From C for concrete 3D printing to K for knowledge kiosk A review of the Digitaltag 2022 at TU Braunschweig
“Digital participation in the city of the future”: This was the motto of the Digitaltag on 24 June 2022 at Technische Universität Braunschweig. In cooperation between the Transfer- und Kooperationshaus (Transfer and Cooperation House), the research focus “Future City” and the City of Braunschweig, a programme was offered that enabled to experience digitisation. At the Digital Building Fabrication Laboratory (DBFL), for example, students were able to learn about the process of concrete 3D printing and find out what new digital professions are currently emerging. In the LegoLab, visitors brought robots to life and in the SpACE Lab, participants went in search of a dinosaur in a virtual reality experiment. Our review in pictures:
Houses from the 3D printer? Pupils were able to experience how such a technology is developed and how its further development is being researched during a visit to the Digital Building Fabrication Laboratory (DBFL). Photo credit: Janna Vollrath/TU Braunschweig
Fun with technology: Students were able to learn about digital technologies in the construction industry and the new career opportunities offered by digitalisation during their excursion to the Collaborative Research Centre Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC). Photo credit: Janna Vollrath/TU Braunschweig
Programming with fun: In the LegoLab, the participants of the Digitaltag got a playful insight into computer science. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
The robots were "brought to life" in the LegoLab! Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
Live from the Computer Science Centre, Professor Sándor Fekete hosted a diverse digital programme. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
In addition to virtual sightseeing flights and exciting videos on new developments in research and teaching, there was also a live lecture on "Digitalisation: Curse or Blessing?". Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
The SpACE Lab team invited visitors to a virtual reality experiment in the Architecture pavilion in which they had to go in search of a dinosaur. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
In the knowledge kiosk, the focus was on the visitors' questions to science on "sustainability". Along the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN), questions were collected and assigned to the different goals. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
The dictionary of bottom-up participation was presented in a video that provides the terms and the explanation in sign language. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
The knowledge kiosk also provided information on how to get involved in sustainability projects via the platform "Sandkasten". Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
In the 5G Forum, visitors were able to experience up close, among other things, use cases of the 5G real lab such as the ECG waistcoat. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig
Analysis of the data from the ECG waistcoat. Visitors were able to get involved in the 5G real lab, which investigates the possible applications of 5G mobile technology in the context of a smart region or smart city. Photo credit: Max Fuhrmann/TU Braunschweig