Materials Matter: Introduction

Friedman, Michaël; Krauthausen, Karin

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“…This intertwinement allows for the presentation and control of objects and phenomena which are no longer part of untamed nature. This is the so-called "technoscientific turn" in knowledge production, which is massively affecting the bio-hybrid world of the 21 st century (Tamborini 2022a;Friedman andKrauthausen 2021, Daston andGalison 2007).…”

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Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections

Tamborini¹,

Datteri²

2022

Bioinspir. Biomim.

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In this paper, we ask one fairly simple question: to what extent can biorobotics be sensibly qualified as science? The answer clearly depends on what “science” means and whether what is actually done in biorobotics corresponds to this meaning. To respond to this question, we will deploy the distinction between science and so-called technoscience, and isolate different kinds of objects of inquiry in biorobotics research. Capitalising on the distinction between “proximal” and “distal” biorobotic hypotheses, we will argue that technoscientific biorobotic studies address proximal hypotheses, whilst scientific biorobotic studies address distal hypotheses. As a result, we argue that bioroboticians can be both considered as scientists and technoscientists and that this is one of the main payoffs of biorobotics. Indeed, technoscientists play an extremely important role in 21st-century culture and in the current critical production of knowledge. Today’s world is increasingly technological, or rather, it is a bio-hybrid system in which the biological and the technological are mixed. Therefore, studying the behaviour of robotic systems and the phenomena of animal-robot interaction means analysing, understanding, and shaping our world. Indeed, in the conclusion of the paper, we broadly reflect on the philosophical and disciplinary payoff of seeing biorobotics as a science and/or technoscience for the increasingly bio-hybrid and technical world of the 21st century.

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Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections

Tamborini¹,

Datteri²

2022

Bioinspir. Biomim.

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Metaphorical reactions in 1932: from the mathematical ‘crisis of intuition’ to ‘reconstruction in the exact sciences’

Friedman

2022

British Journal for the History of Mathematics

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Architectures of syntopia: An interdisciplinary speculative model for constructions with insect-infested wood

Asa,

Krauthausen,

Stock

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Based on a case study in Franconia, Germany, where beetle infestation of spruce trees is high, we present an interdisciplinary approach from materials science, cultural theory, and computational design to develop architectures for syntopic living. The term syntopy was coined by Luis René Rivas and describes “two or more related species inhabiting the same macrohabitat.” It is a combination of the Greek words syn* for together and *topos for place. Architectures of Syntopia aim to create spatial structures for humans that emanate from and are located in a specific place – a topos. They also include non-human species, creating what Anna Tsing describes as “multispecies worlds“. By interweaving methods from materials science and cultural theory with computational design, different speculative perspectives are developed on one and the same subject: the beetle infestation of the spruce.

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Materials Matter: Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

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Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections

Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections

Metaphorical reactions in 1932: from the mathematical ‘crisis of intuition’ to ‘reconstruction in the exact sciences’

Architectures of syntopia: An interdisciplinary speculative model for constructions with insect-infested wood

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