This coming Sunday, May 19th, Plum Events presents to you our next movie, Seksmisja, from Poland.  Director Juliusz Machulski gives us a Polish Sci-Fi satire that is sure to entertain you.  Join us, May 19th 20:00hr at Hardenberg!!

On behalf of Prof. Stephan Pinkau, we would like to invite you to join the following lectures (in english language) given this semester with the Summer School Program of Hochschule Anhalt.
Each lecture takes place on:

Wednesdays
10:00 - 11:30
room 08/006 (main lecture hall)

AND starting from next week are the following:

22. 05.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Ermal Shpuza, SPSU, Atlanta, U.S.A.
“Space Syntax Analysis”

29.05.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Reading the City”

05.06.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Buenos Aires”

12.06.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Berlin”

19.06.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Cairo”

26.06.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Havana & Istanbul”

03.07.2013, 10.00 h, 08/006
Prof. Gabriel Feld, RISD, Providence, U.S.A.
“Writing the City”

DIA invites you to yet another series of lectures. Please have a look at the following message by Neil Leach himself for detail.

Save the date for this week - Wednesday, 15 May 2013. We will keep you all updated with more posts on the event!

“Dear All

Here is an update on the next few DIAtalks:

15 May
Irene Gallou, Foster and Partners Specialist Modelling Group
Performance Driven Design
Irene Gallou is an expert in advanced computational modelling for environmental control systems. The talk will focus on the recent proposal for Masdar City by Foster and Partners, in which Irene Gallou played a leading role.

22 May
Jose Sanchez, AA/Bartlett/USC
Design = Play
Jose Sanchez is regarded by many as the world’s leading expert in the use of Processing for architecture. He has something of a fan club among DIA students, many of whom have followed his on-line Processing tutorials.

22 June
Conference
3-D Printing in Concrete: Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Applications
Keynote Speakers:
Enrico Dini, D-Shape
Behrokh Khoshnevis, USC
This will be the first time that the world’s two leading experts for 3-D printing in concrete - Enrico Dini and Behrokh Khoshnevis - will actually meet. Interestingly, both have been sponsored to explore the potential of 3-D printing structure on the Moon using regolith - Dini sponsored by the European Space Agency, and Khoshnevis by NASA. This will be a memorable conference and a historic occasion. 

Save the dates! Posters and other information will follow.”

Neil Leach

Join us for our next movie this Sunday at 20:00hr. in Hardenberg.  The movie by Italian Director Marco Ferreri, ‘STORIE DI ORDINARIA FOLLIA’, plus the exceptional performance of Ben Gazzara makes an attempt to show us the life of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.  Great movie, great night, please don’t miss it!! 

INTERNATIONAL
FILM UNIT
(plum)
PLUM invites you to the weekly film sessions where you will certainly be exposed to the discovery of alternative/ underground/ or totally ordinary and conventional films from different countries. Not taking us to seriously we although very seriously suggest you to try us – each SUNDAY evening at Hardenberg.
The evening will be seasoned with snacks from the country of the movie and introductions to the films.

AGENDA
(mind)
PLUM wants to hold an alternative, cultural event which aims to promote cultural diversity at the university and which encourages international and German students.
MENU
(program)
Film starts @ 20 00
+ Introduction by a representative of the film‘s country of origin. Traditionally snacks served. ***during the show
THE MAP
(countries)
( *random)
Spain – introductory session
England
Serbia
Romania
Mexico
Kazakhstan
Italy
France
Iran
Germany
Russia
Ukraine
Turkey
Poland
Costa Rica
India
Korea
China
USSR
Subject to change and selection **
PEOPLE
(yourself)
+If you would like to join our team, suggest a movie or contribute towards the organisation and promotion of the event then please do feel welcome to get in touch with us. We‘re always on the look out for creative ideas, graphic design skills, poster designs and much more.

On 14.04.2013 PLUM has officially announced the INTERNATIONAL FILM NIGHTS.  The project, in collaboration with DIA and MAID, has an artistic touch of architects and designers.  Each showcased movie along with a poster is represented by a small art installation/object and conceptual graphic work.  With two movies shown already, “The Skin I live in” by Pedro Almodovar (Spain), and  “Withnail and I” by Bruce Robinson (England) we would like to invite you to watch and experience “Y tu mamá también” by Alfonso Cuáron (Mexico).  The event will take place on Sunday, April 28^th at 20:00 in Hardenberg.  Hope to see you there and keep an eye out for future events!!!

