Open Lab Abend: Deep Mapping Berlin’s Urban Space

In this series with the Berlin Open Lab (BOL), you can gather ideas for the future of agriculture! Dive into the world of design research and explore how old and new methods can contribute to making agriculture and land use more sustainable.

Together with young researchers from the Berlin Open Lab, you'll learn how to make donuts more sustainable using AI or produce fertilizer from urine. You'll bring old salt production techniques into the present with 3D printing, explore the concept of a commons forest, and develop smart warning systems for the forest. By experimenting with seagrass, you'll discover an ecosystem at the intersection of marine agriculture, research, and craftsmanship.

Using analog and digital tools and methods such as 3D scanning, sound recordings, sketches, models, samples, and frottage, we'll examine the built and natural environment around the FUTURIUM.

Deep mapping is a method for literally diving deep into a place from a variety of perspectives and using unconventional techniques. We will examine and document our findings using various tools and media. Finally, we will reflect on our results together and gain an understanding of how design methods can help us rediscover the familiar and how individually each person perceives shared public space.

Collaboration

The Berlin Open Lab (BOL) at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) brings together researchers and ideas from diverse fields to foster new forms of design. The Berlin Open Lab is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society, and art.

Workshop Leader

Julia Wolf currently researches and teaches at the Institute for Transmedia Design at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her artistic project "Material-digital Entanglements – situated and implicit Material Knowledge in a post-digital World," she explores cobalt, wood, and AI-generated materials, along with their social, political, and (craft-related) technological interrelationships within the context of our digitized world. Julia Wolf is a scholarship recipient of the DiGiTal funding program at the Technical University of Berlin.

Information

-> Venue: Workshop Futurium Lab (-1)

-> Admission: Free

-> Language of the event: German

-> Maximum number of participants: 16

-> Participation requirements: No prior knowledge required

-> Recommended age: 16 years and up


Tickets

-> You need a ticket for this event.

-> Due to limited space, only one ticket per person can be booked.

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