Metabolic Network sensory workshop
Metabolic Network sensory workshop
Metabolism, in living systems, has two aspects: anabolism (which means building up), and catabolism (or breaking down). These processes, part of all living systems, carry a particular resonance with respect to present-day concerns about sustainable environments.
Workshop leaders are:
Philip Beesley (architect and artist, associate professor and co-director, Integrated Centre for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing, University of Waterloo)
http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com
Carole Collet (course director MA Textile Futures, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London) http://carolecollet.com
http://www.arts-of-fashion.org/af%202005/bio%20Carole.htm
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (architect and researcher, head of Centre for Interactive Technologies and Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen)
http://cita.karch.dk/citapeople_mrt.html
Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl (Wingfield is an electronic textile designer and lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, London; Gmachl is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. Together, they form the design research studio Loop.ph, based in London)
http://www.loop.ph
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