Moss
2024
Mosses are some of the most overlocked and underestimated plants which inhabit our modern city landscapes. By implementing mosses more into city landscapes, biodiversity could be increased to regulation urban climates.
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Urban Reef is a design studio from Rotterdam, which pioneers in bio-inclusive design. Their ideology is shaped by the recognition of cities as shared habitats for diverse life forms, and not just humans. They design open-ended habitats, which they call „Reefs“, to foster microclimates and create vessels that store nutrients which benefit more-than-human beings to thrive within the city landscape.
Their project is a mix of ecological thought, regenerative technologies, and bio-based aesthetics, with a goal to reshape urban environments with a design attempt that contemplates the traditional anthropocentric design approach. They tackle widespread environmental challenges while promoting for a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
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The images capture the being of the more-than-human, which inhabits the Reefs, through cameraless photography. The images explore how the more-than-human, namely the moss, can be captured from a non-human perspective, but from the plant as the main creator and actor for the image.
The print making methodology used, holds the „more-than-human“ as a key concept, as the image is made by using the internal chemistry of the plant in conjunction with the photographic emulsion. The plants sensations and perceptions are put into abstract images, created solely by the plant itself.
The images question and give an open ended impression of what interspecies communication through photography could look like and how a plant can be captured in a way that gives justice to their powerful and radiant force. These images give a podium to the seemingly unnoticed inhabitants of the modern city landscape to advocate of their beauty, as well as for their importance for the future city.
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Urban Reef is a design studio from Rotterdam, which pioneers in bio-inclusive design. Their ideology is shaped by the recognition of cities as shared habitats for diverse life forms, and not just humans. They design open-ended habitats, which they call „Reefs“, to foster microclimates and create vessels that store nutrients which benefit more-than-human beings to thrive within the city landscape.
Their project is a mix of ecological thought, regenerative technologies, and bio-based aesthetics, with a goal to reshape urban environments with a design attempt that contemplates the traditional anthropocentric design approach. They tackle widespread environmental challenges while promoting for a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
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The images capture the being of the more-than-human, which inhabits the Reefs, through cameraless photography. The images explore how the more-than-human, namely the moss, can be captured from a non-human perspective, but from the plant as the main creator and actor for the image.
The print making methodology used, holds the „more-than-human“ as a key concept, as the image is made by using the internal chemistry of the plant in conjunction with the photographic emulsion. The plants sensations and perceptions are put into abstract images, created solely by the plant itself.
The images question and give an open ended impression of what interspecies communication through photography could look like and how a plant can be captured in a way that gives justice to their powerful and radiant force. These images give a podium to the seemingly unnoticed inhabitants of the modern city landscape to advocate of their beauty, as well as for their importance for the future city.
