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Seminar 1

Date
10.12.2012

UMTS Seminar 1
December 10, 2012

Invited Guest: Toni Kotnik (ETH).

The focus of this first Seminar was on the relation between the process of Designing and Experiment and how this differs and overlaps with the experimental approaches in Science. The seminar is linked to the material experiment by Paul Nicholas and the research approaches by Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and CITA.

Aim
The seminars deepens the understanding of the motivation and nature of experiments. This for the group of UMTS researchers as the schools public. Context and methods of an experimental practice are put into perspective through cross examination of examples from within the field of design and architecture as well as other design and sciences related disciplines. The seminars support the discussion and further development of a material based experimental practice in architecture and design.

The seminars serve as well the cross-fertilization and examination of the activities within the three PostDoc experiments of the UMTS project.

Seminar Setup
With a thematic focus each seminar includes a public lecture by a member one the UMTS projects research panel. This infuses the projects and schools discussions. The following session are dedicated to internal presentations and discussions of the experiment. 

Speakers

Toni Kotnik
Toni Kotnik is assistant professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, lecturer at the chair of structural design at the ETH Zurich and principal of d’HKL, a Zurich-based office focusing on research-oriented architectural design. He studied architecture and mathematics at ETH Zurich, CH, the University of Tübingen, D, and the University of Utah, USA, and received his doctoral degree from the University of Zurich, CH.

He was research fellow at Center for the Representation of Multi-Dimensional Information (CROMDI), principal researcher at OCEAN design research network, postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne, CH, and studio master at the Emergent Technology and Design program at the Architectural Association in London, UK. His practice and research work has been published internationally and is centered on the integration of scientific knowledge into the design process with focus on the relationship between digital architectural design, geometry and material behavior.

2012 - lecture - Toni Kotnik - “What does it mean to make an experiment?”

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as way of questioning how computation, code and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Her work is practice lead and through projects such as Slow Furl, Strange Metabolisms, Vivisection and Sea Unsea she investigates the design and realisation of a behavioural space.

Mette is Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she heads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA). She has researched and taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Department of Computer Science, University College London and at University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design.o Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen.

2012 - lecture - Mette Ramsgard Thomsen - “What does it mean to make an experiment?”

Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas holds a PhD in Architecture from RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, and joined the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) as an adjunct professor in 2011. Paul’s particular interest is in computational approaches that support interdependent design and thinking by establishing new and different links between architecture and other fields. Having previously worked at Arup Melbourne from 2005 and Edaw London from 2009, his current research explores the idea that composites, or designed materials, necessitate new relationships between material behaviour and digital representation. Paul co-founded the design practice mesne in 2005, and has exhibited in recent Beijing and Venice Biennales.

2012 - lecture - Paul Nicholas - “What does it mean to make an experiment?”

Schedule
13.00 Introduction to seminar, project and participants – Auditorium 5
13.15 Public lecture - Toni Kotnik, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck,
Chair of structural design at the ETH Zurich
14.15 Questions and Discussion
14.30 Coffee at the Rektors Mødelokale (Administration Building)
14.45 Presentation: Experimental Practice in Architectural Research - Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, CITA
15.15 Questions and Discussion
15.30 Paul Nicholas, CITA, UMTS Experiment: Computationally designed composites
16.15 Questions and Discussion
16.40 Update on status of UMTS project (Martin Tamke, Aurélie Mossé, Flemming Tvede Hansen)
17.00 Final