Scientific Committee




Friedrich von Borries


Professor for Design Theory and Curating Practice
University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany
Research Fellow Goldsmith College, London, UK

http://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/...
http://www.friedrichvonborries.de

Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries, born in 1974, is an architect and teaches "Design Theory" at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HFBK). Atthe same time, he is also curator of Contemporary Design at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
In 2008 he curated the German contribution of the Venice Biennial of Architecture. He is manager of the "Projektbüro Friedrich von Borries" in Berlin. His scientific work focusses on the discussion of cultural, economic and political parameters of design. As an architect, he is working on improving reality - at the moment, among others, on the development of mission statements for urban spaces and clearances in Berlin and Frankfurt. His credo reads: "As a scientist I try to comprehend the world. As a designer, I want to change it."
In 2009 he published, inter alia, "Die Freiheit der Krokodile" (The Freedom of Crocodiles) at Merve Publishers, and (with Jens-Uwe Fischer): "Heimatcontainer. Deutsche Fertighäuser in Israel" (Home Containers. German Prefabs in Israel) at Suhrkamp. Currently, his curated exhibition "Klimakapseln - Überlebensbedingungen in der Katastrophe" can be seen at Hamburg's Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. A volume of the same name was published in 2010 by Suhrkamp.





Frank Eckardt


Professor in Urban Sociological Research at the Institute for European Urban Studies
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

http://www.uni-weimar.de/stadtforschung

Frank Eckkkardt's research has focussed on different aspects of urban change and urban society. One of the main aspects of his research and teaching activities is dedicated to the implications of a multi-cultural and multi-religious city for the process of urban globalisation. He has led projects on European, national and regional scope in this field and has published widely on this topic, e.g.:


  • (2010) (with John Eade) (eds) The Ethnically Diverse City. Future Urban Research Series, vol. 4. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag (fe)

  • (2009) (mit J. Merkel) Ethnische Vielfalt als Ressource der Stadtentwicklung - Toleranz im städtischen Alltag - Berlin und Frankfurts Integrationspolitiken im Vergleich. In: C. Hannemann (Hg.) Jahrbuch Stadtsoziologie. Verlag Buderich.

  • (2008) Multiculturalism in Germany: From Integration Policies to "Islam Forum".In: J. Eade, M. Barrett, C. Flood, R. Race (ed) Muticulturalism after 9/11. Cambridge University Press, 97-115.

  • (2006) La «Moscheenstreit»: la polémique autour des mosquées dans les villes allemandes. In: Les Cahiers de la Sécuritè, Revue trimestrielle de Sciences Sociales: Hg.: Institute National des Hautes Etudes de Sécurité, 62/3, S. 161-184.

  • (2004) (mit D. Hassenpflug) Urbanism and Globalization. Zweiter Band der Serie "The European City in Transition". Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

  • (2003) The Global Outsider and the Local Insider. In: Figurations. Hg. von der Norbert Elias-Foundation, Nr. 2.




Jens Geelhaar


Professor Interface-Design, Faculty of Media
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/interfacedesign

Selected Publications:


  • (2008) Willis, K., Geelhaar, J.: Information Places: Interfaces Between Physical and Digital Space, in Foth, M. (Hrsg.). Urban Informatics. ICS Global.

  • (2007) Giles, T., Marienek, M., Willis, K.S., Geelhaar, J.: Hide and SEEK: sharing cultural knowledge. ACM Multimedia 2007: 481-484

  • (2006) Geelhaar, J.: Interaktion mit verteilten digitalen Informationsräumen, in: Eibl, M., Reiterer, H., Stephan, P.F., Thissen, F. (Hrsg.): Knowledge Media Design - Theorie, Methodik, Praxis, 2. Aufl., Oldenbourg München, pp. 225-236

  • (2004) Geelhaar, J. et al.: An Example for Location Sensitive Media Integration: Re-discovering the Place Itself as a Medium by Adding Technology, in: Göbel, S. et al. (Hrsg.): Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, TIDSE 2004, LNCS 3105, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 270-276

  • (2004) Geelhaar, J.:Technische Strategien der Interaktion in verteilten Informationsräumen, in: HyperWerk FHBB (Hrsg.): rtrp - right time right place, Verlag HyperWerk FHBB Basel, pp. 53-62

  • (1995) Geelhaar, J.: The architecture of virtual space in the Internet, in: Geelhaar, J., HBK Saar - Forschungsprojekt Internet (Hrsg.): TightRope - Journal for Art, Science and Philosophy and Art, HBK Verlag Saarbrücken, p. 30 f.

