Plastic Futures 2 was a project exploring the intersections of bio-art and contemporary field-based design practices in the context of ‘speculative futures’. It was run over a five week period between 19 June and 26 July 2009, including a one week intensive workshop in Western Australia with SymbioticA (UWA) and based around a colony of thrombolites, bacterial ‘growing rocks’ found at Lake Clifton in the Yalgorup National Park. The project was aimed at generating a ‘future scenario’ the results of which were exhibited as part of the Melbourne State of …

People might be familiar with Margaret Wertheim’s Crochet Coral Reef project already but I was really fascinated by some of the ideas in this talk at TED.com. I’m not sure how relevant it is but I thought it might be of interest since we’ve been talking about bio-architectures and ecology as well as textiles and ways of knitting and weaving structures.
There’s also an interview with her that’s well worth reading: Crocheting in hyperbolic space.
One thing I’d like to do besides learning to crochet hyperbolic forms is to collect my …