Collaborating as Coral: with Enrico Paiardi on our Coral Holobiont inspired multi-user prototype giving users a direct experience as an expanded, connected collection of interactions and micro-organisms. Thanks to CODAME, Bruno Fonzi and the amazing team for The New Human art-tech hackathon hosted at Google Milan and TrueLayer. The event's design framing by Saba Soltanshahi and Dario Biagio Torrisi functioned successfully as both a framework and a muse. It was great to see all the participating creative-tech humans and their projects. Keep tuned!
Hack documentation: https://lnkd.in/e53gpPDb
Phycologica @studio_blue_green
Impact Report
90.5%
felt more connected
to these microorganisms that drive our planet.
94.9%
said the experience changed them in a positive way, towards feeling more hopeful
200+ visitors over 3 days
40+ surveys and responses
Thanks to the SBG team for making the research happen!
Wrapping up the Phycologica art-science design research project that we presented late last year in Bristol, testing our hypothesis that an interactive, narrative installation - inviting collaboration with living bioluminescent algae - might foster a deeper emotional connection and spark curiosity towards unseen micro-organisms, crucial to planetary health.
Overall 90% of visitors felt more connected to these unseen microorganisms and more hopeful about Earth’s future as a result of deeper collaboration with our algae kin.
“What excited you the most about what you saw or learned?
The potential that algae has to connect humans with nature in an a new way”
Thanks to
My project partner Andrew Stone
The ever supportive Em Blaydes
Funders: CO₂RE - The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub & Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - University of Oxford
Science partners: MicroLab@Bristol (Chris Williamson, Sonia Giulietti) CCAP at SAMS Enterprise, plus scientists who gave their valuable time at National Oceanography Centre, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
Notpla & Living Ink Technologies for helping us create sustainable algae exhibition materials.
Biodesign Collective & UXCraft.IO for design workshops
Ella Chedburn, Cécile Maïa Pujol & On-Ying Chan 🙏 for audience engagement
And last but not least, our amazing production team and contributors, who got us over the line - too many to name here but credits in below image. 💙
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Join us for a creative future thinking workshop where we will explore how algae could be part of a climate-positive future. Join Bristol-based designers Cécile (OtherWISE) & Jon (UXCraft) to spend time exploring algae’s incredible powers and fragilities, thinking about future scenarios and share your thoughts on exciting ideas explored in the workshop.
This workshop is part of Studio Blue Green's Phycologica – encountering algal luminescence at Centrespace, Bristol, on 25-28 October. exhibition and immersive experience at Centrespace in Bristol. You will have the opportunity to directly contribute to the legacy of this project, thinking about desirable futures with algae-driven technology.
All ages welcome. No previous experience needed!
Link in comments.
It’s #worldalgaeday so an ideal moment to celebrate our life-supporting kin.
Algae produce oxygen for every second breath we take and are more efficient at removing carbon from the atmosphere than trees, but can be overlooked.
Join us in Bristol, for an immersive encounter with living microalgae.
Extra tickets now added!
Phycologica @Centrespacegallery
25, 26, 28 October + Workshops
**tickets link in bio**
This work has been supported by the CO2RE Hub, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Grant Ref: NE/V013106/1) , led by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford
Special thanks to generous support from: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa , MicroLab@Bristol , National Oceanography Centre , @thestudioinbath Living Ink and Notpla.
@co2rehub@ccapoban@microlabbristol@oxford_uni@NOCnews@Notpla@livinginktech
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#bioart #artscience #morethanhumandesign #immersive #interactiveart #planetaryfutures #Algae
@studio_blue_green (Free) Tickets now available!!
We’re excited to present our immersive installation Phycologica at Centrespace Gallery (Bristol) 25, 26, 28th October.
Phycologica aims to showcase algae’s vital life-supporting powers, through the animating power of breath, light & sound.
Producing the oxygen for every other breath and driving ocean absorption of atmospheric carbon, how can we draw on these natural processes, embodied within its primordial wisdom, to envision a symbiotic, regenerative future?
Attuning to its microscopic world and vast connected ecosystems, brings an opportunity to (re)learn ancient ways of living with our life-sustaining algae kin.
Head here to book tickets and find out more: /e138643
The installation will be supported by an exhibition (no booking needed for this) and themed workshops, to be announced soon.
This work has been supported by the CO2RE Hub, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, led by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford
Special thanks to generous support from: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa , MicroLab@Bristol , National Oceanography Centre , @thestudioinbath , Living Ink and Notpla.
@co2rehub@ccapoban@microlabbristol@oxford_uni@NOCnews@Notpla@livinginktech
#algalbiotech #algaeinnovation #biofutures #microalgae #bluecarbon #biomass #phycology #oceanliteracy #naturebasedsolutions #climateaction #emergingtechnologies #carbondioxideremoval #algalculture
#bioart #artscience #morethanhumandesign #immersive #interactiveart #planetaryfutures
