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The speculative garden project considers the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment in terms of power and control in the context of global capitalism and posthumanism.

For this purpose licen was used, to reflect the idea of symbiosis on the environment with algorithms and artificial intelligence by using sensors, computers, photos and sounds from the environment.

The feedback and instances from the physical to the digital space, it creates an intangible figure of nature and are represented in this garden as an interface.

Victimless Leather

Motivation

The aim was to create a "victimless utopia" which is against to material waste of global production and animal cruelty.

Plan

Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products in leather production.

Execution

This leather is cultured inside a custom-made perfusion chamber, inspired by the organ perfusion pump

Hyper Articulated Mycomorph

The Industrial Revolution has led to the fast production of non-renewable composite materials and as a result of this, interest in biomaterials for industrial applications is growing fast and mycelium is one the most studied ones.

In this research, mycelium PLA is produced for 3D printing and used to generate new and aesthetic possibilities for myco-composite objects, by observing and simulating the behaviour of mycelium in various substrates.

To explore this aspect of biodegradable and digital fabrication methods, a table prototype was created.

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 [https://michellebocker.com/Speculativegarden.html Speculative Garden]
-The speculative garden explores the space in terms of interrelationships between humans and more-than-humans. The concept of the creating a garden with lichens is a sensorial exhibition of how it has a spatial meaning. The garden, a space produced and needed by (wo)man for centuries, is referred to as the mirror of society that entangles nodes of power and control. Like lichens, the garden is a product of symbiotic relationships and together, they teach us that none of us is a single autonomous organism.
+The speculative garden project considers the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment in terms of power and control in the context of global capitalism and posthumanism.
-It revolves around the interconnectedness of networks between humans, nature and computational systems such as computers, sensors, the internet, because it becomes crucial to consider the future of symbiosis with the technological object, the more-than-human and the environment.
+For this purpose licen was used, to reflect the idea of symbiosis on the environment with algorithms and artificial intelligence by using sensors, computers, photos and sounds from the environment.
-Data from the environment, captures of images and sounds from nature collected. They are all connected through computer and sensors and they start to develop a space where all this information would be translated and represented.
+The feedback and instances from the physical to the digital space, it creates an intangible figure of nature and are represented in this garden as an interface.
-The feedbacks and instances from the physical to the digital space, making an intangible figure of nature in the so called "Digital Era" and represented in the garden.
 [https://tcaproject.net/portfolio/victimless-leather/ Victimless Leather]
-Why?
+Motivation
-While the humble act of adorning one’s body with cloth began as a means of protection from the external environment, clothes transformed into evocative objects that convey complex social rituals. Today, clothes express ideas about identity, class, politics and they can be seen as manifestations of global systems of production. Additionally, the use of animal hides for cloth can be seen as an expression of our attitudes toward the animal Other.
+The aim was to create a "victimless utopia" which is against to material waste of global production and animal cruelty.
-How?
+Plan
-Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products. Considering all of the material waste involved, Victimless Leather problematises the idea that lab-grown materials can ever lad to a truly ‘victimless utopia’.
+Victimless Leather explores the future consequences and potentials of using tissue engineering to develop consumer products in leather production.
-What?
+Execution
-A prototype of a lab-grown jacket
+This leather is cultured inside a custom-made perfusion chamber, inspired by the organ perfusion pump
 [https://www.iaacblog.com/programs/hyper-articulated-mycomorph/ Hyper Articulated Mycomorph]
+The Industrial Revolution has led to the fast production of non-renewable composite materials and as a result of this, interest in biomaterials for industrial applications is growing fast and mycelium is one the most studied ones.
+In this research, mycelium PLA is produced for 3D printing and used to generate new and aesthetic possibilities for myco-composite objects, by observing and simulating the behaviour of mycelium in various substrates.
+To explore this aspect of biodegradable and digital fabrication methods, a table prototype was created.