"dienstags um 6" mit Daniel Cardoso Llach
Sketches of a Future: Computational Design in Germany after 1950
In this talk I will draw on preliminary archival findings and oral historical encounters to
explore the postwar interplay computation and design in Germany. Building on my prior
work on the history of computational and computer-aided design in North America and the
UK, I will try to sketch how German researchers, government, and corporate actors
conceived and made meaning of computational ideas and methods in design contexts, and
how these histories might be situated within a broader, transnational context at the confluence
of Cold War politics, computing research, and a nascent neoliberal economic order.
Referent/Referentin
Daniel Cardoso Llach is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, United States,
where he teaches architecture and directs the Computational Design Laboratory. His research
combines methods from design, history, and science and technology studies to examine the
interplay of design and computation, and to develop post-disciplinary research and pedagogy
supporting critical technical practitioners and researchers. Daniel received a PhD and MS
from MIT, Cambridge, and holds a professional degree in architecture from Universidad de
los Andes, Bogotá. In 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge’s Martin
Centre in the UK, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Media
Cultures of Computer Simulation in Leuphana, Germany. He is currently at the Institute for
the History and Theory of Architecture at Leibniz Universität, Hannover as an Alexander Von
Humboldt Foundation fellow.
Termin
03. Jun. 202518:00 - 19:30
Ort
Fakultät für Architektur und LandschaftGeb.: 4201
Raum: C050
Hörsaal
Herrenhäuser Straße 8
30419 Hannover
