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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. | 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. | ||
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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. Considering all of the material waste involved, Victimless Leather problematises the idea that lab-grown materials can ever lad to a truly ‘victimless utopia’. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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A prototype of a lab-grown jacket | A prototype of a lab-grown jacket | ||
Revision as of 12:13, 22 April 2024
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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’.
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.
Execution
A prototype of a lab-grown jacket