Past Events:

“Withnail and I” by Bruce Robinson (England)

“The skin I live in” by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)

DIAtalks would like to invite you to join us for the first lecture of a series this semester.  “Adaptation” with Neil Leach will be today, April 24^th at 6:30 in the Main Lecture Hall 08/006.  Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Dear all,

Neil Leach has sent us information on a new PhD program in Digital Design. The following information is for those students who have already graduated or who will graduate this year 2013. Please note: “Students interested in the program are invited to send an initial expression of interest, together with a one page CV by 15 April 2013” to:

Neil Leach leachneil@hotmail.com

Digital Design PhD Program
European Graduate School

Under its Director, Wolfgang Schirmacher, the European Graduate School [EGS] is currently inviting expressions of interest in a new ‘Digital Design’ stream within the EGS Media and Communication Division’s Postgraduate Program leading to a possible PhD. 

The EGS already has a very strong reputation in the area of Critical Theory, Philosophy and Media/Film Theory, counting some of the most illustrious thinkers in the world among its faculty, including Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Jean Luc Nancy, Manuel De Landa and Paul Virilio. It also has a strong reputation in the area of Media and Communications, with some of the leading figures in Film and Art. The EGS postgraduate program is designed for working professionals, and residential requirements are limited to attendance of a series of brief, intense workshops in the summer months at its base in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. For further details please see the EGS website:http://www.egs.edu/

The EGS is currently exploring the possibility of a new ‘digital design’ stream within the Media and Communication Division. If there prove to be sufficient initial expressions of interest from prospective students, the EGS will evaluate the establishment of this new program. The program will then begin in September 2013, with the first residential workshop taking place in Saas-Fee in June 2014, provided that it meets the basic minimum requirement of 20+ confirmed applicants.

The urge to establish a new Digital Design PhD stream within the Media and Communication Division at EGS stems in part from the limited number of PhD programs in this field, compared to the relative proliferation of masters programs around the world. It also stems from the growing expectation for academics to hold PhD degrees. But, above all, it stems from the demand for a relatively low cost PhD program that is flexible enough to allow those working in architectural offices or teaching in academic institutions to continue their employment while undertaking their PhD research. Current overall fees for a 4 year PhD with the EGS amount to $24, 450, making it an attractive financial option, compared to most other programs.

A number of pre-eminent figures from the field of Digital Design have already offered to teach on the new program:

John Frazer is regarded by many as the godfather of architectural computation, and acknowledged as a leader in the field of evolutionary digital design, and originator of the Evolutionary Digital Design Process. His seminal book, An Evolutionary Architecture, is regarded as a classic within the field. 
www.johnfrazer.com/

Mark Burry is Professor of Innovation at RMIT, and Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and founding Director of the Design Research Institute at RMIT. He is also executive architect and researcher for the Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/mburry+Biography.php

Achim Menges is a Professor at the University of Stuttgart and a founding member of the Institute for Computational Design. His work focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of morphogenetic computation, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing.
http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=897

Manuel De Landa is the Gilles Deleuze Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School. He also teaches at Pratt Institute, USC, and UPenn. He is the author of a series of highly influential books, including A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/manuel-de-landa/biography/

Patrik Schumacher is a partner in Zaha Hadid Architects, and a founding director of the AA DRL. He studied both architecture and philosophy in London, Bonn and Stuttgart, and holds a PhD from Klagenfurt University. He has taught at many schools of architecture, and is the author of a two volume edition, The Autopoiesis of Architecture. 
http://www.patrikschumacher.com/

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner and research based educator of architecture and computational processes in design. She now teaches design and theory seminars at the Bartlett School of Architecture, having previously taught at Columbia GSAP and the Architectural Association. She is a Director of Biothing/CONTINUUM.
http://www.biothing.org/?page_id=2

Mette Thomsen is Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she directs the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture. Her work focuses on Digital Crafting as a way of thinking material practice, computation and fabrication as part of architectural culture.
http://cita.karch.dk/

Neil Leach is a designer and architectural theorist, who has published 23 books on architectural theory and digital design. He has taught at several leading schools of architecture, including SCI-Arc, Columbia GSAP, AA, DIA, IaaC and USC, and is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow developing robotic fabrication technologies for printing structures on the Moon and Mars. 
http://arch.usc.edu/faculty/leach

In the first year instructors will each offer 3 days of intensive lectures over the residential summer workshop in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. These lectures are designed to fulfill the requirements of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) regarding contact hours and student workload. 

During their second year students get the chance to study under the other illustrious EGS professors. Aside from Slavoj Zizek, and the other figures mentioned above, these also include others working in architecture and digital theory, such as Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich, Mitchell Joachim and Hendrik Speck. As they enter their third year, upon completion of all course work and examinations, students will be invited to establish supervisory arrangements with the individual professors. Research is expected to be self-directed according to the European model.

Students interested in the program are invited to send an initial expression of interest, together with a one page CV by 15 April 2013 to:

Neil Leach
leachneil@hotmail.com

Once sufficient interest in the proposal is documented, the proposal will be evaluated by the EGS, and a formal admission procedure will be initiated.