NEW OPORTUNITIES CREATED BY WOOD INNOVATION: how new materials shape timber construction; dendrolight.
Miķelis Putrāms
First wooden houses were constructed from tree trunks, placed horizontally or vertically. During times clever timber production technologies are created, therefore wood could be used for buildings in many ways. Task always is to use wood for its qualities, while struggling with its weaknesses. Starting from log homes, timber frame buildings, glulam timber products [...]
Hydrogen as energy carrier – native and fuel cell systems
Reinis Rutkis
In spite of the fact, that main oxidative reaction in mitochondrial and some bacterial respiratory chains in general are the same as in man-made proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems, there still are principal differences in proton transport, energy transfer and accumulation in these systems. Therefore, in this lecture it is attempted to compare [...]
Bioethics and/in art
Ainārs Kamoliņš and Jānis Liepiņš
In our presentation we will speak about possibilities how certain practices in art – an application of tools used in biology – can change our notions of bioethics. Normally we have utilitarian approach to science as opposite to art which is in a sense parasitic to scientific knowledge. Bio art [...]
Bee architects – on the geometry of bee hives
Workshop by Christina Stadlbauer
Workshop approx 2 hours
An introduction to the construction of combs of wax and an invitation to brainstorm on an ingenious solution of hive geometry to fit best both the bees and the beekeeper.
How to make DYE sensitizedsolar cells
Workshop by Bartaku
Workshop of 2-3 hrs about basic principles of photovoltaic and a hands-on session _making dc low power solar cells using natural dyes_ (berries, currants, leafs/thea…)
Understanding of ecology in humanities
Tiina Sööt
Talk about understanding of ecology in humanities and arts in comparison with the meanings in natural sciences. A review of different uses of the term ecology from ’scientific study of ecosystems’ to ’somehow related to nature’.
Sustainability using Open source approaches on eco tourism and local community awareness
Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman
Sustainability using Open source approaches on eco tourism and local community awareness.
Linking The right of public access to nature (part of the Swedish constitution, giving rights to anyone to roam the wild) with the rights and possibilities of public access to information and history.
We present our recent Project ”Fagelvagen”, that [...]
Beyond Nature
Erik Sjödin and Michel Bussien
In their most recent project, Beyond Nature, Erik Sjödin and Michel Bussien attempt to zoom out and capture a distant perspective on nature and technology. During their talk at the “Art and Renewable Technologies Symposium” they will present a series of images that relate to thoughts, ideas and questions that have [...]
Talk “whois energy?”. Performance “i speak; i lie”
Julian Priest
Information is often thought of as separate from the physical, but it is encoded on a physical bearer. Taking as a starting point the thought that electromagnetic radiation is both a form of energy transmission and a medium of information transmission, aspects of the relationship between
energy and information are developed.
‘whois energy?’ poses the question [...]
Learning Site. What shall we do with all that Water
Rikke Luther
What are the rights to the water? Can we develop new ideas in relation to the definition “ownership” of water spaces in the city? Is it useful to think of water spaces and access to the water in terms of a ‘commons’? Could we talk about new order of property? Put another way, can [...]
Agents, Images, Machines
Terike Haapoja
In her talk Terike Haapoja will discuss the connections between nature scientific thought and the way new technology is applied to art projects. By referring to the exhibiton project Closed Circuit – open duration she will examine the similarities and differences between scientific and artistic ideas of representation. The focus is on different ways [...]
Capsula’s Curated Expeditions
Ulla Taipale
Capsula’s cross-disciplinary expeditions, straddling the borderline between art and science, study and marvel at natural phenomena through personal experience. The first expedition was made in summer 2008 to Siberia, where the total eclipse of the Sun could be observed. The base of the expedition was set up at the Novosibirsk Zoo, from which it [...]
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