From Research to Design
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From Research to Design
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Location
Place: ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Time: Thursday, 13 Sept., 7:00 PM

The Humboldt Universität zu Berlin is pleased to continue its collaboration with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory on one of its core subjects, mobility. ANCB and KOSMOS 2012 are endeavours dedicated to exploring and advancing interdisciplinary enquiry. While ANCB is focussed on the design disciplines with the city as its field of action, KOSMOS 2012 is focused on the natural sciences and the humanities relating to ‘knowledge and design’. We regard both endeavours as complimentary and mutually beneficial.

Public Debate
The Public Debate at ANCB on »From Research to Design – Mobility« will present three positions on the application of knowledge: from the natural sciences, architecture, and art. The discussion that follows will assist the participants of the Summer University as they move from the research to the design stages of their projects and will draw from the experience and input of the wider audience. The results of this KOSMOS Summer University public debate will be incorporated into the ANCB programme of 2013.

Welcome
Dietmar Leyk, Research Manager, ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin

Introduction and Moderation
Wolfgang Schäffner, Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Speakers:
Katell Gélébart is a French ecodesigner  who combines design and re use with environmental  requirement  by  exclusively using materials which are already available like packagings from New Zealand households or silk from Indian production surplus. She won the KAIROS Prize 2012 awarded by the the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. for her visionary design. She is a special guest of KOSMOS 2012 on the »Urban Metabolism« day, which is made possible by the Schering Stiftung.

Nils Krüger is Professor for Product Design with Digital Media at Fachhochschule Potsdam. Since 1999 he is also partner at büro+staubach in Berlin. The studio’s scope of work ranges between objects, processes and virtual spaces and the focal points of work are mobility and practical implementations of new ideas and processes.

Ernesto Marceca is Professor for Physical Chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic, Analytic and Physical Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is also a scientist of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). His topics of interest are among others olvation and chemical reactivity in clusters and in supercritical fluids.

Wolfgang Schäffner is historian of science and media technologies, has been since 2009 the Chair for the History and Culture of Knowledge at the Department of History and Theory of Culture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also honorary professor of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, Universidad de Buenos Aires.