Affiliated Projects
Guided by a distinct more-than-human apprehension of the world, Weaving as Worlding Practices with Earth Beings (WeB) investigates design practices of co-creation in two communities. The I.N.S.E.C.T. community composed of western scholars, artists, designers, and biologists, and the Sarayaku people, an indigenous nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon with its committee of young activists, called Samaruta. Combining in situ and remote experiences, WeB creates modalities of learning and doing that emerge in shared moments with human and non-human beings and through tangible communication with clay, wood, skin, and textiles. First, artefacts transit across the two communities to demonstrate tangible, vibratory, and acoustic qualities of connecting different aesthetic worlds and the artefacts will remain in the two communities as a representation of our cross-cultural weaving.
Habitat Weaves
Habitat Weaves is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink design, craftsmanship, biotechnologies, and community in order to repair depleted ecosystems through cross-species collaborative processes. The researchers develop ecosystem starter kits tailored to the local situation, architectural platforms with minimal but sufficient interventions to initiate eco-social development. For example, to slowly regenerate soils from industrial wastelands and gradually improve soil health and biodiversity with various microorganisms, pollinators such as wild bees, and community-focused composting practices.
