Bioplastics

slides

I explored with Agar Agar Foam — this is definitely something I will be using for prototyping in the future!!

Here is also some bio-yarn knitting with @chaski in class

Readings

General Ecology: With Plants

Idea of Intelligence

• mysticism, weirdness, and women becoming plants
• interacting with other lifeforms is taught out of us
• intelligence is anthropormorphized
• everything underwater lives in a world of sound and vibrations
• intelligence is a tool to resonate familiarity, an aspect of life
• plant thinking is not plant intelligence

still more likely to prescribe intelligence to voice assistants such as alexa and google home

Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab

• botany might have potential as a place of resistance and art pedagogy
• “eco-queer” way of living
• weed is “invasion” of suburban living

• invasion

  • weed is queerness

readings below

Hidden Life of Trees

Interspecies Architecture

Plastiglomerate