Research fellow Esmee Geerken and Waag invite you to the Art-Science Symposium series Building as Being. The Symposium discusses new ways of urban design strategies. For this end, Geerkens invites thinkers coming from a biological, material and sociological background. What could architects for example learn from the way in which minerals build structures?

The Building as Being moves away from a human-centred worldview to a holistic view where we shape our environment in accordance with non-human entities. In three episodes, we look at ‘building’ on different scales: The City, The Mind and Matter.

Part 1. The City

Thursday 1st of April 2021 | 20:00 - 21:15

How can we yield emergent, self-organizing and ‘swarm-like’ urban design strategies and how can we grow materials instead of designing them? This evening will provide an overview of the nature of self-organization and emergence and show how you can grow mother of pearl using bacteria. With Dr. Sharon Wohl, Architecture and Urban Design, Iowa State University, US and Dr. Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, Bionanoscience department, TU Delft (NL).

Programme

20:00 Introduction

20:05-20:20 Dr. Sharon Wohl, Architecture and Urban Design, Iowa State University (US) On self-organization and complexity in urban environments.

20:20-20:30 Questions from chat for Sharon Wohl

20:30-20:45 Dr. Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, Bionanoscience department, TU Delft (NL) On growing matter and collaborating withbacteria to grow mother of pearl

20:45-21:15 Discussion and questions from chat