Program

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November 27

17.00 – 21.00	Come together and Welcome Party Opening of the Ambience'11 exhibition at the Museum of Textile History
November 28
	Exhibition open from 12.00
9.00 – 11.00	Welcome and Key Notes Chair: Heikki Mattila WELCOME – Björn Brorström, Rector at the University of Borås KEY NOTE I – The Power of Things Alex Adriaansens Director, V2 Labs, Rotterdam KEY NOTE II – What´s New About Material Thinking? Nancy de Freitas Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Material Thinking Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
	Refreshments
11.30 – 13.00	Session I DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Chair: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen – Material Simulation INTERACTION DESIGN Chair: Lars Hallnäs – Care and Textiles
	LUNCH
14.30 – 16.00	Session II SMART TEXTILES Chair: Marion Ellwanger – Textile Sensores and Knitting NEW MEDIA ART / INTERACTION DESIGN Chair: Johan Öberg – Culture, Interventions and Storytelling
	Refreshments
16.30 – 18.00	Session III SMART TEXTILES Chair: Sabine Seymour – Color Changes SMART TEXTILES / INTERACTION DESIGN / NEW MEDIA ART Chair: Sarah Kettley – Interactive Artefacts, Complexity
19.00 - 22.00	Buffet Dinner at the Museum of Textile History Electronica Concert Alvin Lucier – I am sitting in a room Syntjuntan – Textile Synthesizer Concert
November 29
	Exhibition open from 12.00
9.00 – 10.00	Key Note Chair: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen KEY NOTE III – Between Architecture and Science: Material Analogs Jenny E. Sabin Department of Architecture, Cornell University
	Refreshments
10.30 – 12.00	Session IV DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Chair: Jenny E. Sabin – Material Design
	Lunch
13.30 – 15.00	Session V SMART TEXTILES Chair: Carole Collet – Textiles and Architecture
	Refreshments
15.30 – 17.30	Session VI SMART TEXTILES / INTERACTION DESIGN Chair: Johanna Kint – Materiality and Craft INTERACTION DESIGN / NEW MEDIA ART Chair: Gunnar Sandin – Body and Space
19.00 – 21.30	Conference dinner at the City Hall Hosted by the City of Borås Performance - Directed by Ulrik Martin Larsen
22.00 –	Party at The Swedish School of Textiles
November 30
	Exhibition open 12.00 – 18.00
9.00 – 10.30	Panel discussion Technology, Material Thinking, Craft – revisiting Modernism? Moderator: Johan Öberg Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts University of Gothenburg Participants: Jenny Sabin Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen Alex Adraansens Lars Midböe Nancy de Freitas Clemens Thornquist
	Refreshments
11.00 – 13.00	Session VII DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Chair: Paul Nicholas – Active Materials and Calculating Geometry SMART TEXTILES / NEW MEDIA ART Chair: Sara Robertson – Movement and Performativity
	Lunch
14.30 – 16.00	Session VIII EXHIBITION SESSION Chair: Clemens Thornquist