Plastic Futures 2

Emergence, Adaptation and Communities of Tomorrow.

19 June to 25 July 2009

Plastic Futures 2 was a project exploring the intersections of bio-art and contemporary field-based design practices in the context of ‘speculative futures’. Research activities led towards an exhibition installation.

This intensive workshop ran across 5 weeks in 3 stages.

1. Clouds, Crochet and Plastic Fields.
Working with a group of postgraduate architecture and fashion students, we spent a week working in Melbourne were the grouip established a range of shared practices that explored the material/experiential conditions of plasticity in a range of ways. Read more about phase one here.

2. Adaptation Workshop, SymbioticA.
We then went to Perth for the week long ‘Adaptation’ workshop at SymbioticA, Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, were we engaged with a range of artists in Western Australia. The Adaptation Workshop @ SymbioticA (outlining the trip to Perth and Mandurah, June 29 – July 3 2009)

3. Exhibition.
This was followed by a 10 day process in Melbourne of generating an installation for the Built Systems: 2040 City Exhibition (15-25 July 2009), as part of the Victorian State of Design Festival, 2009.

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