NEWS
JANUARY 2012
Deployable Getaway - Office - work envirnments - synergies between working in space and on earth interview with LIQUIFER Systems Group Waltraut Hoheneder, Kaspar Vogel and Barbara Imhof inthe magazine: "Architektur", IssueDec. 2011, page 55-59
LIQUIFER Systems Group is consortium member of FASTER - Forward Acquisition of Soil and Terrain for Exploration Rover
LIQUIFER Systems Group mentioned in "Space Architecture", an article by David A. Nixon, in the December issue of Aerospace Ameriac p.57 > download
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Podcast lecture
Barbara Imhof: Architecture beyond the Earth’s horizon
Barbara Imhof (Liquifer Systems Group, Vienna) discusses the past and future of architecture in outer space, and the challenges and opportunities of human habitation outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Symposium: "Wieviel Wissenschaft bekommt der Kunst?" / "How much science is conducive for the arts?"
Lecture invitation to present the arts-based resarch project: Biornametics
DECEMBER 2011
Review
Indian Architect & Builder - In the Realm of the Unknown - view pdf
LIQUIFER Systems Group, a multi-disciplinary design and development practice with offices in Mumbai and Vienna, develops RAMA < Rover for Advanced Mission Applications >; a mobile research laboratory to explore Moon and Mars.
Text: Ruturaj Parikh
Vol 24 (12) - Focus Extreme Architecture - understanding new territories - August 2011
NOVEMBER 2011
25.November 2011- OE 1 Radio 00:08
In den Himmel bauen. Die Weltraumarchitektin Barbara Imhof - Building into space
Moderation: Xaver Forthuber
16. November 2011
Frau der Schwerelosigkeit - Woman in zero-g
Newspaper: Der Standard about Barbara Imhof in the Section, architecture, science, space, human spaceflight
1.November 2011- International Space University
3-eyes ISU Magazine - Interview Barbara Imhof
Austrian Space Forum - BLOG
Interview ÖWF - Barbara Imhof
OCTOBER 2011
EXTENDED - RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications at the LOUSIANA - Museum of Modern Art Danmark
LIVING FRONTIERS OF ARCHITECTURE III-IV
1 June - 23 October 2011
Inspiring, surprising and thought-provoking. Louisiana's large-scale summer exhibition is full of impressions and insights into the multiple ways we live in the world today.
Az W - Architekturzentrum Wien
Sunday Excursion/designsafari 7
Su 9.10.2011, 13:45–18:00
Experts: Katharina Boesch, Christine Haupt-Stummer (section.a), Max Haupt-Stummer, Tine Link (section.d)/Anna Liska
(MAGAZIN)/ Barbara Imhof, Waltraut Hoheneder (LIQUIFER Systems Group) |Tour guide: Neigungsgruppe Design, Marion Kuzmany
20-ANNIVERSARY AUSTRO-MIR, 11.10.2011, 21:00 - 21:45, TV-BAYERN-ALPHA
- Barbara Imhof, LIQUIFER SYSTEMS GROUP
- Christian Feichtinger, INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION
- Franz Viehböck, BERNDORF AG
- Gernot Grömer, AUSTRIAN SPACE FORUM
FULL MOON SYMPOSIUM- 8 October 2011 (International Observe the Moon Night), from 11.00 – 18.00 hrs Host location: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Rozenstraat 59, Amsterdam Entrance: free
Organized by the Moon Life Foundation – an interdisciplinary platform initiated by Alicia Framis.The Full Moon symposium brings together scientists, architects, designers and artists to present and exchange their ideas, visions and designs for (daily) life on the Moon and in space.
