We are spending more time than ever before in our homes - for architects and designers, this period is an opportunity to think about ways to improve our living spaces safer, self-sustainable, and more efficient. We look at urban and domestic architecture in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, highlighting some of the current trends that are likely to become central in the home design of the future.
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Are you in need of shifting your focus from news on viruses to a hopeful read? Here are some bioart projects with a positive take on microbes. They offer an innovative and inspiring message of the relationship between the human and microbes.
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As people all over the world practise social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets have been granted ‘essential’ status. Supermarkets have long interested artists as symbols of consumer culture, but with everything changing about the world as we know it, we imagine what role these institutions will have in a post-virus world.
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As the coronavirus pandemic leads to a huge drop in air pollution, we investigate artworks that highlight the global problem of unclean air.
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What makes you unique? The exploration of the self has preoccupied artists, writers and philosophers throughout history, but today our understanding of 'identity' is increasingly tied to our bodies and biological material. These bioartists examine the ethics, possibilities and limitations of defining our identities using science and technology.
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A lot of attention has been devoted to the discussion of animals' rights over the years, and especially since the rise of vegan activism. It is a debate that is being addressed increasingly by artists and galleries, sometimes amidst backlash and other times deemed acceptable. Who decides what is ethical? What can animals teach us about our relationship to art?
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Has the state of the world started to make you fear the worst for our planet? Between climate change, the threat of economic collapse, social unrest and political turmoil, we are reaching a breaking point. As different nations and groups seek solutions, we ask: How have artists and designers been inspired by these great sources of disaster and tragedy (both the fictitious and the real)?
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What connects the human microbiome, sourdough bread and biodegradable materials? Yeast has been a staple of gastronomy for thousands of years and it is now emerging as an exciting medium for bioartists and designers! Here are five new ways to think about this organism.
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Human species tend to think of themselves as winners of the evolution lottery. We are increasingly shaping the living environment in a way that answers to our societal and even more so, economical needs, almost entirely ignoring the needs of other creatures with whom we are co-inhabiting the world. But what we also know is that humans are not so uniquely human after all. As soon as you pass through the birth canal you become a living environment for thousands and thousands of micro-organisms.
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From food, to medicine, to aesthetic beauty, humans have a long history of growing, manipulating, and using plant life for our own personal benefit. Is it possible for the plant-human relationship to get even more intimate than this?
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Take a look at some of the curious inventions that will be on show at the Dutch Design Week at Manifestations Festival.
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What is the future of food going to look like? Will flushing a toilet, drinking water from plastic bottles, and eating your favourite veg or fruit year-round still be normal in the future? Find out and imagine different food futures with speculative gastronomy on display in the Victoria and Albert museum in London, United Kingdom.
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When it seems that all the questions about love have already been answered, some (bio)artists who participated at Kontejner’s ‘Extravagant Love’ festival are reassessing what it means to love and be loved, imagining future scenarios.
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What does it mean to alter nature’s evolution? Take a look at six artists that use bioengineering and organic materials to explore the theme of chimeras.
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What will the future look like? How will science transform the body? It’s impossible to say, right? Well, bioart offers a space to experiment with technology that exists today. Watch these four Ted Talk videos by female bio artists, designers and scientists who are using biology to explore new solutions and speculate the future.
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