SMARTSURFACES – A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HANDS-ON THINK-TANK

Thors­ten Kloos­ter is a gu­est critic and gi­ves a lec­tu­re on Smart Sur­faces at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­chi­gan´s De­sign Lab 1. DL1 is a ga­the­ring place, whe­re the col­le­ges of En­ginee­ring, Art & De­sign, Ar­chi­tec­tu­re and Ur­ban Plan­ning, In­for­ma­ti­on, and Mu­sic all con­ver­ge. Smart­S­ur­faces.Net of­fers a col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve, pro­ject-ba­sed lear­ning ex­pe­ri­en­ce in which ar­tists, de­sig­ners, ar­chi­tects and en­gineers co­me to­ge­ther to build phy­si­cal sys­tems and struc­tu­ral sur­faces that ha­ve the ca­pa­bi­li­ty to ad­apt to in­for­ma­ti­on and en­viron­men­tal con­di­ti­ons. The cour­se will ope­ra­te as a mul­ti­di­s­ci­p­li­na­ry, hands-on think-tank whe­re parti­ci­pants will pool their know­led­ge and skills to work to­ge­ther to pro­du­ce en­viron­men­tal­ly sound and so­cial­ly res­pon­si­b­le pro­jects. The cour­se is a col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve en­dea­vor led by the th­ree pro­fes­sors Karl Daub­mann, John Mars­hall and Max Sht­ein who will ad­vi­se and con­tri­bu­te to all team pro­jects.