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Peer Review for Textile Intersections Conference
TEXTILE INTERSECTIONS is a four-day conference, doctoral consortium and exhibition organized by Loughborough University, in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London, University of Borås, Sweden and Elisava, Barcelona, Spain.
The conference will take place at Loughborough University London Campus between 20-23 of September 2023.
Inaugeration of Sommerpavillion
Popticum has realised a summer pavilion for Kreativbund in Berlin
In collaboration with ARGE:3000 & Kristin Lazarova, with a landscapearchitecture by Johanna Bendlin and nettlesandpoppies
funded by Kompetenzzentrum für Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes

Textile Gestures: Mapping Tactile Practices with Architectural Yarns
with Maja Avnat
Hands-on workshop within Bauhaus Study Rooms 2023 “DesignActs: Gestures of Performative Research”, Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau
The Architectural Yarns research group at »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« is hosting a hands-on workshop about tactile knowledge in performative research. We ask: How do sensory and mechanical properties of a material interrelate and shift when processed manually? Which conscious and unconscious actions transform bulky matter into material?

Architectural Yarns by Iva Rešetar, Maxie Schneider, Josephine Shone and Christiane Sauerare exhibited as part of the exposition Dahoula Sheen.
Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin from November 18, 2022, to April 29, 2023.
DAOULA — SHEEN, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, funded by the DFG. Curated by Laurence Douny, Karin Krauthausen, and Felix Sattler with a film installation by Thabo Thindi.

ADAPTEX – Physical and Digital Prototyping of Smart Textile Sun Shading
Paul Denz & Maxie Schneider

This summer the Adaptex team realised two adaptive façades - with a size of 1.2 by 7.5 metres - at the EcoHouse of the German University of Technology in Oman.

04.11.2022 bis 05.03.2023
Kunstgewerbemuseum
The Design Lab #13 exhibition „Material Legacies“, developed in cooperation with design researchers from the Matters of Activity. Image Space Material Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, explores contingencies and disruptions between traditional crafts and most recent developments at the interface of materials research, design, technology and architecture.
The project "Architectural Yarns" by Iva Rešetar, Maxie Schneider, Josephine Shone, Christiane Sauer will be part of the exhibition.

Innovation Award - The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
2022 Award of Excellence Winner
Project: Adaptex, Priedemann Facade-Lab + Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

Talk and Workshop at Bauwende Festival 2022
On Friday, May 27, 2022, 2 p.m., MoA members Maxie Schneider, Jojo Shone and Lorenzo Guiducci will offer a workshop on Structural Paper as part of this year's Bauwendefestival in Berlin.
The »Structural Paper« workshop playfully explores the potential of paper as a building material for constructing interwoven structures. By simply interleaving sheets of paper, we can construct connections that hold only through friction.

Zumtobel Group Award
Nomenee Special Prize for Innovation
ADAPTEX
2021, Berlin, Germany
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin + Priedemann Facade-Lab with DXM – Design Experiment Material / Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology/ Carl Stahl ARC GmbH, / Verseidag-INDUTEX GmbH / ITP GmbH / SGS Engineering GmbH / imesh, Deutschland

Talk at XCAMP
„kinetic responsive surfaces for architecture“
Schneider M. Fransén Waldhör E.,
Wo lassen sich hybride adaptive Oberflächen (interaktive /autonome Systeme) einsetzen?
Welche Anwendungsszenarien und Einsatzgebiete verbinden sich mit verschiedenen Arten der Bewegung von Oberflächen, etwa im Bereich der Künstlichen Intelligenz, der Datenanalyse oder im Designprozess?

Adaptex Symposium Textile Potentials in Architecture
Denz, P.-R., Sauer, C., Fransén Waldhör, E., Schneider, M., & Suwanapuk, N.,
Adaptex Symposium "Textile Potentials in Architecture", on Friday, November 26th,
2021.

