Starting from anthotyping, an old photographic technique using only plant matter and sunlight to imprint motives on paper, Anthotyping Landscapes investigates how plant parts can create hyper-local textile prints with other elements such as soil, water and wind to connect people to landscapes through crafts.
The project is developed together with fashion designer Teresa Carvalheira (PT) and natural dye studio RouaAtelier (SY) in collaboration with Dutch landscape ambassadors from Nationaal Landschaap Zuidwest-Fryslân
Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, “ Contemporary Use of Crafts“
See more at the Anthotyping Landscapes website.
The project is developed together with fashion designer Teresa Carvalheira (PT) and natural dye studio RouaAtelier (SY) in collaboration with Dutch landscape ambassadors from Nationaal Landschaap Zuidwest-Fryslân
Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, “ Contemporary Use of Crafts“
See more at the Anthotyping Landscapes website.
Urban green maintenance strategies in Eindhoven, Netherlands aim to maintain vegetation by removing spontaneously growing plants and categorizing such as weeds. Why do maintenance practices find some plants valuable, and others not? And if current maintenance is counter-productive to the growth of urban vegetation, what is maintenance then really maintaining? This thesis unfolds the need for maintenance practices to encourage biodiversity and argues the urgency for a change of attitude towards urban nature.
The thesis functions as a herbarium, where plant histories become the arguments themselves against current maintenance strategies in the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and is printed with cyanotype, a method historically used for herbariums and for the first book to be illustrated with photographs by female botanist Anna Atkins (Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843).
The thesis has been reprinted and published with Timelab, Gent.
The thesis functions as a herbarium, where plant histories become the arguments themselves against current maintenance strategies in the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and is printed with cyanotype, a method historically used for herbariums and for the first book to be illustrated with photographs by female botanist Anna Atkins (Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843).
The thesis has been reprinted and published with Timelab, Gent.
Shifting Collections investigate local environments and resources through deep research and material making. In 2024, we researched algae in the Icelandic coasts and mapped out their material potential through material development in collaboration with local designers, artists and scientists, and presented findings during DDW’24.
Shifting Collections consists of designers Sofie Sølvhøj Heinesen and Freja Kræmmer Nielsen.
Support: Danish Arts Foundation
Shifting Collections consists of designers Sofie Sølvhøj Heinesen and Freja Kræmmer Nielsen.
Support: Danish Arts Foundation
RESIDENCY
Living Artifact
The notion of ”living” artifacts are explored through a series of experiments with cultivating cyanobacteria in different media, to investigate alternative multi-species relationships and care rituals within the human living room.
The experiments are part of a residency in the Material Aesthetics Lab, and have been summarised in the paper ”Is it dying?!: Considering death in Biological-HCI” in collaboration with PhD candidate Gizem Oktay.
Collaborator: Eindhoven University of Technology
The experiments are part of a residency in the Material Aesthetics Lab, and have been summarised in the paper ”Is it dying?!: Considering death in Biological-HCI” in collaboration with PhD candidate Gizem Oktay.
Collaborator: Eindhoven University of Technology
The transplanter is on a quest to regenerate endangered plant communities in public urban spaces. As new gardens are constructed with soil unfit for a diverse set of plants to naturally regenerate, and highly biodiverse zones are turned into construction sites, the transplanter digs up the valueable soil to relocate and inoculate new public gardens and re-introduce otherwise endangered vegetation.
During an artist residency in Timelab, Gent I adopted a public garden which I assisted in natural regeneration in collaboration with city ecologist Geert Heyneman and the local neighborhood committee.
The walking performance starting at the adopted public garden in Gent and continues towards a construction site with high plant diversity where soil is collected. The walk brings the transplanter back to the adopted garden to spread the collected soil, and ends at the local Saturday market where the soil is ”sold” for free to bring awareness to the local neighbors of current green maintenance methods within the city.
Documentation: Doga Ceylan & Teresa Carvalheira
See more at the Transplanters website.
During an artist residency in Timelab, Gent I adopted a public garden which I assisted in natural regeneration in collaboration with city ecologist Geert Heyneman and the local neighborhood committee.
The walking performance starting at the adopted public garden in Gent and continues towards a construction site with high plant diversity where soil is collected. The walk brings the transplanter back to the adopted garden to spread the collected soil, and ends at the local Saturday market where the soil is ”sold” for free to bring awareness to the local neighbors of current green maintenance methods within the city.
Documentation: Doga Ceylan & Teresa Carvalheira
See more at the Transplanters website.