  • (1994) Geelhaar, J.: Interdisciplinary Communication Project, in: Geelhaar, J., HBK Saar - Forschungsprojekt Internet (Hrsg.): TightRope - Journal for Art, Science and Philosophy, HBK Verlag Saarbrücken, p. 25





Hana Iverson


Visiting scholar, Institute for Women and Art
Director, Neighborhood Narratives Program
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

http://www.hanaiverson.com

Hana Iverson is a media artist with a focus on networked communities and wireless technologies. Her public projects, Cross/Walks, Weaving Fabric Row and View from the Balcony, along with her education initiative Neighborhood Narratives, engages the neighborhood as social practice to explore questions about subjectivity, embodiment, social networks and place inside of alternative forms of distribution. Iverson is the Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Woman and Art at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and the former Director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration at Temple University. Currently teaching in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, she is the founder and Director of the Neighborhood Narratives Project, an internationally networked, community-based learning environment where students investigate the complex means by which cell phones, GPS, mobile recording devices, interactive public installation and social network games affect their knowledge of and relation to lived space.




Malcolm McCullough


Associate Professor
University of Michigan, USA

http://www.umich.edu/~mmmc

Selected publications:


  • (2004) Digital ground. Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, Cambridge, MIT Press.

  • (1997) Abstracting Craft. The Practical Digital Hand. Cambridge, MIT Press.

  • (1991) (with Mitchell, William J.) Digital Design Media: A Handbook for Architects and Design Professionals: A Guide for the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons.





Antoine Picon


G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology
Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD and DDes) at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/picon/index.html

Selected publications:


  • (2010) Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions. Basel, Birkhäuser.
    Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

  • (2003) Architecture, Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm. In: Antoine Picon (edited with Alesandra Ponte): Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

  • (2003) Architecture and the Virtual. Towards a new Materiality - In: Thesis, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2003, Bd. 49, Medium Architektur, p. 106-111.

  • (1998) La ville territoire des cyborgs. Les Éditions de L'Imprimeur.




Bernd Rudolf


Professor and Dekan
Darstellungsmethodik und Bauformenlehre
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

http://www.uni-weimar.de/architektur/dsmbfl




Pavel Sedlak


Development Manager and Curator, Co-Director of
CIANT (Center for International Arts and New Technologies), Praha, CZ

http://ciant.cz
http://blastula.multiplace.org

In 2002-2003 Pavel Sedlak joined the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Group of Science, Technology, Society Studies. He was curator of international exhibitions, festivals and workshops e.g. Unsafe Distance, Cosmopolitics, Therapy, Ludic Times, ENTER, Adapt, Wearable Information held in Prague, Berlin, Moscow, Singapore and Buenos Aires. He initiated and managed several EU-funded projects in arts, culture, and education. In 2007 he co-produced, co-chaired and edited proceedings of MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences conference. Contributor to Theory of Science, Flash Art CS, Golden Cut, Dance Zone, A2, reviewer for CLA - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. Presently he serves as an advisory committee member and a reviewer for ISEA 2010 RUHR and ARTECH 2010.




Mark Shepard


Assistant Professor, Departments of Architecture and Media Study
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA

http://mediastudy.buffalo.edu/shepard.php

Selected Publications:


  • "Near future urban archaeology: The Sentient City Survival Kit", Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain, v19. NAi Publishers.

  • "Ambient Awareness, Hertzian Weather Systems and Urban Architecture", PAR - Public Art Review, no. 41. Forecast Public Art.

  • "Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit", in 306090 v.9 - Regarding Public Space, distributed by Princeton Architectural Press.




Stuart Veech


Principal in VMA - Veech Media Architecture in Vienna and
(from 2007-2009) Senior Research Fellow at the
Royal College of Art, London, UK

http://www.veech-vma.com

Stuart A. Veech lectured on "Smart Technologies - Intelligent Buildings" at Graz University of Technology and at Innsbruck University on the subject of "Deployable Structures". Since 2004 he has been a research partner in the Augmented and Ambient Research Network at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. In 2007 Stuart A. Veech was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Royal College of Art, London in the department of Innovation Design Engineering.




Sabine Zierold


Dr. Sabine Zierold is teacher of the Professorship presentation methodology and coordinator of the interdisciplinary masters course MediaArchitecture
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DE

Selected Publications:


  • Thesis, Scientific Magazine of the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Book 3, „Das Virtuelle im Realen – Virtuelle Räume der Architektur“, 2003

  • OpuS electronic Dissertation, Bauhaus-University Weimar, conferral of a doctorate, Theme: „The medial space of architecture“, 2006, http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/volltexte/2006/810/

  • „Media City“, F. Eckardt, M. Zschocke (editor), Publisher Bauhaus-University Weimar, „The Medial Space of Architecture“, 2006

  • „Wirklichkeitsexperimente – Architekturtheorie und praktische Ästhetik – Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Gerd Zimmermann“, J.H. Gleiter, N. Korrek, S. Schramke (Hrsg.), Publisher Bauhaus

  • University Weimar, „Architektur als räumliches Medium“, 2006
    „Image and Space“ in „Die Realität des Imaginären“, 2008