The 13th annual JBSC conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre of the Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam) and TU Delft titled “(IM)MATERIAL – Architectural Memory in the Post-Digital Age,” we are presenting a paper on “Situating a Fluid Archive: A Study on Virtual Memory Layers of an Abandoned Factory” (with Ben Drusinsky, Jens Fehrenbacher and Marco Hemmerling).
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Collaborative infrastructure for un/learning AI at Practices of Cooperation
The symposium “Practices of Cooperation” of the project “Digital Sovereignty for Art Universities” aims to take a look at cooperation and collaboration at art academies, at identifying the challenges involved, and at the same time at experimenting with new forms of digital collaboration.
In a talk titled “Collaborative infrastructure for un/learning AI”, Florian Jenett, Simon Maris and I will talk about collaboratively developing, maintaining and using infrastructure for high-performance computing across five universities and three German states within the KITeGG project and beyond.
Design Research Publishing – Release Party and Panel Discussion
How and why do we publish design research? What even is academic publishing? The student-led Research Working Group of KISD invites authors and editors of art and design research publications to discuss questions like these and celebrate the release of the second volume of rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research.
Continue readingAligned Aesthetics at Transform Conference, Trier
At Transform 2025 Conference on AI, Art, Design and Society, Thomas Hawranke, Matthias Grund and I will present work on “Aligned Aesthetics: Classes, Templates, Platforms.”
Continue readingUn/Learn AI: Experiments, Strategies, Infrastructure
As part of the Point 7 lecture series, I will speak about “Un/Learn AI: Experiments, Strategies, Infrastructure” at the department of architecture and design at HFT Stuttgart.
Continue readingSynthetic Realities Book Launch
At KISD, we are hosting the launch event of the book Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication, and Materiality. The event gathers authors of the volume edited by Manuel Kretzer, such as Immanuel Koh, Marc Engenhart, Martin Naumann and Aaron Siermann, Simon Maris and Lasse Scherffig, Michael Hansmeyer, and Maria Kuptsova for presentations and discussions.
Continue readingDis/ability Design and Participation
As part of the lecture series Participatory Research at TH Köln, Laura Popplow (TH Köln), Nils Rottgardt (Un-Label) and I will talk about Dis/ability Design and Participation.
Continue readingAI – Opportunities and Barriers for Artists with Disabilities at kaethe:k
In a public discussion at kaethe:k Kunsthaus, we are exploring the opportunities and barriers of AI for artists with disabilities.
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At KISD, we will host the second edition of Hidden Layers Conference from June 12 to 15. The event brings together a diverse group of experts to collectively discuss and learn about artificial intelligence in design. Organized by the research project KITeGG on design and AI, it combines a public program of talks, an exhibition and workshops with internal meetings of the five art and design schools involved in the project.
Attendance is free and the public program will run from Wednesday evening, June 12, to Friday afternoon, June 14.
More information will be available in late May at www.hiddenlayers.de
Continue readingTH Köln Research Day
As part of the Research Day at TH Köln, I will participate in a conversation on ‘artificial intelligence’ with many colleagues from all disciplines.
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