TUD Lectures
2023/2024 Winter Semester: United in Diversity - Perspectives on Inclusion and Successful Coexistence
The next round of the TUD Lectures is dedicated to various approaches to the topic of inclusion. This time, the TUD Lectures strive to illuminate the broad research spectrum of inclusion at TU Dresden in depth, but also from an unusual perspective.
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Inclusion at Daycare Centers! What’s the best way to ensure this?
In the project "Success! - Learning Together in and Striving to Promote Inclusive Conditions in Daycare Centers," technical students, teachers and researchers have experimented with a new learning principle for inclusion and worked together to develop it for the training of educators.
In essence, this learning approach involves the prospective educators visiting different daycare centers as researchers with their own questions on the topic of inclusion, conducting interviews or observations there, reflecting on the results in their research groups, and finally presenting their findings to the entire class.
The TUD Lectures will give you to a practical insight into the development and implementation of this learning principle. In the discussion that will follow, the opportunities and challenges in achieving inclusive daycare center will be explored from the perspective of the technical students, teachers and academic advisors.
Speakers:
Prof. Cornelia Wustmann (Chair of Counseling and Social Relations)
Mirjam Christ (PhD student at the Chair of Counseling and Social Relations)
Moderation: Sandra Siwek (Working Group Disabilities and Studies and SchauflerLab, TUD)
- October 18, 2023, 6:00 pm, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast, Schloßstr. 2, 01067 Dresden
Let's get inclusive!
Young companies are increasingly discovering the opportunities and potential of inclusion, digital accessibility and social participation. The possibility of easier communication and media use creates access for people with and without disabilities and opens up ways to circumvent economic, political and social exclusion.
This time, the TUD Lectures will discuss the activities of young spin-offs from TU Dresden, which deal specifically with the topic of inclusion.
Speakers:
Dr. Claudia Loitsch (a11y Design GmbH)
Juliane Heidelberger (VERSO Dresden gGmbH)
Moderation: Prof. Alexander Lasch (Chair of German Linguistics and Language History, TUD)
- November 29, 2023, 6:00 pm, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast, Schloßstr. 2, 01067 Dresden
Rethinking product design for all!
During the development process of products and applications, it is important to include the perspectives of as many users as possible. Often, people with special needs are left out, even though only small changes would make a significant difference.
The TUD Lectures will explore the question of how inclusive product design can be implemented as early as possible in the design process.
Speaker:
Prof. Sebastian Pannasch (School of Science)
Moderation: Sandra Siwek (Working Group Disabilities and Studies and SchauflerLab, TUD)
- December 13, 2023, 6:00 pm, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast, Schloßstr. 2, 01067 Dresden
Highly automated driving - inclusion in the field of mobility
Particularly in rural regions, highly automated driving offers many opportunities to participate in mobility. How should networks, infrastructures and vehicles be designed so that this can be implemented successfully?
The TUD Lectures are pleased to present several projects on highly automated driving with a focus on inclusion.
Speaker:
Dr. Steffen Kutter (Head of the Automated Driving Group, Chair of Vehicle Mechatronics and overall group leader of the ABSOLUT project)
Moderation: Sandra Siwek (Working Group Disabilities and Studies and SchauflerLab, TUD)
- January 17, 2024, 6:00 pm, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast, Schloßstr. 2, 01067 Dresden
What isn't inclusion, really?
The QuaBIS team ("Qualification of Education and Inclusion Advisors in Saxony") has been part of the teacher training program for general education schools (elementary school, middle school and high school) at TUD since 2019. As part of the educational sciences, people with disabilities actively teach seminars throughout an entire semester that correspond to the module regulations and impart their regular teaching content. In addition to teaching, the Education and Inclusion Advisors are also involved in research.
Education and Inclusion Advisors use their perspective to uncover barriers and mechanisms of exclusion that have not yet been (comprehensively) addressed.
We would like to work with you to challenge assumptions that are often associated with inclusion, look for ways to participate and show you how you can be involved.
You will be actively involved in searching and finding answers during our event and we are looking forward to your active and lively participation.
Speaker:
QuaBIS Team
Moderation: Sandra Siwek (Working Group Disabilities and Studies and SchauflerLab, TUD)
- February 7, 2024, 6:00 pm, place to be announced.
Accessibility information
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Our venues are always barrier-free.
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Registration and participation
Registration for the individual events is not necessary.
Each event is thematically independent. You are not required to attend the entire series of events to participate.
Background on the event series
In 2021, the Department of University Culture launched the TUD Lectures series in which experts from a broad range of disciplines at the TU Dresden examine current topics. In lectures of up to 1 1/2 hours, the experts present their knowledge in a transparent and understandable way. The TUD Lectures are addressed to the TUD community and all interested participants.
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