+ Material Intelligence

The symposium joins leading experts from materials science, the humanities and architecture with the goal to establish future directions in the field of active matter and material intelligence. Indeed, information may not only be stored and processed in digital systems or in neural networks, but in the structure of any material. Since a different structure corresponds to a change in property or functionality, structure is a repository of information. The symposium will discuss consequences for design and the arts as well as for technical systems such as architecture or soft robotics.