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SUMMARY:NERD 7th Heaven – New Experimental Research in Design  (November 
 6–7\, 2025\, Berlin)
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DESCRIPTION:This year&rsquo\;s NERD Conference\, organized by BIRD &ndash\;
  the Board of International Research in Design will take place at New 
 Practice / MA Design and Computation\, Technische Universit&auml\;t Berlin
  &amp\; Berlin University of the Arts on November 6&ndash\;7\, 2025. 
 Conference Website: https://www.newpractice.net/nerd-7th-heaven BIRD 
 Website: https://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org 
 REGISTRATION: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/boardofinternationalrese
 archindesign/1786225 Venue Alter Lesesaal / New Practice TU Berlin Main 
 Building Stra&szlig\;e des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Directions PROGRAMME 
 Day 1 / 6 November 2025 10:00 Registration snf Coffee 10:30 Introduction 
 Welcome: Albert Lang (New Practice) &amp\; Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New 
 Practice) Opening Address: Wolfgang Jonas (BIRD) 11:00 INTELLIGENT 
 IMAGINATIONS Chair: t.b.d. Co-Desirable AI Futures Freyja van den Boom 
 (University of Antwerp) Real\, False-Worlds: Using a Truth Hidden at the 
 Centre of Generative AI Image-Making for Design and Speculative World-
 Building David Normington (The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design
  in Wroclaw) 12:30 Lunch Break 13:45 INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS Chair: 
 Tom Bieling (BIRD / HfG Offenbach) Designing the Small Democracy of 
 Rathlin Island Brian Morgan (Belfast School of Art) Institutional 
 Disorientations: Spirallings of a Design Practice within Entrenched 
 Infrastructures Isabella Brandalise (Monash University\, Australia) 15:15 
 Coffee Break 16:00 ECOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS Chair: Michelle Christensen 
 (BIRD / TU Berlin / UdK Berlin) New Weather TV: Towards Ecological 
 Imaginaries and Realities of the Mainstream Weather Report Simone 
 Fehlinger (Saint-&Eacute\;tienne School of Art and Design / University of 
 Strasbourg / University of Potsdam) Seed\, Potato\, Pixel: Exploring 
 Interspecies Relations between Ants\, Humans\, and Algorithms Lilli-Chiara
  Kurth / Alessandro Mac-Nelly / Mika Zo&eacute\; Rosenberg / Max Baraitser
  Smith (Berlin University of the Arts / Technische Universit&auml\;t 
 Berlin) 17:30 Short Break 17:45 BIRD Book Launch: &lsquo\;NERD III&rsquo\;
  &amp\; &lsquo\;Nutzen statt Besitzen &ndash\; revisited&rsquo\; 18:00 
 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Manifesto Madness Peter Friedrich Stephan (Academy of 
 Media Arts Cologne) Day 2 / 7 November 2025 09:30 Coffee 09:45 Short 
 Introduction to the Day 10:00 POST/DIGITAL PARADIGMS Session Host: Marc 
 Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice) Postdigital Neobaroque (PDNB): A Plurivocal 
 Architectural Design Research Project Marjan Colletti (University of 
 Innsbruck) What Even is Design(ed) in Generative World Models? Extending 
 The Interactive Paradigm of Computation Lars Pinkwart (University of 
 Zurich / Zurich University of the Arts) 11:30 Coffee Break 12:00 EMBODIED 
 ENCOUNTERS Session Host: t.b.d. Grasping Knowledge: Designing Tangible 
 Devices for Gesture-Based Inquiry Fabiana Marotta / Lorenzo Esposito 
 (University of Naples Federico II) 12:45 Lunch Break 14:00 Decentered 
 Discourses Session Host: Uta Brandes (BIRD) Democracy by Design? Exploring
  the Political Potentials of Design Theory for Democratic Innovation Felix
  Kosok (German International University\, Berlin) Designs from Southwomen:
  Historicizing Ecuadorian Women&rsquo\;s Lifeworlds Ana Bel&eacute\;n 
 Palacios (Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW / University of Arts Linz) 
 Omitted Needless Words Evija Kri&scaron\;topane (Synstitute\, Amsterdam) 
 16:15 Closing Discussion 17:00 End of Conference Admission to the 
 conference will be free of charge. Pre-registration (required for planning
  reasons): see above The conference will be held in English. We are 
 pleased to present the books &lsquo\;NERD &ndash\; New Experimental 
 Research in Design III &ndash\; Positions and Perspectives&rsquo\; and 
 &lsquo\;Nutzen statt Besitzen &ndash\; revisited&rsquo\; at the 
 conference. Conference Website: https://www.newpractice.net/nerd-7th-
 heaven BIRD Website: https://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org
  
LOCATION:Berlin\, Germany
PRIORITY:5
URL:https://www.designresearchsociety.org:443/events/nerd-7th-heaven-new-
 experimental-research-in-design-november-67-2025-berlin
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