The Age of. Panel Talk & Mingle

Panel Talk & Mingle ‘Designing for a Symbiotic Revolution - Space Corals, Mother Cultures and Extremophiles’: Wednesday 5th  of February, Bio Capitol, Salon 1, Sankt Eriksgatan 82, 113 62 Stockholm.

Welcome to a discussion on “Designing for a Symbiotic Revolution” in which 4 design studios will present their work as part of the exhibition “The Age of”, on display at Volvo Studio during Stockholm Design Week.

For this exhibition, international design studios have been working with the planet of Mars as a projection plane for critique and speculation, questioning: Is it easier to imagine life on Mars than to take care of life on Earth?

The four design studios will present speculative scenarios in which they are imagining what would happen if focus would shift from exploiting space, just as we have exploited Earth, to develop more sustainable lifestyles in mutualistic symbiosis with other living organisms?

Asking what can be learnt, or perhaps unlearnt, by imagining and designing for a multi-species life on Mars.

"Designing for a Symbiotic Revolution - Space Corals, Mother Cultures and Extremophiles" with Wang & Söderström (SE), Studio Pleoforma/Oscar Salguero & Zack Saunders (US), Thomas Pausz (FR) and Mariah Wright (US).
The Q&A will be moderated by curators Petra Lilja & Jenny Lee.

Hosted by the French Institute, Stockholm