To Thrive Despite

Bio-sonification of Blasted Landscapes

The period we are living in, marked by its uniform highways, shopping centers, megacities and plastic products, will surely end; but the world coming after might be more beautiful. Finding inspiration from thriving despite, the installation invites the visitor to explore the life-promoting patches of our blasted landscapes. Re-inventing soundscapes of the Anthropocene by probing artefacts through a sensor glove controlled synthesizer.

“We humans may heed the lesson. We always create waste; life must excrete as it proliferates. … New wastes test life’s tolerance and stimulate life’s creativity.”

Year
2025
Type
Prototyping Ecologies: Toxicity
Context
ZHdK, MA Interaction Design
Location
Zürich, CH
Medium
Bio-sonification, modular synthesizer, sensor glove, moving image
In collaboration with
Roman Paysen-Petersen, Luca Somm
Mentors
Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Rasa Weber
Video model
Li Wangqing
Categories
Interaction
A person crouches while carrying the modular Synthesizer with the glove on touching a patch of grass between a stone floor
Exhibition space with white pedestal, modular synthesizer on top and a text on the front of the white pedestal