Jan Teunen. Managing Director. A Patch of Cloud About Fragmentation and Wholeness

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1 Jan Teunen Managing Director A Patch of Cloud About Fragmentation and Wholeness Universities are worldly representatives of the universe. Because of globalisation and information technology many institutions are no longer connected to the cosmos and as a result not only those in charge, but also their students, find orientation difficult. Open spaces must be created as the precondition for clear-sighted progress and for the acceleration of the great worldwide change process. Students represent the future, and future artists and designers can play a leading role in the re-design of society, provided, of course, that they do not adopt the fragmentary thinking common in many universities. Breaking everything up is false; it is an incoherent way of thinking. Universities face a crossroads. Boundaries must be crossed. Hear! Hear! Jan Teunen left his native Netherlands to work in Germany. He founded Teunen Konzepte GmbH in 1991 to act as a Cultural Capital Producer helping companies to cultivate themselves and was dubbed Europe s Marketing Magician by ID magazine. Working for several international companies, he is passionate about creating a balance between economic and ethical responsibilities, convinced that without this equilibrium corporate culture cannot ensue. As editor or author of at least 20 books and publications he has been invited to speak at most of the leading European design schools. He has been a juror at many design competitions and was on ICSID s Roster of Experts (Design Promotion). He is a keen collector of contemporary art and also promotes and sponsors cultural activities.

2 Dr. Dr. Christian Berg Senior Researcher, Sustainability, SAP AG, Karlsruhe Networking as a syndrome Impacts of a global trend and implications for design Networking is one of the most important trends today. Mainly driven by technologies of transportation as well as information and communication, networks are present in almost every aspect of our lives. Globalization is one of the results. Networking sets the framework for rapid economic growth and increased mobility and trade, but also for an alarming degradation of the environment, for the depletion of resources, and for societal conflicts. Having presented some of these developments, the lecture will outline a few implications this might have for design. Christian Berg is Senior Researcher at the SAP AG, Germany. He explores the potential of IT solutions for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development. Previous assignments include the work as business consultant for CSR and the European leadership of an interdisciplinary academic programme. Christian Berg is a lecturer of environmental science at Clausthal University of Technology and a founding member of the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome. He holds degrees in physics, philosophy, theology, and engineering, and is author of several articles and books.

3 Prof. Dr. sc.hum.habil. Hans Peter Meinzer Dept. Medical and Biological Informatics German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg The Inside View The radiological data from Computer Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR), and even Ultrasound (US) are available as many parallel slices. These volumes today are presented as series of images in a light box. We will explain how the next generation of radiological software will present the real 3D/3D+t data volumes, thus facilitating diagnostics, surgery planning, and support the execution of minimally invasive surgery. While the problem of appropriate 3D visualization is solved, the difficulty of assigning pixels to entities like liver, lung, heart etc., is still challenging. Dr. Hans-Peter Meinzer is a professor at Heidelberg University and heads the department of Medical and Biological Informatics at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg. He did research on the simulation of complex (cell-)systems. His main interest is focused on the diagnostic analysis of Computer Tomographies (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR), and ultrasound (US). Using these radiological volumetric data he and his group segment and visualize the 3D/3D+t presentations of the internal objects in the body, i.e. liver, pancreas, lung, heart, brain etc. in support of the planning and execution of surgical procedures (navigated smart instruments).

4 Prof. Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart Institute for Social Sciences Department of Technological and Environmental Sociology Sustainable Development: The need for a synthesis of analysis, meaning and design There is now worldwide consensus that the world's economies and societies are in urgent need for a sustainable path of development. The question of how to initiate and implement such a transformation is still open. One of the main requirements for making sustainability the guiding principle of global development is trans-disciplinary cooperation among and between the sciences, humanities, and the creative arts. The synthesis of analytical insights, cultural reflection, and proactive design provides the basis for the creation of the knowledge necessary to facilitate the transition towards a sustainable path. This lecture will shed some light on the various options that promise to provide such a needed synthesis. Ortwin Renn is chairman of environmental sociology at Stuttgart University. He directs the Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Risk Governance and Sustainable Technology Development (ZIRN), University of Stuttgart, and the non-profit company DIALOGIK, a research institute investigating communication and participation processes in environmental policymaking. His doctorate in sociology and social psychology is from the University of Cologne and his career began at the National Research Centre, Julich. He has held professorships at Clark University (Worcester, USA) and the Swiss Institute of Technology (Zurich), and since 1997 has directed the Centre for Technology Assessment, Stuttgart. His primary interests are in risk governance, political participation, sustainable development, and technology assessment. He has published over 30 books and 200 articles.

5 Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer Transfer Centre for Neurosciences and Learning, Ulm Neuroscience und Creativity Creativity is like beauty you don t know what it is, but when it is there you see it immediately. There are many stories about creative moments, starting in Greece with Archimedes exclaiming Eureka to today s problem solvers whose creative solutions often appear without any effort while sleeping and dreaming. The brain appears to incubate problems and questions, work on them quietly and automatically, without conscious effort. This happens during sleep and dreaming, as studies of humans and rats demonstrate quite convincingly. Brain research started to focus on creativity only recently, and it is important that we keep going, not least because of our desire to be creative. Manfred Spitzer studied medicine, psychology, and philosophy in Freiburg, and with a doctorate in medicine and philosophy in Qualifying as a psychiatrist later, he was assistant medical director at the Psychiatric Clinic in Freiburg from Three research periods as visiting professor in Harvard and the University of Oregon established his work at the boundaries of neurobiology, psychology, and psychiatry. Since 1997 he has been medical director of the newly founded University Clinic for Psychiatry in Ulm, concentrating on cognitive neuroscience and the psychopathology of thinking, evaluating, learning, decision-making, and acting, using multimodal neuro-imaging to localize brain activity and pathological changes. As a member of the Education Board of Baden-Württemberg from , he founded the Transfer Centre for Neuroscience and Learning (ZNL), an institute for brain research and teaching in Ulm, in 2004.

6 Prof. Dr. Joachim Krausse Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Department of Design, Dessau Coming soon...

7 Joyce Palmer Director of the School of Design The Arts Institute at Bournemouth The Eternal Triangle A major factor in the success of design education and design practice is certainly the integration of expertise from various disciplines, creating a greenhouse effect, not by propagating one specific brand of activity but by crossfertilizing subject knowledge and expertise. In the UK, design education, design Industry and the government are currently engaged in a unique collaborative project to identify and analyze the key factors to ensure that buyers and consumers worldwide will view UK design education and design industry as the epicentre of high value creativity and design-led innovation. The eternal triangle is discovering a common language born of years of quality assurance reviews and audits to ensure and enhance standards in design education. Has the UK defined a European model for the sustainable future of design education and the design industry in a global economy? Is the eternal triangle the ideal partnership or is government the cuckoo in the nest? Joyce Palmer is currently Director of the School of Design at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, working in a European design industry context, leading a Design School, and participating in Government-led initiatives on the future potential of UK design in a global economy. She is the higher education representative on the Design Skills Advisory Panel of the Design Council and the Creative Cultural Skills Council, member of the Department of Trade and Industry s Cox Review on Creativity in Business, President of the Scientific and Technical Board of the International Project Centre (UN affiliation), Chair of the UK National Association of Silversmiths and Jewellers in Design Education, member of the German Fulbright Commission Design Panel, and with the UK Quality Assurance Agency, is a subject reviewer and member of the Subject Benchmark Group for Art and Design. She has presented and published many papers internationally on radical and innovative design.