10:00
Registration and Coffee
10:30
Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Dr. Helge Oder (THA)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jonas (BIRD)
11:00
ALIVE MATTERS
Chair: Michelle Christensen (BIRD)
A Multi-sited Approach in Biodesign: Biomaterial Diversity in the Lab and the Field
Emma Sicher (HfG Offenbach am Main / Matters of Activity, HU Berlin)
Between Alive and Inert: Exploring Potentials of Mycelium-based Composites in Context of Bio-inclusive Architecture
Marta Mastalerska-Scholz (TU Berlin)
12:30
Lunch Break
13:30
SPECULATIVE EXISTENCES
Chair: Ralf Michel (BIRD)
Polyphonic Futures: Collectively Speculating Bio-Digital Imaginaries as a Transversal Engagement Method Across Matter, Design, Science and the Public
Veronica Ranner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Exploring Coexistence Strategies
Louise Permiin (Kolding School of Design, Denmark) — canceled!
Pleasing Machines: Aproaches to Experimental Artistic Research Design
Lisa Glauer (Kang Contemporary)
15:00
Coffee Break / Guided Tour of the THA Faculty of Design
15:45
SPATIAL ENCOUNTERS
Chair: Tom Bieling (BIRD)
Walking with the More-than-human in Hong Kong: En/Inaction in Design for Posthumanist Transformation
Clee-Zhuo Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Counter Space: Strategies for Challenging Hegemony in Institutional Spaces
Ozan Güngör (Critical Media Lab / HGK Basel, Switzerland)
17:15
NERD 3 BOOK LAUNCH & Drinks
Tom Bieling (BIRD), Michelle Christensen (BIRD) & Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin)
09:30
Coffee
09:45
Short Introduction to the Day
10:00
TEXTILE NARRATIVES
Chair: Uta Brandes (BIRD)
Digital Stitch
Pamela Nelson (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Designers Repairing Fashion
Valerie Lange (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Austria)
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
MACHINIC EXTENSIONS
Chair: Sandra Groll (BIRD)
RoboSonic Play: Performing Auditory Dimensions of Otherness
Elias Naphausen (THA), Jan Willmann (Bauhaus University Weimar) & Andreas Muxel (THA)
My Leib is my Lab: Post-phenomenological Investigation of the Explorative Computer-aided Design of Graphic Images
Natascha Tümpel (Bauhaus University Weimar)
13:30
Lunch Break
14:30
EXPLORATIVE REFLECTIONS
Chair: Marc Pfaff (BIRD)
Experiments in the Art of Systems Thinking: Remediating Systems Thinking for Design Education in Product Design
Ranjit Menon (Amrita University, India)
No Recipes for Design: Reference Resolution, and the Metaphysics of Design Objects
Luz Christopher Seiberth (University Potsdam) & Robert Fehse (ARGUMENT)
16:00
Closing Discussion
Admission to the conference will be free of charge.
Pre-registration (required for planning reasons): https://pretix.eu/NERD-conference/2024/
The conference will be held in English.
We are pleased to present the book ‘NERD – New Experimental Research in Design III – Positions and Perspectives’, the 30th volume in our series, at the conference.