Biointegrating Materials, Artefacts and Processes

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Biointegrierte Materialien, Artefakte und Prozesse
 
David Hahlbrock, Georg Trogemann
 

Picture: Growing Willow Cathedral, built by Sir James Hall in his garden (1794). Artist: Alexander Carse

 

The research project «Bio-integrating Material Development» is dedicated to the development of new functional materials for urban construction, architecture, product design and agriculture. Trough the combination of traditional materials und digital construction and processing methods with organisms, organic processes and especially biological growth we intend to investigate sustainable materials, different material processes and alternative forms of poiesis. (pdf)

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The wealth of the material at the skeleton of the formal

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About abstraction and concretization in our algorithmic thinking and doing

 

Georg Trogemann

 

Quantification, formalization, and functionalization of our lifeworld are marking the way of the concrete into the machine. But in the process of calculation the phenomenons and contingencies come back. Here we consider this dependencies between the wealth and the formal.   (pdf)

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Biological Machines

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The mechanization of Life

 

Georg Trogemann

 

In this paper we take a look on synthetic biology from the computational point of view and especially address the question whether it will once more challenge the notion of the machine.     (pdf)

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Technics and society

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Neocybernetics Workshop

in Nago-Torbole, Norditalien, vom 5.-8. Juli 2013

 

Georg Trogemann

 

Die Sizilianischen Förster  (pdf)

 

Not only from nature but also from our technologies we have learnt that we will never be ably to completely understand and control complex systems. If we take this fact seriously, what does this then imply for a responsible treatment of nature, technology and society?

 

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