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Panel, HKW Studio

Becoming Earth: Engineering Symbiotic Futures

Panel with Theun Karelse, Paul Kolling and Paul Seidler, moderated by Valentina Karga

How can we reimagine roles for technology in the natural environment? Can we think outside the human and repurpose technological systems and infrastructures to serve nonhuman organisms and beings? Answers to these questions will be offered through presentations of researchers and artists, who are developing hybrid systems and prototypes for living landscapes, taking their intrinsic and diverse forms of agency into consideration. In this panel, prototypes for environmental robotics and a model for a self-owned augmented forest will be discussed. Speakers explore to which extent new symbiotic relationships between machinic and heterogeneous living nonhumans can be achieved when nature’s rhythm is acknowledged and human roles are purposefully limited to being the initiator or diligent maintainer.

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This ticket grants access to the above-mentioned transmediale event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It does not grant access to the other events of the festival. Access to festival venues can only be granted with valid festival passes or tickets. Lost tickets will not be refunded.

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