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What happens when apps become our new urban architects? The reason we urgently need to modify the regulation of digital applications.

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Data protection
A society is more than the sum of its individuals

Facebook, Siri or Alexa – where artificial intelligence technology is concerned people often complain that there is insufficient protection of privacy. But intelligent systems are less interested in individual data than in generalising and standardising the life contexts they are automating.

Brick, concrete and timber: architect Florian Nagler and his team experimented with the construction of energy-efficient housing using standard materials as a basis, with three model buildings in Bad Aibling.

Photo (detail): © Sebastian Schels / PK Odessa

Climate-friendly building
Less is more

Sophisticated building technology and wall insulation have for some years been considered a panacea for reducing CO2 emissions in the building industry. But it doesn’t take much to construct houses with a good climate balance. Also in building the truth is: less is more.

7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration: Dennhäuser Strasse, a social sculpture by Joseph Beuys, presented in 1982 at the documenta 7 in Kassel

Photo (detail): Baummapper (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Joseph Beuys and the Will to Act
What if chopping down a tree were tantamount to murder?

Joseph Beuys was a multi-faceted artist whose ideas still have an impact today. We talked to a Beuys expert, Eugen Blume, about the artist’s interventions to promote the environmental movement and show us humans that every one of us can take action.

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Podcast Hiberno Goethe

This Podcast dives into the many colours of arts, language and life across cultures. St. Pauli fan and former Düsseldorfer Ciarán Murray and his guests explore the connecting moments of German and Irish life.

Robots in Residence

The Dublin residency of the Goethe-Institut's NAO robot has now concluded, where Irish artist David Beattie and coder Niamh Donnelly explored the robot's potential to learn how to touch and how to move its hands. See more about their project and about the robot's tour through Europe at the link below.

#FUTURENOW – SCHOOLS FOR SUSTAINIBILITY

How do people in different regions of Northwest Europe deal with the issue of "sustainability"? What are the similarities and differences? And, what can we learn from the example of others and adopt for our everyday lives? These are precisely the questions addressed by the project #FutureNow - Schools for Sustainability.

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CULTURE NIGHT 2021 @ GOETHE-INSTITUT IRLAND

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