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NERD 7th Heaven – New Experimental Research in Design (November 6–7, 2025, Berlin). see more
This year’s NERD Conference, organized by BIRD – the Board of International Research in Design will take place at New Practice / MA Design and Computation, Technische Universität Berlin & Berlin University of the Arts on November 6–7, 2025.
Conference Website: https://www.newpractice.net/nerd-7th-heaven
BIRD Website: https://www.bird-international-research-in-design.orgREGISTRATION: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/boardofinternationalresearchindesign/1786225
Venue
Alter Lesesaal / New Practice
TU Berlin Main Building
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
DirectionsPROGRAMME
Day 1 / 6 November 2025
10:00
Registration snf Coffee10:30
Introduction
Welcome: Albert Lang (New Practice) & Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice)
Opening Address: Wolfgang Jonas (BIRD)11:00
INTELLIGENT IMAGINATIONS
Chair: t.b.d.Co-Desirable AI Futures
Freyja van den Boom (University of Antwerp)Real, False-Worlds: Using a Truth Hidden at the Centre of Generative AI Image-Making for Design and Speculative World-Building
David Normington (The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw)12:30
Lunch Break13:45
INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS
Chair: Tom Bieling (BIRD / HfG Offenbach)Designing the Small Democracy of Rathlin Island
Brian Morgan (Belfast School of Art)Institutional Disorientations: Spirallings of a Design Practice within Entrenched Infrastructures
Isabella Brandalise (Monash University, Australia)15:15
Coffee Break16:00
ECOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS Chair:
Michelle Christensen (BIRD / TU Berlin / UdK Berlin)New Weather TV: Towards Ecological Imaginaries and Realities of the Mainstream Weather Report
Simone Fehlinger (Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design / University of Strasbourg / University of Potsdam)Seed, Potato, Pixel: Exploring Interspecies Relations between Ants, Humans, and Algorithms
Lilli-Chiara Kurth / Alessandro Mac-Nelly / Mika Zoé Rosenberg / Max Baraitser Smith (Berlin University of the Arts / Technische Universität Berlin)17:30
Short Break17:45
BIRD Book Launch: ‘NERD III’ & ‘Nutzen statt Besitzen – revisited’18:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESSManifesto Madness
Peter Friedrich Stephan (Academy of Media Arts Cologne)Day 2 / 7 November 2025
09:30
Coffee09:45
Short Introduction to the Day10:00
POST/DIGITAL PARADIGMS
Session Host: Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice)Postdigital Neobaroque (PDNB): A Plurivocal Architectural Design Research Project
Marjan Colletti (University of Innsbruck)What Even is Design(ed) in Generative World Models? Extending The Interactive Paradigm of Computation
Lars Pinkwart (University of Zurich / Zurich University of the Arts)11:30
Coffee Break12:00
EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS
Session Host: t.b.d.Grasping Knowledge: Designing Tangible Devices for Gesture-Based Inquiry
Fabiana Marotta / Lorenzo Esposito (University of Naples Federico II)12:45
Lunch Break14:00
Decentered Discourses
Session Host: Uta Brandes (BIRD)Democracy by Design? Exploring the Political Potentials of Design Theory for Democratic Innovation
Felix Kosok (German International University, Berlin)Designs from Southwomen: Historicizing Ecuadorian Women’s Lifeworlds
Ana Belén Palacios (Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW / University of Arts Linz)Omitted Needless Words
Evija Krištopane (Synstitute, Amsterdam)16:15 Closing Discussion
17:00 End of Conference
Admission to the conference will be free of charge.
Pre-registration (required for planning reasons): see above
The conference will be held in English.We are pleased to present the books ‘NERD – New Experimental Research in Design III – Positions and Perspectives’ and ‘Nutzen statt Besitzen – revisited’ at the conference.
Conference Website: https://www.newpractice.net/nerd-7th-heaven
BIRD Website: https://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org -
Exhibition — OA2025 Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines see more
OPEN CALL
Call for Contributions is now open.
EXHIBITION
(INTERNATIONAL, JURIED WITH AWARDS, OPEN CALL)3–17 December 2025
Gallery of Science and Technology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Djure Jakšića 2, 11000 Belgrade, SerbiaSUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Send 70–100 words text description with title, authors names and two illustrations
⟶ via Exhibition Form or email info@strand.rs by 10 July 2025Established in 2016, the MicroMacro awards are dedicated to the recognition of design solutions in innovative ways that successfully implement new standards in architecture and urban design and planning and encourage environmental sustainability.
Who can enter?
The competition is open to individuals and organizations in the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, history, technology, art, photography, new media art and to all geographical locations.Who can submit a nomination?
If you are an organization, an association, a not-for-profit or an individual you can nominate. You can self-nominate or nominate another organization.Themes?
International exhibition follows the Conference thematic blocks: Phenomenology of Architecture, Science & Technology and Architecture, Architecture and New Media approach, Showcase Presentations – new idea or project realization in Architecture, Urban Design or Art.,Vision of the City/Architecture –from capturing moments of city life towards utopias in a form of artistic drawing, design, photography, design product…We kindly invite the perspective architects, town planners and artist to submit their projects, drawings, and photographs that respond to the scope of the above listed topics.
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Conference — OA2025 Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines see more
OPEN CALL
Call for Contributions is now open.
CONFERENCE
(INTERNATIONAL, PEER-REVIEWED, OPEN CALL)4–5 December 2025
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Knez Mihailova 35, 11000 Belgrade, SerbiaSUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Send 250–300 words abstract with title, authors names and up to 6 keywords
⟶ via Conference Form or email info@strand.rs by 10 July 2025CONCEPT
On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines is based on the concept of an interdisciplinary, international, multi-location conference, with two exhibitions and a panel.
OA2025 would bring together partner institutions, representatives from both academia and industry, from different parts of the world, working together on organization and realization of the event. The motivation of holding a multiplaces conference, in several places at the same time, is the knowledge exchange, dissemination of research results and possible interaction and implementation aimed at stakeholders and sponsors. This is why the principle of networking is key.
Another principle of interdisciplinarity underlines the complexity and multiplicity of architecture, as well as the new challenges facing architects, urban designers, and artists. An interdisciplinary approach is the basis for defining thematic blocks/topics which include the essential approaches to the subject of architecture, innovative projects that impose new approaches and challenges, such as innovations in building materials, design and technology, which contribute to new aesthetics and a different understanding of functionalism, as well as architecture whose backbone is always creativity and art.
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