This is Alive

22/05/2014

Thrilled to announce that Carole Collet is now professor in Design for Sustainable Futures ! http://ow.ly/x9KMM

We are thrilled to announce that Carole Collet has been awarded a professorship in Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins. As a...

01/09/2013

Parisian exhibition En Vie (Alive) demonstrates the weird and wonderful bioproducts -- from cellulose shoes to furniture made of funghi -- that could be in this design-led show

29/08/2013

Conceptualised and imagined nature.

This final group of artists and designers explores a provocative far future. Their work encourages a debate around ethical issues related to living technology and high-tech sustainability.

29/08/2013

Hybridised nature

Here, designers, architects and artists propose to explore the merging of biology, chemistry, robotics and nanotechnology to create new hybrid organisms. They combine living (biological) with non-living (electronic and chemical) technology.

29/08/2013

Reprogrammed, ‘synthetic’ nature

These designers and artists work in collaboration with synthetic biologists or respond to cutting-edge scientific research in the field of extreme bioengineering. They imagine what the products and interfaces of the future could become with the use of engineered living organisms. Their ideas illustrate a possible future world.

29/08/2013

Nature as a co-worker

These designers and architects collaborate with nature. They work with bees, fungi, bacteria, algae or plants and develop new techniques to grow and craft consumer goods. Here, design relates more to gardening and farming than to manufacturing.

29/08/2013

Nature as a model

Here we present designers and architects who look to nature for inspiring role models and new engineering solutions. They work with biomimicry principles, imitating processes or behaviour found in the natural world, but working with man-made and digital technologies.

27/08/2013

A collection of press cuttings of En Vie- Alive

14/05/2013

HORTUS.PARIS: The Machinic Harvest, Ecologic Studio (2013)
© Photo-Laurent LECAT

EN VIE- ALIVE Exhibtion, Paris, 2013 Curated by Carole Collet

29/04/2013

The Botanical Fabrication Workshop website is now live!

http://www.botanicalfabrication.com

AboutThis workshop proposed to explore new modes of fabrication based on plants to a group of designers from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de...

24/04/2013

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