Bioinspired Forum

What opportunities and bizarre quantum worlds does nanotechnology offer artists and scientists? “Scale Travels” is a panel on how to set up collaborations between scientists and artists in order to communicate the nanoscale.

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | 21.00
Place: GNration, Praça Conde de Agrolongo, Braga.

Introduction by Ricardo Rio Mayor of Braga

Participants:
Pedro Branco, University of Minho, Human-computer Interaction, Computing in Social science, Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts. Doctor of Engineerin, Guimarães

Claudia Pasquero, The Bartlett School of Architecture and ecoLogicStudio, London

Heitor Alvelos, Professor of Design / Professor of New Media, Universidade do Porto, Porto

Pablo Fuciños, Iberian Nano Laboratory, Agricultural Engineering and Food Science and Technology, Braga

Moderated by: Maija Beeton, artist, producer, collaborator and educator. She has been intimately involved in the evolution of computer graphics, in fine art and commercial media. Los Angeles

SCALE TRAVELS is an initiative to formulate a collaborative program between INL, GNRation and Braga Municipality. It aims to explore and develop the relationship between nanotechnology, the creative industry/media art and local development.

A collaboration between: INL, GNration, Startup Braga and Bioinspired Forum.

Creativity that transcends gravity.

 

INL SUMMIT 2015 – SCALE TRAVELS*
Date: November 10-11, 2015
Place: Iberian Nano Laboratory, Braga/Portugal

Bioinspired Forum is co-producing the International Iberian Nano Laboratory’s first Summit 2015 in Braga/Portugal. The INL Summit will become an annual event putting nanotechnology in motion in society, industry and business.

The event is part of a long-term strategy to turn the Northern region in Portugal into a nano hotspot. This year a special focus will be on the creative industry and nanotechnology.

 

THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

You’d never see it, but nanoscale technology is already embedded in the landscape of our everyday life. So much so that we’re now on the doorstep of a surge, in which new players are about to enter the stage. With the help of science and collective society, those new players will support our efforts to turn scientific know-how into beneficial products and services even further. To do that new tools and models are needed to accelerate and streamline the innovative potential with leaders from several professions. So this year leaders from the creative industry have come to join us and become strategic partners, to turn imagination into power.

Read more and program>>http://scaletravels.inl.int

JOIN US TO DEBATE
– What are society’s drivers of change, and how can they be augmented by nanotechnology?
– How do we engage the private sector in development?
– What will nanotechnology offer to added-value manufacturing and how can new value chains boost innovation?
– How should we set up financial instruments/funds that speed up the diffusion of innovation?
– Is there a connection between nanotechnology and sustainable urban development?
– How do we configure creative spaces and how do we make sense of science in a specific context?
– How can we fully exploit INL´s international status for cross-border collaboration?

*The title “Scale Travels” refers to the fact that nanotechnology, like all tech in a sense, sends our senses into realms beyond their natural reach. With new insights and data from this exploration, we can come back and give that experience a shape that makes sense in our everyday world. The creative industry give ideas a form.

Designing the Future of Food
– Novel Biomaterials and Flavors of Data

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Science enables designers to interact with, and even program, living systems – it’s alive and kickin! We have entered an era in which we reinvent what food is through science, data and new business models combining elements. Biomass production with bio-digital architecture, a synthesis of building integrated farming and urban agriculture, are moving into our cites. Changing flows of matter and energy will alter their “metabolism”. What do these changes portend for society, design, architecture and our plates? Do we see a process where these different disciplines converge?  These are some of the themes this year’s The Material Gap will put on the table for you to digest.

Exploring the intersection between: Design, data, biomass and algorithms

Welcome to The Material Gap 2014

LIGHT REFLEXIONS
Digital Light – a Field of Possibilities?

Invitation Material Gap 2014

This year’s The Material Gap will highlight new conceptual avenues for the medium light far beyond its capacity to shine on us.

INVITATION
Welcome to the seminar at Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 4 2014 at 18:00–19:30, doors open 17:30.

SPEAKERS
Jenny b Osuldsen, Partner/Director Snøhetta, Norway
Daan Roosegaarde, Creative Director Design Lab Studio Roosegaarde, Netherlands
Marc Fontoynont, Professor with Special Assignment, Department of Energy and Environment, Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University, Denmark

MODERATOR
Lars Montelius, Prof. Expert Advisor at Lund University and Director Lund Lighting Initiative, Sweden

This year we extend our network of partners by initiating a collaboration with the architectural firm Snøhetta. We also added a workshop at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm in order to give professionals a chance to discuss future collaborations and concepts.

New light transmitting materials and systems are on the verge to transform our idea of what light can be and do for us within design/architecture and the built environment. There are many straightforward benefits in terms of sustainability. But these light systems are not only about transmitting light to reflect upon us or our objects. It is also about how they can carry ideas, information, transmit and sense desires and even have an impact on our well being.

We have heard about Light Emitting Diodes (LED) for quite some time. Now this field of research and development has gathered momentum to place the technology within the scope of our everyday life. By setting up a stage for interaction between the disciplines we ignite a process to apply this knowledge in society and thus pushing us over the tipping point.

