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This course introduces an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow in relation to Microbiology applied to the built environment. Students will be given an overview of the advanced manufacturing hardware and fundaments of Microbiology through the lenses of an experimental material-based research approach. You will learn how to develop an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow / Understand Computer-aided production procedures of related industries/ Fundaments of Microbiology / Understand geometric representations for digital manufacturing. / Design and manufacture objects using advanced manufacturing. / Apply principle of sustainable prototyping using and digital fabrication in the context of Life Sciences. / Understand performance-driven design workflow. /Understand principles of generative design applied to fabrication. 

 Active Matter is a series of interdisciplinary courses organised between the Department of Architecture and the Department of Microbiology of the University of Innsbruck. The concept of Active Matter derives from the deep interest in a material-based research approach to explore potential bonds between microbial biotechnologies and advanced building technologies. Within this context, the course will explore the relationship between time and design and the emergence of new materials (bio-composites), and Aesthetics related to imprecision, aging, and sustainability. This course introduces an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow based on Microbiology applied to the built environment. Students will be given an overview of the advanced manufacturing hardware and fundamentals of Microbiology through the lenses of an experimental material-based research approach. Students will learn how to develop an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow; Understand Computer-aided production procedures of related industries; Learn about Fundamentals of Microbiology; Learn geometric representations for digital manufacturing; Design and manufacture objects using advanced manufacturing; Apply principles of sustainable prototyping and digital fabrication within the context of Life Sciences; Understand performance-driven design workflow; Understand principles of generative design applied to fabrication. Specifically, this semester is oriented to using Hydrogels based graded materials. Those materials have the potential to enhance the change in the materiality of Architecture and enable a passage from understanding materials as substrates that enhance life and metabolic cycles. Each student will develop together with the Department of Microbiology a specific workflow and a graded hydrogel shell prototype

 The course will use a Material Driven Design Method (MDD)

Prototyping with organic/living Materials, requires the development of different evolutionary fabrication protocols. Frist we will try to understand the manufacturing process related to Fungal Living Composites and comprehend the relationship between the variables of the process and a certain technical, expressive feature of the material. Throughout the semester, we will perform different 4 cycles of 3 weeks. Those will consider 3 main steps:  Birth, Growth, Decay, or degeneration.  Using an “hands on” approach students with analog and digital tools student will navigate between free span and scientific rigorous research considering: 1) Design constrains/Tinkering 2) Scaffolding 3) Growth 4) Maintenance.  

Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung gemäß § 7 Satzungsteil, Studienrechtliche Bestimmungen.

Nach §7 (2) Pkt. 6 b)

Lehrveranstaltungen mit immanentem Prüfungscharakter, bei denen die Beurteilung aufgrund von regelmäßigen schriftlichen und/oder mündlichen Beiträgen der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erfolgt, das sind die Lehrveranstaltungen gemäß § 5 Abs. 3 Z 4 bis 11.

Siehe auch Festlegung im Curriculum (2019) §5 (2) Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen

Wird im Rahmen der ersten Lehrveranstaltung besprochen.

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en (gilt nur für das Modul B17 Pflichtmodul: Vertiefung Bachelorarbeit II): positiv beurteilte Module B09 "Baukunst", B10 "Geschichte und Theorie", B20 "Gebäudelehre und Wohnbau", B21 "Konstruktion und Gestaltung", B22 "Raumgestaltung", B23 "Städtebau".