"IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE BIOLOGICAL FABRICATION REPLACES TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURE, PLANTS THAT GROW PRODUCTS, AND BACTERIA GENETICALLY RE-PROGRAMMED TO ‘BIOFACTURE’ NEW MATERIALS, ARTEFACTS, ENERGY OR MEDICINE.
This world is happening right now. Today, designers and artists have begun to either embrace or rebel against this bioengineered world and as a result, new design directions are beginning to emerge. The exhibition En Vie – Alive, presents a new design landscape, where fragments of a possible programmable ‘synthetic’ future are confronted with ‘natural’ alternative design perspectives. The quest for a different kind of ecological design models underpins the selection of projects, which range from potential sustainable solutions, to poetic interpretations and extreme provocations.
Created and imagined by leading designers, architects and artists, the work showcased here is decidedly different. These designers create and unravel a future hybrid world, where our everyday products and manufacturing tools will be ‘alive‘." ~ Alive
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| Mushroom furniture |
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| Self sustaining architecture |
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| Living architecture |
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| Feeding the bio-reactors of The Machinic Harvest by exhaling into the tubes |
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| THE MACHINIC HARVEST |
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| Numerous awesome videos displaying current projects using ALIVE technologies |
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| ^ Reminded me of Barbara i Gongini's avant-garde design |
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| Amy Congdon Biological Atelier |
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| Could the future artist's studio look more like a laboratory? |
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| Video process of potential new ways of working with material |
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| Samples of fabrics and colour |
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| Natsai Audrey - dyeing with bacteria |
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| Natural energy - moss powered lamp |
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| Marin Sawa, growing textiles |
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| Natural (inspired) textiles |
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| Organic designs, taking inspiration from Nature |
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| 'Alive' Sculpture inspired and born from natural processes |
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| Beehive // Vase |
You can find out about the fantastical exhibition and the designers and artists here:
ALIVE
