Engineers deal with present issues in locations such as energy, the environment, nutrition and medication. Getting to grips with these problems typically requires interaction with others and vital reflection on one’s own habits in a broader social context. What’s more, practically every job advert for engineers expects creativity, however this is hardly ever taught at universities. At TU Dortmund University, this takes place in a distinct method the seminar “Engineering meets Art”. Together with peers from art and music, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer technology, and educational and rehab sciences, students from the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering produce artworks at the interface of art and engineering. In an innovative and interactive procedure, they recognize thematic overlaps and sound out esthetic techniques.
Bridges from the university into society
Thematically, the artworks originating from the seminar focus on both the very little and the large. Among other things, they permit us to experience what frequently remains concealed from us, either due to the fact that we can not view it with our own senses or because it escapes our attention. In this way, scientific and artistic work, which usually takes place behind closed lab and studio doors, becomes accessible. The students want to impart understanding and food for believed in addition to construct bridges from the university into society with their artworks, a few of which were established particularly to introduce primary school children to clinical phenomena in a playful method and influence 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 city community, in companies, and in society in basic,” says Dr. Maik Hester, who introduced the “Engineering meets Art” workshop in 2017 and has continued to lead it since then. What is on the other hand the sixth exhibition is now on display on the university’s City Campus at the Dortmunder U Center for Arts and Imagination until 12 October. Throughout this time, the work “The Unrepeatability Of The Minute”, which was likewise produced in the frame of the seminar, will be shown numerous times as part of the Fliegende Bilder video display at the center.
City School
TU Dortmund University, as a partner of the Dortmunder U Center for Arts and Creativity, offers regular insights into its research study and mentor on City School. Discussions and the exhibition area as an online forum for dialog offer the metropolitan neighborhood an opportunity to discover and talk about concerns and findings from scientific disciplines through various event formats.