Karola Dierichs

Karola Dierichs holds the »Material and Code« professorship in the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«. In addition, she is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Her expertise lies in the fields of materials design and minimal machines for architectural construction. Here, the main goal is to establish architecture as sourced from and embedded in a given environment. For this, methods of science and art are integrated to establish a novel paradigm of fundamental research. Previous affiliations include the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart, where she has conducted research in the field of designed granular materials for architecture.

Weaving; Material Form Function; Object Space Agency

Autonomous Granular Materials in Architecture (AGMA):
https://www.icd.uni-stuttgart.de/research/research-projects/autonomous-granular-materials-in-architecture-agma/