CollActive Materials

»CollActive Materials« Experimental Laboratory for Science Communication is jointly run by SCIoI and Matters of Activity – Image Space Material (MOA) (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and funded by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). CollActive Materials gets participants together to develop and design hypothetical futures scenarios and approaches, objects and environments, making individual imaginations and shared visions tangible. Through workshops and events this experimental, transdisciplinary project brings together science and society from diverse social contexts into continuous knowledge exchanges and open conversations.

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Team

Léa Perraudin, Environmental Media

Martin Müller, Cultural History & Theory

Eva Bullermann, Textile and Surface Design

Kristin Werner, Coordination »CollActive Materials«

Claudia Mareis, Design & Design Research

Antje Nestler, Science Communication

Wolfgang Schäffner, Cultural History & Theory

Oliver Brock, Robotics

Solveig Steinhardt, Science Communication

Activities

Airbound: Sensing Collective Futures

The exhibition »Airbound« features climate fictions and speculative everyday scenarios – developed in an open process by collaborators from society, science, and design. Through speculative installations, »Airbound« provides space to discuss urgent geopolitical issues. At stake are the contested knowledge of the climate, the destructive use of joint resources, and the injustices that are inherently connected. Air is critically bound to these – as collective, active, and intelligent material.

Futures of Air – Speculative Workshop Series

Three air-themed CollActive Materials Workshops is part of the BUA-funded project CollActive Materials, a joint science communication project of the two Clusters of Excellence Science of Intelligence and Matters of Activity. In this project, the two clusters draw from their respective thematic areas to imagine our possible futures with intelligent materials in a collective speculation that involves scientists, designers, and the general public. In three independent co-designed workshops, we explore the properties of air as a material, negotiate its role in our lives, and imagine our possible (and impossible) futures with it. More information here.

SCIoI+MoA CollActive Materials Event, “Woraus ist deine Zukunft gemacht?”: IdeenLabor, Kombucha Workshop, and family activities!

What do sensitive robots, gripping plants and creative bacteria have in common? Let’s find out together! In the “CollActive Materials” experimental laboratory, a joint project of SCIoI and MoA, research and society come together to explore the materials of the future: Can they be more active or more intelligent than the materials of today? Come by to discover surprisingly living materials, and tell us your ideas and wishes for the future with Pia Bideau and Caroline Duncan.