DDc Blue Sky Lounges
DDc Blue Sky Lounge 2024
Knots in Art and Science
© Ronald Bonss
The Lipsiusbau in Dresden is an impressive building in the middle of Dresden’s old town. During the day, Dresden’s citizens and guests can visit the current special exhibition “Change will come” by the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD). The exhibition shows works by contemporary Polish artists and poses key questions about the relationship between art and society.
On the evening of November 13, 2024, the exhibition remained open to invited guests of the DDc Blue Sky Lounge. This annual event brings together scientific and cultural leaders from the DRESDEN-concept network with 40 partner institutions, thereby strengthening the links between the institutions. In discussions with selected speakers on interdisciplinary topics, participants receive impulses for new innovative research approaches.
The DDc Blue Sky Lounge took place for the third time this evening. Following Tasting and Smelling – a Culinary Science Evening in the Ernemannturm of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden) and Places and origins of our memory banks in the city archive of Dresden, this time the DDc Blue Sky Lounge was dedicated to knots in science and art. Maria Isserlis, the curator of the current exhibition in the Lipsiusbau, was invited to host the evening.
The idea of an interdisciplinary exchange on knots goes back to a get-together at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) around a year and a half ago. It was there that Professor Stephan Grill, Director and Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG, and Professor Marion Ackermann, Director General of SKD, met and got talking about knots: We encounter knots across scientific disciplines and they are always an expression of complexity. They cannot be solved using familiar methods: new approaches are needed to solve them, and it was precisely this aspect that made the topic suitable for the next DDc Blue Sky Lounge.
Professor Ackermann and Professor Grill were joined by Professor Axel Voigt, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at TUD, and Professor Doreen Mende, Head of the Research Department at SKD. Four leading experts from the fields of mathematics, biophysics and art were thus recruited for the evening, creating an evening full of exciting and unexpected perspectives on knots.
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
© Ronald Bonss
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DDc Blue Sky Lounge 2023
Mathias Fröck
Mathias Fröck
DDc Blue Sky Lounge in the City Archive Dresden
“Places and origins of our memory banks” was the theme of the second DDc Blue Sky Lounge on November 14, 2023. Prof. Dr. Mirko Breitenstein, research center for comparative history of religious orders (FOVOG, TU Dresden) and Dr. Stefan Dornheim, city archive Dresden served delicious samples of historical memory banks. At the second DDc Blue Sky Lounge, the two showed how exciting and inspiring inter-institutional historical science can be.
Mathias Fröck
DDc Blue Sky Lounge 2022
© Matthias Popp
© Matthias Popp
DDc Blue Sky Lounge in Ernemannturm: A Taste of Science
“Tasting and Smelling – a Culinary Science Evening” was the theme of the first DDc Blue Sky Lounge on November 24, 2022. Prof. Josef Matzerath (TU Dresden) and Dr. Susanne Menzel (Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden) served delicious samples of historical and current research in culinary science. At the first DDc Blue Sky Lounge, the two of them showed that culinary science is both interdisciplinary and inter-institutional.
© Matthias Popp
