Engineers tackle existing problems in locations such as energy, the environment, nutrition and medicine. Getting to grips with these concerns often requires interaction with others and critical reflection on one’s own habits in a more comprehensive social context. What’s more, nearly every job advert for engineers expects creativity, however this is seldom taught at universities. At TU Dortmund University, this occurs in a distinct method the seminar “Engineering fulfills Art”. Together with peers from art and music, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer technology, and instructional and rehab sciences, trainees from the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering produce artworks at the interface of art and engineering. In a creative and interactive process, they recognize thematic overlaps and sound out esthetic methods.
Bridges from the university into society
Thematically, the masterpieces stemming from the seminar focus on both the very small and the large. To name a few things, they permit us to experience what often stays surprise from us, either due to the fact that we can not view it with our own senses or because it leaves our attention. In this method, scientific and artistic work, which usually happens behind closed laboratory and studio doors, ends up being accessible. The students wish to impart knowledge and food for thought in addition to build bridges from the university into society with their art work, a few of which were developed specifically to present elementary school kids to scientific phenomena in a playful method and inspire them toward science.
“The interdisciplinary dialog in our seminar can serve as a plan for productive interaction outside one’s own discipline, for example in the university or metropolitan neighborhood, in business, and in society in general,” states Dr. Maik Hester, who released the “Engineering fulfills Art” workshop in 2017 and has continued to lead it ever since. What is meanwhile the 6th exhibition is now on display screen on the university’s City Campus at the Dortmunder U Center for Arts and Creativity until 12 October. During this time, the work “The Unrepeatability Of The Moment”, which was likewise produced in the frame of the workshop, will be revealed a number of times as part of the Fliegende Bilder video display at the center.
City Campus
TU Dortmund University, as a partner of the Dortmunder U Center for Arts and Creativity, provides routine insights into its research study and teaching on City School. Discussions and the exhibition space as a forum for dialog use the city neighborhood an opportunity to learn more about and discuss questions and findings from scientific disciplines through various occasion formats.