Bionic structures - generated by Grasshopper & Kangaroo

April 17, 2017Verena Ziegler1 Comment

InBetween - material encounters in human - non human interactions

This PhD investigation lies at the intersection of Architecture, Textile Design and Interaction Design and speculates about sustainable forms of future living, focussing on bionic principles to create alternative lightweight building structures with textiles and digital fabrication techniques. In an interdisciplinary, practice- based design approach, informed by radical case studies from the 1960s to 80s on soft architectures like Archigram, Buckminster Fuller, Cedric Price, or Yona Friedman and critical theory on new materialism, (D. Haraway 1997, K. Barad 1998, J. Bennett 2007) sociological, philosophical (B. Latour 2005, G.Deleuze F., Guattari F 1987) and phenomenological thinkers (L. Malafouris 2005, J.Rancière 2004, B. Massumi 2002, N. Bourriaud 2002 , M. Merleau-Ponty 1963) this research investigates the cultural and social rootedness (Verortung) of novel materials and technologies, exploring in between prosthetic relations between the body and the environment.

October 29, 2019

IAD Insight Sessions - Verena Ziegler - 30 OCT 2019

We are very pleased to invite you to the first IAD Insight sessions of this semester, happening on:

Wednesday 30th October 2019

12:00 – 13:00, in Kino Toni

with Verena Ziegler

"Verena Ziegler is a Research associate with a teaching and research activity.

She is currently completing her PhD research at the University of Art and Design Linz, Department of Industrial Design, and has studied architecture and textile design.

At the center of her research projects are interdisciplinary design approaches, such as building a bridge between architecture and textile design, built space and the human body, new materials (smart materials) and traditional crafts (crafting).

The aim is to explore the cultural role and interpersonal, interactive relationship to new materials, and to speculate, critical visions of the future of new living arrangements.”

This is an event organised by Interaction Design students with the wish of getting to know more about Interaction Design lecturers projects/researches. It is also a good opportunity to meet all in a casual atmosphere and discuss things that inspire us.

The lecturers presenting at each session have very nicely accepted this invitation, giving a bit of their time and putting some effort in preparing a presentation to share their work with us. Therefore it would be nice to reward them with our presence!

We’d be very happy to see you all, students and lecturers, in the Kino Toni this Wednesday.

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