Future Archive

EDITORS: Jessica Gysel, Christoph Miler, Isabel Seiffert ART DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN: Offshore Studio  PUBLISHER: Jan van Eyck Academie

Humankind and plants are engaged in an intimate and complex relationship.  The beings and survival of both is the result of hybridisation, networks, exchange and migration. However, although plants move and change like  human beings do, their pace of movement and scale of exchange are mostly too intricate to enter the doors of human perception. Yet it might be worth  looking closer: Understanding and admiring the abilities of plants to collaborate and evolve on a planetary scale, could allow us to rethink a world not through political borders and nation states, but through the lens of collaborative networks of exchange. Simply, because at the end of the day, purity is not an option: The membranes of human culture are as permeable as those of individual plants. By introducing a group of fictional plants we provoke questions about their evolution and urge to look at them in a new light: Not as solitary and immutable objects, forever frozen by the gaze of scientific categorisation, but as subjects that evolve constantly in all sorts of unexpected and collective ways.

Managing the wild concept and illustration for a PCB  wip 

Unused. Sketches for identity and billboards.