RETHINKING CREATIVITY Media Kit

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Image: ETH Zurich / Frank Hyde-?Antwi, Pierre Rebetez

Welcome to the media / press kit for the RETHINKING CREATIVITY interactive exhibition demonstrating the interface of science and creativity. The exhibition of cutting-edge ETH Zurich research takes place in Davos, Switzerland alongside the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, 21 - 24 January 2020. We invite you to stop into the exhibition, which takes place outside the secure zone of the Forum. Researchers will be available to demonstrate and talk about their work. You are welcome to film, photograph, write, and have lunch / coffee in the Tastelab café/restaurant.

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external page ETH Global Flickr - Event and exhibition images in the ETH Zurich Meets Davos albums should be credited to "ETH Zurich / Andreas Eggenberger."

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CONCRETE CHOREOGRAPHY

Emerging digital technologies usher in a contemporary design - a new column order. With 3D print technologies enable bespoke designs using minimal resources.

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Concrete Choreography

DO YOU SPEAK QUANTUM?

Quantum physics is unlike anything we experience in our daily life. To grasp the rules of quantum mechanics, it is necessary to abandon the human intuition - limited by our senses - and dive into the "Pond of Possibilities."

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The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - Chiara Decaroli, ETH Zurich
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How do you build a quantum computer? Jonathan Home, Professor ETH Zurich

PUPPETMASTER

A computational framework for robotic animation of real-world string puppets.

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PuppetMaster: Robotic Animation of Marionettes Simon Zimmermann, Roi Poranne, James M. Bern, Stelian Coros Siggraph 2019

PUPPETPHONE

PuppetPhone transforms digital characters into animated puppets that users can manipulate with the physical movement of a smartphone.

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PuppetPhone: Puppeteering Virtual Characters Using a Smartphone - DisneyResearchHub

WALKING CANVAS

Art duo Pors & Rao are developing an animatronics platform, PATHOS, for effective motion and response at Wyss Zurich. It consists of a modular toolkit that can imbibe physical objects with lifelike, emotive qualities.

Planted.

Planted Foods AG, a start-up company based in Zurich, is a spin-off from ETH Zurich that produces plant-based meat to meet the growing demand for sustainable protein. Only a handful of carefully selected, natural ingredients are used: pea protein, pea fiber, canola oil and Swiss water.

KNITTED KEYBOARD

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interface. MIT Media Lab project with Joe Paradiso, MIT Professor and ETH Zurich Alum.

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The FabricKeyboard is a textile-based, multi-modal, stretchable musical interface that could simultaneously detect touch, proximity, electric field, pressure, and stretch.
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