Projects

Broad and abstract eyes, critical and agile minds, experimental and expressive limbs.

Morality Calculus

A hybrid bread made of human-yeast cells, interrogating the part-based analogy of life in synthetic biology. Currently exhibiting at Summerhall.

Coming soon: The Carbon Alchemy

Coming Soon: The Carbon Alchemy

Science communication project about recent break throughs in applying synthetic biology to transform atmospheric CO2 into valorised chemical compounds to replace petrochemicals.

Plant Reality Set

Venture into a plant’s umwelt.
Wearable set that translate plant perception into human experience.

Habitate

#Bio-design #Post-human-

Centered Design #Biomimicry Material

No species is an island.

Elastic Arctic

#Sustainable consumption #Embedded Economy #Solutions for tomorrow’s world

A sustainable grocery brand that provides informative and playful experience, which help customers to find carbon efficient happiness within a capped footprint.

 

Sessile Lens

#Bio hacking #Post-human-Centered

Design #Trans-species Empathy

Experience the world from a plant’s point of view.

 

Möbius

#Superform #Furniture Design #Human Object Interaction

A chair with adaptive and indefinite forms.

 

Go,DiVA!

#Social Design #Co-Design #Human-Centered Design

Empowering girls with the agency of becoming.

 

Exhibition of Absence

#Exhibition Design #CERN-Collaboration #Partical Imaging Technology

An alternative exhibition for future returning artifacts.

 

Touchcolour

#sensory substitution #human-centered design

#information experience design

A button designed for tactile colour sensation for the visually impaired.

 

Vitality Meter

#Design Interaction #Electronics #Gizmo

Revealing human vitality through the phase state of molecules.

 

B Side City

#Installation Art #Urban Anthropology

A space tunnel to the b side of a mega city in China.

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