PR of CRC/TRR 280
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Report from the annual report 2023
Nature + concrete
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Carbon-reinforced concrete shell of third place winner Anja Schubert
One main focus of the TRR 280’s public relations work in 2023 was the organization, execution and communication of various competitions related to the Transregio’s research content. By far the most successful was the art project “DISCOVERY – Visualizing a symbiosis, NATURE + CONCRETE”. The aim of the competition was to show that carbon-reinforced concrete, as a product of science and technology, has diverse relationships with art and nature. What becomes visible, what remains hidden to the researcher and what to the outsider? How can nature and carbon-reinforced concrete be combined as an art object?
The Transregio 280 was the awarding authority for this public competition. The aim was to discover ideas and designs that promise a visionary use of concrete or carbon-reinforced concrete. No specific design objects were specified in the competition. The artistic technique as well as the context of the design were freely selectable. The convincing execution of the design and its creativity were decisive for the jury’s decision.
The response to our call for ideas was very positive. We received a total of 24 submissions from all over Germany. The spectrum ranged from photography and painting to sculptural objects and video installations. The submitted works were discussed and rated by an independent jury. The three winners were awarded work contracts to turn their competition ideas into real objects. They received significant support from colleagues of the Institutes of Structural Concrete and Textiltechnik at RWTH Aachen University. First place winner Ekkehard Neumann (Münster) explored the material possibilities of carbon-reinforced concrete with his sculpture “Leporello”. Heinke Haberland from Düsseldorf created 3D hyperbolic geometries called “Fibonaccibikini”. Anja Schubert, also from Düsseldorf, has long been working with filigree “shells” in various scales and has now realized them in carbon-reinforced concrete.
The realized winning objects and all submissions as posters were presented at the autumn meeting of the Transregio and subsequently to the general public during an exhibition in Aachen’s Annahalle. The competition catalog, which was compiled in parallel, is available on Qucosa®.
Report from the annual report 2022
Research is exciting!
![Concrete ART Project at the Dresden Youth Art School in the summer holidays 2022](https://tu-dresden.de/bu/bauingenieurwesen/imb/ressourcen/bilder/bilder-forschung/crc/aktualisierung2022/2022-OE.jpg/@@images/1eaf79df-7f0e-4e30-9c4f-96db2b45f19d.jpeg)
Beton KUNST Projekt an der JugendKunstschule Dresden in den Sommerferien 2022
The overarching goal of the public relations subproject is to make the innovative research of the CRC/Transregio 280 visible and tangible for a broad interested public. The CRC’s research questions touch on current issues in construction that affect almost every area of life. Building concerns everyone. Think of the necessity of providing socially acceptable living space or of building facilities for supply and mobility, or of the global consequences of construction for the environment and climate. It therefore hits a nerve in the current social discourse when the opportunities and potentials of sustainable construction with carbon reinforced concrete are presented in all its facets in a generally understandable way.
The focus of public relations work is therefore on preparing the objectives and research results of the CRC/TRR in a way that is appropriate for the target group and transporting them to the public via various media and by various ways. Vision, association and communication are the three basic elements of the conceptual work. Recognizing and reflecting should encourage active participation, because the sustainable building of tomorrow cannot be realized in research alone. For practical implementation, it needs the acceptance and cooperation of society.
In 2022, the bilingual website was extensively expanded. In addition, the presence on relevant social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram was intensified. Short tweets, pictures and videos regularly report on special CRC activities there. The shooting at the two sites Dresden and Aachen also made significant progress. The short video clips about every subproject, which are available on the CRC homepage, are intended to provide a low-threshold access to the research topics.
The highlight was the Concrete ART Project during the summer holidays. Our partners were the Dresden Youth Art School and the Bleiberger Fabrik in Aachen. For one week each, pupils aged between 8 and 14 were encouraged to learn about the many different facets of (carbon reinforced) concrete and create their own objects from the material. The program was complemented by doctoral students from the participating institutes with short and informative lectures about the building material.