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LILO VIEHWEG
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Situated Knowledges of Complex Matter - PhD Research since 2021 Upcoming: Crafting Mountains from Dusty Tales, reading and exhibition, Crafting Futures Lab, ArsElectronica Linz 2026 Upcoming: Talk "Thinking like a Rock", panel contribution for "The Rock, the Fish and the Disaster: Histories of More-than-Human Design" panel with Tania Messell and Malin Graesse, Design History Society, MUNI Arts, Department of Art History, Brno, 2026 Craft in the periphery – Navigating disobedience in Estonian design education, article "Schools of Departure" e-journal #5 with Triin Jerlei, 2026 "The Library of Imaginary Books" Teaching seminar MA Industrial Design ZHdK, 2025 Making Design Research Awkward Yet Partially Connected, Neuwerkmagazin #11, Journal for Design Studies, Burg Giebichenstein Halle 2025 A Mountain of Words Unspoken, article, In: Imagination as a Site of Struggle, Brand-New-Life Magazine, Basel 2025 Schools of Departure a Digital Atlas of Design and Art Education beyond the Bauhaus - Team Research and Writings 2019-2022 “Empathy & Care” panel moderation with speakers Elena Falomo, Hira Rasool, Randi Rojas Díaz, Valena Ammon, Alexandra Liakhavets, Bauhaus Study Rooms, 2025 Untouched Design Histories of a Crystalline Modernity, text for Leida Journal, Issue #5 - Stubborn Compromises in Production, Estonian Academy of the Arts, 2024 Talk, Mesh Festival Basel, 2024 Conversation format with Marisol de la Cadena hybrid at the Critical Media Lab Basel, organized with Gabriela Aquije Zegarra, Roberta Burchardt and Guillemette Legrand, 2024 This is…An Introduction to many Introductions to Crystals of Power, artist book 1st edition at Crafting Futures Lab, ArsElectronica Linz, 2024 Colloquium host with guests Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström at the Critical Media Lab Basel, 2024 "Awkward Relations between Materials Science and Design", Talk, Burg Giebichenstein 2024 Cutting, Grinding, Dissolving and Growing Borders in the Assembly Line of Knowledge Production, conference paper, Design History Society, UCA Canterbury UK 2024 Workshop, Design Promoviert Colloquium, HfG Offenbach 2024 The Archive of Awkward Relations and Partial Connections of Complex Matter at Crafting Futures Lab, ArsElectronica 2023 The Archive of Awkward Relations and Partial Connections of Complex Matter at Crafting Futures Lab 2023 The Archive of Awkward Relations and Partial Connections - Research since 2020 Co-Curation "Engaging with Dirt" Bauhaus Study Rooms, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation 2022 Co-Curation "Engaging with Dirt - Thinking Design beyond Cleanliness", Bauhaus Study Rooms Festival, 2022 Crystalline Coexistences - Workshop, Masterstudio Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel 2022 "Modes of Collectivity in Materials Research" talk, dgtf conference Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design 2022 My Kitchen is neither a Clean Room nor a Mountain - Research since 2021 What is Civic Furniture? - Writing for CIVIC gallery space at HGK Basel 2022 Oscillating Bodies - Workshop, Crafting Futures Lab, ArsElectronica Linz 2022 Oscillating Bodies - Mapping Piezoelectricity, Crafting Futures Lab, ArsElectronica Linz 2022 Tracing Minerals - Fieldwork since 2021 Co-Curation "Challenging Infrastructure Modernism", Bauhaus Study Rooms Festival,  2021 Material als Experiment - Writing /chapter contribution, transcript publishers 2020 Talk "Piezo Fragments" Salon for Open Secrets, MZ* Baltazar's Laboratory Vienna, 2021 Data Transfer - Workshop, Artwork and Writing, State Art Collection and Academy of Arts Dresden 2020/2021 Decoding Recoding - Workshop at the National Archaeology Museum Matera, Italy with the Critical Zones Study Group of ZKM Karlsruhe 2019 Forms of Togetherness - Artwork and Writing for De/posium 2020 Co-curation and writing, Slovak Design Center, Banská St A Nica Gallery, MAK Vienna - De/posium 2019 In-Between De/posium - Co-Curation Workshop and Exhibition, Banská St A Nica Gallery, 2019 The Disassembly Line - Workshop, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin 2019 Localities and Materialities of Care - Writing / chapter contribution, Lancaster University 2019 Material Codes - Installation, Institute of Physics, Humboldt University Berlin with Kleine Humboldt Galerie 2019 Anthropocene Fossils - Workshop, Institute of Physics Humboldt University Berlin with Kleine Humboldt Gallery 2019 "Material Codes" Installation and workshop for Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Institute of Physics Humboldt University Berlin, 2019 "Matters of Sustainability", Hurra Hurra Festival panel host with speakers Amelie Klein, Arianna Nicoletti and Mareike Gast, 2019 Talk, In the Midl Forum, Bratislava Design Week 2019 Talk, Panel Innovative Materials, Changing Values Conference, MAK & Architekturzentrum Wien, 2019 Material as Experiment - Past Present Future - Co-Curation Workshop and Exhibition, Material Archiv ZHdK 2018 Disassembling Technological Materials - Research, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin 2019 smart materials satallites - Research 2016-2018 Sensing Materials Lab - Installation and Workshops, Werkbund Archiv Museum der Dinge Berlin 2018 Material as Experiments - Co-Curation Experimental Laboratory, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation 2017 "Sensing Materials Lab" installation for the exhibition "The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the History of Sexuality" at the Werkbund Archiv - Museum of Things, Berlin, 2018 Sensing Materials Lab - Installation and Workshops, Werkbund Archiv Museum der Dinge Berlin 2018 Sensing Materials Lab - Installation and Workshops, Werkbund Archiv Museum der Dinge Berlin 2018 Co-curation experimental laboratory, Technische Sammlung Dresden, 2018-2019 Material as Experiment - Documentation and Interview, Spector Books 2017 Dust to Dust - Research on Crafting Sands and Soils, 2012-2019 Material as Experiment - Co-curation Experimental Laboratory, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation 2017 Dust to Dust - Research on Crafting Sands and Soils, 2012-2019 Minerals and Crystals Historiography, Archival Work, Geoscientific Collection, Bergakademie Freiberg, 2017 Smart Materials - Fieldwork on Materials Scientific Design Processes, Ruhr University Bochum 2017 Feeling Rocks, Minerals and Crystals Historiography, Archival Work, Geoscientific Collection, Bergakademie Freiberg, 2017 Dust to Dust - Research on Crafting Sands and Soils, 2012-2019 Dust to Dust - Research on Crafting Sands and Soils, 2012-2019 Smart Materials - Fieldwork on Materials Scientific Design Processes, Ruhr University Bochum 2017 Dust to Dust - Research on Crafting Sands and Soils, 2012-2019 Forst 1844-2008 - Research on Craft Histories in a Post-Industrial Border City in East Germany, 2008 Tabu - Research on Tacit Politics in Industrial Design, Writings and Artworks 2013