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Soil and Protoplasm: The Hylozoic Ground Project |
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| Authors: | Philip Beesley Rachel Armstrong |
| Abstract: | Housed in the Canadian Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice during the 2010 Architecture Biennale, the Hylozoic Ground project provided visitors with the unique experience of interacting with a responsive and ‘live’ textile matrix. Philip Beesley and Rachel Armstrong describe the extraordinary ‘soil-less’ environment that they collaborated on and how it provides a new model for a synthetic but evolutionary ecology. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | Textile matrix ‘living’ technologies 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale University of Waterloo, Canada Hayley Isaacs PBAI (Philip Beesley Architect Inc) Rob Gorbet AVATAR FLinT Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ‘soil matrix’ fabric synthetic ecology suspended geotextile protocells and ‘iChells’ iron and copper-based minerals olive oil and diethyl phenyl phthalate Hygroscopic islands traube cell Salt Lake City, Reims and Beijing |