Hello colleagues, collaborators and interested parties...

The Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Design and the Design Lab at the University of Sydney are performing an experiment regarding crowdsourced funding. We are attempting to raise $5,000+ in 90 days to secure funds for creating a book publication on biomimetics in interdisciplinary design. Please have a read, review our rewards, and contribute! Thank you! 

Dagmar Reinhardt | Martin Tomitsch | Lian Loke | Oliver Bown | Deborah Turnbull (The biome management committee)

Find out more about biome at: http://www.biome.cc/

About the book publication:  

The book will provide a discourse on natural paradigms as language shared in an interdisciplinary exchange between the fields of biology, mathematics, music, behavioural studies, engineering, interaction design and architecture. It will explore language, gesture, sound and form by interfacing and generating interdisciplinary exchanges between the respective fields.

The book will discuss interactive installations that are working with parametric formulas, algorithmic scripts, and processing codes to demonstrate how ­simple component rules that privilege the general over the specific can produce complex forms, behaviours, and phenomena. The book will also feature articles from the biome symposium (see below). 

Visit our biome exhibition: 

Digital Interdisciplinations — Prototypes: Prosthetics, Parasites recognises the transition that has occurred from our initial collective amazement with digital technology towards a more nuanced fascination with the potential for new relationships it generates. The exhibition focuses on the delicacies of these relationships – are these symbiotic, prosthetic or parasitic? What happens in a digitally enhanced responsive environment, when mutual dependencies develop on a temporal individual basis? What happens when, as David Rokeby suggests, the interactive part becomes as much a material for designing as matter itself?

Opening Night: Thu, August 9, 2012, 6pm
The exhibition runs from August 10 to September 8, Tue-Fri, 10-5pm
Tin Sheds Gallery, 148 City Road, The University of Sydney NSW 2006

Be part of the symposium: 

The symposium involves talks and panel discussions that engage in conversations exploring a mathematical language (code, script, parameter, algorithm) as a natural paradigm, and how to transfer this language into and out of the diverse fields of biology, mathematics, music, behavioural studies, engineering, interaction design and architecture.

August 18, 2012, 10-5pm

Related links: 

Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning: http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/
Design Lab: http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/research/research_deslab.shtml
Tin Sheds Gallery: http://tinsheds.wordpress.com
New Media CurationL www.newmediacuration.com