Like Life - Multispecies design
online workshop
Palazzo delle Albere, “Science, Art and Philosophy centre” of the MUSE, proposes an unusual experience: “Like Life. Design Multispecies Design”, as part of "Everything is connected. Converging Cultures", an event aimed at connecting the MUSE dialogue between Nature, Science and Society with the humanities.
"Like Life", a discovery and refresher workshop designed primarily for designers, architects and creative people (students or young professionals), but also for all those who want to learn more about the issues dealt with.
The new programme curated by the Mali Weil art collective and developed in collaboration with MUSE proposes design as a language and political space for recognising the relationships that bind us to otherness.
Six public meetings and a workshop with a limited number of participants, have been in fact rescheduled for online access between 11 and 20 December 2020. They investigate the most innovative contemporary design scenarios in an original intertwining of scientific disciplines, philosophy, anthropology and creative fields.
In the 1970s and 1980s a handful of innovators in American garages developed the first personal computers, paving the way for a new industry.
After the industrial revolution and the computer revolution, a revolution in biology is now underway, the scope of which we are still struggling to grasp. However,' Mali Weil points out, 'the future is already here. It is estimated that 11,000 bio-garages were already operating in the States eight years ago. In order to understand and think about this transformation, which has biological implications, but also legal, philosophical, artistic, linguistic and ethical ones that are still completely open, we must however create new words and new paradigms, before creating objects'.
“Like Life” starts on 11 December with philosopher Emanuele Coccia; on 12 December Formafantasma, an award-winning design studio - and one of the authors of "Tree Time. Art and science for a new alliance with nature" (the new temporary exhibition at the MUSE) - will be a guest. The project continues on 16 December with Francesca Perona, designer of materials, on 18 December with biodesigner Giulia Tomasello, and finishes on 19 December with anthropologist and expert on imagery Matteo Meschiari.
The project is supported by the Autonomous Province of Trento through the Provincial Agency for Family, Birth and Youth Policies.
The meetings will be broadcast on the MUSE Facebook page.
To register for the workshop (max 15 participants, following the temporal order of registration) it is necessary to fill in the form HERE .
For further info, please write to: info@maliweil.org
