Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics

Biohybrid robotics takes an engineering approach to the expansion and exploitation of biological behaviours for application to automated tasks. Here, we identify the construction of living buildings and infrastructure as a high-potential application domain for biohybrid robotics, and review technological advances relevant to its future development. Construction, civil infrastructure maintenance and building occupancy in the last decades have comprised a major portion of economic production, energy consumption and carbon emissions. Integrating biological organisms into automated construction tasks and permanent building components therefore has high potential for impact. Live materials can provide several advantages over standard synthetic construction materials, including self-repair of damage, increase rather than degradation of structural performance over time, resilience to corrosive environments, support of biodiversity, and mitigation of urban heat islands. Here, we review relevant technologies, which are currently disparate. They span robotics, self-organizing systems, artificial life, construction automation, structural engineering, architecture, bioengineering, biomaterials, and molecular and cellular biology. In these disciplines, developments relevant to biohybrid construction and living buildings are in the early stages, and typically are not exchanged between disciplines. We, therefore, consider this review useful to the future development of biohybrid engineering for this highly interdisciplinary application.publishe

Diagnose und Förderung bei Rechenschwäche in der Lehrerausbildung. Konzepte erproben und reflektieren

Die Autoren beschreiben ein zweisemestriges Seminarkonzept mit integrierter Praxisphase, das zum Kompetenzaufbau zukünftiger Sonderpädagoginnen und -pädagogen hinsichtlich Diagnose und Förderung von Rechenschwäche beitragen soll. Die für das Seminarkonzept entwickelten Hilfsmittel wie Video-Analyseraster, Struktur- und Grundvorstellungsdiagrammen unterstützen die Studierenden bei der Beurteilung von Förderverläufen und -entscheidungen. Neben einem Beispiel aus dem Seminarkonzept findet sich in diesem Artikel auch eine vorläufige Auswertung hinsichtlich der Erfahrungen im ersten Durchgang. (DIPF/Orig.