sustainability

This is grown.

Jen Keane (US)

This is grown. was motivated by a frustration with plastics and a visible disparity between scientific research and design manifestations around natural materials. Taking an organism-driven approach to material design, the project began under the premise that a greater understanding of nature could help us not just replace the petrochemical based materials of today with more sustainable ones, but perhaps allow us to devise entirely new systems of making and categories of materials previously unimagined. After all, nature has had 3.8 billion years to perfect the ultimate circular economy: Life. Maybe we can still learn something.

OXO

Yulin Li (CN)

This dollhouse is a visual representation of a sustainable community, and aims to generate new insights into the future. It transforms the idea of green living from a small scale to a large scale that allows neighbors to negotiate and share resources. By inviting the audience to act as the coordinator of this system, it offers them the opportunity to explore the effective use of resources and avoidance of waste.

Prix BLOXHUB Interactive – how can we make cities more livable using digital technology?

Working at the intersection between Space, Technology and Behavior, the initiative was developed by The Alexandra Institute (DK), BLOXHUB (DK) and Ars Electronica (AT). Together, the partners wished to join forces in gathering and building new knowledge that can help companies, creatives and researchers achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 11; to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

30°

Mathias Foot (DE), Franziska Rast (DE), Stephan Schakulat (DE)

Covering 71% of the Earth’s surface, water is an important part of the global ecosystem. Every development and change in the sea also affect life on earth. Datasets help us to understand conditions and ecological processes such as changes in salinity or temperature. 30° is a data visualization of marine data in the form of an installation.