Workshop “Agentive Matter(s)”
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Advanced digital technologies and research in architectural materials and construction processes are transforming work and life towards digitalisation and sustainability. These developments present opportunities not only to reduce environmental impacts, but also to address long-standing labour inequalities, social injustices and gender imbalances in the field. This workshop aims to explore how social discourses and knowledge cultures shape and are shaped by new technologies. It will examine design processes at the intersection of craft, systems thinking and algorithmic cultures, explore how the knowledge embedded in technology can be made more accessible, and offer ways to engage with the ecologies of making.
Agentive Matter(s) is a two-phase initiative that aims to identify new approaches to teaching and learning about how technologies transport societal discourses from the past into the future. Phase 1 will be an expert workshop exploring techniques for tracing discourses and knowledge across past and present. Phase 2 will take the lessons learned from the workshop and translate them into an educational format that asks what societal actions the history of technological artefacts is producing today, and how we can shape them to increase sustainable outcomes.
This workshop is organized by TUM IAS Anna Boyksen Fellow Nathalie Bredella in collaboration with TUM-IAS Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Pierluigi D’Acunto (TUM School of Engineering and Design), Kathrin Dörfler (TUM School of Engineering and Design) and TUM-IAS Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Anna Keune (TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology), supported by Simon Rötsch.
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024
Time: 10:00-17:30
Venue: TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Lichtenbergstraße 2a, 85748 Garching
Program:
10:00 Welcome and Introduction
Session I Programmable Architecture?
10:15-10:30 Inquisitive (software) artefacts: On prototyping and historical reflection
Daniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:30-10:45 Digital materials across scales
Mariana Popescu (TU Delft)
10:45-11:00 Digital Concrete: Ecologies (and Economies) of dfab
Kim Förster (University of Manchester)
11:00-12:00 Moderated Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
Session II Materialities of the Social
13:30-13:45 Feminist Craft Archaeologies
Grayson Bailey (Leibniz University Hannover)
13:45-14:00 Anthropogenic Biology-how late industrialism inhabits matter
Jörg Niewöhner (TUM)
14:00-14:15 Cultures of Creation: Minimal Machines
Karola Dierichs (Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity)
14:15-15:15 Moderated Discussion
Session III Digital Knowledge Cultures
15:45-16:00 Augmented Repair and Craftsmanship Heritage
Laurence Crouzet (ETH Zürich)
16:00-16:15 Form Follows (Programmable) Functions
David Briels (TUM)
16:15-16:30 Mastering the Digital Frontier: Situational Expertise in Architecture and Engineering
Yana Boeva (University Stuttgart)
16:30-17:30 Moderated Discussion