Biophilic Artifacts
Biophilic devices are experimental tools, artifacts, and interfaces designed to support new forms of attention, listening, and relation with the more-than-human world. Rather than treating nature as background or resource, these devices explore how design can mediate encounters with other beings, ecological processes, and forms of environmental meaning, making interdependence more perceptible and actionable.
Biophilic Artifacts Workshop
The Biophilic Artifacts Workshop invites participants to shift from designing for nature to designing with other beings. Through observation, sensory attention, and situated experimentation, participants attune to the rhythms, signals, needs, and presences of more-than-human life, using these encounters as a basis for creating artifacts that mediate care, communication, and coexistence.
Urban Landscape
Students explore the ways that human settlements are already interdependent with other beings and how we can make more space for listening, recognition, and collaboration.
Interspecies Attunement
Understanding the perception of the Other allows us to speak a new language and to perceive the world in a new light. This might give us opportunities to discover a softer presence in the world
BioFabrication
In collaboration with other beings, we can learn how to produce environments, objects, food, and oxygen in new radical ways. Biofabrication seeks dynamics that can have a positive impact on the environment.
The Biophilic Approach
The biophilic approach is grounded in more than a decade of academic practice in biodesign, design research, and more-than-human experimentation. This includes participation in several editions of the Biodesign Challenge in New York, including leading a project recognized for Best Field Research, as well as applied research for private consultants and urban developers where speculative ideas such as bioluminescent systems and interspecies collaboration have been introduced into design processes. This work has gradually developed into a broader research framework and is now consolidated through doctoral research on Biophilic Governance, connecting academic inquiry, experimental practice, and strategic consulting around more-than-human futures.
Academia
In academia, the biophilic approach is developed through a strategic, studio-based methodology that helps students engage with wicked problems as complex systems rather than isolated design briefs. Students are encouraged to map tensions, actors, relationships, and possible interventions, developing multiple responses that may include products, services, workshops, platforms, ecosystems, or transition strategies.
Consulting
In consultation, the approach brings together governments, institutions, scientists, communities, and design practitioners to explore complex urban and social situations from a more-than-human perspective. The aim is to create spaces for collective inquiry, identify overlooked ecological relationships, and develop strategic possibilities for more caring, resilient, and interdependent forms of urban life.
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