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The IntCDC Cluster of Excellence will host an online event with guest speakers from the Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence. Dr. Karin Krauthausen and Dr. Khashayar Razghandi will give a talk, followed by a panel discussion moderated by the working group of RPA B1 “Material Systems”.
27 April 2021, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Activities of Materials and Material Systems in Design, Engineering and Construction
The materials and processing techniques used today in construction today account for 50% of the global resource consumption, 40% of energy and process-related CO2 emissions and 50% of waste. Material systems form the basis of components and building systems and have a major impact on their ecological, economic and technical performance. One way to reduce the environmental footprint of the buildings would be to physically activate the intelligence of material systems and to improve their performance during the design and production. The re-emergence of the interest in materials in the digital age indicates the need to reconnect the digital and physical worlds, particularly through new digital technologies and interdisciplinary research. The studies carried out in the Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence open up new frontiers and facets of materials research and its applications in different areas of practice including design and construction.
The aim of this panel discussion is to present the interdisciplinary work carried out at the Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence from different perspectives and to discuss the opportunities that the activation of material systems can bring to design, engineering and construction, as well as the possible methods of transferring these activities from theoretical and experimental research to practical applications.
Guest speakers
Dr. Karin Krauthausen is a literary and cultural scholar with a focus on epistemological issues. After completing her doctorate on “Drawing and Seeing in the works of Paul Valéry”, she was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin for several years before taking over the coordination of the PhD network “The Knowledge of Literature” at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2011 and moving to the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung” from 2013 to 2018.
Dr. Khashayar Razghandi is a material scientist and engineer working as a Research Associate in between the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity”, at the intersection of science and design.
Working group of the IntCDC RPA B1 “Material Systems”:
Piotr Baszyński (ITKE, University of Stuttgart)
Tiffany Cheng (ICD, University of Stuttgart)
Rebeca Duque Estrada (ICD, University of Stuttgart)
Daria Kovaleva (ILEK, University of Stuttgart)
Pascal Mindermann (ITFT, University of Stuttgart)
Evgenia Spyridonos (ITKE, University of Stuttgart)
Yasaman Tahouni (ICD, University of Stuttgart)