Participants include:
DUS architects, Amsterdam
Edhv, graphic designers, Eindhoven
Alicia Framis, artistic director Moon Life Foundation, Amsterdam
Rob La Frenais, Arts Catalyst, UK
Liquifer Systems Group, Vienna
John Lonsdale, architect, UK/Amsterdam
Satyendra Pakhalé, industrial designer, India/Amsterdam
Tao Sambolec, artist, Slovenia/Amsterdam
Andreas Vogler, architect, Switzerland / Munich
SEPTEMBER 2011
LIQUIFER's travel kit to the Moon presented in MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE AMSTERDAM
Opening 17 September 2011
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JUne 2011
10.6.2011 _ ORF/Ö1 - 23.00-2.00
Jet Lag All Stars Radio Show - Dancing tango in space
Music, talk, essays
With the incredible Jet Lag All Stars: Robert Czepel, Rainer Elstner, Alexander Ach Schuh, Thomas Tesar, Elke Tschaikner und Klaus Wienerroither
Guests: Barbara Imhof, Rocio Murguia
06.6.2011 _OKTO -20.30
Yuri's Night and Day in Vienna,documentary by Maria Pflug Hofmayr
Polarstern Preis Award by OEWF to Barbara Imhof/LIQUIFER Systems Group
RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications at the LOUSIANA - Museum of Modern Art Danmark
LIVING - Frontiers of Architecture III and IV, 1 June - 2 Oct. 2011
MAY 2011
Monday 23.52011. 19.00-21.00 Biornametics - project presentation, discussion
University of Applied Arts Vienna - Institute of Architecture, Sliver Gallery
Discussion aim: Present different approaches to science-based design and foster a critical deba te about the value of incorporating findings from the life sciences into architectural design methodologies.
Participants:
- Greg Lynn, Professor, University of Applied Arts, University of California Los Angeles,
founder of Greg Lynn FORM
- George Jeronimidis, Biornametics team member, Professor, Centre of Biomimetics, Reading, UK, guest lecturer at the Architectural Association, London, UK
- Ille Gebeshuber, Biornametics team member, Professor, Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM, National University of Malaysia), permanent affiliation, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Technology, Vienna
- Georg Glaeser, Professor, Mathematics & Geometry, University of Applied Arts
- Arne Hofmann, Partner of Bollinger und Grohmann engineers
Moderators: Barbara Imhof, Petra Gruber
10.5. 17.30 RADIO ORANGE - Biornametics
Petra Gruber, Clemens Grünberger and Barbara Imhof present the project Biornametics on Radio Orange 94.0 - www.o94.at
April 2011
12.4.2011 Yuri's Night
Barbara Imhof/LIQUIFER Systems Group receives the Polar Stern Prize Award of the Austrian Space Forum for her more than 10-year-space-outreach activites
12.4.2011 17.40 Spring-time, ORF 2
Interview: Barbara Imhof about space architecture in the frame of the 50th Yuri Gagarin Anniversary
broadcasted by the Austrian national TV station ORF
8.4.2011 - FM 4 Radio Morning Show - 8.40am
Interview Barbara Imhof with Stewart Freeman about space architecture in the frame of the FM 4 space week
8.4.2011 - Architecture Center, Graz, Austria
Defining space - Tools for designing (positions from Canada and Austria)
Symposium and exhibitiion with Atelier Big City (Montreal), Atelier BUILD (Montreal), Susan Fitzgerald Architecture / Brian Fitzgerald Developments (Halifax), Richard Kroeker (Halifax), Liquifer Systems Group (Wien), MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited (Halifax), Renate Mihatsch (Graz/Wien), Patkau Architects (Vancouver), raumhochrosen (Bregenz), RVTR (Ann Arbor & Toronto), Saucier + Perrotte Architectes (Montreal), Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc. (Toronto), Szyszkowitz + Kowalski (Graz), tatanka ideenvertriebsgmbh (Mils), Urban Arts Architecture (Vancouver), Blanche + Sandy van Ginkel (Toronto), Weichlbauer Ortis (Frohnleiten)
March 2011
LECTURES by Barbara Imhof - Architecture Beyond the Earth's Horizon
14.3.2011 -Mc Gill University, School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada
15.3.2011 - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
FEBRUARY 2011
28.2.2011 - A Tale of Two Rockets - While ISRO works on maturing the GSLV technology, India should cash in on GSLV’s younger sibling - the successful and highly reliable PSLV - to compete in the international launch business.
An article bY Susmita Mohanty
20.2.2011 Moon Walker - Susmita Mohanty designs for future space explorers and lunar residents. And dreams of watching earth-rise and earth-set from the moon. Article in one of India's major newspapers The Sunday Express written by Kavitha Iyer Read more >
10.2.2011 - 19.00 hrs - "The Simonaut" exhibited at the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna in the frame of the symposium "Humans in Outer Space - Interdisciplinary Perspectives" at the occasion of the 48th Session of the UNCOPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommitte.
Review of Space Architecture Summit" article by Regina Peldszus in Stylus British internet magazine. Read more >
JANUARY 2011
Invited lecture "Architecture beyond the Earth's horizon" KEPLER SALON, Linz, Austria, moderator Iris Mayr , Monday 17.1.2011
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