Toxic Material(itie)s: Eco-Material Entanglements in Art

Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) Organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) & Christian Berger (Universität Siegen), Ruby de Vos (University of Groningen), Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Our workshop sets out from the obvious, yet underexplored assumption, that much of the very stuff that art is made of …

Agency across the Human and the Non-Human. Between Engineering and the Humanities

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Workshop with c:o/re Senior Fellows Anna Laktionova, Masahiko Hara and Carl Mitcham from the Colorado School of Mines. The workshop unfolds as a discussion format in which three presentations are followed by discussions and comments. From an engineering perspective, Masahiko Hara speaks about his research on living and non-living systems and their interaction. Following on …

Workshop „Kunst, Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit“ / “Art, Science, the Public”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“, a research collaboration between artist, biologist and the humanities. During the workshop, different formats and practices of science communication, specially those experimenting with artistic forms, will be discussed. Furthermore, there will be an installation format, …

Workshop “Building on Models: Experiences from a Decade with the Microcircuit model”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …

Workshop: Epistemology of Arithmetic: New Philosophy for New Times

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Celebration workshop of Markus Pantsar’s book Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (Cambridge University Press 2024) and Gabriele Gramelsberger’s award of the K. Jon Barwise Prize 2023 for philosophy and computing by the American Philosophical Association. Please find the program of the workshop here. If you would like to attend, please write a short …

Workshop: The Origin of Concepts: Philosophical analyses and historical accounts

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizers: Giora Hon, Ruth Lorand, Gabriele Gramelsberger Please find the program of the workshop here. In this document, you can find all abstracts. If you would like to attend, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. Please note: During the event, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) will take photos and videos for …

Workshop “Practical and Epistemic Challenges of Living Lab Research – Perspectives from Australia and Germany” with Darren Sharp

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Aim: The aim of the workshop is (1) to inform each other about current activities and thus to inform and inspire each other about current perspectives on living lab research in the respective countries, (2) to reflect on these perspectives against the background of different research cultures in the respective countries (3) to identify future …

Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology – Workshop organized by Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Abstract: Why political philosophy of technology? Why aren’t the philosophy and ethics of technology adequate? A classic answer is contained in the concluding chapter of Nicomachean Ethics where Aristotle transitions to the Politics: “Ethical arguments may have the power to encourage and stimulate the high-minded and those of noble character, but they are insufficient to …

Workshop: “Emergence, Causality, and Complexity”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizers: Erica Onnis, Ana María Guzmán, Alexander Schubert Abstract: According to many authors involved in the debate about emergence, ontological emergent phenomena can be characterized as partially dependent on a more fundamental base and causally novel in instantiating new causal properties able to make them autonomous. Moreover, emergence is often recognized as a relevant feature …

Beyond-nature / Beyond-life

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades, such disciplines known as bioinspired materials and biorobotics have posited themselves as domains whose starting point is inspiration from nature, or more precisely, from various ‘natural’ or biological objects and processes found in the natural world. For example, the technology of CRISPR gene …

Workshop “Engaged Social Studies of Modelling”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation, governance, and public policy. Yet, many modelers remain detached from the social, ethical, and political implications of their work, often viewing these aspects as irrelevant to the success of the model. The flexibility, variety, and resistance to falsification, coupled with their status as authoritative evidence-making …

Workshop “After Networks: Reframing Scale, Reimagining Connections”

RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, Aachen

If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that it gathers different disciplines that eventually go back to their original research field – the workshop "After Networks: reframing scale, reimagining connections" proposes a direct connection with the KHK c:o/re’s 2024 research theme. The interdisciplinary program, combining art and internet …