Location:

SUPERMARKT Berlin
Brunnenstraße 64
13355 Berlin

Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 10:00-18:00

Registration is limited to max. max. 20 people.
Please register via email to rsvp[at]transmediale.de (Deadline: Monday, 1 July 2013)

Drinks and food will be provided.

...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (Charles Darwin)

If life started now, the beginning would not be "so simple" as Darwin suggested. As we have complicated our relationship with life. The boundaries between nature and culture sublimated and we are breathing a gaseous mixture of man-made with natural. Our very human culture, overrides nature. Our capitalistic biomass manufactures mountains of e-waste, beaches of tar, rivers of zinc, oceans of plastic. We are an army of plastic surgeons giving the planet a new face. A face that opens its eyes to new life forms, new beginnings, new extremities.

What kind of fish will swim in the plastic ocean? Who will be sunbathing on the beaches of tar? What plants will thrive in a forest of concrete and steel? Which insects will lay eggs on the valleys of asphalt? What birds will fly in the hazy mornings of smog stained sky?

In this workshop we will have a quick overview into biological systems such as the circulatory system, the reproductive system etc. and how these systems (or more specifically organs) might evolve under the influence of global environmental transformations.

Somewhere between bio mimicry and critical design, the workshop will give you the time and assets to design your own lungs, grow that extra organ you always wished for or think about that ultimate meat supplier with zero methane impact you have been craving for.

The workshop will provide you with the basic information on certain biological systems and anatomical knowledge. The rest is up to your imagination.

All is welcome with an open heart and a critical mind.