Date: 17 July – 26 October 2018                                                                                                 Place: Foyer Biology, Zellescher Weg 20b

In the context of the Bionics FLiK module which was coordinated by the Centre of interdisciplinary Learing and Teaching, TU Dresden students researched in nine groups biological structures and material in order to transfer their functional principles in technical use. The students had been coached by a team of lectureres contributing ideas of engineering, mathematic, biology and architecture. The interdisciplinary exchange clearly illustrated which opportunities and limits exist to create modules from nature and transfer them into technical useful construction.

The poster and 3D-model-presentation of all results was the official final of the FLiK module. Within the module, students had the opportunity to do research on their own, to get an insight into interdisciplinary thinking beside their own field of study and to run through all steps of a research process: From the analysis of  bionic principles, brainstorming and transfer to production. The presentation of the results also pointed out how important it is to break up with initially made presuppositions.

The exhibition presented:

• an anchorage based on the principles of growth of bulb roots
• a bionic bivouac
• a shadowing similiar tot he princip of insect wings
• a lighting solution based on the woodlouse’s protective armour
• a construction robot influenced by spiders
• eine mathematische Modellierung des Wachstums von Seerosen
• a mathematic modeling based on the growth of lilies
• two bionic solutions to recover water.

The following lecturers had been in charge of the FLiK research workshop:

• Prof. Maik Gude (Module Coordinator, Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology)
• Prof. Christoph Neinhuis and Dr. Thea Lautenschläger (Biology)
• Prof. Daniel Lordick (Mathematics)
• Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Wiesenhütter (Architecture)
• Dr. Klaus Klass (DRESDEN-concept-Partner: Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen)
• Dr. Andreas Kempe und Andreas Wilde (research assistants).