Exhibition: smart materials satellites. material as experiment

What makes a material smart? How do materials influence our lives? How do we work with them in order to shape our present and future? Questions pertaining to the significance and processing of materials were already being addressed at the historic Bauhaus. Now, almost 100 years later, the exhibition smart materials satellites. Material as Experiment in the Stahlhaus on the Dessau-Törten housing estate, built as a material experiment by the Bauhauslers in 1926/27, focuses on the latest research into materials.

Exhibition ‘smart materials satellites. Material as an experiment’, Steel House in the Dessau-Törten housing estate, 13 July – 22 October 2017
© Bauhaus Dessau Foundation / Photo: Meyer, Thomas, 2017 / OSTKREUZ

Exhibition ‘smart materials satellites. Material as an experiment’, Steel House in the Dessau-Törten housing estate, 13 July – 22 October 2017

Julia Wolf in the exhibition ‘smart materials satellites. Material as an experiment’

Julia Wolf in the exhibition ‘smart materials satellites. Material as an experiment’

Together with the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation presents a three-month interactive exhibition that aims to transfer knowledge between the disciplines of science, art and design and to communicate with the general public. The latest innovations of engineers will be combined with the material experiments of designers and investigated together with the exhibition’s visitors.

Based on the idea that research is for everyone, the exhibition invites the visitor to learn about smart materials in an experimental research laboratory set-up. The exhibition and a diverse supporting programme will enable both specialists and the general public to immerse themselves in the latest research into materials and, in a collaborative process, develop possible applications for material experiments.

13 July– 22 Oct 2017
Steel House, Housing estate Dessau-Törten

Together with the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, the Technical Collections of Dresden and the SYN Foundation Halle, the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau is developing a process of knowledge transfer between science and design with regard to smart materials.

smart materials satellites is an interdisciplinary research project for science communication of the smart3 network for innovation. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Twenty20 – Partnership for Innovation.

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Exhibition: smart materials satellites. material as experiment