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This course introduces an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow in relation to Microbiology applied to the built environment. Students will be given an overview of the advanced manufacturing hardware and fundaments of Microbiology through the lenses of an experimental material-based research approach. You will learn how to develop an intelligent design and manufacturing workflow / Understand Computer-aided production procedures of related industries/ Fundaments of Microbiology / Understand geometric representations for digital manufacturing. / Design and manufacture objects using advanced manufacturing. / Apply principle of sustainable prototyping using and digital fabrication in the context of Life Sciences. / Understand performance-driven design workflow. /Understand principles of generative design applied to fabrication.

 Specifically, this semester will be focus on the integration of fungal growth with materials. Each student will develop together with the Department of Microbiology a specific workflow and a real scale living prototype. For the end of the semester students will be involved into a conclusive exhibition where they will have the chance to show their results to the public.

Active Matter _ Prototyping between life sciences and Microbiology

This semester for the first time, we will launch an interdisciplinary course between the Department of Architecture and the Department of Microbiology of the University of Innsbruck. The course is oriented a material-based research approach to explore potential bonds between Biotechnologies and advanced building technologies. It will explore the relationship between time and design and the emergence of new Aesthetics related to imprecision and aging.

On Fungal canopies: Recent research into Mycelium Based material often use the fungal action to create sustainable and organic composites. Those processes However, this process favors the use of organism to produce new material, favoring the ability of creating materials able to sustain and encourage life. 

The course will use a Material Driven Design Method (MDD)

Prototyping with organic/living Materials, requires the development of different evolutionary fabrication protocols. Frist we will try to understand the manufacturing process related to Fungal Living Composites and comprehend the relationship between the variables of the process and a certain technical, expressive feature of the material. Throughout the semester, we will perform different 4 cycles of 3 weeks. Those will consider 3 main steps:  Birth, Growth, Decay, or degeneration.  Using an “hands on” approach students with analog and digital tools student will navigate between free span and scientific rigorous research considering: 1) Design constrains/Tinkering 2) Scaffolding 3) Growth 4) Maintenance.  

 This course will be developed using a Hybrid format: 60 % Online (tutorials, lectures, video conferences) – 40% physical presence

Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung gemäß § 7 Satzungsteil, Studienrechtliche Bestimmungen.

Wird im Rahmen der ersten Lehrveranstaltung besprochen.