AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
living with nature, synergy, living furniture, synchronic living, sustainable ecosystems
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Martina Taranto
WEBSITE
https://martinataranto.com/Viral-Nature_The-Echoes-Series
Viral Nature - The Echoes Series
Foster synergic, sincere human-nature relationships.
Viral Nature proposes a composite material, 84% organic, able to host life.
Fertile and easy to shape, the mix, embedded with plant seeds, is employable to cast structures made to grow into living botanical sculptures, it allows the process of vegetal growth and, in specific contexts, favours soil regeneration.
The project fosters ecological and social empathy. It encourages behavioural change through the generation of sympathetic feelings. The objects made with this material are interactive living furniture for outdoor life and are seasonal. Thanks to their ability to produce life, people create an emotional connection with them.
We consider ruins a human cultural legacy. The way we make things supports a linear conception of time and life. Nature’s artefacts though, never become ruins or waste, they are always new and useful, able to preserve its essence in a circular paradigm of life.
Can we create things, pass on a material legacy, born to fade into a truly open future?