— 16th JUNE 2018
The Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Image credit: Biotopia Museum Mensch und Natur.
This year marks the inaugural BIOTOPIA Fest at Munich's new natural history museum — BIOTOPIA at Nymphenburg Palace. The central theme of the event is "Hautnah — Stoff der Zukunft" ('Skin Close — Fabric of the Future') and looks at the future of biomaterials, the body and bio-fashion.
I have been commissioned to give a Polyphonic Futures workshop at "Hautnah" on the theme ""Collective Futuring on Silk and Body Interfaces". and will contribute among other participants to this event, such as Paola Antonelli, the Bionicum Nürnberg, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München — Fakultät Design, Iris van Herpen, Suzanne Lee, Julia Lohmann, Material Stories, Maurizio Montalti, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Diana Scherer, Studio Blond & Bieber, SNSB-Zoologische Staatliche Sammlung and Otilia Vlad.
This transdisciplinary workshop invites a diverse set of participants for a collective experience in one of the oldest parts of the Nymphenburg Palace — the Johannissaal in the "Johannis-Brunnturm".
For a write-up look at the section ⟶ WORKSHOPS
Image credit: BIOTOPIA – Naturkundemuseum Bayern, 2018.
PLEASE NOTE
We invite participants (experts in their own field (m/f/d) – artists, designers, scientists, writers, technologists, academics, and activists, to join a half day-long workshop where they are introduced to ‘reverse-engineered silk’, a biomaterial currently confined to laboratories. The workshop is free of charge, but places are limited. For securing a place we ask you to send a short bio and a few words about your motivation to participate (max. 200 words) to the following address: info@polyphonicfutures.com
Deadline for application is 8th June 2018!
ABOUT THE EVENT HOST
"BIOTOPIA takes a bold new approach to engaging people with some of the most critical issues of our time. Reinventing and expanding the current Museum of Man and Nature at the spectacular site the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany, BIOTOPIA will aim to explore, question and reconfigure the relationship between humans and other living species - using a groundbreaking new concept that will lead the classical natural history museum into the future."