- 23.1.2014, 20:00–23:00How Do You Do Biodesign
Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Willem de Kooning Academy invite you to attend How Do You Do Biodesign, an evening for architects, urban designers, product designers, biologists, fashion designers, artists and digital makers and others who are curious what exactly biodesign can mean for the field of work and research.
Have you ever wondered what biodesign could mean for your immediate surroundings? Are you curious to find out what biohacking is? Or do you want to learn how to design with living material? In short, do you want to know how to put biodesign into practice? Then come to How Do You Biodesign on January 23
How Do You Do is a format for exchanging and sharing ideas, expertise and experience. Don’t expect any fancy PowerPoint presentations. Instead, you’ll hear honest stories about the making of, with lots of information about what works and what doesn’t.
18 sessions: The experts (bio's) at this Biodesign event are:
Michael Hensel , architect, Oslo school of Architecture and Design
Nadine Bongaerts, biologist and iniatiator BiotectureAnna Dumitriu, visual and performance artistFerdinand Ludwig & Daniel Schoenle, BauBotanikArne Hendriks, artist and researcher The Incredible Shrinking ManMike Thompson, designer and future thinking, participant of the Biodesign exhibitionAlexandra Daisy Ginsberg, designer, participant of the Biodesign exhibitionJessica de Boer, artist and researcher
Ellen ter Gast, medical biologist and filosopherLiam Young, urbanist, futurist, and participant Biodesign exhbitionEric-Jan Pleijster, Landscape architecte, and one of the initiators of LOLA landscape architects
Floris Schiferli, architect Superuse Studios
Gertjan Streng & Ingrid van der Heijden, The Cloud Collectie
Virgil Rerimassie, Rathenau InstituutThe sessions are moderated by Ine Poppe (WdkA), Arjen Oosterman (Archis/VOLUME), Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and Marten Kuijpers (Het Nieuwe Instituut) and Iris Schutten (WdkA).
During How Do You Do Biodesign you can choose from a total of 18 sessions devoted to themes such as Biohacking, Design Fictions, Synthetic Biology, Living Material, Hybrid Eco-City and The City as Metabolism.
Ticket: Buy your ticket for How Do You Do, it includes free access to the exhibition Biodesign, on the Cross-Pollination of Nature, Science and Creativity
PRACTICAL INFORMATIONTitle: How Do You BiodesignVenue: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, 3015 CB RotterdamDate: 23/01/2014Time: 20.00—23.00, doors and Biodesign exhibition open at 19:00 hrs.Language: English and DutchAdmission: 7.50 euro, including visit to Biodesign exhibition / Students: 3 euro / Free entry for Friends of Het Nieuwe InstituutTicket: via EventbriteHow Do You Do Biodesign is co-produced by Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Willem de Kooning Academy. How Do You Do Biodesign is made possible by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment as part of the 'Actieagenda architectuur en ruimtelijk ontwerp' (AAARO)- Background How Do You Do BiodesignAt present, little institutionalized knowledge about biodesign is shared with designers and architects. Awareness of the knowledge is confined to synthetic biologists and a few progressive individuals. What’s more, at the urban and neighbourhood levels, people still employ flawed biological metaphors rather than biological material itself or properly understood biological models. Experimentation does take place with biological materials in construction, but these are mainly isolated experiments, the results of which are seldom shared in a way that advances practice in a structural manner. What opportunities and possibilities would present themselves if that were to happen? What do designers need to learn about the subject? And what ethical questions does the subject raise?
Previous How Do You Do events took place during STRP 2011 and Creative Mediadays 2012 in Ghent.www.biology-design.com, or order the book BioDesign here
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How Do You Do Biodesign is een co-productie van de Willem De Kooning Academie en Het Nieuwe Instituut /1