With the exhibition project DESIGN × SCIENCE, the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava presents a new platform for dialogue between design research and science. During Milan Design Week, the We Will Design 2024 exhibition will be held at the BASE Milano Experimental Laboratory from 16 – 21 April 2024. The PhD projects use scientific knowledge and highlight new possibilities for the design profession. Vladimír Boroň, František Dorko, Petra Hurai, Vlasta Kubušová, Filip Maukš, Martin Mjartan, Martin Sombathy and Lucia Suchá are exploring a wide range of themes that are linked by interdisciplinary collaboration and the search for new positions for architecture and design.
In the face of accelerating polycrisis, DESIGN × SCIENCE poses questions worth exploring:
How to make efficient use of accumulating industrial waste?
How to collaborate with artificial intelligence models for the benefit of human creativity?
How to design ‚with time‘?
PRESENTED PROJECTS
Vladimír Boroň × Informed Creativity
- Research exploring workflows that enable the use of new AI tools in a way that enhances human creativity and authorship
- Supervisor doc. Michala Lipková, research ongoing since 2023
Petra Hurai × Experience of Time
- Experimental design thinking tool that explores the relationship between subjective time and sensory perception through visual stimuli
- Supervisor prof. Peter Paliatka, implementation 2016-2023
Vlasta Kubušová × Sensable Biomaterials
- The latest research outputs on interactive biomaterials, a collaboration with Crafting Plastics!, UPenn’s DumoLab Research and the Label-Free Research Group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT in Boston
- Supervisor Assoc. Michala Lipková, research ongoing since 2019
Filip Maukš × Mixed Reality Workflows
- Research focused on designing with mixed reality technologies in the early stages of industrial product design development
- Supervisor doc. Peter Olah, realization 2017 – 2022
Martin Mjartan × Collaborative Craft
- Hand-blown glass objects that are the result of research focused on the intersections of local craft, collective creativity and community building
- Supervisor prof. Peter Paliatka, realization 2018 – 2021
František Dorko & Martin Sombathy × Designing out Waste
- Possibilities of applying SymaLITE® – automotive residual materials from local Slovak manufacturers in the context of interior design
- Supervisor prof. Veronika Kotradyová, PhD., research ongoing since 2022
Lucia Suchá × Phygital materiality
- Research exploring innovative approaches to material prototyping in the context of sustainable CMF design strategies
- Supervisor doc. Michala Lipková, research ongoing from 2023
Trimtab | Prototyping Change
„The DESIGN × SCIENCE exhibition at Milan Design Week is a call to action. We believe that scientific research – supported by design and applied in practice – can actively contribute to prototyping the change we so badly need to see in the world today,“ sums up Michala Lipkova, curator and producer of the exhibition. The aim of the collaborative platform Trimtab (tr1mtab.com), founded and developed by Michala Lipková at the Institute of Design FAD STU since 2018, is to actively search for new industrial partnerships and accelerate technology transfer through design research and multidisciplinary collaboration with industry as well as between STU faculties. The name of the platform is inspired by the metaphor of the „miniature rudder“, often used by the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller to illustrate the multiplier effect of small changes that can affect even the largest systems. The „prototyping change“ in the platform’s name communicates the idea of contributing to positive change through the designer’s input into science and technology projects, in the spirit of „Fullerian“ systems thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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