[resource-net] EXTENDED DEADLINE: CfA Spring University “CAx: Dimensions of Computer-Aid in Architecture, Biological Sciences, Design and Medicine”, 2-7 April, 2017, Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

[Spring School CAx]

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 5TH, 2017

 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
 SPRING UNIVERSITY “CAX: DIMENSIONS OF COMPUTER-AID IN ARCHITECTURE,
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, DESIGN AND MEDICINE”

 2-7 APRIL, 2017

 CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE »IMAGE KNOWLEDGE GESTALTUNG. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
LABORATORY«
 HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN
 SOPHIENSTR. 22A
 D-10178 BERLIN

Computer-aided design, computer-assisted surgery or computer-aided
manufacturing: the advent of conception, simulation and intervention
through digital means has already wrought a permanent change to the ways
of thinking and acting in the areas of architecture, design, biomaterial
science and medicine. Recently, the deployment of advanced robotics,
tracking systems and real-time imaging promises to not only close and
'seamlessly' link but to establish permanent feedback loops that
mutually transform digital processes and physical materialities. For
example, designing a construction in architecture by means of
computer-aided design software, automatically transferring the data to
3D-printing devices, and controlling the process by augmented-reality
technologies to detect deviations between planning and materialization
points to the fundamental role of computer-aided techniques. Besides
constructive computer-aided techniques, interventional practices that
are enabled by computational processes as in computer-assisted surgery
pose literally vital questions of how computing 'aids' certain practices
and actors and point to ethical, legal and socio-economic issues.

If computer-aided methods can no longer be thought of primarily as
design or conceptual tools residing in the computer's black box, how can
they be understood in their transformative potential that crosses the
ontological threshold to the environment, bodies and materials? What
kind of specific aid or assistance do computational methods provide in
architecture, biological sciences, design and medicine, and how can one
analyze the overlay and merging of digital and physical layers of CAx
from an interdisciplinary perspective? 

To discuss these questions the spring university will focus on five core
areas:

-HISTORIES AND CONTEXTS OF CAX: As a way of placing current techniques
in their historic context, there will be a particular focus on the
development of computer-aided design software in architecture and
design. 

- SIMULATION AND VISUALISATION: Simulation methods with their basic
mathematical models as well as visualisation strategies provide tools to
evaluate outcomes of planned constructions and interventions as well as
to communicate among actors.

- ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION: Robotic systems such as in computer-assisted
surgery are transfor-ming the workflows from surgical handicraft to
remote controlled and automated modes of intervention. Besides practical
challenges such as the search for appropriate control and interaction
modalities as well as visualisation methods, the transformation of
surgical knowledge, cooperative practices and the shift in
responsibilities and work routines are key issues when analyzing the
application of robotic systems.

-MATERIAL RESISTANCES: The question of how digital design can be
transferred into material construction or »digital materiality« also
evoked the search for »smart« and responsive materials. This focus will
examine the processual gaps between code and matter and the resistance
of materiality in CAx applications, in particular in architecture and
design.

- HANDS-ON CAX AND FIELDTRIPS:  Visits to exemplary contexts of
application as well as a workshop will provide participants with
practice-based insights on CAx methods. Whilst fieldtrips will show
certain applications in situ, a workshop will give participants the
opportunity to experience a computer-aided design process first-hand
(e.g. constructing a 3D-printable object).

CONFIRMED FACULTY

Gabriele Gramelsberger, Chair of Philosophy of Digital Media,
Witten/Herdecke University

Daniel Cardoso Llach, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

Sven Pfeiffer, Department for Digital Architectural Production,
Technical University Berlin

Friedrich Schmidgall, Interaction Design, Interdisciplinary Laboratory
Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Richard Weinkamer, Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of
Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam

WHO SHOULD APPLY
The spring university invites Master's and doctoral students from the
fields of Architecture, Biological and Biomaterial Sciences, Design,
Media Studies, Medicine, Philosophy of Science, History of Science,
Science and Technology Studies and related fields. Both on-going
theoretical as well as practice-based investigations into technologies,
practices and contexts of CAx in different fields of application are
welcome. During the spring university you will have the opportunity to
discuss your project with the other participants and the faculty. The
working language will be English.

HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your short CV along with an approx. 200-word abstract of
your current research project until MARCH 5TH, 2017. Please also note in
your application: full name, affiliation, address and dietary
restrictions.

Please email applications as one PDF-document to: bwg.cax at hu-berlin.de 

All accepted applicants will be notified by March 7th, 2017.
Participants are expected to present their projects in the format of
their choice (e.g. 20 min. presentation; poster; demonstration) in the
course of the spring university. Please indicate in your application how
you would like to present your research.

VENUE, ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
The spring university mainly takes place at the Cluster of Excellence
»Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory«,
Sophienstr. 22a, D-10178 Berlin-Mitte. Fieldtrips will be arranged by
the organizers.

There is no participation fee. 

Accommodation for all participants will be arranged by the organizers at
the Humboldt Universität's guesthouse (Ziegelstr. 13a, D- 10117 Berlin).


Participants are asked to organize travel arrangements on their own.
Travel costs will be financed and reimbursed shortly after the spring
university concludes by the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge
Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory«.

Please direct any questions to: bwg.cax at hu-berlin.de 

The spring university is part of the Cluster of Excellence »Image
Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory« funded by the
German Research Foundation (DFG)
(https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory.hu-berlin.de/en/bwg/)

Organization: Dr. des. Kathrin Friedrich, Sarah Scheidmantel, Puo-An Wu
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