Alphonso Lingis: Animal Body, Inhuman Face, Zoontologies It was interesting for me to see how Alphonso describes humans as an infant, learns through interacting with animals. I started to imagine something that has all the components Alphonso brings up, because the description was so interesting. A creature that we develop senses from. Although the sensitiveness is not as well [...]

Since ancient times the umbrella has resided just above our heads in rain or shine. The umbrella first introduced itself to us over 2000 years ago in parts of Europe and ancient Egypt. In those times the umbrella population was dwindling to near-extinction numbers. It’s scarcity made its presence in public life a rare sight, [...]

Christie and I chose Sanford R. Gifford’s, A Gorge in the Mountains (1862) as a representation of ideal, pristine nature. Gifford was of the Hudson River School and he is described as artist that didn’t focus on a specific waterfall or mountain, which was the trend at that time,  but rather focused on the atmosphere and light [...]

Johann, Sarah and I decided to elaborate on fungi, plant/mycorrhizal language and public installation. How the fungi system grows and how we benefit from them was our key interest, and we tried to implement that into our city environment. Below is a visual sketch of our idea. City Fungi Cycle (Creative): 1. Broken umbrellas are [...]

  Tak and I decided to give a pamphlet tour of a city block from the viewpoint of a non human, in our case, gum spots. We talked about how the gum spots got there, and what they experience daily. We went through a couple of iterations, such as.. 1. It was spitted out by [...]