Clouds, Crochet and Plastic Fields
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 →
Margaret Wertheim TED Talk
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 →