PhD program in cooperation with SUPERFLEX, Jordan Lab MPI and Alligator Head Foundation
Photo: David Lee, F-Stop Movies.
Photo: David Lee, F-Stop Movies.
Photo: David Lee, F-Stop Movies.
TBA21–Academy
Residencies
Research
TBA21–Academy, Jordan Lab at Max Planck Institute and SUPERFLEX have designed a PhD programme based within the Integrative Field Biology Lab at the Max Planck Institute Department of Collective Behaviour, bringing together expertise from architecture, conservation policy, art, and science. Working between the MPI Institute in Konstanz, Germany and SUPERFLEX studio in Copenhagen, Denmark, the programme is situated within the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology, with extended periods of fieldwork at the Alligator Head Foundation in Jamaica.
Studying the way the social lives of marine fish are mediated by the physical structures they inhabit, this PhD project conducted by Anja Wegner will first examine how the structure and arrangement of natural corals facilitate and mediate social behaviour, and will extend to more derived and artistic structures as the project develops. Ultimately, the project hopes to answer questions at the interface of human and non-human centred design.
The field-based project includes observations and experiments conducted with SCUBA employing underwater videography in marine and freshwater environments over long fieldwork periods, drawing on machine-learning based animal tracking, behavioural decomposition, and social network analysis.
During the first research trip to the Alligator Head Foundation in November 2019, SUPERFLEX's Pink Elements were placed on the seafloor. Within hours, Tobacco Basslets had taken up residence on the structure, exploring the tunnels, caves, and other shelters it provided. Using machine-learning-based 3D tracking, the team will monitor the ways how various species use natural and constructed elements of their physical environment.
Studying the way the social lives of marine fish are mediated by the physical structures they inhabit, this PhD project conducted by Anja Wegner will first examine how the structure and arrangement of natural corals facilitate and mediate social behaviour, and will extend to more derived and artistic structures as the project develops. Ultimately, the project hopes to answer questions at the interface of human and non-human centred design.
The field-based project includes observations and experiments conducted with SCUBA employing underwater videography in marine and freshwater environments over long fieldwork periods, drawing on machine-learning based animal tracking, behavioural decomposition, and social network analysis.
During the first research trip to the Alligator Head Foundation in November 2019, SUPERFLEX's Pink Elements were placed on the seafloor. Within hours, Tobacco Basslets had taken up residence on the structure, exploring the tunnels, caves, and other shelters it provided. Using machine-learning-based 3D tracking, the team will monitor the ways how various species use natural and constructed elements of their physical environment.