Prähistorisch ≈ Postdigital? Spekulative Praktiken und Werkzeuge für „Ongoingness“
Project information
submitted by
Timm Burkhardt
Co-Authors
Linus Karl Enzmann, Aaron Michael Aldo Mooser, Leonard Christoph Schultz, Leopold Kürschner, Lena Rückert, Johannes Weigelt, Frank Felix Kummich, Carlina Maren Ruth Rethwilm, Anne Juliane Mahn, Paul Gödecken, Leran Tao, Ronja Kügow, Urs Frederic Winandy, Mira Müller, Namun Baek, Lee Maravic
Mentors
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Pearce, Dipl.-Des. Timm Burkhardt, M.Arch William Victor Camilleri
Faculty:
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Productdesign (Master of Arts (M.A.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Project description
Prehistoric ≈ Postdigital? Speculative Practices and Tools for Ongoingness
Collaborating with the Thuringian Museum for Pre- and Ancient History (Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens), the studio ‘Prehistoric ≈ Postdigital?’ explored the fertile tension between the newest of technologies and the oldest of material and ritual practices. In the test tube of our design laboratory, we mixed technological emergence and current desires with lively histories and narratives and probed and developed the results of this reaction as physical prototypes. The Museum’s spaces and collection became an initial catalyst for the development of our own speculative design practices.
Students used technologies like 3D-scanning, digital modelling and simulation, digital fabrication (CNC-machining & 3D-Printing) to rediscover and revive traditional ways of understanding and using materials as “alive”, many of which have been lost through industrialization. The goal was to learn from the past and, especially in the face of resource scarcity and climate emergency, develop future proof approaches to use resources in mindful, sustainable but also imaginative ways.
Special thanks to our external critic Clemens Winkler, to our experimental CNC-specialist William Victor Camilleri and to the Bauhaus-Uni wood workshop (esp. Matthias Henkelmann and Andreas Riese) for supporting our fabrication workshops.
Exhibition Location / Event Location
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 - Van-de-Velde-Bau, Raum 013