- Description
- Exploring new possibilities for ‘multi-actor fabrication processes’, Column Project comprises 3D structures knitted on a circular loom that are then treated in a special modular structure by being sprayed with a bacteria. The bacteria are capable of initiating the deposition of calcite into the fibre structure of the column, so over time it becomes stiffened. Different knitting patterns and calcite deposits can take account of varying structural loads. This material is co-created through combined human and more-than-human agency involving a crossing-over of know-how from digital, chemical and microbiological domains.
- Credit
- Bastian Beyer, Research Associate, ArcIn TexETN, Royal College of Art, London Daniel Suárez, Research Associate, ArcIn TexETN, Berlin University of Arts (UdK)
- Submitted by
- Alastair Fuad-luke
- Typology
- Transforming Practice
- Origin, Location and Movement?
- Immigrant (arriving in a location from another; imported)
- Item Relation
- Several Things
- State of abundance
- Common
- Date of creation
- 2013-01-01