This academic year, the lecture series Material and Technology is held by Manuel Kretzer, Professor for Material and Technology at the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.

Manuel is also founding partner of responsive design studio based in Cologne, a design office that works on various scales, including architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, furniture and object design. From 2010 until 2015 he taught at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zurich, where he finished his doctoral degree, focusing on smart materials and adaptive architecture, in early 2016.

Chapters:

Tomorrowland
Smart Materials for Architecture and Design
Das digitale Ornament – high-resolution design through computation
Biofabrication – Design with Living Organisms

Additional discussion rounds of the readings are coordinated by Jens-Ole Klingemann.