The Material Gap is a series of discussions on how to bridge the gap between material research and design/architecture. How can we apply or intertwine cutting edge material research in the design process in what could be described as an organizational extended R&D?

The Material Gap is produced by:
Svensk Form, www.svenskform.se, Antonia Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Sustainable Development www.axfoundation.se and Bioinspired Forum www.bioinspiredforum.com

The Material Gap is part of a long-term project to set up a platform for knowledge sharing between material science and design/architecture – The Material Point.

The Material Point has initial support from Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – and Invest in Skåne.

Light Reflexions Workshop February 4 2014.

The purpose with the The Material Gap and The Material Point is to ignite new collaboration between disciplines thus be a catalyst for applying cutting edge material research in society.

In addition to the event at Berns Salonger in Stockholm we therefore organize an interdisciplinary professional workshop at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm in collaboration with Innovation Norway.

It will be an exclusive gathering at the Norwegian Embassy with around 60 professionals from different disciplines, industry and research. The speakers at Berns Salonger in the evening will also participate.

This year’s The Material Gap will highlight new conceptual avenues for the medium light far beyond its capacity to shine upon us. Light technology is on the verge to enter our everyday lives in all its dimensions in the built environment. In a collaborative effort we could give the field a final push over the tipping point.

The point of departure is of course light and how it will have an impact on how we relate to our environment, to our health, the way we communicate, use energy etc. This transfer of technology is not a given but need to be conceptualized and find its business model.

Table leaders:
Daniel Norell, Chalmers Architecture and Norell/Rodhe, Sweden
Elin Vatn, Snøhetta
Daan Roosegaarde, Design Lab Studio Roosegaarde, Netherlands
Pietro Lungaro, Wireless@KTH, Sweden
Marc Fontoynont, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lars Montielius, Lund University and Lund Lighting Initiative, Sweden

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The Material Gap is a series of discussions on how to bridge the gap between material research and design/architecture. The event is part of a long-term project to set up a platform for knowledge sharing between material science and design/architecture
– The Material Point.
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The next The Material Gap 2014 will take place February 4 in Stockholm. More info will follow.

 

Dear all
Very welcome to our session during Innovation in Mind September 19, 2013 in Lund, Sweden.

We continue our series of events aiming towards establishing a long term platform for knowledge sharing between cutting edge material research and design/architecture. See previous event The Material Gap in collaboration with Svensk Form and The Antonia Ax:son Johnson Foundation For Sustainable Development.

Introducing new materials to the world is a continuous and very complex process we struggle with. But we know for sure that cutting edge materials will gain terrain within professions that makes aesthetic decisions

Registration & info www.innovationinmind.se/registration/
Session A5

If you have any questions please contact me.

All the best
Mats Brodén
mats@bioinspiredforum.com

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The Material Point is supported by: Invest in Skåne and Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket.

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Invitation to The Material Point
Session A5: Innovation in Mind • Lund / Sweden 18 – 20 September 2013
The Material Point/
Material science meets design and architecture and vice versa
Place: Ideon Backstage, Lund, Sweden
Scheelevägen 15, Lund (Alfa 3-6)

Date: September 19, 2013
Time: 16.15 –  17.00

The City of Lund will become a world-class environment for material research with the new facilities European Spallation Source and MAX IV.

New Users
Architects and designers are eager to learn more about cutting edge materials and also need them in order to address our challenges to design our future built environment. But how shall we stage this knowledge sharing and are there any natural “connection points” where the disciplines can meet? The first challenge is: How do we formulate the right questions? It is hard for non-scientists to know what to ask for. The session will start with a series of presentations and then we will open up for a discussion.

Another underlying question or opportunity is how the creative industry/aesthetics can “make sense” of the research by presenting material know-how in new ways and thus make it accessible for other professionals and the public.

Participants:
– Alisa Andrasek, Designer at Biothing and Bloom Games. Director at GAD UCL Bartlett London
– Lars Montelius, Professor in Nanotechnology at the University of Lund
– Colin Carlile, Special Advisor at Science Village Scandinavia AB, Professor of Neutron and former Director of ESS Scandinavia.
– Axel Steuwer, Forskningsstrateg/ Science Officer / Industrial Liaison  at MAX IV
– Jonas Runberger, M.Arch. PhD. Architect, Researcher and Educator at White Arkitekter and KTH School of Architecture
– John Stack Ross, Lecturer at Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University, School of Architecture and Built Environment
– Karl McFaul, Communications Strategist at European Spallation Source

Also present:
Invest in Skåne
Science Link

Organized by Mats Brodén Bioinspired Forum in collaboration with Jonas Runberger and Karl McFaul who will also lead the session.

The session is part of a long-term ambition to stage a knowledge sharing between material science and design/architecture. The Material Point has initial support from Invest in Skåne and Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alisa  Andrasek, designer at BioThing and Bloom Games

– Creating a connective hinge between the material world and the world of design. Unfolding design dimensions in matter – adding attributes.