Looking forward to presenting We the Bacteria in Mexico City on Thursday with Beatriz. #beatrizcolomina @_arquine@larsmullerpublishers #microbiome #architecturebooks #architecturaltheory #microbes
Looking forward to a sick event in Brooklyn with the super non-boring Beatriz+Guillermo+Ivan in Head-Hi’s lethal mix of books+espresso+music+people #beatrizcolomina @ivanlmunuera@headhi_ny #architecturebooks #bacteria #microbiome #health
Exited to start working on the next phase of the project.
We, the microorganisms traveling in the mouths of humans and their canine companions, carry stories older than our hosts themselves. Our journeys, traced through saliva, span continents and generations…
Saliva is among our oldest meeting places—a site of exchange, a fluidic architecture where we all blur into each other. At a given time, there are typically twenty billion bacteria in my dog’s mouth. They are from me, my lover, your neighborhood, Milan, and countless other beings who we have crossed paths with.
Some of us are stories of displacement. We come from diverse places, ecologies, climates and dwell into new relationships, new homes. Our recent dogs carry traces of microorganisms from our past dogs. As we travel in the mouths of our fellow companions, they also carry us along with traces of dust, food, and distant geographies, as we pass on from species to species.
Salivations explores our intertwined microbial histories of displacement and belonging through the interspecies landscape of saliva. The installation consists of a series of structures made of chewing gum who spent time in the mouths of Çaça, Bailey, Kahve, and Gatsby. Our companions are immigrants, adoptions, strays who have seen the complex political realities, from Turkey's recent law that stripped stray dogs of their streets, thrusting them into uncertain futures, to the United States, where debates on breeding, shelters, and belonging shape new stories of kinship, responsibility, and care.
Through DNA sequencing, we investigated which microorganisms humans and their dogs share. We felt encouraged to see the traces of the numerous places we have been, the ghosts of our beloved ones we carried forward, the climates endured, all do exist in saliva, we call home.
Salivations, by Orkan Telhan + elii, for “We the Bacteria”, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. 24th Int Exhib Triennale Milano “Inequalities” #wethebacteria #eliiarchitecture #elii #OrkanTelhan #Triennale
Listen to the conversation between Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley (@wig56 ), and Matiss Groskaufmanis (@matissgroskaufmanis ) on bacteria from OPEN25 Architecture Festival – now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Read or listen to more at OPEN Conversation, where you can now also find interviews from OPEN25 with Lacol (@lacolarq ), Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (@charlottemalterrebarthes ), Christian Kofod (@rockwooldanmark ), and Claus Pryds (@claus_pryds )
#architecturebooks #microbiome #bacteria #designwithpurpose @larsmullerpublishers #beatrizcolomina
Beatriz and I looking forward to give a talk about our new WE THE BACTERIA book on Monday at Columbia. Our microbes engaging with the non-boring microbes of Andres, Laura, Lydia, and David. #beatrizcolomina @andres_jaque@kurganl@lydiakallipoliti@theliving.studio@columbiagsapp #architecturebooks #microbiome #architecturaldesign #bacteria #designwithpurpose @larsmullerpublishers
Looking forward to non boring WE THE BACTERIA - NOTES TOWARD BIOTIC ARCHITECTURE book conversation with Beatriz, Andres, Inaqui, and Uriel at Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid in collaboration with the amazing TBA_21 Foundation. Just a few days after our bacteria exhibition in the Milan Triennale closed after an extended run. #beatrizcolomina #architecturebooks #designwithpurpose #bacteria #microbiome @andres_jaque@urielfogue@tba_21@casadelaarquitectura@triennalemilano@elii_architecture
Memories (always) in black and white - Just saw Erieta Attali's pic of us with Kengo Kuma celebrating their wonderful "Mirror in the Mirror" collaborative book at Japan Society. #kengokuma #beatrizcolomina #erietaattali #architecturebooks #japanarchitecture @kkaa_official@erieta_attali
Great non-boring evening in Milan with Beatriz launching our WE THE BACTERIA - NOTES TOWARD BIOTIC ARCHITECTURE book in conversation with Stefano Boeri and Lars Muller (who took this very Russian pic). #beatrizcolomina @stefano_boeri@larsmullerpublishers #bacteria #biodesign #architecturebooks #microbiologist @triennalemilano
Loos Safari 8 with Beatriz. Late Villa Kuhner of 1929 in mountains. Urban meets rural. Now you can stay there. #adolfloos #adolfloosarchitecture #loos #viennamodernism #architectureporn #beatrizcolomina #viennaarchitecture
Loos Safari 7. Loos’ own tiny apartment now living inside the Wien Museum. A crime scene of Loos pedastry that Beatriz wrote about years ago and demonstrated even how the legendary fireplace was rebuilt to accommodate what would become incriminating evidence in the trial and conviction. #adolfloos #adolfloosarchitecture #loos #viennamodernism #viennaarchitecture #architectureporn #beatrizcolomina
