This Priority Area focuses on the disparate conditions and processes at work in the development and evolution of form in nature and culture, and the relationship between form and model. Its analysis centres on intrinsic and extrinsic factors in design and their functional and historical conditionality.
Priority Area Leaders:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle, Art and Image History
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Scholtz, Biology
Prof. Dr. Sabine Thümmler, Museum of Decorative Arts
Dr. Sandra Schramke, Architecture