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“This ALI prototype will introduce challenging new approaches to designing living intelligence through biodesign”
Interview • 12.10.2021

Developed by Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser and Paula Nerlich, Human-Bacteria Interfaces introduces the novel concept of human-bacteria interfaces within the context of the built environment. 

“These notions of cohabitation could make us change the way we live, becoming more collaborative and less competitive”
Interview • 11.10.2021

Clara Acioli gives us an overview of RUM_A: Multispecies Urban Refuge in Cluster, a project about the importance of consciously and dialogically coexisting with other living beings as a strategy for survival and reversal of the anthropocene. 

“Perhaps this project is about stopping for a moment and taking a look at the narratives we live under”
Interview • 11.10.2021

Planetary Personhood is an interplanetary campaign pursuing radical space decolonization. Project initiators Nonhuman Nonsense—Leo Fidjeland and Linnea Våglund—talk with us about the project’s development.

“A critical lens through family is fundamental to collectively shape future imaginaries of cohabitation and interdependency”
Interview • 08.10.2021

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng & Chen Zhan share an overview of the process of Ripple, Ripple, Rippling, a project about the situated knowledge in the survival tactics of marginalized groups rooted in precarity; that is, how to settle in liminality, inhabit thresholds, and enact interdependency. 

“Everything is entangled, there is no ontological difference between the world of the human and the non-human”
Interview • 08.10.2021

Habitat Theatre is the epicentre for Anthropos Ex — a long-term project in search for a theatre of the anthropocene. We spoke with Initiative for Applied Melancholy about the expectations and goals of the project. 

“Many of the verticalities rooted in our modern binary understandings are still embedded in our dominant systems and everyday life”
Interview • 06.10.2021

Juan Pablo García Sossa expands on The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment, a thought experiment and research project that explores other modes of coexistence between all forms of life on the planet from a Tropikós perspective.

“Seismic disaster myths reflect our past thoughts about the power of nature and non-human agencies”
Interview • 06.10.2021

We talk to Hyeseon Jeong, who with The Backpack of Wings: Modern Mythology project explores speculative future scenarios of collisions and integrations between a bio-geo tracking technology for wild animals in scientific fields, and an animism in seismic disaster myth in East Asia. 

“We want to build a system that puts care-based labor at the core of an entangled more-than-human biosphere”
Interview • 05.10.2021

How can we leverage the power of science, technology and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach to help give coastal wetlands and their microbial worlds a warming, collective voice? We talk to Sonia Mehra Chawla and Miriam Walsh for more insights on The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures.

“The knowledge of Amazonian people offers alternatives to the civilizational crisis we live in”
Interview • 05.10.2021

Eliana Otta offers more details about her concept Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, a virtual space to commemorate the deaths of Indigenous leaders assassinated in Peru.

“We hope to imagine collective futures in the dynamic landscapes of the Arctic”
Interview • 01.10.2021

Andra Pop-Jurj and Lena Geerts Danau share more details about their project, Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North, which departs from the spatial manifestations of the social, economic, and geopolitical conflicts in the Arctic region caused by environmental degradation.

“The maturity of my projects has depended on how I incorporate or merge with other disciplines”
Interview • 29.09.2021

Akwasi Bediako Afrane discusses TRONS ‘R’ US, a project that investigates the relationship between humans, technology and our environment.

“This could be a model of conservation for different parts of the world”
Interview • 28.09.2021

Eylül Şenses gives us a closer look into the research project Indigenous Language of Taşlica: A Case of Interspecies Communication.

“By sharing traditional ecological knowledge using different media, many people can learn”
Interview • 27.09.2021

Taking a deeper look at Sedekah Benih, a collaborative project between artist Vincent Rumahloine and environmental activist Mang Dian.

“What if artificial intelligence becomes autonomous beings?”
Interview • 24.09.2021

Computer programmer, technologist, and artist Iris Qu 曲晓宇 discusses her project Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos.

“We have the option to promote alternatives, if not solutions”
Interview • 23.09.2021

An interview with Chris Salter, Erik Adigard and Alexandre Quessy, who tell us about their project Dissuasion Engine.

“The Down Syndrome community mirrors our society’s hopes and failings”
Interview • 22.09.2021

Leading up to the presentation in Berlin, Vienne Chan and Katja Meier tell us about their project, Down to the Economy.

“Knowing the story behind the objects we use encourages more sustainable development”
Interview • 21.09.2021

An interview with designer Andrea de Chirico about his project Superlocal — 0 Miles Production.

“Suppose we understand nature as our kin”
Interview • 17.09.2021

An interview with Linda Schilling Cuellar and Claudio Astudillo Barra of AHORA, about their project Toxicity Distributed — Post-extractivism Economies.

Ideas and concepts for shaping the future
Interview • 30.03.2021

Discussing the connections between science and the arts with acatech’s Martina Schraudner and Forecast’s Freo Majer.

“At the core of our work lies a strategy-driven approach”
Interview • 01.12.2020

With their signature striking approach, Berlin-based Studio Yukiko have developed the visual identity of Driving the Human. We spoke to the team about how their work and professional approach intersects with the larger amibitions of Driving the Human. 

“We need to generate alterna­tives to our current moment of transition”
Interview • 29.10.2020

One of the partner institutions of Driving the Human, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design is spearheaded by rector Jan Boelen, who talked to us about how the University is changing and how its vision aligns with Driving the Human. 

“Arts and tech­no­logy both shape the future of society”
Interview • 27.10.2020

One of the partners of Driving the Human, acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering, is the voice of the technological sciences in Germany and abroad. Its board member, Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner, discusses how Driving the Human overlaps with the institutions’ interests and activities.

“Every idea will be publicly performed”
Interview • 25.10.2020

The Berlin-based mentoring program Forecast is the initiator of Driving the Human. Forecasts’ artistic director, Freo Majer, expands on some of the program’s ambitions and how they informed the origin of Driving the Human.

“Human Beings are an Unfinished Project”
Interview • 24.10.2020

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is one of the four partner institutions that initiated and coordinate the project Driving the Human. Its director, Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, speaks about the connections between DtH and the institution he leads. 

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