How do you translate complex phenomena from biotechnology so that everyone can understand them? Prof. Dr Falk Hillmann, Faculty of Engineering, posed this question so that his fellow professor Tom Hanke, Faculty of Architecture and Design, could in turn pass it on to students on various degree courses at his faculty. During the 2024/25 winter semester, the "MikroMesoMakro" project course presented ideas for depicting the movement, shape and chemical communication of single-celled organisms and fungi.
The designs ranged from luminous fruiting bodies or amoebae made of glass or porcelain, slime mould colonised façades made of stucco to the translation of chemical signals into a kinetic sclupture or amoeboid movement as a floating drop of magnetic liquid.
The versatile designs were presented at the Department of Mechanical Engineering/Process and Environmental Engineering on the island of Poel and will be on display again this summer at the Faculty of Architecture and Design's annual exhibition "DIA" in Wismar. Together with the students, professors Falk Hillmann and Tom Hanke are also planning to realise selected designs for presentation on the Poel campus.
