This section talks to us about species, plants, the mini-world of the invisible, living matter, powerful resources that are all around humans and which define a living world in perpetual construction. The projects in the exhibition of a benevolent vision of all of these things. We will never be able to return to the initial state of this world that we are damaging, design is there to suppose a tomorrow, not a future. A touch of optimism that could help us to live together.
Dirty Chair #5
Aléa, 2023
This chair made of shredded paper and mycelium cultivated in earth in a glass tank, is part of Studio Aléa’s Back to Dirt research project which is re-imagining sustainable design using myco-fabrication, a process utilising mycelium, the root system of fungi - to develop environmentally friendly materials pour from organic waste.
Nest #6
Raphaël Emine, 2023
With this insect hotel made of enamelled stoneware and natural elements, Raphäel Emine is exploring the interactions between species, whilst developing a dreamlike world inspired by the living world.
Gloire aux microbes (general view)
2023
Produced by the French Fourch screen-printing studio with Indigo Pili ink, these pieces have been designed by 12 designers* as part of a human-bacteria collaboration intended to produce bio-based colours petroleum and with a carbon footprint divided in two.
* Astrid Bachoux, Joseph Callioni, Clara Fiefort, Icinori, Louise Le Marc’hadour, Maria Medem, Lisa Mouchet, Pablo Grand Mourcel, Karl Nawrot, Sammy Stein, Chloé Vanderstraeten and Clément Vuillier
Marlène Huissoud
By exploring ecosystems, Marlène Huissoud’s objects and installations question humans’ relationship with nature. From her childhood spent with beekeepers through to her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Lyon and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, the designer has long had a fascination for insects: the structures they fashion and the waste they produce.
Her observation of silkworms and bees has led to sensitive research and a very personal approach to the job of designer. Through the cooperation she proposes with the non-human living world, Marlène Huissoud reveals the complexity of the ecosystems and questions humans’ control over the environment.
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