Stockholm Design Week: Panel Talk

Welcome to a discussion on “Designing for a Symbiotic Revolution” in which 4 design studios will present their work as part of the exhibition “The Age of”, on display at Volvo Studio during Stockholm Design Week.

For this exhibition, international design studios have been working with the planet of Mars as a projection plane for critique and speculation, questioning: Is it easier to imagine life on Mars than to take care of life on Earth?

The four design studios will present speculative scenarios in which they are imagining what would happen if focus would shift from exploiting space, just as we have exploited Earth, to develop more sustainable lifestyles in mutualistic symbiosis with other living organisms? Asking what can be learnt, or perhaps unlearnt, by imagining and designing for a multi-species life on Mars.

Panel Talk & Mingle: Designing for a Symbiotic Revolution - Space 

Corals, Mother Cultures and Extremophiles, with Wang & Söderström (SE), 

Studio Pleoforma (US), Thomas Pausz (FR) and Mariah Wright (US).

The discussion will be moderated by curators Petra Lilja & Jenny Lee.

The discussion will be held in english.

This event is presented by the French Institute together with Petra Lilja & Jenny Lee from non:agency.

The exhibition “The Age of” is on display at Volvo Studio, Kungsträdgården, during Stockholm Design Week, February 3-9, 2020.