(talks & exhibitions)
WEtransFORM. New European Bauhaus und Beyond
Architectural Yarns at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn05. June 2025 - 25. January 2026
© Michelle Mantel
© Michelle Mantel
Circular Materials: When Innovation Meets Reality
Panel Talk at Berlin Design Week 2025
The Berlin Format I Day 2
16.05 17:30 PM
© Michelle Mantel
MATERIALZUKÜNFTE BESUCHEN
Pop-up exhibition at Futurium Berlin
Exhibition of Workshop results, in Kooperation mit dem Berliner Exzellenzcluster »Matters of Activity« und CollActive Materials.
Open Lab Abend @ FUTURIUM
Hands-On Workshop MATERIALZUKÜNFTE BESUCHEN Smartes Material für überhitzte Städte
Workshopreihe in Kooperation mit dem Berliner Exzellenzcluster »Matters of Activity« und CollActive Materials im Futurium.
Architectured Materials Across Scales
Moderation, short presentation
The workshop includes renowned international speakers, as well as researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Potsdam, the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Actvity« as well as the weissensee school of art and design berlin.
Open Space – Active Matter on Stage
»Matters of Activity« is opening its doors during Berlin Science Week. The research project Architectural Yarns is part of the new Cluster showroom “Aktivarium”.
Image: dieangewandteSoft assemblies
Workshop with Lorenz Kuschnig / Popticum
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Textil - Freie, angewandte und experimentelle künstlerische Gestaltung, Prof. Ebba Fransén Waldhör, Manora Auersperg, Walter Lunzer, Kristoffer Stefan
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.
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© William VederInaugeration of Summer Pavillion
© William VederInaugeration of Summer PavillionBuild: Popticum has realised a summer pavilion for Kreativbund in Berlin, 2023
In collaboration with ARGE:3000 & Kristin Lazarova, with a landscape architecture by Johanna Bendlin. Client: Kompetenzzentrum für Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes
Textile Gestures: Mapping Tactile Practices with Architectural Yarns
with Maja Avnat
Hands-on workshop within Bauhaus Study Rooms “DesignActs: Gestures of Performative Research”, Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau, 2023
How do sensory and mechanical properties of a material interrelate and shift when processed manually? How can tactile knowledge influence performative research?
Book Release: Architectures of Weaving /From Fibers and Yarns to Scaffolds and Skins
Christiane Sauer / Mareike Stoll / Ebba Fransén Waldhör / Maxie Schneider (Hg.) Jovis Verlag
FIBROUS EXCHANGE
The Workshop FIBROUS EXCHANGE revisits the Work Exotica III by Ritzi Jacobi and takes inspiration for a transdisciplinary exchange between textile design, materials science and architecture.
Daoula Sheen
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.
Exhibition Design Lab #13 Material Legacies
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 is part of the exhibition.
Innovation Award - The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
2022 Award for Innovation
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.
Adaptex at Baunetz_Wissen
https://www.baunetzwissen.de/sonnenschutz/tipps/forschung/sonnenschutz-aus-formgedaechtnislegierungen-7851293
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?
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.
Aachen Dreden Denkendorf International Textile Conference, Best-Poster Award 2021
Fransén Waldhör E., Schneider M., Vongsingha P., Boxberger L., Sauer C., Denz P.R.: Weißensee School of Art and Design, DXM - Design and Experimental Material Research) Priedemann Facade-Lab GmbH, Fraunhofer IWU, ADAPTEX – Adaptive textile shading system for facades with integrated shape memory alloy (SMA)
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.
Symposium Architectures of Weaving
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.
Workshop at New Matrerialist Informatics Conference 2021
"Constraints as chance. On ontological prospects of material, instrumental and operational boundary conditions from design to science"
Frank Bauer, Maxie Schneider, Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material", HU Berlin, Germany
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.
Talk at Curvobio Conference 2021
Maxie Schneider, "Shape Memory Textiles for Adaptive Facades" at the Curvobio Conference
New European Bauhaus Nominee
“The Arch" is nominated a role model for Participatory Building Strategies by the new European Bauhaus.
Monopol-Talk 2021
Utopien in der Krise: Wie wollen wir leben
Conversation on Utopia - ideas from architecture, design and technology with Friedrich von Borries and Ji-Hun Kim, Julia Lohmann and Maxie Schneider. moderated by Elke Buhr, Silke Hohmann and Saskia Trebing.
Dutch Design Week
Adaptex presented at Dutch Design Week 2020
weißensee school of art and design berlin.
Natural High-tech
Workshop on natural high-tech fibrous materials 2020 at STFI Chemnitz
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.
Acadia Conference 2020
Paper presentation
“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)
Photography: Tiago CasanovaBienale Maja/Portugal
Handle with Air
Popticum colllective: M.Schneider, L. Skafte, M. Dietze, E. Vogler
Residency Paris 2019
Project: Hemisphere, 2019
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 at Les Grands Voisins.
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.)