COUNTRY the Netherlands SYMBIOTIC FUTURES is a vision of the future in which we investigate the language of trees through fungi and live in symbiosis with the forest. The designed tools would make it possible to listen to communication between trees. Understanding communication can help us improve...
COUNTRY Russia SAVE is an experimental mutual project of Julia Borovaya (artist) and Edward Rakhmanov (scientist). SAVE is an art-science laboratory, which explores the world of chemistry and physics through the artistic lens. It is a space for working with the living, the digital, and the...
COUNTRY France After graduating in Technical Sciences and Applicated Arts in the Highschool Maximilien Vox in Paris, Valentine started a formation on Product Design in Saint Luc School in Tournai. In this context, she exhibited twice in the Paris Design Week, presenting a lighting design collection....
COUNTRY Cyprus Working across media, from sculpture to video installation, Elina’s artistic practice has bridged together parallels, forming ongoing discussions between the natural and the socio-political. She has been reflecting on everyday matters through an inside approach off bees and their culture. Elina’s work is now expanding...
EXHIBITION Interconnected COUNTRY the Netherlands The project is an explorative research into reframing humanity’s disposition in the world, where it's taking a step back from the predominant view that the model of nature is hierarchical with humans on top. Ashley Zhang wants to challenge the very idea that the...
COUNTRY Russia Julia draws attention to the problem of global warming and melting glaciers. With Water Murals Borovaya explores the acute problem of shrivelling glaciers through global temperature rise. Her work offers a new perspective on painting through the continual transformation and distortion of its medium to...
COUNTRY Lithuania SCOBY Protective Face Mask - is an eco-friendly solution to disposable face masks. Would you wear an organic waste product? Since the emergence of COVID-19, face masks have become a necessity to our every day lives. They are mainly manufactured with conventional materials such as polypropylene...
COUNTRY the Netherlands Kim van den Belt studies product and material design at Academie Minerva in Groningen. Van den Belt is someone who considers nature as an inexhaustible source of inspiration in product and material design. She believes that solutions to actual problems are already present in nature...
COUNTRY Poland Ewelina studied at the Design Faculty at Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd as a participant of the Erasmus program. She set up TAKŁADNIE, an innovative designer cooperative in Warsaw. In her research she explores upcycling solution for...
COUNTRY the Netherlands For hundreds of years humans have selectively bred plants and animals to produce offspring with more desirable characteristics. The banana you eat nowadays is not the same banana as 100 years ago. Synthetic biology gives us the opportunity to develop this even further. Synthetic...