DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Crafting Futures Lab

For the second time we open the Crafting Futures Lab to the public, seeking to interact through showcasing current developments and previewing future investigations and collaborations. Active questioning, learning and collaboration build the core of the Lab and define this year’s instalment: we focus on participatory formats, toolkit design and work-in-progress documentation to provide a platform for student work, research investigations and creative practices. Visitors are invited to collaborate and contribute to the discussion of the social, cultural and aesthetic impacts of work on show, at the nexus of material inquiry, tool intervention, and innovative pedagogies.

Crafting Futures Lab “Oscillating Bodies” – Workshop

Lilo Viehweg (DE)

Piezoelectric crystals intra-act in mountains, laboratories, technological devices, corals, bones, hair and teeth. They convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vis versa. This oscillation between different energy states is a lively, material form of information transfer that, for example, stimulates bone growth, makes watches throb at a certain beat, or generates images through sonar and ultrasound devices.

Crafting Futures Lab “Photoelectric Blueberries” – Workshop

Monja Hirscher (AT/DE)

In the early 1990s, Michael Grätzel developed a solar cell that works on the basis of plant pigments. It works in a similar way to photosynthesis and is easy to build with widely available materials.

Crafting Futures Lab “Weaving as Material Calculus” – Workshop

Laura Devendorf (US), Irene Posch (AT)

Weaving is programming. This connection is often cited in conjunction with Ada Lovelace. This workshop plays with these themes and ideas both on paper and the online tool AdaCAD.org

Credits

Concept: Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch

Contributors: Robert Angerer, Lisa Benedikt, Anna Berger, Laura Devendorf, Stephanie Ehrenecker, Lisa Hametner, Monja Hirscher, Lilo Viehweg, and others.

Department: Design and Technology, Institute for Art and Education
www.craftingfutures.net

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

University of Art and Design Linz (AT)

Crafting Futures Lab

Lilo Viehweg (DE)

Monja Hirscher (AT/DE)

Laura Devendorf (US), Irene Posch (AT)

Credits

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