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SFB/Transregio 141 Conference on 12. + 13. November 2015 at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart, Germany

Thursday, 12.11.2015

10:00 ‐ 10:20 Jan Knippers,
Johanna Eder
Universität Stuttgart/ / Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartWelcome
10:20 ‐ 10:40 Jan Knippers Universität Stuttgart/Speaker TRR 141 Beyond Typologies: Biology As a Driver for an Integrative Design Culture
10:40 ‐ 11:20 George Jeronimidis University of Reading, Reading, UK Lessons from Nature – Materials – Structures – Performancee
11:20 ‐ 12:00 Bill Addis University of Cambridge, UK Biomimetics and the Structural Engineer
12:00 ‐ 13:20 Lunch
13:20 ‐ 14:00 Wilhelm Barthlott Universität Bonn Biological Diversity and Bionics
14:00 ‐ 14:20 Klaus Nickel Universität Tübingen/CoSpeaker TRR 141 Biomimetics and the Matter of Size
14:20 ‐ 14:40 Siegfried Schmauder Universität Stuttgart Challenges in Simulating Natural Microstructures
14:40 ‐ 15:00 Wolfgang Ehlers Universität Stuttgart Continuum Mechanics and Biomaterials: An Application of Simulation Technology to Biomechanics of Animals and Plants
15:00 ‐ 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 ‐ 16:00 Oliver Betz Universität Tübingen Joint‐Free Movement Principles with Adaptive Stiffness in Invertebrate Animals
16:00 ‐ 16:20 Tom Masselter Universität Freiburg Branchings in Nature and Technics
16:20 ‐ 16:40 Götz Gresser Universität Stuttgart Bio‐Inspired Fiber Composite Structures
16:40 ‐ 17:00 Achim Menges Universität Stuttgart Biomimetics in Architecture: Computational Design and Fabrication
17:20 ‐ 18:20 Guided tour, Museum am Löwentor
19:00 ‐ 22:00 Get‐together, Schloss Rosenstein








Friday, 13.11.2015

10:00 ‐ 10:40 Patrik Schumacher Zaha Hadid Architects, London, UK Perceptual Orientation and Spatial navigation in Dense Urban Environments as a Bio‐mimetic Research Problem
10:40 ‐ 11:20 Mario Carpo The Bartlett, University College London, UK Search, Don’t Sort. The Second Digital Turn.
11:20 ‐ 12:00 Stanislav Gorb Universität Kiel Functional Surfaces in Biology: From the Fish Adhesion to the Snake Camouflage
12:00 ‐ 13:20 Lunch
13:20 ‐ 13:40 Thomas Speck Universität Freiburg Elastic Deformation in Plants and Architecture
13:40 ‐ 14:00 Ralf Reski Universität Freiburg Moss Molecular Bionics
14:00 ‐ 14:20 Olga Speck Universität Freiburg Nature-Based Solutions – a Path Towards
Sustainable Construction
14:20 ‐ 14:40 Gerd de Bruyn Universität Stuttgart Form und Organismus in (Bau)Kunst und Wissenschaft
14:40 ‐ 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 ‐ 15:40 Oliver Röhrle Universität Stuttgart Using Image Processing Techniques and the Finite Element Method to Analyse Small‐Scale Biological Structures
15:40 ‐ 16:00 James H. Nebelsick Universität Tübingen Form and Function of the Periostracum in Land Snails: a Model for Continuous Fused Deposition of Architectural Envelopes
16:00 ‐ 16:20 Manfred Bischoff Universität Stuttgart Optimality, Robustness and Redundancy –
Categories for Biological Design from an
Engineering Point of View
16:20 ‐ 16:40 Werner Sobek Universität Stuttgart Design and Manufacturing of Biologically Inspired Optimal Structures Made of
Functionally Graded Concrete
16:40 ‐ 16:50 Thomas Speck Universität Freiburg/CoSpeaker TRR 141 Closing Remarks and Discussion

Conference Chair: Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck, Klaus Nickel

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