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Designing with Organisms

Art, design and bioculture

We're building an urban farm, experimenting with new forms of energy, and exploring biotechnology and eco-culture through art, community and design.


Workshop 1

Sprouting Pots Workshop

Help make an artwork

Jacob Raeder is coming to install his beautiful sprouting pots installation at Mediamatic. The work is a series of terracotta pots that have sprouts literally growing out of them. Learn how to make your own living vase by helping Jacob install his artwork. The workshop is free of charge.

We want your waste

Soil Garden Project

From August 17-22, NANCE KLEHM, an ecological systems designer, will be in Warsaw to help conduct Pixxe’s SOIL GARDEN PROJECT! Right now they are looking for volunteers.

  • Soil Garden Project - 

    The Soil Garden Project will cultivate soil from waste. Image found on piXXe's website.

  • The Soil Garden Project will cultivate soil from waste. Using bicycles we will collect and compost organic waste such as food scraps, coffee grounds, cardboard, yard trimmings, and so on from residents, businesses, organizations, and public institutions in the Warsaw neighborhood of Ochota.

    They aim to process 8-10,000 liters of waste during the project and turn it into humus for the 2013 growing season. Ongoing, they hope to process up to 1,000 liters per week.

    During the project three WORKSHOPS will be lead by Nance: a Soil/compost workshop, a Composting toilet workshop, and an Urba...

    Posted by: Marta Peleteiro, 26 Jul 2012,13:45

Xylinum

A stool of spores

What could future materials and production processes be like?

  • Xylinum - 

    The properties of this material can be adjusted by changing the genetic code of the organisms.
    Photo by Samuel Henne, found on http://www.jannishuelsen.com/?/work/xylium/ [Jannis Huelsen's] website

  • Jannis Huelsen's project is based on a bacterium which produces an artificial cellulose material. This bacterium counsumes sugar and builds a cellulose fibre structure around any given form. Since the process takes place in a nutrition liquid, the wet material can be dryed later on, resulting in a durable and 100 % biodegradable material. The properties of this material can be adjusted by changing the genetic code of the organisms. In collaboration with the company Jenpolymers , a technique was developed to create a »skin« around a wooden stool frame, f...

    Posted by: Marta Peleteiro, 18 Jul 2012,11:35

Algae as potential to extract bio-oil

Eco-Pod

Temporary vertical algae bio‐reactor

Eco‐Pod made by prefabricated modules. The pods will serve as bio‐fuel sources and as micro‐incubators for flexible research and development programs.

Constructed of recycled wood, its exterior walls are surrounded by planters with wheat grass growing on them.

WikiCells

Imagine juice, yogurt, ice cream, fruit wrapped in delicious natural edible packaging.

Wikicells enclose food and drink inside soft skins.

  • WikiCells - 

    WikiCells, self-contained, edible packaging for liquids, mousses and emulsions. Image found on Coolhunting's website. Phase One Photography

  • WikiCells are not gadgets. They were created with the aim of reducing overwrap waste, making the most of the available natural resources. The membrane that houses the various WikiCells flavors is made from vegetal elements, with a taste deliberately paired to match its contents. WikiCells’ skin is 100% natural and edible, offe- ring added value to the taste of the product it encapsulates. The gelatinous skin of the WikiCell, while for the most part created from natural particles, does have some hard science in the form of biochemical polymer chitosan and alginate, or algae extract. The hard shell of the WikiCells, which protects the for...

    Posted by: Marta Peleteiro, 15 Jun 2012,16:04

Photoelectric bites

Temporary photoElectric Digestopians Worklab Series

Edible Solarcells

  • Tactile Research Lab - 

    Picture taken at Temporary photoElectric Digestopian Worklab #1, Tactile Research Lab, The Hague, Nov.8, 2010. Image found on Flickr's website by Bartaku

    • Cooking process - 

      Picture taken at Temporary photoElectric Digestopian Worklab #1, Tactile Research Lab, The Hague, Nov.8, 2010 Image found on Flickr's website by _foam

    • Bartaku's project fused cooking and solar tech. It consist of experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric energy with food. Often photovoltaic-tech is compared with the plant leaf's capacity of harvesting the Sun's energy. But there is only one type of PV-cell that mimics significantly the natural process of photosynthesis: the natural Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (nDSC). It is made of the dyes of anthocyanin or carotenoid-rich fruits like berries, currants, black beans etc., some titanium-dioxide (cf. white paint, toothpaste) some graphite or carbon and an electrolyte, ...

      Posted by: Marta Peleteiro, 11 Jun 2012,12:25

DIY Energy Harvester

How can citizens use the surplus energy supplies?

DIY kit to discover, capture, and transform sunlight and light pollution.

Portable Harvesters

Harvesters to carry along

Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests is a project
by Hanspeter Kadel and Myriel Milicevic. This is a set of five different harvesters that can be carried along for the everyday energy harvesting in the city.

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