Keynote
Speakers
Rachel Armstrong
This talk charts an interdisciplinary journey from medicine and collaborations with performance artist re-engineering the body, through early digital culture and artificial life research, into architecture. This led to a core proposition: that metabolism, the dynamic material process of transformation and exchange, can and should be a central design material at the heart of our homes and daily lives.
Maarten Lamers and Peter van der Putten
Intelligent robots are all the rage nowadays. Technically advanced beings, products of complex engineering and cybernetic sensor-actor feedback loops. But that is not how we see robots when viewing them. Our own human nature unwillingly forces us to project human qualities onto robots: qualities that make us human, such as curiosity, helplessness or even mischievousness. What can we learn from robots about being human in a time dominated by technology? Does researching robots make us less, or perhaps more human? And how have artists and researchers explored the boundaries between human qualities and technology? If you want to apply your research knowledge also in a creative context, then starting with the human rather than the technological perspective is a good strategy to get going.
