May 2021 | I am part of this year’s jury team for the Core77 Design Awards for ‘Speculative Design’. The team consists of Asst. Prof. Deepa Butolya, Assoc. Prof. Laura Forlano, Ti Fang and myself.
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TALK — SPECULATIVE FUTURES STUTTGART /
JULY 2019 | I have been invited to give an artist talk at the German (Stuttgart) node of “Speculative Futures”. The talk was given at Theater Rampe in Stuttgart and critically discussed Critical and Speculative design practices.
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MAY 2019 | ’m delighted that my work Biophilia — Organ Crafting will be shown for the first time in Belgium. The Design Museum Gent will show the exhibition Creatures Made to Measure — Animals and Contemporary Design which started at the Marta Herford Museum in Germany.
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SEP 2018 | The Marta Herford Museum in Germany has requested Biophilia — Organ Crafting for its forthcoming exhibition Creatures Made to Measure — Animals and Contemporary Design.
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AUG 2018 | I have been invited to give a talk about my work at the UBS Arts Forum at castle Wolfsberg, Switzerland.
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JUN 2018 | I have been commissioned to give a Polyphonic Futures workshop at BIOTOPIA Museum of Man and Nature, the new natural history museum of Bavaria, located at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany.
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MAY 2018 | I will give a guest lecture at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel (Germany) upon invitation by Prof. Matylda Krzykowski.
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MAR 2018 | I presented my paper at “Beyond Change” with the following title: “Polyphonic Design-Science: Critical Bio-design Through the Example of Reverse-engineered Silk”
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JUN 2016 | As part of the opening ceremony of the Design Research Society conference this year, I have been invited by Prof Cameron Tonkinwise to give a keynote debate on the topic “(Speculative) Futures in Design Research” alongside Prof Ramia Mazé and Prof Richard Coyne.
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