Month: May 2018

Foams Workshop

Foams Workshop

Workshop at GAFA, School of Innovation Design, 28th of May to 1st of June 2018, from 9:00 AM onwards, at Guangzhou Old Campus. Title: ‘Foams’ Subtitle: “Sponges versus Foams | Nature and Human Artefact” Natural sponges have been used as tools by humans and even animals since long times. Design has evolved as purpose-driven form giving from hand axe to computer mouse and beyond by bettering tools for progress of mankind. Industrial design – opposite to styling – can be based on research through natural sciences. Looking at paragons in nature, here marine soft sponges, can lead by heuristic in […]

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Axel Thallemer Lecture

Axel Thallemer Lecture

Speaker：Axel Thallemer Time：30th May (Wed.) 19:30—21:00 Address：South lecture theatre. GAFA high education mega center campus. Prof. Dipl.-Ing.(Univ.) Axel Thallemer is Full Professor with tenure at National University of Singapore. In his fifteen years of employment by industry he designed at research and development center of Porsche, followed by founding and being Head of Festo Corporate Design, afterwards freelance consulting in industrial context. Previous professorships were in Munich, Hamburg and Austria (Dean and Chair of Industrial Design at Linz university, scientifically repositioning under the brand “scionic®”), currently there are some 19 additional visiting professorships and circa 35 patents. Life Fellow of The RSA […]

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