Talk at WÆ – woman from arts to engineering
Schneider, M., “Architecture in motion – Adaptive textiles between light and shadow.”, WÆ:sf – women from arts to engineering for a sustainable future, Tu Berlin, Virtual. 7 Otober 2021.

Virtual event with contributions by: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Svenja Keune, Petra Gruber, Felecia Davis, Elaine Igoe, Karin Krauthausen, Regine Hengge, Christiane Sauer, Maxie Schneider, Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Roundtable peers: Jörg Petruschat, Lorenzo Guiducci, Karola Dierichs, Alwin Cubasch
Moderators: Bastian Beyer, Mareike Stoll
The event is organizied by Matters of Activity and weißensee school of art and design.

Installation for 48 h Neukölln 2021
Popticum creates the space Filteroase - Kollektive Komfortzone at Nachbarschaftscampus Dammweg
https://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/popticum-–-cellograph

Keynote lecture of our ongoing Research project ADAPTEX – shading system with shape-memory materials. At interzum@home Event Green Smart Materials presented by HAUTE INNOVATION.
The event includes a well-curated section on sustainability, digitalisation and smart material solutions.
Talk at DGTF Conference 2021
We will be presenting the project ADAPTEX on the DGTF Conference Material Trajectories - Designing with Care in the strand Performative Surfaces.
Schneider, M., Fransén Waldhör, E., ADAPTEX. Adaptivity in Textile Solar Shading Membranes Through the Integration of Shape Memory Alloys, Panel Presentation at Conference. »Material Trajectories. Designing with Care« – 17th Annual Conference of German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), Virtual. 7 May 2021.

On the occasion of the international women's day on 08.03.21 the women's advisory board of the KHB invites to a mini-symposium on perspectives of female measures in art, design and technology. Our guests Renata Kutinka, Marie Dietze and Fem_arc collective will give insights into their work on social, technological and cultural issues.
Maxie Schneider, Rena Onat, Stefanie Rau, weißensee school of art and design berlin

Magic Circle. Symposium.
ADAPTEX – shading system with shape-memory materials
Schneider, M., Fransén Waldhör, E.,
Kunsthalle, weißensee school of art and design berlin. Organized by »Forschungskreis« in cooperationwith »Matters of Activity«, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat. Hybrid. 25 February 2021.
Adaptex presented at Dutch Design Week 2020
weißensee school of art and design berlin.

Innovationworkshop on natural high-tech fibrous materials 2020 at STFI Chemnitz
I was invited to join a creative workshop on natural high-tech fibrous materials and their innovation potential. At the interface between design and materials science, the NF-HighTech+ project is about pushing technological boundaries by utilising resource-saving natural fibers for technical high-performance applications and making them fit for concrete industrial applications.

“Adaptive textile façades through the integration of Shape Memory Alloy” presented by Ebba Fransén Waldhör and Maxie Schneider in the session "Prototyping, Composites and Self organising Material Systems".

ICSA Conference Lisbon 2019
Experimental Design and Building of a Cable Reinforced Plastic Brick Arch
Maxie Schneider, Sebastien Tripod (Constuctlab), Lieven Tone Houdmont (Mouton Engineering)
Jan Belis (Ghent University, Laboratory for Research on Structural Models (LMO)

Maja Bienale Portugal
Handle with Air
Popticum colllective
M.Schneider, L. Skafte, M. Dietze, E. Vogler

Project: Hemisphere
Maxie Schneider
Invited by the Architecture Collective Yes we Camp i conducted a two month residency to construct an inflatable pavillion to activate a rooftop.
Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017
PNEU&SHELL: Constructing Free-Form Concrete Shells with a Pneumatic Formwork
Schneider, M.
Conference Paper published in Humanizing Digital Reality, Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017 Herausgeber: de Rycke, K., Gengnagel, C., Baverel, O., Burry, J., Mueller, C., Nguyen, M.M., Rahm, P., Thomsen, M.R. (Eds.)