Today, advanced technologies and design solutions are allowing us to use biomimicry not only to provide humans with an empowering yet all-consuming Promethean flame, but to foster a new, responsible ‘return to nature’, inspiring practices of construction and of energy harnessing that are compatible with the limitedness of natural resources and have a gentler impact on the environment. The possibility of this renewed relation to nature entails a change of rhythm, from the careless hyperspeed of capital-driven production to a slower pace, that tends to synchronise human activities with natural cycles, a new tempo allowing for reflection and the production of relations of care.

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The scale of the plasmodium of the creature trains to respect the invisible that surrounds its wearer and, assuming the function of a magnifier, the petri dish does not work as an enhancement of the eye, but as a means to develop symbiotic relations, to foster practices of interaction and therefore of care.

 

With Bio-Ver, we are proposing a new meaning for functionality in the age of the Anthropocene: what is functional is not what serves an immediate purpose, but what changes a perspective, shaping a relation of care: it is not immediately practical, but immediately attractive and therefore practical. With its glass, and the life it contains, Bio-Ver does not aim to alter the spectrum of human sight, but human perspective, that we believe is more important.

3rd Place in the Wearables section of RESHAPE18 

 

Project by: Thora H Arnardottir & Jessica Dias (concept, experimentation, delivery), Nikos Argyros (computation, fabrication)

Glass artist: Agustina Ros 

 

Collaborators:  Pierluca D'Amato (theoretical framework), Sandro  Arabyan (photography), Lili Tayefi (model)

 

Special thanks to: Theresa Schubert

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