(Archive) Founding an Interspecies Design Studio

Researching the complexities of interspecies relationships

As designers, we work with material that we as humans cannot produce ourselves with our heterotrophic metabolism. So the things we design can only come into being with the help of other organisms. "Founding an Interspecies Design Studio" addresses the complex relationships, challenges, and opportunities of collaborating with other species to develop a positive future for life on this planet. The modular workspace is designed to explore relationships between fungi, bacteria, beetles, algae, and human designers. The designed modules provide space for the exploration of new webs of interspecies relationships and the curation of metabolic flows through which materials and design processes can be developed in the future. The modules are designed in such a way that they can be used for concrete design work as well as for passing on the gained knowledge to designers and interested parties through workshops or other formats.