L I V I N G   L A C E

Living Lace was produced in collaboration with Dr Simon Park (University of Surrey), exploring the production of hybrid cyanobacteria and cotton lace biomaterials. These experimental textile samples investigate both the potential of photosynthetic materials, as well as the relationship between humans and nonhumans. This blurring or entangled co-authorship is characterised through a mutual respiration, the humans expending carbon dioxide and inhaling the oxygen produced by the bacterial ‘other’ and vice versa.

Speculatively, these cyanobacterial biomaterials are interesting to consider in terms of the future development of sustainable materials, drawing on the inherent photosynthetic and autotrophic properties.

LIVING LACE

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Cyanobacteria oscillatoria – photosynthetic living lace and living garment

Victoria Geaney and Dr Simon Park (Surrey University)