While trawling the internet, I found this piece of art, a bio-architecture site specific installation called 'Living Light', a technological piece inspired by the air quality and pollution in Seoul, Korea and made by the design company The Living. It comes from the idea that some architects, artists and biologists have come together to discuss the idea behind the possiblity of biological cities, and how feasible it may be. This is also due to the increasing presence of 'bio-mimicry', architecture which is influenced by, and mimics biological structure, shape and pattern, or specifically utilises nature, such as in 'living walls' like the Caixa Forum in Madrid, which is right next to an installation piece by Patrick Blanc which is a vertical garden which still physically grows due to felt backing and irrigation set throughout the structure.
The thing which drew me to this piece was the relevance I felt it had to not only my project in terms of light (light and shadow being things which interest me in my practice generally), but also because of the relevance to Vanessa's project, where she may start working with maps and imagery like that. With his piece I like not only the images involved, and how they have used the city in that sense, but also the idea behind it, and the fact that they are not trying to remove the technological aspect of the city, but instead are trying to merge the ideas of natural and man-made, in cities, where many of the worlds population either live or will live in the future. This is something I am also interested in, within my project. The amalgamation of the natural and handcrafted and the scientific and technologically man-made. I don't feel like it should have to be an either/or type choice, but more of a melting pot of both aspects of humanity. That by losing either one we won't be able to innovate and further ourselves as a species, but also keep our human morals and values. There is an interesting piece of writing with further information about it here and also a page here which highlights the stages which the design team took in creating and working through initial idea, and development to final stages and final piece, which I think can be useful for everyone in the group to see, and get ideas of how to plan and work through ideas they may have.
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