Title: Still alive
Description: STILL ALIVE presents the year-long journey of researchers from Material Incubator (Avans University of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Willem de Kooning Academy), shedding light on the practical and social aspects of designing and living with living artefacts. 00What if our everyday artefacts were alive?0What if they could sense, grow, adapt and eventually die?0How would we work, live and cohabitate with them?00By discovering ways to maintain the organisms? aliveness, as a tangible manifestation of a biodesign process, livingness will become a persistent material quality in design, and the design outcome a living artefact. This proposal opens up a new and exciting design space where designers are invited to harness the potentials of living organisms for unique function-alities, interactions and expressions in the everyday.00Understanding livingness as a material quality suggests not only a fundamental shift in the ways we design, but also an alternative every-day cohabitation and interaction with objects that sense, grow, adapt and eventually die.
Subjects: Design, Philosophy, Social aspects, Research