¡PESTES! (2011)
This project studies, through design interventions, the relationship hospitality-hostility from a biological perspective. It proposes radios that function in symbiosis with a given ecosystem, creating scenarios where these symbiotic relationships engage in forms of: mutualism, commensalism or parasitism.
Further details of this project can be found in Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design. See section entitled “Devising”.
Project in collaboration with Leonardo López. Photographs by Martín Avila, Diego Combina and Natalia Pittau.
Supported by IASPIS, the Lars Hierta Minne, and the Designfakulteten.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Parasitic radio.
Terminal of the parasitic radio, two piercing pieces puncture two of the four cables of the network.
Terminal of the parasitic radio, hold together by magnetism, two piercing pieces puncture two of the four cables of the network.
Commensalistic radio.
Kite detail, commensalistic radio.
Kite detail, circuit board and flapping “wings” that generate energy through piezo-electric technology.
Commensalistic radio.
Mutualistic radio.
A fish (Serrasalmus spilopleura) feeds on and generates energy. Mutualistic radio.
Terminals, mutualistic radio.
The terminals of the mutualistic radio are made of six pyramids of balanced food for Serrasalmus spilopleura.
Serrasalmus spilopleura. Below, afected by a fungus.
On the mutualism of the radio in relation to its ecologic complexity at alternative scales.
Detail. Interior of mutualistic radio.
Detail. Interior of commensalistic radio.
Magnetic kite reel. Commensalistic radio.
Commensalistic radio.
Interior, parasitic radio.
Parasitic radio.
Terminal, parasitic radio.
Exhibition detail. The radios where given names according to Linnaean taxonmy to create associations with the
world of living or natural species.
Staging. Parasitic radio.
Staging. Parasitic radio.