of harmonic currents in data centres. Continue reading

31.10.2011 / Benjamin Samuel Koren

Benjamin Samuel Koren was born in Frankfurt/Main and grew up in Miami, Florida. He studied architecture, film and music at the University of Miami and the Architectural Association in London, at which he was awarded a Bronze Medal commendation, an SOM fellowship and the iGuzzini Award at the 2005 RIBA President’s medals for his project entitled “Harmonic Proportion in Amorphic Form”. Continue reading

19.10.2011/ Oliver Schürer

Informed city light

Urban Light is about to change from a technology to brighten the night into a medium of communication and interaction. Recent developments can be compared with the 19-century introduction of light in public spaces. As it was accompanied by the advent of advertisement, a new kind of media content to be exposed, it led to a socio-technological revolution accompanied by the development of the icon of the modern city Continue reading