SYMPOSIUM TN02
BECOMING TRANSNATURAL
12 MARCH 09.30h - 18.00h
The symposium of Becoming TransNatural explores the question how to
become TransNatural together with leading artists, designers, and
scientists.
The morning is reserved for lectures and presentations of
participants to the exhibition next to other scientists and
designers. In the afternoon the audience can join workshops and
masterclasses, led by the speakers, in which transnatural
scenario's are developed in different spheres.
Themes are: alternative household robots; DIY design of bacteria;
design for urban bee people; design for shrunken humans; and
staying human with the aid of disruptive technology.
More information about prizes and registration scroll down
this page.
PROGRAM LECTURES
/ WORKSHOPS
James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau (UK)
Lecture / Workshop
James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau are artists and critical designers that develop objects and processes by which they question current and upcoming relations between society and technology. Their Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots putexisting notions on the role of robots and their relations with living creatures in a radically different context. ~ In their workshop participants work towards design proposals for alternative ways in which robots may enter the household.
www.auger-loizeau.com
Sascha Pohflepp (DE / UK)
Lecture / Workshop
Sascha is an artist and designer who is interested in past and future technologies, notions of art, business and idealism, and how they inform which worlds come true and which worlds are discarded. He participates in the Synthetic Aesthetics project that brings together synthetic biologists, designers, artists and social scientists to explore collaborations between synthetic biology, art and design. ~ In his workshop participants will do long-term narrative exploration on how the human future continues the past through new technologies.
Sheref Mansy (USA/ skype session)
is leading a laboratory for synthetic and biology at the University
of Trento. He researches the making, growth and multiplication of
protocells: life-like systems without DNA that may emerge
spontaneously under the right chemical circumstances. He works with
Sascha Pohflepp in the Synthetic Aesthetics project.
www.smansy.org
Arne Hendriks (NL)
Lecture / Workshop
The Incredible Shrinking Man project suggests
to downsize the human species to better fit the earth. It brings
together evolutionary insights, Space colonisation research, fossil
findings, speculative design, literature and film. Hendriks
presents his research and its bio-historical, scientific and
conceptual components. ~ In his hands-on workshop participants map
out the spatial and cultural effects of shrinking by redesigning
space, food, and objects.
www.the-incredible-shrinking-man.net
Christina Stadlbauer (AT) / The Human and Apian Foraging Network
Lecture / Workshop
Stadlbauer is a scientist, artist and urban bee keeper, developing new mutually beneficial combinations of culture, technology and nature. She is part of the Herbologies / Foraging Network that combines the cultural traditions and knowledge around edible and medicinal plants with the possibilities of online networks and open-source methods. Her talk is an exploration on behaviour and strategies of bees and men driven by the quest for urban edibles. ~ In the workshop Bee-o-Logical Housing participants investigate hands-on *out of the box* bee-hive-design.
apiary.be
www.herbologies-foraging.net
Nadine Bongaerts en Eva Brinkman, TU Delft iGEM Team
(NL)
Lecture / Workshop
iGEM is a yearly competition run by the MIT, for synthetic biology using BioBricks: standardized DNA components that can give living cells new behaviors. The TU-Delft team won the iGEM competition in2010. They present their work with iGEM and BioBricks. ~ In their workshop participants get to learn the basics of working with BioBricks by designing a bacteria that produces keratin – aversatile organic substance that is fully biodegradable and that can replace plastics in a lot of applications.
INFORMATION
Symposium 12 March , 09.30h – 18.00h
Start: 09.15u
Tickets symposium:
A. Morning program (lectures): 39 Euro
B. Full Day program: 69 Euro
Please register for participation via Lucy van Kleef / info@beyondexpression.nl
Questions: 06 41015149 (10.00h - 18.00h)
Location lectures (09.30h – 13.00h): Volkskrantgebouw
conferentiezaal
Location workshops/ masterclasses (13.30h – 18.00h): De Verdieping/ TrouwAmsterdam
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