MoA Design Research Studio. Scaling Nature (4) - Tiles and Tissues
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
10.15 – 17.30 Final Presentation
17.30 – 19.00 Opening Exhibition
Entrance Foyer
Weissensee School of Art and Design
Bühringstrasse 20, 13086 Berlin
The exhibition will be on display in the Entrance Foyer from 12.02.25 – 19.02.25, 09 - 19h
A collaboration by:
Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin, Department Textile and Material Design
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials MPIKG, Potsdam
Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Tiles and tissues are elements of tessellated systems found in nature, serving as strategies to enable movement, protection, growth, or adaptation in living beings. This concept appears across all scales and various species of plants, animals, and even in geological formations.
Tessellations and tiles also shape our built environment. Such principles allow for specific assembly and repair while providing stability or flexibility according to need. From exploring natural and geometrical strategies the students developed concepts of material systems for a spatial context.
Initial workshops on form-function relationships in nature, in architecture and in geometry laid the theoretical base for the designs. Lectures by natural scientists and a visit to Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, gave insights into nature`s strategies on how form enables function. Architectural applications of tiling, geometrical background of tessellations and the principle of topological interlocking were introduced through lectures.
A hands-on rapid prototyping workshop together with an introduction in robotic programming allowed for material experimentation and laid out the start for the individual student projects.
The resulting design concepts range from optic screens, body armature, inflatable skin to furniture re-use, climatic devices and many more. Bioinspiration as a strategy opened up new perspectives for the students´ design concepts and led to outstanding combinations of geometry and functionality with highly individual aesthetic approaches.
Concept and Supervision by:
Prof. Christiane Sauer, Nayeli Vega Vargas, Jörg Hugo, Jessica Zmijan,
Yolanda Leask, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Dr. Lorenzo Guiducci, TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Yuri Estrin, Monash University, University of Western Australia
Dr. Shahrouz Amini, Dr. Binru Yang, Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Fratzl,
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials MPIKG, Potsdam
Felix Rasehorn, WINT Design Lab, Berlin
Works by:
Boyoung Chung, Daniela Monedero, Dasol Jeong, Diana Salgado, Ida Haeun Lee, Jihae Lee, Larissa Schieberl, Maja Füspök,
Marieke Niemann, Marina Luding, Merle Marx, Rosalie Ponn, Valentin Titze, Wionna Kallaba, Xiaotong Fu, Yi Jin