This conference presetned resaerch around biodiversity and bimomimetic materials. We attended with our AA students, and it was also aimed at introducing the site in Simrishamn that some of our students will use.
While there were interesing presentations put forward, and certainly key people presetn, I was very much annoyed in the way the event was moderated. There seemed to be an importance to simplify issues, which really became absurd when evernyone was asked to give their 10 year prediction, during which the key note speaker was cut off and really humiliated.
There was a group if high school students from Sirmishamn present, and I understand the puropse of this to really involve local people, probably a good strategy to choose high school students for this. Strangely enough, neither our AA students nor our allies in the Performative Design studio (run by Ulrika Karlsson and Marcelyn Gow) were acknowledged in the presentations. We have been in contact with Mats brodén, the organizer, ofr over a year around these issues, and our aim is to continue this collaboration.
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