The garden is produced and needed by (wo)man for centuries, is referred to as the mirror of society that entangles nodes of power and control, but nowadays, it becomes crucial to consider the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment.
The concept was to create a garden as a sensorial exhibition
By engaging with the role of media and technology in the context of global capitalism and posthumanism, the final attempt to mediate about symbiosis is a reflection on the environment, self-awareness, algorithms and artificial intelligence with sensors, computers, photos and sounds forum the environment.
The feedbacks and instances from the physical to the digital space, making an intangible figure of nature and represented in the speculative garden between human and non-human.
Motivation
At first, clothing began as a means of protection from the external environment. Then, transformed into materials to show the attitude. Today, clothes express ideas about identity and can be seen as manifestations of global systems of production.
Plan
Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products.
Execution
This leather is cultured inside a custom-made perfusion chamber, inspired by the organ perfusion pump originally designed by Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh. The chamber has an automated system which drips into the polymers and feeds the cells with a nutrient media.
The high consuming, disposable culture brought on by the Industrial Revolution has led to the fast production of non-renewable composite materials such as plastics, which are now a significant part of landfills and oceans. As a result, interest in biomaterials for industrial applications is growing fast and mycelium is one the most studied one.
In this research, mycelium PLA is produced and with the new fabrication methodologies, with 3D printing. and then the aim was to generate new and sophisticated aesthetic possibilities for myco-composite objects, by observing and simulating the behaviour of mycelium in various substrates.
To explore this aspects of biodegradable and digital fabrication methods, a table prototype was created.
Collaborating Mushroom